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35 Phenomenal Photos….IN 3D!!!!!

Put those silly glasses down and prepare to blow your mind (…and possibly get a slight headache). This week’s Shooting Challenge is 3 freaking D. To view the photos, just refocus your eyes to merge the white dots. For anyone who “can’t” see the 3D, here’s a longer explainer from the comments (rick23) that I…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 21

Totally Radical: A Microhistory of 1980s Science Fiction

In the 1980s, science fiction ruled over everything. Most of the biggest movies and books of the decade were scifi, and cyberpunk became the era’s pop aesthetic. Here’s how the 1980s changed the genre forever. Image above is from the 80s film Liquid Sky. Cyberpunk When people look back on science fiction aesthetics from the…

Movies Annalee Newitz Dec 17

Cultural genome project mines Google Books for the secret history of humanity

What exactly is the half-life of celebrity? A new field called culturomics has the answer. Using the largest linguistic database ever created – Google Books – culturomics experts track things like “lexical dark matter,” and how long fame really lasts. Earlier today, we spoke to the two main minds behind the cultural genome, Harvard researchers…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 16

Shooting Challenge: IN 3D!!!!

3D may be overplayed, but way before Hollywood thought it was cool, stereograms allowed us to see 3D without glasses…or sometimes, with really epic glasses. So this week’s Shooting Challenge is IN 3D! Stereograms were popularized in the 20th century by groups like the Keystone View Company and inventions like the View-Master. And now, a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 15

81 Purposeful Pixelmutations

Pixelation used to be the bane of digital photographers. But now, with seemingly endless megapixels sharpening our shots, the pixel can be used purposefully to make an entirely new statement (that has nothing to do with obscuring one’s junk). https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-pixelmutation-5709218 Lead Shot – Don’t Ask Don’t Tell I have been following the “don’t ask don’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 14

100 People I Hate on Facebook

The friending, the liking, the status updating: Sooner or later we all grow to hate it, but we can’t stop. Facebook is made up of those dinner party guests who just won’t leave even though it’s late and everyone else left two hours ago. After a while, everything anyone does on Facebook becomes irritating. With…

Social Media Dave Pell Dec 14

Shooting Challenge: Pixelmutation

A majority of us experience photography digitally—from taking the shot on a dSLR to viewing it through fiber optics, LCDs and social networking sites. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going to celebrate the digital through pixelmutations*. * Pixelmutation isn’t a real term; I just made it up. So you might not want to use…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 8

152 Zoooooming Photographs

Zooming. Most people only do it before or after taking a photograph—never during. Well here are 152 remarkable pieces of proof that most people are wrong. Zooming while taking a photograph is a surprisingly versatile, inevitably eye-catching technique. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-zoom-exposure-5703222 Lead Shot: ‘Citgo Meets Tron’…So, Citron? This is the CITGO sign in Kenmore Square, Boston, MA.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 7

Offline Shopping is Alive and Trampling

Sixteen years since Amazon launched. Well into an era when we can buy anything with a click. Why are there still Black Friday headlines about shoppers trampled in a mad effort to get their mitts on the latest offline deal? Take it from a guy named Keith who nearly bought it at the entrance to…

Tech News Dave Pell Dec 4

Shooting Challenge: Zoom Exposure

Most people go through their lives zooming, then taking a photo. These poor, poor souls. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you will zoom whilst taking a picture. The Challenge Take a photo while zooming your lens in or out, like our lead shot by Shayne Kaye. The Method There’s one main trick to this technique…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 1

106 Amazing Photos By You

What do Gizmodo readers photograph when they can photograph anything? Abstracts. Wildlife. Stars. Microscopic particles. In short, a lot of really neat, diverse stuff that’s sheer fun to look at. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-free-for-all-5698271 Lead Shot – Advent Warp Taken on Bahnhofstrasse here in Zürich. Wanted to capture the beautiful Christmas lights the city has put up but…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 30

Shooting Challenge: Free-For-All

It’s almost a sure thing that you’re leaving early from work today to take a long weekend. So I’m not going to saddle you with photography homework, but I do ask that you pull out that camera and photograph something. The Challenge Six months ago, we had our first Shooting Challenge Free-For-All and the results…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 24

34 Captivating Cubist Photos

Cubism was the art world’s response to photographic realism. But in this week’s Shooting Challenge, the photographers answer back to the cubists—combining multiple perspectives into a single photos to create striking, confounding photographic works of art. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-cubism-5692274 Lead Shot – Bouquet The shot was fairly simple, lots of photographs of flowers (and their shadow) in…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 23

I Can’t Keep It In My Pants

On the day of the San Francisco Giants World Series parade, I headed to the corner of California and Montgomery where I was sure I had a good vantage to watch the players roll by in their rubber-wheeled cable cars. My wife was thinking the same thing about her view as she held our four…

Tech News Dave Pell Nov 19

Shooting Challenge: Cubism

Counted by cool points alone, cubism may win at art—an unmistakable style that explores a subject from multiple angles within a single frame. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll bring cubism to photography. The Challenge Take multiple photographs of a single subject or scene, then chop them up and glue them together as one…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 17

30 Shamelessly Stolen Photographs

Some might call it plagiarism, but the knock-off is an art form all its own. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo’s readers assembled to duplicate or parody some of the most iconic photographs in history. (Light NSFW content follows.) https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-steal-5686367 Lead Shot – Pink Floyd – Back Catalogue I’m honestly not even a Pink Floyd…

Movies Mark Wilson Nov 16

611 Reasons Fall Is the Most Beautiful Season of All

Across much of the world, autumn is the most beautiful time of the year. To celebrate, Gizmodo photographers assembled en masse to capture every color and texture of the season, just to share here with you. Find the wallpapers on flickr. Lead Shot – Crunchers I took this while taking a walk in the White…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 15

Shooting Challenge: Steal

If “good artists borrow, great artists steal”—I just made that up by the way—then for this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to steal. And steal shamelessly. The Challenge Choose an iconic photograph of any era or style and do your best to completely duplicate it, like our lead photo by Mike Stimpson stole from…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 10

From Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In

The Walkman is dead. Long live the Walkman. More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.). A Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara designed the original model for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who was…

Social Media Dave Pell Nov 4

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves Part II

Our first Shooting Challenge ever was “Fall Leaves.” This year, we’re running it again. But instead of accepting your photos from this week only, we’ve been allowing anything shot in fall 2010. Now, this week is your last to submit! https://gizmodo.com/48-stunning-photos-of-fall-5388614 The Challenge Capture autumn’s epic decay into winter through a photo that celebrates the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 3

35 Phenomenal Photos….IN 3D!!!!!

Totally Radical: A Microhistory of 1980s Science Fiction

Cultural genome project mines Google Books for the secret history of humanity

Shooting Challenge: IN 3D!!!!

81 Purposeful Pixelmutations

100 People I Hate on Facebook

Shooting Challenge: Pixelmutation

152 Zoooooming Photographs

Offline Shopping is Alive and Trampling

Shooting Challenge: Zoom Exposure

106 Amazing Photos By You

Shooting Challenge: Free-For-All

34 Captivating Cubist Photos

I Can’t Keep It In My Pants

Shooting Challenge: Cubism

30 Shamelessly Stolen Photographs

611 Reasons Fall Is the Most Beautiful Season of All

Shooting Challenge: Steal

From Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves Part II

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