Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do.Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder.

Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it’s awesome.

Read on how you can make your own Panography

Source: Photojojo.com - Tools & Photography

Media artists, creative folks, producers, mtv-freaks, music-makers and video-addicts heads UP! Here is the video top 100 of all time. We’ve put the top five on our website, to see to the rest of the top 100 check out stylus magazine, to see Music Video 1 to 5 read on…

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The following links have been added to our inspiring links page, check them out:

Do you think your link should be here, just let us know.

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One of my very favourite websites, or networks where I get daily inspiration from, is the Flavorpill Network.

Flavorpill now publishes nine email magazines that reach more than 280,000 subscribers. Leveraging a savvy team of more than 300 writers and editors around the globe, Flavorpill filters the finest in culture and delivers its findings to subscribers free of charge.

In spring 2006, Flavorpill will launch a dynamic, searchable site that brings together all of its brands and serves up daily updates. We’ll keep you updated, in the meanwhile check out: http://www.flavorpill.net

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He creative folks, are you also creating a lot of content, cool pictures, renderings, artwork, posters and more… don’t you ever lose something?

We use picassa because it’s so much easier and better then using windows to go thru all your files, and waiting for previews to load. The free software automaticly adds new work to your library, it just works. If you have a lot of artwork & pictures, you should give it a try.

Picassa allows you to do a couple of things very easily:

- create albums, label your work (each project as one album)
- manage artwork (rotate, scale, photo effects etc.)
- view artwork in slide shows (show to client or friends)
- share your artwork (to your weblog, to friends or even clients)

Check it out:

Example of how to use picasa to make simple artwork collage:

Search for your artwork, use tags, or select an album:

 

Select a number of pictures or artwork, and press the collage button:

 

The result of 1 minute work, is a ready to present piece of work, to a client or just for fun with friends:

Download it here:

It’s very easy to make these visualizations, browse and organise your artwork, pictures and videos, and the user interface is not that bad. 

The time line function is nice but could do with some graphic improvements.

Another tool to make your design life easier.

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All graphic artists are familiar with Flickr & Gettyimages, but there’s something new, Stock.Xchng.
Over 110.000 royalty free pictures, only thing you need to do is register.

Example picture of keyboard.. totaly free to use.

Visit Stock.xchange

Looking for a specific type of media file, and google isn’t helping you out? Try the Wikimedia Commons! 

Wikimedia commons is a database of hundreds of thousands of media files to which anyone can contribute.

Here’s a handy tool for all the Google-addicts out there! Check Soople, easy search in google to find search results in multiple pages, countries or just stocks or numbers.
Very easy and useful tool: www.soople.com

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Trying to be creative, but you really aren’t? Or are you just a designer who’s stuck in his ideas? Try the Prior Art-O-Matic!

Ever been in one of those situatios where you needed a picture, that you could see in your mind, but couldn’t find on the internet? Well… Here is the solution: Retreivr

Retreivr looks at your hand drawn input, and scans flickr.com for matching images… enjoy!