{"id":12168,"date":"2006-04-29T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/04\/hipsters-robots-lightning-more.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T09:42:58","slug":"hipsters_robots_lightning_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/hipsters_robots_lightning_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipsters, robots, lightning, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>[Never mind that beeping sound; the blog is backing up to unload some good bits that&#8217;ve been buffering.]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyshot.org\/\" \/>Weekly Shot<\/a> describes itself as &#8220;new kind of group photoblog and photo challenge,&#8221; encouraging regular sharing &amp; peer review. Yes, it&#8217;s likely to be infested with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/spoofs_satire\/do_you_have_hipsters.php\">damn, dirty hipsters<\/a>, but it looks like fun.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deconcept.com\/?ver=8&amp;jumpto=\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>Making out with the Terminator is par for the course in Worth1000&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/cache\/contest\/contestcache.asp?contest_id=10027&amp;display=photoshop#entries\">Photoshop contest<\/a>: inserting robots into fine art [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/24\/robots_photoshopped_.html\">Via<\/a>].  [Slightly related: Drawn.ca links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrowburrow.com\/robots.html\">whole<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nemomatic.com\/\" \/>mess<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammaraybots.com\/\" \/>robot sculptures<\/a>.]\n<li>Cabinet Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/3\/god.php\">interviews<\/a> photographer John Cliett on his work to document the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightningfield.org\/\" \/>Lightning Field<\/a>, a large piece of land art in New Mexico.  The article talks about the challenge of not owning one&#8217;s images (and would-be most famous work), interpreting another&#8217;s art, and more.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/12\/official_lightning_f.html\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>The excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/\" \/>Online Photographer<\/a> blog shares some recent finds:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klemcoll.com\/gallery.asp\">Klemantaski Collection<\/a> offers a great set of vintage motorsports images, and <a href=\"http:\/\/carldekeyzer.com\/\" \/>Carl de Keyzer<\/a> tackles Siberian prison camps and much more (click the Books section).\n<li>If you thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iVI6xw9Zph8\">touch screen prototype<\/a> was slick, check this out: UnitedVisualArtists has created what looks to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/03\/17\/interactive-installation-prototype\/\" \/>wicked synthesis<\/a> of LEDs, 3D cameras, and motion tracking.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\/\" \/>Via<\/a>]\n<li>Continuing the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/03\/the_worn_look.html\">wicked worn<\/a> theme, Photoshop brush makers have been busy creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botched.com\/index.php\/blog\/discourse\/photoshop_brushes_botched_ornaments_01\/\" \/>Botched Ornaments<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/cgindia.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/free-photoshop-brushes-botched.html\">Via<\/a>] and <a href=\"http:\/\/brushes.500ml.org\/brushes\/500mlletters.php\">Handwritten Letters<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopsupport.com\/photoshop-blog\/06\/04\/24-window-seat-kost.html#brushes\">Via<\/a>].\n<li>If you want to keep up with (or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/11\/something_terrible.html\">stay away from<\/a>) what the cool kids are doing, see Step Inside Design&#8217;s take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepinsidedesign.com\/STEPMagazine\/Article\/28586\">Design Trends of 2006<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\">Via <\/a>]  [Also for reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignfromscratch.com\/current-style.cfm\">Current style in Web design<\/a>.]<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Never mind that beeping sound; the blog is backing up to unload some good bits that&#8217;ve been buffering.] Weekly Shot describes itself as &#8220;new kind of group photoblog and photo challenge,&#8221; encouraging regular sharing &amp; peer review. Yes, it&#8217;s likely to be infested with damn, dirty hipsters, but it looks like fun. [Via] Making out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}