Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
We went down to visit our friends Karen & Ian over the Bank Holiday weekend. As we went to leave it was glorious weather imaginable and it was a wrench to get away, but I had to quickly pop up the hill and shoot an experimental panorama, which I’ve stitched Read more …
I stumbled across some wonderful paper cut-out works of art by Peter Callesen. There are many that are botanically inspired, with my favourites being the framed pieces with cut-outs of apples, leaves and petals – go to the page ‘Framed A4 Papercut’ and scroll down through them. Some of the Read more …
As a collector of silly signs the BBC piece Beijing stamps out poor English struck a chord and gave me much amusement. The Chinglish photo pool on Flickr is a real ‘must see’. And if you wondered where the tile of this post came from, see this one.
Sea levels are rising to alarming levels, species are threatened with extinction, but if you read the latest news stories it’s getting even worse: we will now have to mow our lawns all year round deadly moths are invading the UK (OK, maybe not) there’s a deadly witch doctor’s plant Read more …
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. First the laughter: Flickr has recently launched a fully integrated mapping tool (as opposed to a few other sites which had been doing it via tags and the Flickr API) and it’s flippin’ clever. As an example go to the Kew Gardens Read more …
There’s a free 10×8 print of a photo of your choice for the first person to guess what this is. Just add your suggestion to the comments….