Lily Hay Newman

Shooting Challenge: Film Noir

This is a shot I took of Scott Seekins only this afternoon, a relatively famous local guy in the art scene of Minneapolis. Scott is well known for his bizarre homage art to Brittany Spears as well as his choice in wardrobe through seasons. In Summer he wears all white, in winter he wears all…

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Send Your Local Rep a Message the Old Fashioned Way With This Tar and Feather Gun

Busting out a shaving cream pie to make a point is downright unwieldy, but Instructables has plans up for a toy pneumatic gun that can shoot cartridges filled with tar and feathers. Now that just makes good sense. http://gawker.com/5822627/rupert-murdoch-attacked-at-hearing The Portable Pneumatic Variable Payload Delivery Device is made of cheap materials (PVC pipe, a lot…

Shooting Challenge: Fire 1

Some friends and I went camping at Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County and we found some extra wood laying around so we decided to make a big bonfire as we were leaving. Shot with my HP R707 ISO-100 f/2.8 Exposure 1/336 sec -Brad Smalarz I was grilling with some friends and put a few…

Shooting Challenge: Fire 2

This past Tuesday I left to a resort on vacation to the Dominican Republic, my family and I were sitting at an Asian restaurant and I decided to take my first picture of flames without knowing Gizmodo had a challenge going on since I had no internet access. So I got home Sunday and looked…

Man 3D-Prints Spare Part to Avoid Huge Ripoff

Getting a spare part has got to be the biggest pain in the ass known to the Ikea-loving world. But one man, who goes by dscott4 on Instructables, has stepped up. His pricey Bugaboo stroller needed a small part that the company’s service center sells for $250. Really? So our guy, took his business elsewhere.…

Shooting Challenge: Fireflies

Am out camping, and was taking pictures of the night sky, originally thought of this one as ruined by the fireflies, but then I thought of this contest. It’s hard to see but the bank on the opposite side of the lake is covered in tens of thousands of them, and a few landed on…

Shooting Challenge: Hand-Coloring

Tintype of a Kayak that’s hanging up in my house. I rate the sensitized plate at ISO 1.5 (yes one-point-five) and usually my exposures are anywhere between 4-10 seconds. I’ve recently outfitted my Jeep as a darkroom so that I can take the show on the road! Enjoy. Camera: Kodak 2-D View Camera Lens: 210mm…

Shooting Challenge: Clouds 1

I took a nap in the park and when I woke up I saw this pretty picture of the sun shinning behind these clouds. I used a Cannon EOS. -Zane Gilfillan I took this driving down the road using my HTC Thunderbolt smart phone. I cropped out a building below the clouds and used the…

Shooting Challenge: Clouds 2

Taken with Canon Elph HS 300 just on normal program. I was walking to my car back from school and noticed that there was construction on a new building. The stairs seemed like a “stairway to heaven” so I had to take a picture. -Jackrin Vipatapat I drove out to Lolo Pass on the Montana/Idaho…

Shooting Challenge: Clouds 3

Cloud Maker Shot with a Samsung Infuse, ~4mm f/2.6 @1/2222. Edited in Photoshop for Color and Contrast. I was waiting all day to capture the vapor cloud in an interesting configuration, but I was too busy when there was no wind and it was shooting strait up into the sky. -Matthew Neuman I’ve always had…

The Best Deal of the Day

I’ve always wondered but never questioned why the heck waterproof gadgets look so…ugly. It’s like every company who ever decided to make anything waterproof all agreed that they would clad it in as much rubber and plastic as possible. Waterproof cameras look tumurous! Rugged gadgets have to be yellow! It’s crazy! But as ugly as…

Finally, a Website that Steps Up to Prevent Unwanted Body Art

The next time you see a middle-aged man with an unfortunately placed, “Frankie Say Relax,” tattoo, hold your judgement. Many Friday nights ago, he may have fallen victim to a threat that haunts us all: the drunken tattoo decision. If you’ve simply resigned yourself to the possibility of waking up with an unwanted tramp stamp,…

Shooting Challenge: Fail 1

Equipment and Settings: Sony A200 with 18-70mm Kit Lens, f/18 with 15 second exposure (Bulb mode) at ISO 100. I read the shooting challenge information page and immediately knew what I was going to do; long-exposure car photography, at night! So I took my camera and set it to bulb mode at f/18 and I…

Shooting Challenge: Fail 2

The wife and I took our 18 month old daughter to the san diego county fair for her first time. I wanted to mark our first ride by taking a quick pic with my blackberry. I guess right when I pressed the shutter button, she pulled my arm to see the pic I took. This…

Propane Coffee Maker Kind of Misses the Point of Camping

Outdoor gear manufacturer Coleman was just trying to do a nice thing by creating the Portable Propane Coffee Maker. It works like the machine in your kitchen, using only water, a filter and some coffee grounds. Oh, and a tank of propane. Coleman says that you, “no longer have to leave the comforts of home…

Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them

Your Commodore 64 may be aging like a fine wine, but it probably doesn’t look like it. And that weird brownish-yellow hue it’s taken on over the years isn’t from all the Marlboros you went through in the 80s. As Tested explains, The plastic used in most old electronics, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), is flammable…

This Super Sand Makes Even Toxic Water Safe to Drink

When I think of sand I think of dirt, and when I think of dirt, I don’t think of clean water. But sand is used to filter water in lots of places. This “coated sand” developed by Rice researchers? It’s like a super filter. The regular sand often used to filter water is typically too…

Industrial Chemicals Threaten Boobs

Breasts are under attack! New research shows that some industrial chemicals may affect breast development in a number of problematic ways. Early exposure could impact lactation, increase risk of breast cancer and “disrupt breast development.” Egads. Before we were worried about environmental factors and their link to breast cancer, but now development too? Researchers are…

Want More Wire? End the Drug War

Since The Wire ended, things have been rough on all of us. We’re out of touch with Baltimore, we keep asking ourselves what Omar Little would do, and we’re just not hardcore like we used to be. But there may be hope. Earlier this month, Attorney General Eric Holder bemoaned the end of The Wire…