Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Back in March I wrote a piece about plugins that could be used to show photos in Wordpress. Well today I did some more research and found a bunch more sine the last time. Here’s the summary of the update …
Aniga gallery. “manage your pictures in categories and albums”. “Its integrated in the WP posts […]

We drove coast to coast, across the the USA - and back, about nine years ago.
One of the places we passed through was Arizona, which we loved - very quirky, unexpectedly so.
The weather conditions there are very dry, which makes is a perfect place to store things without the rotting away. This includes planes and […]

I love the work of the photographer Martin Parr. Appearing casual captures of today’s society, he’s taken too many for them to just be lucky shots and shows like the Barbican one back in 2002 showed that he had more about him than I’d previously imagined.
There’s a Martin Parr WE ♥ U group on Flickr, […]

I’ve been looking at a few approaches for displaying photos in Wordpress blogs, for Ventnor Blog and Digital-Lifestyles.
There’s quite a few different approaches and these span Web 1.0 and 2.0. After filtering them down, the ones I’ve found most impressive are

Falbum - which is a Web 1.0 approach, slickly done with next/previous ability. Loads […]

I saw this at the Santa Ghetto, the ’squatted’ shop on Oxford Street. They’re selling art from independent artists including the omni-present Banksy.
It’s well worth a visit with some real humour in the pictures - well worth a butchers.
I didn’t get all of them, so it’s worth having a look through these other shots of […]

This is one of those picture that you’d have previously found being produced by an industry professional or sitting in an expensive photo library. Great to see people producing such high quality photos manipulations.
Framed! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Here’s an interesting video of some software in action that takes a 2D photo and automatically converts it to a 3D image. Looking at the photos they’ve used, it appears that it works by understanding the structure of objects (eg buildings normally have straight edges with right angles on the corners). Clever stuff.

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Fugro Explorer Front View

Originally uploaded by Nev-Star ^_^.

A visually interesting 4-week journey onboard a state-of-the-art drilling vessel up on Flickr. Best viewed from the whole set.

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A very well know Russian plastic surgeon has had his office broken into and the photos of those he’s operated on have been stolen. Panic ensues.
Plastic Surgeon of Popular Stars Robbed, Sensational Archives Stolen - PRAVDA.Ru
(Written 10 July, 2003 - Just published)

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Christophe Gevrey has taken some great photo’s at the recent G8 protest, they’re not only interesting but really well composed.
[via BoingBoing]
(Originally written 5 June, 2003, now published)

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