Made some buttons for a film
Made some buttons to support a little film I just heard about. You probably haven’t heard about it though…
Ridiculous Sky
The sky tonight was ridiculous.
Open the Pod Bay Doors Hal
Three monitors makes it easier to open the pod bay doors.
BBC targets social media users with Instagram video news
BBC News is stepping up its efforts to reach new audiences on social media platforms after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December.
On 16 January, BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as a roundup of the day’s news.
The name is a throwback to the BBC’s former Ceefax service – the world’s first teletext service that ran on UK television until 2012. This is described as the updated version of a text-based, short-form news service for the digital age.
The bit that’s missing from all of these stories is probably its most brilliant:
For 38 years, the BBC ran »
Beyond Instagram: Should photographers accept the risks inherent in social networks?
The question should be: can we fight these advances and the millions of people who are consuming images in that way? Or should we accept this new form of consumption and instead look at how we can bring them closer to us, how we can interact and benefit from them. We need to put ourselves in their shoes, accept their rules and, down the line, monetise them. We might be the authors of our work, but without an audience, we’re nothing.
Photos embody this problem the most. They’re traditionally seen as objects. Things that are tangible. But Instagram is the boldest example of how easily that can change. I personally think this will apply equally to other media as the technology and culture evolves, and we’re only seeing it first with photography.
A new project, Dronestagram, is doing the searching for you, marrying the images of Google Maps satellite view to the episodic, image-sharing capacities of Tumblr and Instagram. When drone strikes are reported by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (which focuses on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia but not Afghanistan), writer James Bridle tracks down the locations on Google Maps and then Instagrams the picture.
Further evidence that our concepts and ideas of what photography is continues to evolve in new and intriguing ways.