Instagram is all about the pictures, the context, the attractiveness of the images... and millions of users. Instacanvas can now turn those quick pics into art, while connecting artists to buyers with a single click.READ MORE›
Getty licensing pics taken with Instagram? NBC streaming Olympics coverage through YouTube? Here's why corporate giants are relying on once-and-future startups to compete for our eyeballs.READ MORE›
We take a look back at the last year of Fast Company through the lens of photography. From the professional portraits that graced our magazines to the unusual images utilized for our website, it's been an interesting year.READ MORE›
If you had to give an award for the year's most breakthrough piece of consumer tech, there's a good chance it would go to Lytro, a camera company which recently unveiled its first product. Unlike other cameras, you never need to focus ...READ MORE›
Lytro's amazing "light field" camera tech has everyone from pro photogs to casual clickers abuzz. But the innovations now en route suggest that the company's best is yet to come.READ MORE›
In the century and a half since it was invented, has the basic user experience of consumer photography changed all that much? Cameras have gotten smaller, more rugged, more sensitive, sharper and smarter. But you still basically hold ...READ MORE›
What do you get when you mix the post-millennial American ennui of American Beauty with the lusciously art-directed imagery of a food magazine? "Disparity," a series of impish-but-eerie photographs in which mysterious micro-scenes--a ...READ MORE›
Landscape photography tends to focus on larger-than-life subject matter, like Edward Burtynksy’s gobsmacking photos of the Gulf oil spill last year, or the epic Arctic Circle photos from Nadav Kander. But photographer Delaney Allen ...READ MORE›
We all know we aren’t at our most attractive after working out. But how bad could we possibly look? I mean really?
Bad. Extraordinarily bad. Like we-shouldn't-go-out-in-public bad. Nick-Nolte-on-a-bender bad. ...READ MORE›
Most of us assume that packaging protects the stuff we buy from people and their grubby paws. Boy, are we wrong. As a series of photographs by New York- and L.A.-based Lorena Turner shows, even our most meticulously packaged goods ...READ MORE›
Stéphane Couturier, the French photographer who was recently shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, once said that the greatest picture he never took was “the birth of matter.” Heavy stuff -- but then again, Couturier’s photographs ...READ MORE›
Take a drive along a major highway and you'll see the fodder for Josef Schulz's photographic oeuvre: nondescript industrial factories, office parks, and clusters of hotel and restaurant signage bidding you to take the next exit. If ...READ MORE›
TagSense, a prototype app designed by two Microsoft interns, can automatically tag a picture with a person's name, physical activities, facial expression, and exact physical location--all without human input.READ MORE›
It's hard to impress us sometimes with new display typefaces -- we just see so damn many of them. The ones that do catch our eye usually incorporate some unexpected physical process into their design. Marc Böttler's "Klotz" type ...READ MORE›
A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.READ MORE›
The magi-cam is a robotic and mirrored surveillance device that most animals can't even see--taking advantage of many species' lack of sense of self.READ MORE›
The startup's capital comes from big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock, and its tech team includes a cofounder of Silicon Graphics and the man who was the chief architect for Palm's revolutionary webOS software. So what's the fuss all about?READ MORE›
Photographers have long trained their lenses on the atrocities of war, and even influenced the outcomes of few major battles. J Henry Fair is a member of that politically motivated tribe, though his focus is on the war we seem to be ...READ MORE›
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