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Ari Salomon is a graphic designer and fine art photographer working in San Francisco.
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Category Archives: Fine Art Photography
Photo Auction: EYE BUY ART
Came across this great auction of emerging photographers. A well-built WordPress-based site, I might add. This is a benefit for a Canadian-based, photo-oriented non profit called The Magenta Foundation. You can also check out their upcoming call for entries: All photographers in Canada, the UK and the US 34 years of age and under may [...]
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krpano – flash-based tool for viewing panoramas online
This is very similar to what GigaPan uses. GigaPan let’s you embed their player for free but this player give you more control and, of course, no external branding. And krpano offers a neat way to switch rendering options.
It allows you to publish extremely large panoramas where the user only downloads data as they need it.
krpano [...]
2.5 gigapixels: Milky Way Image Unveiled
Bigger isn’t always better but in this case…
120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides and 6 feet (2 meters) tall in the middle…
The large image was made from stitching together 800,000 individual pictures taken by Spitzer, for a total of 2.5 billion infrared pixels.
via SPACE.com — World’s Largest Milky [...]
Martian landscapes – thanks NASA!
An amazing selection of images. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface.
Martian landscapes – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
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Inventor Portraits and more
I enjoyed this blog – it shares my interests in photography, design and inventions. I bought some of these clever items:
About 10 seconds after Pam Turner showed me how to thread her Spiral Eye Needles, I was an expert. It usually takes me longer to thread a needle than it does to sew a button, [...]
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On-demand book publishing, promotion and e-commerce
Recommendations for Self-Publishing from Dr. Javier Vera:
clickbank.com: sell your product through their affiliate system
kunaki.com: CDs DVDs on demand
eFulfillmentService.com: offers a complete package of online order processing, storage and shipping
vervante.com: Vervante provides a produce-on-demand solution for books, DVDs/CDs and kits –they ship orders worldwide.
For Art/Photo books I recommend San-Francisco based Blurb. I’ve made a few books with [...]
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Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal
NYTimes: A great panorama from Grand Central Station.
Inside a cramped brick room in the train station are the greasy innards of a hundred-year-old clock with a stained-glass dial, the largest of Grand Central’s timepieces.
via Rooms – Rooms Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.
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Blurb Photography.Book.Now 2009
In browsing this years submissions to the Blurb photo book contest I found some books of interest:
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Review Santa Fe 2009
There have been so many great blog posts and interviews about this event.
I’ll briefly say what a useful and intense event it was for me. Just getting my talking points organized for it was really helpful. Meeting the other artists gave me a perspective that was as useful as the reviewers feedback. I want to [...]
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