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Tá vendo esse anelzinho aí em cima? Pois bem, com uma luz decente e um pouco de física ótica {a mais chata do ensino médio!} dá nisso aqui embaixo:

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Inspired by 19th Century Standhopes, Bristol artist Luke Jerram (of "Play me, I'm yours" fame) designed this elegant and inspired portrait projecting ring for is wife Shelina Nanji as a wedding ring. Working together with jeweler Tamrakar, Jerram created a ring that, in a darkened room, with a light source behind it, will project a series of portraits from a selection of miniature slides.

Por enquanto é só um conceito, mas com capricho qualquer coisa fica sensacional né?

#WANT!

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Essa é a primeira imagem que se tem notícia no formato "digital". Foi nessa foto em que Russell Kirsch mandou seu filho aos bits através de um scanner, ela marca quando a sutileza do analógico deu espaço ao quadrado/aproximação dos pixels.

Hoje aos 81 anos, Russell Kirsch está disposto a consertar seu "erro" através de um algoritmo mais robusto para apresentação das imagens. Abaixo a foto do mesmo filho dele (hoje com 53), num comparativo entre o velho e o novo método:

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Russell Kirsch says he's sorry.

More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film was shattered to bits.

The square pixel became the norm, thanks in part to Kirsch, and the world got a little bit rougher around the edges.

Kirsch's method assesses a square-pixel picture with masks that are 6 by 6 pixels each and looks for the best way to divide this larger pixel cleanly into two areas of the greatest contrast. The program tries two different masks over each area -- in one, a seam divides the mask into two rough triangles, and in the other a seam creates two rough rectangles. Each mask is then rotated until the program finds the configuration that splits the 6-by-6 area into sections that contrast the most. Then, similar pixels on either side of the seam are fused.

Marlon Brando

Marilyn Monroe in 1946

Iggy Pop and Blondie

Bob Dylan, Cher and Sonny

Brigitte Bardot

George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16, and Paul McCartney is 15, in 1957.

Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin

Bonnie and Clyde

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol

Clint Eastwood with his first wife Maggie, 1965

Salvador Dali

Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Iggy Pop

Elvis Presley and Sophia Loren

Francis Ford Coppola shows Akira Kurosawa his new polaroid

Salvador Dali

Sean Connery

David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor

Star Wars Crew

Paul McCartney

Alfred Hitchcock and his kids

Eric Clapton and his grandmother

Jimmy Page

Sean Penn

Com destaque para as fotos de Jimmy Page {baby rocking}, Hitchcock {com risos e crianças?!} e Sean Connery { ??? }.

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Uma Holga na mão

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A busca por timeline é sensacional, e o uso do Google Streetview [para comparar hoje e ontem] então nem se fala.

É realmente uma experiência de uso matadora.

mais em: http://www.historypin.com/

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