Shift your view

Do you snap lots of pics that you don't ever use because they're not of anything in particular? Want to see the world in miniature? You can make your boring pics so much more interesting with Tilt Shift Maker. By shifting the focus in your photo, it makes things look like miniature plastic figurines. Here are some I prepared earlier. The first is the view from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and the second is in the Musee D'Orsay. If you have a go with your own pics then email the really cute ones over to us and we'll post them on here. I bet we could get a great collection going!

Take a picture.. it'll last longer.. no really...

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I've been on the internet for over half my life. I can remember looking up Hanson chatrooms and writing down URLs by hand (one was seriously over 100 characters long and I think I got it wrong anyway... the art of Cut/Paste had not yet been passed on to me).

It is safe to say I love technology and the ease of the digital age. But gosh darn, I'm really getting over digital cameras. Okay, I take it back... digital cameras are actually fantastic because they mean so many more people are capturing lifes little moments and not stopping to worry about wasting film - they're snapping away like crazy folk. But the problem is... no one is printing the photos! They're sitting on USBs, CDs and hard-drives and not being looked at or laughed at or loved.

I turned 24 two weeks ago and only JUST got photos from my 21st printed. What is that all about?! And I'm pretty sure that all digital records of me from 1998 to 2002 disappeared with our last computer, never to be discovered and guffawed at years later in a shoebox under my very messy bed. That's a bit sad (or great, depending how you look at it, because I was mid-teens and those photos are just awkward).
So my vow this year is to get snapping with whatever camera I can get my hands on - be it digital, film or instant. But the most important part is to - get the photos printed. Stick them up on your fridge, give them to friends for no real reason, make a wall of photos and upload them to the book of face (even those sloppy drunk ones if you must). And make it snappy.

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PS I really love this photo. It's so dorky and cute! It's something my mumma would have made me do... like wearing cherry earrings and making you pose, knowing full well you're cringeing inside and out. LOVE YOU MUM xx

Today I discovered...

...that there are very cool, printable design goodies over at Creature Comforts. They're currently offering a free download each day up until Christmas so if you're stuck for some cute wrapping or tags, put your printer to work! I downloaded this blue present design, printed it on A3 at work and now I have super cute paper. For free! Oh and Happy Belated Birthday Matt!

...that tomato soup and two minute noodles do not a marriage make. This is poor-man's spaghetti in a can but in larger, undesirable quantities. What can I say? It's the end of the year and I'm cleaning out the food stocks from my desk.

...that the Polarize application on your iPhone gives even the most pedestrian photos indie cred. Love it!

Wow, a non Christmas themed post in December? Well I never...