January 24, 2007

Fun with Apple: iHop & icons

Apropos of our friends up the road:

• Icons as icons: Greek designer Charis Tsevis has created a Heroes of the Electronic Revolution series, in which he depicts Steve Jobs as a mosaic of icons (Illustrator 10 makes a nice skin tone, evidently).  Check out the full-sized version to see the details.  Maybe we can get icon-Steve together with glyph-John Warnock. ;-)
• Apple, via Photoshop: Worth1000 is running a contest to depict the next Apple product.  I’m kinda partial to the iHop ("Jump Around"). [Via]
  

Night photography: Comets & more

• SpaceWeather.com has posted a gallery of beautiful shots of Comet McNaught in action, including this otherworldly pic from the Haleakala High Altitude Observatory. [Via]
• Joe Lencioni has posted a nice shot of the Leonids meteor shower (now joined by a second shot).
• Joe Reifer has posted in-depth info on shooting with a Canon 5D & a wide angle lens, used to produce this image.  [For more from him, see previous.]
• I really enjoy the painterly quality of New York Blue, from photographer Bill Travis. [Sidenote: It’s amazing how different the same image looks in Safari vs. Firefox on my system, due to FF not (as far as I know) honoring color profiles.  Would it kill the browser makers to implement color management?  Of course, Adobe needs to do the same in the Flash Player.]