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Screenshot of Henry Fonda and Pat O'Brien as linemen in the 1937 movie "Slim".
I recommend this movie for anyone interested in electrical construction and power distribution. It gives a good look into the building of the early electrical high-tension transmission lines in the USA.
A wallpaper I made from one of Flickr's most beautiful models, avolare. I did photoshop it a bit to smooth it out, especially after the resize.
so i'm searching for new britney spears merch this morning on the walmart website and found that they really wanted me to buy their fine selection of biblical publications instead.
is walmart trying to tell me something about britney or were they really hacked?
Screenshot of a real ThoughtFarmer implementation for Graymont, a 1500-person limestone mining company. Read intranet case study: www.thoughtfarmer.com/clients/intranet-case-studies/graym...
For the past week or so I've been spending some time playing around with the photosharing site 500px and am really starting to like it. The site has been around awhile (since 2003) but went through some major redesigns, most notably in the Fall of last year. The result seems to be a very elegant photosharing community that is far more focused on fine art and artistic oriented photography than Flickr is.
In a lot of ways, the site reminds me of an early Flickr, back when the staff seemed to care more and back when Flickr actually seemed to care about beautiful photography and their users.
The site has two different versions. There is a free version which features a basic photostream and limits you to 20 uploads per week and one collection. And then there is a paid version at $50 per year which offers unlimited uploads and collections.
Both versions offer unlimited hosting and a basic photostream organized by most recently uploaded photo in an elegant large square format with oversized photos when you click through. Both versions also include a free photoblog to blog your work in a different way if you'd prefer that over the traditional photostream as well as a wall where people can leave comments about you. 500px also claims that the photos are optimized for SEO so that your work can be found.
In addition to allowing unlimited uploads, the paid version allows a number of other features including the ability to link your photostream to a custom domain, an RSS feed, the ability to remove all 500px branding from your stream (aka white label), advertising free, as well as the ability to hook your stream up to a Google analytics account to better monitor traffic and activity.
In addition to your own photostream, like Flickr, you can build favorites of other photographs, comment on photographs and either "like" or "dislike" photographs which results in a public numerical score that a photograph receives. There are several areas where you can also explore some pretty amazing photography, including popular, editor's choice, upcoming and fresh.
Perhaps what I find most refreshing about the site as it's structured right now is that it seems to be attracting some of the most talented photographers I've seen on the web in any one place in long time.
Scrolling through many of the members photostreams it reminds me of some of the early photographers who gravitated to flickr using it to express the beauty of the world around them. Comparing some of the showcase areas above, for example, with Flickr's super crappy Explore (complete with blacklisting users, sparkly gifs, and obnoxious watermarks) there simply is no comparison as to which is showing superior fine art photography. 500px is better.
Also, in contrast to Flickr's puritanical censorship, 500px doesn't seem to have a problem with the occasional artistic representation of the female form that, God forbid, might (gasp) actually show a naked breast. I guess it probably helps that they are Canadian and more laid back about those sorts of things. Flickr on the other hand censored this photograph of mine of an 1874 painting by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre from the Chicago Art Institute that doesn't even show boobs.
Creating an account and profile was very easy on 500px. I liked that they don't seem to have a problem with html markup in your profile and I was able to link all of my other social media sites. It's also nice that your profile accompanies your photostream, favorites, etc. giving good exposure to the photographer.
Uploading photos was pretty easy. It's also nice that 500px allows images sized up to 30MB. Flickr is stuck in the dark ages with the pre-2004 20MB limit still. When popular cameras like the Canon 5DM2 routinely produce images between 20MB and 30MB it sucks that when you use Flickr's bulk uploader that they mangle images so badly, resizing them in some cases down to less than 500kb (example). It's bad enough to have your images resized without being told about it, but to resize a 22MB image down to less than 5% of it's original size just seems really cheap on Flickr's part.
It is a drag that 500px doesn't seem to read a photo's metadata and allow you to auto-populate titles, keywords, descriptions/captions, etc. Hopefully they enable that soon as there is no sense in doing that work in lightroom only to have to rekey that data in after uploading to 500px. There are also lots of areas that 500px seems to have room to grow in. It would be nice to see groups there like Flickr has.
Like Flickr, 500px allows you an embed code to blog your images, as well as the buttons necessary to share your image to other popular social networking sites like Twitter, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Google Buzz, etc.
I think more than any of the above items, what's got me most interested in 500px though, is what feels to me like a truly refreshing view of photography from the people who work there. Flickr staffers have routinely expressed their disdain over the years for the fine art photographer. They've deleted accounts without warning, they've censored artists, they've blacklisted many from Explore, they've banned artists from the public help forum areas, and in general just routinely treat us (their users) like garbage. We've been talked down to, treated like children, and been openly abused.
Compare and contrast Flickr's disdain for the artistic fine art photographer with this "about" page from 500px.
"The mission
Being an artist has never been easy, especially in today's fast paced, digital age. Photographers can't be just artists anymore, they have to be managers, accountants, marketing teams, assistants, web developers, and their own 'mean, lean, shutter-clicking machines". Too many things to handle? We sure think so! We started the company to help photographers get greater exposure, reduce some of the marketing headaches, and to let creatives concentrate on what they do best. We love seeing amazing work and equally love promoting it! A sense of inspired community is also important to us. We believe that the way forward is through presenting, discussing, supporting, and socializing with like-minded people."
Our Team
500px is a group of individuals that live and breathe photography. We like to share art with others and have the means to do so. Our small company is based in Toronto and from there we broadcast the awesomeness. We truly enjoy what we do.
That reads so refreshing.
500px still has a lot of work to do to continue competing with Flickr, but thus far I've found it to be very community centered and certainly with great potential. They state that they are currently seeking angel and VC funding here.
You can check out my photostream and follow me on 500px here.
Thanks by the way to my good rooftopping Pal Tomms, for turning me on to this awesome site. Check out this amazing photograph that he posted on 500px!
Rearranging my mail setup to fit bettter with my Nokia E61. Here we have Microsoft Outlook 2003 in Parallels, Microsoft Entourage 2004, and Mail.app. The screenshot on the right is of my Nokia E61's screen.
Thanks to The Message Center for providing flawless Exchange/GoodLink service so far.
A performer traveling to town for the Mardi Gras celebration.
Taken @ St. John Woods maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/St%20John%20Woods/222/231/55
For the past few months I've been informally watching how the popular microblogging site Twitter has been tracking vs. FriendFeed on Compete.com. In many ways FriendFeed has been the most natural beneficiary from an ongoing plague of downtime problems that Twitter has been struggling with over the course of the past few months. During these downtime problems FriendFeed's growth has been dramatically eclipsing Twitter's.
Today Compete.com released their July monthly numbers and it would appear that at least last month Twitter has regained much of their growth that they lost in May and June. For the month of July, Compete.com is reporting that Twitter grew at a monthly rate of 21.9% vs. FriendFeed's growth of 26.7%. This compares with June growth numbers of 5.4% for Twitter and 33.7% for FriendFeed.
While I still think that we will see FriendFeed track with more users than Twitter within the next year, it would appear that as Twitter has regained much of their site stability that this might not be as easy as first thought.
Of course Twitter and FriendFeed are still two very different sites and very different animals -- albeit two of the fastest growing social network sites on the web today. Personally most of my microblogging activity has moved from Twitter to FriendFeed for a few key reasons.
1. Photography is very important to me and FriendFeed represents visually better than Twitter does. As a text only platform Twitter misses much of the richness that photographs can provide. Although FriendFeed needs to better incorporate blog post imagery with blog RSS feeds, by allowing users to share images direclty as well as incorporating Flickr, Zooomr, SmugMug and Picasa imagery into the mix I think FriendFeed is a more visually stimulating site.
2. The conversations happen at FriendFeed in ways that they do not at Twitter. Because FriendFeed groups conversations as single items, conversations are easier to follow and monitor at FriendFeed.
3. The hide functionality on FriendFeed allows users much greater control over the "noise" that is frequently generated from a microblogging platform.
4. FriendFeed's "best of" section consistently provides interesting content.
You can find me on Twitter here and on FriendFeed here.