Sawed cameras, free falls, and more

Wired hosts an interesting Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras.
Rapid decents:
- The Big Picture offers a collection of diving photos (taken at a recent US Olympic qualifying event) unlike any I’ve seen before.
- In Kabul in Transition, photojournalist Tyler Hicks shows diving platforms used for a far darker purpose.
Mitchell Feinberg makes unique art using food. Many more examples are on his site.
22-year-old photographer Kevin Connolly was born legless and chronicles the world from his unique perspective. CNET has his story.
In Land of the Free, Steve Schofield portrays sci-fi costumers, exploring how people establish a fictional existence to escape the everyday. [Via]
Slices in time:
- "Barbara Probst’s diptych and triptych photos," says the Morning News, "taken at the same time from different cameras and points of view, offer multiple versions of a split second." It’s a cool project, well worth a look. [Via]
- The Immodesty multicam system aims to "create an affordable platform which enable all kinds of temporal-spatial experimentation." In some ways it’s a poor-man’s tool for getting the Matrix "bullet time" effect, as videos on their site show, but the output can be deployed in more interactive ways, too.
Reuters hosts some striking images of a Chilean volcanic eruption.

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