3,000 Photos Are Uploaded Every Second to Facebook
Facebook officially filed to become a publicly traded company today and, in doing so, spilled the beans on many of its internal figures and statistics that are normally under wraps. A crazy fact that emerged is that an average of 250 million photographs are uploaded to the service every day. That’s equal to 10.4 million...
Photo “Printed” by Hand Using 200,000+ Nonpareils Candy Sprinkles
For a fine arts project at his university, art student Joel Brochu spent a whopping 8 months meticulously recreating a photograph using tiny nonpareils (the tiny sprinkles used on cakes and donuts). 221,184 individual sprinkles were placed on the 4-foot-wide board, which was covered with double-sided tape and a thin layer of glue. Each sprinkle...
Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beans
Want to see what pure dedication looks like? This music video for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a background composed of jelly beans. It’s a crazy project that required 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. They could have used CGI, of course,...
Crazy Photo Project: One Self-Portrait Every Hour, For an Entire Year
Daily photo projects have become quite popular as of late, and a number of viral time-lapse videos feature people who take one self-portrait a day over many years. However, if you think taking a photo every day requires a crazy amount of dedication, you ain’t seen nothing yet. For an entire year, from April 11,...
Human Camera: Scientists Reconstruct Pictures from Brain Activity
We’re now one step closer to being able to take photographs with our minds. Scientists at UC Berkeley have come up with a way to reconstruct what the human brain sees: [Subjects] watched two separate sets of Hollywood movie trailers [...] brain activity recorded while subjects viewed the first set of clips was fed into...
Optical Illusion: You’ll Want to Double Check This in Photoshop
We’ve shared a couple stories in the past month on how human eyes are very subjective and horrible as light meters, and here’s yet another mind-boggling example of how easily our eyes can be fooled by context. In the image above, the “...
Stop-Motion Inside a Stop-Motion with 500 People and 1,500 Photos
Eran Amir created this “stop-motion within a stop-motion” using 1,500 separate photographs and 500 volunteers. The massive amounts of work, creativity, and planning that this project must have required is mind-boggling.(via Ze Frank via Lau...
Wallpaper Made Using 100,000 Facebook Photographs
What does it look like when ever inch of a room’s walls and ceiling are covered with photographs? German art students Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay decided to find out through their project titled “fbFaces”. Using a crawler that traverses the Facebook social graph, they harvested 100,000 profile pictures and used them to print out...
Amazing CGI in HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
Here’s yet another example of the crazy visual effects found on today’s TV shows — this time it’s from HBO’s series “Game of Thrones“. Just making composites this realistic using still images would be difficult...
Scientists Develop X-ray Camera That Shoots at 4.5 Million Frames per Second
Having a camera that shoots 5000 frames per second is enough to capture slow motion footage of a bullet flying through the air, but scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council have now announced a camera that shoots a staggering 4.5 million frames per second. Rather than bullets, the camera is designed to capture...
Mind-Blowing Display Created Using 250 Canon DSLRs and Flash Units
For their music video for the song “Bright Siren“, Japanese band androp created a mind-blowing giant display using Canon 60D DSLRs and strobes as the individual pixels. They used 250 separate cameras and flash units, and controlled each one individually using a computer program. Every single light used was real, and no computer-generated trickery was...
