People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more. Exploring Tweets is a great way to discover new and interesting information. And with devices of all shapes and sizes connecting to the Internet, we’re constantly looking for new ways to make this easier. To date, we’ve created applications for a variety of mobile phones, giving you instant access to Tweets and great content when you’re on the go.

Today we are bringing Tweets to a device that really lets content shine - the iPad. Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad’s fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly – without needing to open and close windows or click buttons. There are a few things we want to point out that make this app a really fast and fun way to read real-time content.

Panes: Tapping on a Tweet opens a pane to the right. Depending on the content in that Tweet, you’ll see a video or photo, or maybe a news story, or perhaps another Tweet. You can continue tapping on Tweets, opening new panes, and getting new content as long as you’d like to. And, it’s really easy to move between panes by swiping to the right or left.


Media: When you tap a video link or open a web page with an embedded video, you can play that video inline. And, let’s be honest, video is great but sometimes it can take some time to load. The panes in Twitter for iPad let you look through your timeline while a video is loading, and then you can just swipe back to the video when it’s ready to play. You can also pinch on a video to watch it fullscreen.

Gestures: You can pinch on a Tweet to quickly view details about the author and to take actions on a Tweet, such as reply or retweet. Put two fingers together and pull down on a Tweet to peek at the replies, showing the entire conversation leading to that Tweet.

To accompany From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, which opens here at the Walker Art Center on Sunday, September 12th, Alec Soth is creating a series of Flickr group projects that are linked to his photographic process. Anyone can take part, and we hope you do.  Alec will be commenting  and writing here and on his own blog over the run of the exhibition, and we will be posting some of your photographs here also.  Check out the project on his Flickr page, or read about it below:

From Alec:

Assignment #1: The Treasure Hunt

A trick I use to find pictures is to create a list of things I’m curious about that then go and beat the bushes. Even if I don’t find what I’m looking for, it gets me out the door and moving around in the world.

For our first Flickr Project, I’ve created a list of 10 items to photograph. Shoot as many as you can and post them in our group pool, and then check out our “Discussions” pages to talk about your work. I’ll post some of my favorite images on the Walker Art Center Visual Arts blog. On October 1st I’ll pick my favorite treasure hunter and send them a signed copy of the From Here to There catalogue. You can check out an interview with me from this book here.

Here’s the list:

Pilots
Amateur Paintings
Unusually Tall People
Museum Guards
Sleeping Children
Neighborhood Bars
Supermarket Cashiers
Sheep
Sedans
Suitcases

Happy Hunting,

Alec

P.S. You’ll get extra points for combining pictures—I’d love to see an unusually tall museum guard holding a suitcase.

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"Join Alec Soth’s “From Here To There” Flickr Project" was originally posted by bartholomewryan on Visual Arts, part of the Walker Blogs.

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Top of the grand stairwell, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, 2008

Though insane asylums, prisons and hospitals wouldn't necessarily be the first places that come to mind when you're thinking about beautiful places to shoot, you might find photographers Ian Ference and Katherine Westerhout there. These two have made it their mission to find beauty in the decrepit, stories in the forgotten and stunning imagery where most would never look. While Ian Ference mostly shoots inside abandoned buildings in New York, Westerhout has shot in everywhere from Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit to Southeast Asia.

Though most of these photos have that ability to make your skin crawl, you might be surprised at the range of emotions you can feel while looking at them. In fact, you might even ask yourself these questions. Who had once sat in that chair and what were they thinking as they looked out the window?

Chair in patient bedroom, shot by moonlight, Taunton State Hospital, 2006

Easy chairs and patient art, Creedmoor State Hospital, 2008

Attic of administrative wing of Babcock Hall, South Carolina State Hospital, 2008.

Connector hallway between wards, Trenton State Hospital, 2005

Violent ward hallway now used to store chairs, St. Lawrence State Hospital, 2007

Patient dormitory at sundown, Buffalo State Hospital, 2008

A typical dark room at Brooklyn Navy Yard hospital, 2009

The first floor hallway of the center brick ward, Buffalo State Hospital, 2008

Operating room in Fort Totten Army Hospital, Queens, 2009

Child’s riding grasshopper found in Fort Totten Army Hospital, Queens, 2009

Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Building 40, 2004

Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Building 93, 2004

New Orleans, 2005

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, NY, 2004

Sears, San Francisco, 2001

Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna, 2008

Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna II, 2008

Lake and Rail Elevator, Buffalo NY, 2008

School Room, San Francisco, 1998

Spaulding Fiber, Tonawanda, 2008

Protestant Church, Detroit, 2009

Eastern State Penitentiary II, 2009

Wards VI, San Francisco, 2001

Eastern State Penitentiary III, Cell Block Three, 2009

First eleven images by Ian Ference at Kingston Lounge, rest by Katherine Westerhout.

Ramadan - Al-Aqsa Mosque - Old City - Islam - Muslim

Most of us have seen Steve McCurry's National Geographic portrait of the Afghan girl pictured above. McCurry has the rare ability to capture extremely powerful images that stay branded in our minds, never to be forgotten.

The Philadelphia-born photographer has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and continuing coverage of Afghanistan. He focuses on the human consequences of war, not only showing what war impresses on the landscape, but rather, on the human face.

McCurry is driven by an innate curiosity and sense of wonder about the world and everyone in it. He has an uncanny ability to cross boundaries of language and culture to capture stories of human experience. “Most of my images are grounded in people," he says. "I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape that you could call the human condition.”

Steve McCurry

To define a Custom brush, use one of the selection tools to select the desired area.  Then, choose Edit > Define Brush Preset. The brush appears B/W even if you sampled a color area in the image because all brushes are defined as B/W,  in order to paint with your selected foreground color. The new custom brush will appear in the Brush Presets panel and can be easily modified (if desired) using the Brush panel (select the brush tip and then modifying any additional attributes).

For some reason I expected a bit more explosion (thanks, Hollywood!), but these high speed photography shots capture the fantastic moment when a bullet passes through a drop of water, slicing it in half with a bit of a splash. More »

Le navigateur Web Chrome a le vent en poupe : rapide, bien pensé et bénéficiant d'une quantité croissante d'extensions. Apparues il y a de longues années déjà dans Firefox, ces dernières sont un bon moyen d'étendre les fonctionnalités natives du navigateur : capture d'écran, partage de favoris, actualités, notifications, etc. Mais au fond, ce sont tout simplement de petites applications se basant sur les standards HTML, CSS et JavaScript... autant dire que tous les développeurs Web manipulant ces trois (...)

It’s perhaps a little cliche – but we’ve all done it. A camera, a photographer in front of a mirror. Here’s 10 shots that caught our eye today with photographers, their cameras in front of mirrors (PS: this is the theme of the next weekly photography challenge – so get your thinking caps on and polish up those mirrros).

Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips.

13 Fun Self Portrait Mirror Shots