A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled 506 Landowne Streetcar, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan27
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Jan27
If you use TTC, a public transit system (which luckily I don’t as I live in the heart of the city), you may find this video pretty cool. It includes animation of all the system routes and time-lapse of individual vehicles as they moving across the city:
TTC Speeds – Drawing from James Fisher on Vimeo.
An animation that roughly shows how the ‘TTC Speeds’ map was constructed (see the pics linked below). Only 1 hour of data this time. Also included a quick time-lapse of all of the individual vehicles.
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Jan27
Video: Ansel Adams, A Documentary Film
Posted in: Video
PBS American Experience – Ansel Adams, A Documentary Film
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Jan27
Very cute… I want it!
Taiwanese designer Mike He of Pistacchi Design created this clever Pinocchio-inspired pencil sharpener for his 2011 Once Upon a Time project shown at Tokyo Designer’s Week. The Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener is available for purchase from online retailer, fred flare. via The Awesomer
(Via Laughing Squid.)
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Jan27
Art: Truthful movie posters
Posted in: Art
These are priceless posters… here are my favourite:



Posters for Oscar nominated movies that maybe tell the truth of each movie a bit more than the conventional posters. For instance, Iron Lady becomes Total Bitch, Tree of Life becomes Wuh?, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo becomes All the Rape, No Subtitles.
(Via kottke.org.)
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Jan26
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Market Street, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan26
Video: TRANSPORT by Noah Kalina
Posted in: Video
Transport, a beautiful short film by Reggie Watts and Noah Kalina.
TRANSPORT from Noah Kalina on Vimeo.
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Jan26
Sightsmap, an interactive heatmap of the world’s top sightseeing spots:
Sightsmap is an interactive heatmap that shows the most photographed sightseeing spots in the world. It is powered by data fromPanoramio, a location-based photo sharing site. Sightsmap is by Estonian computer science professor Tanel Tammet. via PetaPixel
(Via Laughing Squid.)
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Jan26
Art: Minimalist City Transit Map Posters
Posted in: Art
Lineposters is a beautifully minimal poster series of city transit systems from around the world. The posters are currently on sale at Fab. They can also be found at the Lineposters Etsy store. The Lineposters series is by Cayla Ferari and John Breznicky.
(Via Laughing Squid.)
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Jan26
Blue Marble, a stunning 64-megapixel photograph of Earth:

NASA has released another Blue Marble photograph of Earth. It calls this one the “most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever”. The image is a composite created from a number of photos of Earth’s surface captured on January 4, 2012, and weighs in at a massive 64-megapixels (8000×8000). You can download the full-res version here. Be warned though — it might crash your browser. (via Gizmodo via PopSci)
(Via PetaPixel.)
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Jan25
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Ali Baba’s, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan25
Video: PressPausePlay by House of Radon
Posted in: Video
PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo.
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
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Jan25
Design: Ornate Victorian typewriter
Posted in: Design
What a beautiful design…

AntiqueTypewriters.com has a great section on the Crandall New Model, “one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made.”
It has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!
Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with six or so being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall – New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured but the first to have some success in sales.
The Crandall was the first typewriter to print from a single element or “type-sleeve”, well before IBM’s ‘Golf ball’ of 1961. The Crandall’s type-sleeve is a cylinder, about the size of your finger (see photo below), which rotates and rises up one or two positions before striking the roller, achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys. The type-sleeve is easy to remove, allowing for change of font style and character size.
Crandall, New Model (Thanks, Antique typewriter Collector!)
(Via Boing Boing.)
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Jan24
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Croft Street, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan24
Books: The Immortalists by Kyle Mills
Posted in: Books
Reading a new book by Kyle Mills called “The Immortalists” since last night, never really read a medical thriller. So far it is pretty good… lately I am on my thriller phase so it keeps me engaged in the book.About the book:
Dr. Richard Draman is trying desperately to discover a cure for a disease that causes children to age at a wildly accelerated rate—a rare genetic condition that is killing his own daughter. When the husband of a colleague quietly gives him a copy of the classified work she was doing before her mysterious suicide, Draman finally sees a glimmer of hope. The conclusions are stunning, with the potential to not only turn the field of biology on its head, but reshape the world. Soon, though, he finds himself on the run, relentlessly pursued by a seemingly omnipotent group of men who will do whatever it takes to silence him.
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Jan24
Video: ECHOES – Short Film by ChuΩng VΩ
Posted in: Video
Short Film By Chuong Vo. Venture into the mind of a Schizophrenia sufferer. This is made to raise awareness about mental illness. This is how they see and hear the world. Don’t turn your back on them just because they’re different. Put yourself in their shoes and experience what they experience everyday.
Alone but never alone…Starring Alicia Gall
Music By Alexander Kokic-SchmidtECHOES – Short Film from ChuΩng VΩ on Vimeo.
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Jan24
Photography: Panoramic photo collages
Posted in: Photography
Scapes, a photo collage panoramas taken from high places:
Daredevil Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings and creates wonderful panoramic photo collages of the surrounding landscape. Van Buuren’s “Scapes” will be on display at the Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam through February 4. via Colossal
(Via Laughing Squid.)
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Jan24
Water bottle as vodka – KRU 82 Vodka
Posted in: Design
This is cool and disturbing at the same time, I can see people who have alcohol problems taking a clues from this idea on how else they can hide their dependence…
When it comes to alcohol, many vodkas are packaged in fancy glass bottles, but the KRU 82 Vodka chooses environmental health over excessive bling.

If the word Vodka weren’t etched onto the KRU 82 Vodka, there would be a good chance most would perceive it to be a high-end water bottle. However, the drink contained inside this stainless steel canteen is in fact alcohol. The bottle is shatterproof, recyclable and reusable for those who take the environment seriously—the bottle even comes with its own carabiner and strap. As for the taste, the KRU 82 is described as smooth, crisp and clean; excellent adjectives to describe hard liquor. The KRU 82 Vodka presents unconventional packaging to bring greener alternatives to consumers.
(via TrendHunter.)
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Jan23
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Oxford Fruit Market, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan23
This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses. Project Yosemite Website: projectyose.com
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
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Jan23
Art: Sculptures of Beavis and Butt-Head
Posted in: Art
Super-realistic sculptures of Beavis and Butt-Head in real life:
These super-realistic (and super-creepy) sculptures of animated anti-heroes Beavis and Butt-head were created by special makeup effects artist, Kevin Kirkpatrick for the Conjoined II art show. The piece, Beavis & Butthead in real life, will be on display during the span of the show. The show opens January 21, 2012 and runs through February 11, 2012 at CoproGallery in Santa Monica, California.
From Kevin Kirkpatrick, the artist, about these sculptures:
Just finished these fellas for the Conjoined 2 Art Show. It was like a little boot camp. I started from scratch 2 and a half weeks ago. I’m very tired, but very happy. Special thanks to Nicole Michaud for the beautiful hairwork, and Jason James for help with the molds. via Geekosystem and reddit photos by Kevin Kirkpatrick
(Via Laughing Squid.)
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Jan23
Awesome black and white photography:

Photographer Lee Jeffries worked as a sports photographer before having a chance encounter one day with a young homeless girl on a London street. After stealthily photographing the girl huddled in her sleeping bag, Jeffries decided to approach and talk with her rather than disappear with the photograph. That day changed his perception about the homeless, and he then decided to make them the subject of his photography. Jeffries makes portraits of homeless people he meets in Europe and in the US, and makes it a point to get to know them before asking to create the portraits. His photographs are gritty, honest, and haunting.




You can see more of his work in this Flickr set. (via Beautiful/Decay) Image credits: Photographs by Lee Jeffries and used with permission
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Jan22
February issue of Vanity Fair has a good article called ‘Revolution Number 99′; it is chronological development of Occupy Walls Street movement in USA last year. What I really liked about it is that is being told by number of different people involved in the birth of the movement from their own perspective. It is a good read if you want to learn a bit modern day history as told by those involved in it.
If you don’t have paper or an iPad version of Vanity Fair, this article is available in a digital edition online for free.
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Jan22
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Front Street, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan21
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Urban Eatery, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan20
A new SHOOTTORONTO Project photograph titled Sandwich Board Signs, Toronto, Canada has been posted on the web site. You can view it in a larger format here. This image is available for sale and commercial licensing – Buy This Print. For more of my photography go to my Flickr photo stream. Enjoy it…
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Jan20
Video Trailer: Meaning Of Robots
Posted in: Video
The film premieres January 20 at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Filmmaker Matt Lenski created a short documentary: The benevolent Mike Sullivan, age 65, has been shooting an epic stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years. Obsessed with constructing the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands of them.
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Jan20

IKEA scored a viral advertising hit in 2010 when it released a cookbook with photographs by Carl Kleiner showing the ingredients of each recipe neatly arranged on a table. Now, the Swedish furniture company has teamed up with the photographer and stylist Evelina Kleiner again for a series of photographs showing kitchen items in beautiful arrangements.




(via Trendland via Photojojo) Image credits: Photographs by Carl Kleiner
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