Tag Archives: photography

Synchronised swimming manual

February 16th, 2010
No, I’m not taking it up as a pastime, but a friend who knows I’m a bit of an information geek showed me these manuals from her synchronised swimming days. I’m fascinated by the language and symbols that different disciplines have to share the “how” of what they are. (Taken with a mobile phone, hence the poor [...]
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Volumes of data

February 9th, 2010
2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!
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Found functions

February 5th, 2010
I’ve linked to this site via delicious and twitter but I really had to publish something here too, it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. Found Functions is a short series of photographs by Nikki Graziano that overlay mathematical functions and graphs over shapes in nature. Such a simple idea but executed [...]
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One foggy morning

February 1st, 2010
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Magic hour

November 11th, 2009

Magic hour

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    Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.

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