Control Panel
Analogue switches, dials, and buttons, buttons, buttons (just like that Flickr group I linked to).
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Using SVG as placeholders — More Image Loading Techniques - JMPerez Blog
Here’s a clever to technique to improve the perceived performance of image loading with a polygonal SVG placeholder.
Now and Then Cobh
Time-shifted photographs of my hometown in Ireland.
Control Panel | Flickr
Photos of analogue interfaces: switches, knobs, levers, dials, buttons, so many buttons.
Typewriters in the Technical Museum in Figueres | Flickr
If you enjoyed reading Marcin’s serendipitous story on Twitter, here are the pictures to accompany it.
NASA – Past and Present Dreams of the Future | Benedict Redgrove
A selection from an ongoing photography project—seven years and counting—leading up to the launch of the Orion project.
70s Sci-Fi Art
Sci-fi book covers and posters from the 1970s.
Project Apollo Archive on Flickr
This is so, so wonderful—hundreds and hundreds of photographs from all of the Apollo missions. Gorgeous!
The shots of Earth take my breath away.
Scribblit
This is so nifty! Mikey has made a site where you can order his interactive artwork.
Interactive? That’s right! Each framed picture comes with a pen so you can doodle over the picture (and wipe it clean again).
Check out The Fett and The Falcon!
Flickr: Official SpaceX Photos’ Photostream
SpaceX has a Flickr account, and you have permission to use these photos.
Panorama Fail
The image-stitching algorithm is trying its best.
The Camera in the Mirror
Kubrickian pictures taken by the Google robot wherein it captures its own reflection.
Responsive Day Out 2014 - an album on Flickr
Photos from the rather wonderful second edition of the Responsive Day Out in Brighton.
Flickr: The British Library’s Photostream
This is a wonderful addition to the already-wonderful Flickr Commons: over one million pictures from the British Library, available with liberal licensing.
Y’know, I’m worried about what will happen to my own photos when Flickr inevitably goes down the tubes (there are still some good people there fighting the good fight, but they’re in the minority and they’re battling against the douchiest of Silicon Valley managerial types who have been brought in to increase “engagement” by stripping away everything that makes Flickr special) …but what really worries me is what’s going to happen to Flickr Commons. It’s an unbelievably important and valuable resource.
Science Hack Day San Francisco 2013 - a set on Flickr
Wonderful photos from Science Hack Day San Francisco, courtesy of Matt B.
Shinseungback Kimyonghun: Portrait
Beautiful amalgamations of film characters:
A custom software detects faces from every 24 frames of a movie, and creates an average face of all found faces. The composite image reflects the centric figure(s) and the visual mood of the movie.