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Vanishing smell
This one set of diorama I found on Flickr makes me half ashamed yet half re-envigorated to continue shooting the Little Worlds series.
Here is a selection of my favorites yet make sure you visit the complete set here.
Tomorrow 22nd January is Peter Beard’s 73rd birthday. Even if many would consider is career as an artist to be behind him, Beard is still present in many publications. Either because as a photographer, his predictions on Africa‘s future are becoming truer everyday, or because as an artist, his diaries remain unique pieces documenting one’s life and inspiring others’. Nonetheless, he is also regarded as an true dandy, handsome and elegant ; perhaps making him a sort of role-model many would sought to imitate.
Gifted in several ways – his unique family background, his self-admitted luck, his creativity of course, and multi-polar passions – Beard uses photography as the foundation for works ranging from collages to film-making or acting. His personal life takes such a part into his creations, differentiate the two would be a tedious challenge. He brought fashion and supermodels into African landscapes as much as he brought Africa’s nature to the West, in a complete new way.
Tour d’horizon of his career and his life in a couple of dates, books, locations, wives and style.
A man in search of meaning - Rodney Smith
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I have always wondered about the different bookmarking tools, which seems so popular around the Internet, such as StumbleUpon, Digg, or even Delicious. Forgive my ignorance on this but even though I extensively bookmark (with my browser…), it never occurs to me it would be useful to share them via “social bookmarkers“.
However, for a while now I have been looking for a way to keep track of images, and eventually share them. I first used the ‘Favorites‘ tool from my Flickr account. A great way to bookmark nice pictures quickly and if I ever need to, search through the faves. Two huge disadvantages though: only Flickr pictures could bookmarked and the searchable tags are set by the owner of the pictures.
I later found out about ffffound.com ; which seems to do a good job but requires an invitation. One of the author of a blog I like (binkybinky) mentioned it as well so I took a closer look again.
ffffound.com
It works great, I believe to find inspiration and particularly must well worth it for designers (it looks like the invitation process is a way to control the contents). I do not have an invitation and it is not possible for a non-subscriber to search through registered users’ bookmarks…
So I looked elsewhere.
And here comes vi.sualize.us! It makes it possible to bookmark almost any pictures you can find on the Internet and you can have your own tags 
; there is also no invitations and no reservations so I gave it a try.
vi.sualize.us
The only drawback for me is the limited numbers of pictures per page. However, I have to say Victor, who runs and manages the site always answer any comments, including on requested features. Which of course does not mean he will implement whatever you ask for, but at least he is open to suggestions and critics.
Finally (and thanks to a link on vi.sualize.us) I discovered cooliris.com
cooliris.com
Cooliris does not run on Chrome 3.x ; which forces me to use it with either Chrome 4.x beta (…) or Mozilla. I chose the latter option for now; and wow! The effect is great, makes browsing large amounts of pictures easily and it is compatible with a long list of websites (as long as they provide standard RSS feeds), including all of Flickr and ffffound.
With the combination of vi.sualize.us and Cooliris, I can easily “pick-up” pictures from different sources and bookmark them all in one place, made them searchable with my own terms and review them with a great 3D interface.
Only point though: the RSS feed of my bookmarks on vi.sualize.us is limited to the last 30 bookmarked pictures…
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