Photos of Movie Theaters Show the Former Grandeur of Cinema

Photos of Movie Theaters Show the Former Grandeur of Cinema

Your garden-variety multiplex probably resembles a concrete box with interiors sporting giant movie ads and sterile seating areas. But there are still a number of surviving theaters that show off the glamour and scope of cinema in its heyday. Photographer Franck Bohbot’s recent series documents just that.

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Sony QX 100 and QX 10 cameras updated with better ISO range and 1080p video mode

Sony has announced that it has updated its interesting QX line of lens-style cameras. The two updated cameras include the QX 100 and the QX 10. These cameras look like … Continue reading

18 Colorful Cocktails, And Their Recipes

Nothing cuts through a grey winter evening like a cocktail worthy of Toucan Sam. Here are a baker’s dozen drinks, photographed and mixed by you.

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Pro photographer looking for people to do their job without pay

Pro photographer looking for people to do their job without pay

We love photographers, which is why we love this ad by an anonymous professional photographer in Boston, pasted here as is. You can substitute photographer for designer, animator, artist, video editor, cameraman, advertiser, writer, etc.

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A LED Robot That Makes Long Exposure Light Painting Easy

A LED Robot That Makes Long Exposure Light Painting Easy

Making those ethereal long exposure photos where you ‘paint’ an image with an LED light requires a combination of artistic talent, skill, and patience. But if you’re lacking all three, just order one of these $100 Thymio II robots, that can be easily programmed to do all the light painting for you.

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How LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome)

How LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome)

The announcement last year that Los Angeles would be replacing its high-pressure sodium streetlights—known for their distinctive yellow hue—with new, blue-tinted LEDs might have a profound effect on at least one local industry. All of those LEDs, with their new urban color scheme, will dramatically change how the city appears on camera, thus giving Los Angeles a brand new look in the age of digital filmmaking. As Dave Kendricken writes for No Film School, "Hollywood will never look the same."

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All the Gear an Olympic Photographer Is Bringing to Sochi

All the Gear an Olympic Photographer Is Bringing to SochiJeff Cable is a Bay Area photographer who has travelled the globe taking pictures, including coverage of the last three Olympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver, and London. Cable is about to head to Sochi to cover the 2014 Winter Olympics, where he’ll be blogging about his experience. To kick things off, Jeff published a rundown of all the gear he brings along to get the job done.

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32 Mesmerizing Photos of Vortices, From Soap Bubbles to Spiral Galaxies

32 Mesmerizing Photos of Vortices, From Soap Bubbles to Spiral Galaxies

Vortices are beautiful and mysterious, found at every imaginable scale—from soap bubbles to black holes. They’re so ubiquitous, in fact, that we tend to overlook them. But new research shows that studying the simplest vortices could glean surprising scientific insights.

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This Beautiful Tintype Portrait of Hoffman Will Haunt Us Forever

This Beautiful Tintype Portrait of Hoffman Will Haunt Us Forever

This haunting tintype photo is probably the last studio portrait of Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was taken on January 19, 2014 at 08:59:11 PM, at The Collective and Gibson Lounge, during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Derelict Factories Get The David Lynch Treatment In These Creepy Photos

Derelict Factories Get The David Lynch Treatment In These Creepy Photos

David Lynch is a creative dude like no other. The brains behind Twin Peaks and Eraserhead is a proven master at moving pictures, but it turns out he’s also into moody still shots.

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