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Photography. Visit the blog of Julien David on colette.fr [link]

Contemporary art and Virtual Architecture: “Kolkoz Tower”, project by artists Kolkoz. Represented by Galerie Perrotin. “Immense and virtual, obtained by compiling more modest facades, the Kolkoz Towers loom from vertiginous heights over cities, as if Favelas or priority zones, normally subjected to landed horizontality, had suddenly shot up to reach the heavens. Monuments to the glory of the most deprived, erectile nonsense, miracles or architectural errors?” [link]

R/C Helicopter Using Vision Sensing: Self launch helicopter and climb to set point. [link] via diydrones.com

Contemporary art and Crowds: Vanessa Beecroft’s work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude). The work and her conceptual approach is neither performance nor documentary, but something in between, and closer to Renaissance painting. [Link] to the rest of the description of Vanessa Beecroft’s art in Wikipedia. Photography: Piano Americano, 1996 by Vanessa Beecroft, Courtesy of Brae Art.

Photography: Peter Sutherland. ”Everyone in my family passed the mask around and took turns staring up the eclipse.” Website http://www.petersutherland.net 
Via okaygreat.com

Photography and Crowds: “Planes” Photo by Ho-Yeol Ryu. Website http://www.homato.com

Contemporary Art: Andreas Gursky and a representation of “contemporary global busy-ness”. Article Frieze Magazine. ”Gursky’s digitally manipulated images of Kuwaitis dressed in traditional white thab and ghutrah at a stock exchange (2007), an empty Prada shelf (1997), Formula 1 pit stops (2007) or a Madonna concert (2001) cannot be reduced to documents of an ideological worldview that seeks to attest how small and ultimately insignificant humans are, and how cute their busy activity seems when viewed from a strategic vantage point high above or far away” (Holger Liebs).  [Link] (Kuwait Stock Exchange, 2007) Courtesy: Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Koln Munchen London

Thin holographic sheets present 3D visualization of architectures with Austin based Zebra Imaging 3D. Incredible! http://zebraimaging.com

Augmented-reality maps: Blaise Aguera y Arcas at #TED.

Photography and Crowds: “Prospect Heights - Lincoln Pl. & Underhill Ave.” Photo by Tom Mason. Website www.tommasonportfolio.com

Contemporary Art and Crowds: “If size matters, it’s no wonder American artist Jonathan Borofsky ranks among the top artists of his generation.” PROJECT: Human Structures and the Light of Consciousness. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. 2009. Video [link]

Giga Pan: Hessenpark Marktplatz. Go to http://gigapan.org to discover the photo by David Bergman of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address. It’s made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels.

Photography and Crowds: Photographs merged together by Peter Funch. “Composite photography, or multiple photos take over time that have been digitally stitched together.” via 10000words.net
Website http://www.peterfunch.com

Robots: 8 minute documentary called “Living With Robots” [link] Posted by Chris Anderson: ”It is totally worth watching simply because of how well it sums up so many of the issues relevant to robotics today and in the near future.”

Full Body Picture Photography: These pictures represent the “gold rush”. Pictures like this are worth a thousand words, as they say. These photographs were taken at the end of the 100m finals of the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Blog http://fullbodypicture.com/