It was somewhere around 2007, that Dr. John Darwell, who is a senior lecturer in photography at the University of Cumbria, UK, began researching and photographically documenting the phenomenon of ‘ddsbs‘. “Over the past two years I have observed with increasing fascination the growing number of discarded dog shit bags (ddsbs) I encounter whilst out […]
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Side-bias in Smartphone Selfies
This study reveals that smartphone self-portraits may perhaps reveal something about left and right, maybe: “Self-Portraits: Smartphones Reveal a Side Bias in Non-Artists,” Nicola Bruno [pictured here, and who also recently did a study on an effect of red] and Marco Bertamini, PLoS ONE, 8(2), 2013, e55141. The authors, at the Universita di Parma, Italy and the University […]
Upside-down view of extreme sports
Neatorama alerts us to this photo of group skydiving, seen upside down from the (relatively) usual way of looking at such things: It’s from a gallery of unusual perspective photos of extreme sports, on the Unreality magazine site.
The great geoduck hoax photo
Peter Smith, in the Smithsonian’s Food & Think blog, tells of the great geoduck hoax photo. Here’s a copy of that photo: [via Annalee Newitz]