Here’s a video of a snatch-and-grab robbery by an octopus, who steals a digital camera, which continues to shoot video as the creature swims away with it! The photographer who posted this underwater footage on YouTube writes: “I didn’t feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny…
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12 “Green” Stock Images for Earth Day
© Paul Fleet/Bigstock Earth Day is April 22. To provide some visual inspiration, we collected a few of Bigstock’s many beautiful images related to the environment. Themes like alternative energy, ecology, global warming, climate change and conservation are popular searches on Bigstock, and our artists have contributed many images with green themes. Browse through our…
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15 Photos of Beautiful Beach Scenes
© Michele Piacquadio/Bigstock At Bigstock, one of our most popular search terms is “beach.” Within our collection you’ll find many photographs of sandy scenes, some stunning, some peaceful and some whimsical. Take a look at this selection of images and imagine a sunny day, a cold drink, and cool waves on your feet. Sounds just…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Doc Edgerton, High-Speed Photo Pioneer
From Wired.com, we learn that today would have been the 107th birthday of Doctor Harold Edgerton. You might not know “Doc” Edgerton’s name, but you’ve almost certainly seen his photographs. As an engineer and professor, he invented a very-high-speed camera called a Stroboscope that captured photographs that were at once beautiful and scientifically important. His…
Read MoreVideo: See an iPad Destroyed by a Blender
Imagine getting a new iPad and immediately destroying it. Crazy? For a couple of years, a blender company has been running a series of web videos demonstrating how their products can liquefy almost anything. This week the “Will It Blend?” show destroys—yes—an iPad. This isn’t the first time they’ve killed an expensive gizmo in a…
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Meet the New Social, Portable Bigstock Lightbox
Four easy steps to making the most out of Bigstock’s lightbox feature. A Bigstock lightbox is a free, helpful tool for saving a collection of Bigstock images in one place. (If you used our old site, you might remember we used to call them galleries.) Lightboxes are great for sharing images with clients and friends,…
Read MoreJust Out: Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2
If you’re the sort of person who loves to test new photo software before everyone else, check out Adobe Lightroom 3 beta 2. The new beta of Adobe’s photo management software was released Monday and is available to testers until it expires on June 30. New features in this release include support for video files,…
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New Polaroid-Style Film Goes On Sale This Week
Polaroid fans rejoice! The Impossible Project, which has been working since 2008 to develop a replacement for no-longer-manufactured, Polaroid-compatible instant film, will start selling its first batch of film this week. The first two films available will be monochromatic, with one for Polaroid SX-70 cameras, and the other for Polaroid 600 cameras. Color versions are…
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12 Great Design Sites About Sketchbooks
If you read our earlier post, Why Do Designers Still Use Sketchbooks?, you know how important sketching is to graphic designers. Even with all the computer tools available to us, sometimes you just need a blank white page and a pencil to work out a creative idea. For more inspiration, here are a few sites…
Read MoreA Unique Photographic Marriage Proposal
This is sweet. Photographer Derick Childress spent three nights in Raleigh, North Carolina shooting 800 individual exposures to make this video, which used to propose to his girlfriend Emily. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8444316&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 She said yes. Visit Derick’s site to read the behind-the-scenes story of the light writing video.
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