tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178753952024-03-07T13:26:12.886-06:00Camera Toss (The Blog)A showcase photo-blog for the "best of" <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/">camera tossing</a> and general musings on this form of kinetic photography.<br />
Created and maintained by <a href="http://www.kineticphotography.net">Ryan</a> <a href="http://photography.ryangallagher.name" title="Ryan Gallagher's Daily Photo">Gallagher</a> (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd">clickykbd</a>)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793151861678812811noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17875395.post-58323129618388969022012-01-18T16:37:00.001-06:002012-01-18T16:37:00.130-06:00sopa protest<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/6722179759/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6722179759_d37e0f1a06.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/6722179759/">sopa protest</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/">clickykbd</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> take action at http://blacklist.eff.org</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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Some interesting variety, as expected, was produced depending on the properties of the monitor/display that people used to project the source image...<br /><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2703415944/" title="Kinetic 1052 - James Dean (by mtnrockdhh)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2703415944_3bf0b937d5_m.jpg" title="Kinetic 1052 - James Dean (by mtnrockdhh)" alt="Kinetic 1052 - James Dean (by mtnrockdhh)" width="180" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2705852189/" title="DSC01205 (by QuakkauQ)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2705852189_ec16828ce4_m.jpg" title="DSC01205 (by QuakkauQ)" alt="DSC01205 (by QuakkauQ)" width="180" height="240" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2740246971/" title="Kinetic 1063 (by mtnrockdhh)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2740246971_b249d8d8e0_m.jpg" title="Kinetic 1063 (by mtnrockdhh)" alt="Kinetic 1063 (by mtnrockdhh)" width="160" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/2710697870/" title="shared source project, theme #1 (by clickykbd)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2710697870_216f55a7dd_m.jpg" title="shared source project, theme #1 (by clickykbd)" alt="shared source project, theme #1 (by clickykbd)" width="180" height="240" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2710586483/" title="DSC01291 (by QuakkauQ)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2710586483_254e335e08_m.jpg" title="DSC01291 (by QuakkauQ)" alt="DSC01291 (by QuakkauQ)" width="180" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/nathanbarrow/2836656877/" title="Shared Source Toss 3 (by inF!)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2836656877_64b12a8b14_m.jpg" title="Shared Source Toss 3 (by inF!)" alt="Shared Source Toss 3 (by inF!)" width="180" height="240" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jahdakinebrah/2706816984/" title="theme one revisited (by jahdakine - mudding)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/2706816984_931da577bc_m.jpg" title="theme one revisited (by jahdakine - mudding)" alt="theme one revisited (by jahdakine - mudding)" width="177" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/spinphase/2726456859/" title="tossed (by spinphase)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2726456859_be69d6c3bd_m.jpg" title="tossed (by spinphase)" alt="tossed (by spinphase)" width="221" height="240" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/93505250@N00/2708166840/" title="camera_toss_group_experiment01 (by lehmio)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2708166840_0cc75d3fea_m.jpg" title="camera_toss_group_experiment01 (by lehmio)" alt="camera_toss_group_experiment01 (by lehmio)" width="240" height="180" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26091955@N05/2712338384/" title="And Now For The Egg Toss.., 2008 (by mick l)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/2712338384_724846a5c1_m.jpg" title="And Now For The Egg Toss.., 2008 (by mick l)" alt="And Now For The Egg Toss.., 2008 (by mick l)" width="240" height="180" /></a><br /><br /><em>Attributions: Top: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2703415944/">David Hull</a>, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2705852189/">Jens Ludwig</a>. 2nd Row: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2740246971/">David Hull</a>, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/2710697870/">Ryan Gallagher</a>. 3rd Row: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2710586483/">Jens Ludwig</a>, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/nathanbarrow/2836656877/">Nathan Barrow</a>. 4th Row: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jahdakinebrah/2706816984/">John</a>, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/spinphase/2726456859/">Crista</a>. Bottom: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/93505250@N00/2708166840/">Stephan Lehmann</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26091955@N05/2712338384/">Mick Logan</a></em><br /><br /><em>These photos was created as part of a multi-photographer <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/">Camera Toss Group</a> collaboration.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.cameratossing.de/theme1">pattern primitive image</a> used with permission and under the terms of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">Creative Commons; Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 2.0 license</a>.<br /><br />See <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/discuss/72157606366073734/">Shared Source Collaboration #1</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/2bLitn">results</a>.<br />See also <a href="http://bit.ly/CiiYT">all results</a> of such themes.</em><br /><br />If you are eager to get participating, <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/discuss/72157607572407792/">Collaboration #2</a> theme has already <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/discuss/72157607572407792/">been posted</a>. Please pay special attention to the tag, licensing, and attribution requirements of the project. Here is a taste...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24618803@N07/2913428482/" title="Shared Source Toss I (by inF!)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2913428482_f0c358ae37.jpg" title="Shared Source Toss I (by inF!)" alt="Shared Source Toss I (by inF!)" width="375" height="500" /></a><br /><em>originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24618803@N07/2913428482/">John (InF!)</a></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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Apparently JPG thinks seconds are fresher than firsts? This one however takes the form of a very <a href="http://jpgmag.com/themes/81">brief photo challenge</a> posed to it's readers/photographers online, and a selection of voted/edited picks of the result. Basically it's the magazine version of <a href="http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo%20Pool%20Picks">my "Pool Picks" postings</a> except with JPG contributers being the "pool", and without really providing any instructive context, history, or origins for the readers and contributors. Ironically there was a <a href="http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/215">user contributed howto article</a> on the subject linked from the challenge pages, but all that content was left unpublished in the printed article.<br /><br />In it's original posted form, their challenge didn't even get the concept/definition of a Camera Toss correct. I mean really folks, it's not that complicated. A couple of senior members in our community took it upon themselves to get them to at least honor the original concept and change the challenge criteria. Viewing the incoming submissions it became clear that many of their <a href="http://jpgmag.com/themes/81">contributors were also missing the point</a>, so a handful of our <a href="http://flickr.com/groups_members_detail.gne?id=67768907@N00&tab=member">5,000+ community members</a> took it upon themselves to submit high quality camera tosses in an effort to notch up the presentation of the concept. Even still, the final published selection included some that were <a href="http://jpgmag.com/photos/402952">obviously not a thrown camera</a>. But, almost all who submitted from our community made the published version. Congrats to them and way to show solidarity, something this labor union member/advocate certainly appreciates! ;-)<br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2266217960/" title="Kinetic 944 (by mtnrockdhh)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2266217960_dc856cac7b_m.jpg" title="Kinetic 944 (by mtnrockdhh)" alt="Kinetic 944 (by mtnrockdhh)" width="180" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38475174@N00/2478065802/" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2478065802_3ee574bbc3_m.jpg" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)" alt="Untitled (by tossthecam)" width="180" height="240" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marce_garal/2632755002/" title="PUBLISHED ON JPG MAGAZINE! (by marce_garal)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2632755002_06b19edc6a_m.jpg" title="PUBLISHED ON JPG MAGAZINE! (by marce_garal)" alt="PUBLISHED ON JPG MAGAZINE! (by marce_garal)" width="240" height="180" /></a></center><br /><em>(Left: by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh">David Hull</a>, Right: by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38475174@N00">Christian Kinzler</a>, Lower: by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marce_garal">Marce Garal</a>)</em><br /><br />Please don't read this post as a criticism of the photos/photographers actually published. Most were indeed camera tosses and many quite interesting to look at. I just feel the methodology for coming up with the content in the first place left a little bit to be desired in the way of substance and professionalism.<br /><br />Many JPG articles were great back in the days before they <a href="http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/2007/05/goodbye-jpg-magazine.html">restructured</a>, and some of them continue to be quite good, but I came away from this feeling like they just needed some space filler? Which, in itself is fine, but if you wish to showcase a technique, you should either give some great instructions or display some top quality work (ideally both?). Why else would you publish it, unless, perhaps your only aim is to make your own contributors (a.k.a. paying subscribers) feel good about themselves?<br /><br />So three cheers to <a href="http://powazek.com/">Derek</a> and <a href="http://hchamp.com/">Heather</a> for honoring our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/">little niche</a> of the photography universe with their original article, instructions, and interviews! (View <a href="http://kineticphotography.net/static/press/jpg_magazine_issue_6_article.pdf">online here</a>) This second time around? Not so much.<br /><br />As for the current editorial staff of JPG Magazine. If you wish to produce "fresh" content. Figure out a way to get your article/theme contributors to do their homework. A little tried and true journalism wouldn't hurt either. I'm sure you would have had an amazing spread if you popped into <a href="http://flickr.com/grouups/cameratoss/discuss">our forums</a> and solicited the community to contribute (exactly what was done for the <a href="http://kineticphotography.net/static/press/jpg_magazine_issue_6_article.pdf">Issue 6 article</a>).<br /><br />How's that for <em>"getting fresh with you"</em>? ;-) Maybe by fresh you didn't mean "snarky". Oh well. ;-)<br /><br />Links Related to this Posting:<br /><a href="http://jpgmag.com/themes/81">Photo Challenge: Camera Toss (and all submissions)</a><br /><a href="http://jpgmag.com/downloads/PhotoChallenge_cameratoss.pdf">Photo Challenge: Camera Toss (published contact-sheet)</a><br /><a href="http://jpgmag.com/issues/16/full">JPG Magazine Issue 16</a><br /><a href="http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/215">Unpublished JPG user contributed HOWTO</a><br /><a href="http://kineticphotography.net/static/press/jpg_magazine_issue_6_article.pdf">JPG Magazine Issue 6 Article (instructions, interviews, commentary)</a><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/">Camera Toss Group on Flickr</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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Congratulations especially to those new members shown here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26091955@N05/2613238430/" title="Green Slide 2008 (by mick l)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2613238430_7cba102744_s.jpg" title="Green Slide 2008 (by mick l)" alt="Green Slide 2008 (by mick l)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/11463679@N06/2613835398/in/pool-cameratoss"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2613835398_80dede124f_s.jpg" title="Circulus (by Tomas i Trekanten)" alt="Circulus (by Tomas i Trekanten)" width="75" height="75"></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/21348418@N08/2612611413/in/pool-cameratoss"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2612611413_bd5b27e806_s.jpg" title="swurl 031 (by suberite)" alt="swurl 031 (by suberite)" width="75" height="75"></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugged2death/778026338/" title="Pax Otium 3 (by Jonathan Vo)"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1159/778026338_4ec6a85211_s.jpg" title="Pax Otium 3 (by Jonathan Vo)" alt="Pax Otium 3 (by Jonathan Vo)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27077288@N03/2576435153/" title="Camera Toss 1 (by krazyvshank)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2576435153_d09b2b8e52_s.jpg" title="Camera Toss 1 (by krazyvshank)" alt="Camera Toss 1 (by krazyvshank)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2600266182/" title="DSC00436 (by QuakkauQ)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2600266182_198c25fd7f_s.jpg" title="DSC00436 (by QuakkauQ)" alt="DSC00436 (by QuakkauQ)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doobzilla/2493304786/" title="i'm waiting for the man (by d y l a n)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2493304786_a757baeeb0_s.jpg" title="i'm waiting for the man (by d y l a n)" alt="i'm waiting for the man (by d y l a n)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzytheexploder/2586596016/" title="Untitled (by suzy the exploder)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/2586596016_cd2b88bcf1_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by suzy the exploder)" alt="Untitled (by suzy the exploder)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/williwieberg/2574050896/" title="again (by williwieberg)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2574050896_913f0682b0_s.jpg" title="again (by williwieberg)" alt="again (by williwieberg)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordscience/2569240911/" title="Hutong Toss (by lordscience)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2569240911_2a9951fdff_s.jpg" title="Hutong Toss (by lordscience)" alt="Hutong Toss (by lordscience)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/menamachines/2391883690/" title="Untitled (by menamachines)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/2391883690_ee2f9ae6e2_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by menamachines)" alt="Untitled (by menamachines)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26091955@N05/2561719544/" title="Fruit Loop (Red Rasberry) 2007 (by mick l)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2561719544_42a9916590_s.jpg" title="Fruit Loop (Red Rasberry) 2007 (by mick l)" alt="Fruit Loop (Red Rasberry) 2007 (by mick l)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38475174@N00/2531121912/" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2531121912_89fd136408_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)" alt="Untitled (by tossthecam)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quakkauq/2519537380/" title="DSC09818 (by QuakkauQ)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2519537380_5c3777f5de_s.jpg" title="DSC09818 (by QuakkauQ)" alt="DSC09818 (by QuakkauQ)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincoln_koga/2514659787/" title="Untitled (by lincoln koga)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/2514659787_f886047c7c_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by lincoln koga)" alt="Untitled (by lincoln koga)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21066820@N06/2513861272/" title="The Simplicity of Colored Lines (by jefg99)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2024/2513861272_a2e25d770e_s.jpg" title="The Simplicity of Colored Lines (by jefg99)" alt="The Simplicity of Colored Lines (by jefg99)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38475174@N00/2478065802/" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2478065802_3ee574bbc3_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by tossthecam)" alt="Untitled (by tossthecam)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpaulda/2459881651/" title="LIFTED (by mpaulda)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/2459881651_72b528a260_s.jpg" title="LIFTED (by mpaulda)" alt="LIFTED (by mpaulda)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpaulda/2460719300/" title="ZOOM (by mpaulda)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2460719300_50ea1af769_s.jpg" title="ZOOM (by mpaulda)" alt="ZOOM (by mpaulda)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightshousehpc/2425739410/" title="Metro Toss (by Right Brain)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/2425739410_03c7c1183d_s.jpg" title="Metro Toss (by Right Brain)" alt="Metro Toss (by Right Brain)" width="75" height="75" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightshousehpc/2421766081/" title="Empire State Toss (by Right Brain)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/2421766081_a628c42cf6_s.jpg" title="Empire State Toss (by Right Brain)" alt="Empire State Toss (by Right Brain)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/beer30/2422129188/" title="r012 (by Beer30)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2422129188_0834e3fcbe_s.jpg" title="r012 (by Beer30)" alt="r012 (by Beer30)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markloper/2355487410/" title="Untitled (by Mark Loper)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2355487410_a9fd61ae0b_s.jpg" title="Untitled (by Mark Loper)" alt="Untitled (by Mark Loper)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/letiger/2338452063/" title="Monaco (by LeTiger)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2338452063_ae9883b849_s.jpg" title="Monaco (by LeTiger)" alt="Monaco (by LeTiger)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbicanic/2334194006/" title="CameraTossTest2 (by nbicanic)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/2334194006_7559db9986_s.jpg" title="CameraTossTest2 (by nbicanic)" alt="CameraTossTest2 (by nbicanic)" width="75" height="75" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewwesleycarter/2327555677/" title="diagonals (by thelastwordisrejoice)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2147/2327555677_2f4278a310_s.jpg" title="diagonals (by thelastwordisrejoice)" alt="diagonals (by thelastwordisrejoice)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21066820@N06/2325931209/" title="Experimental CT10 (by jefg99)"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2325931209_79e0e3c72a_s.jpg" title="Experimental CT10 (by jefg99)" alt="Experimental CT10 (by jefg99)" width="75" height="75" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fares_hajer/2310599701/" title="شخبوطة ضوئية (by Hassan ali m,)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2079/2310599701_322483b5b3_s.jpg" title="شخبوطة ضوئية (by Hassan ali m,)" alt="شخبوطة ضوئية (by Hassan ali m,)" width="75" height="75" /></a><br /><br /><em>Authors: Hover to view author screen name, or click to visit their photo on 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Many other services have followed suit, and the prominence of <a href="http://maps.google.com">Google Maps</a> and <a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a> have also fueled this whole GIS topic.<br /><br />Now Nokia, with these GPS enabled phones including the <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=products,n82">Nokia N82</a>, which I am test driving in participation with their <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=campaigns,n82,urbanistadiaries,home">Urbanista Diary</a> campaign, is attempting to demonstrate this "beta" idea of geo-specific story telling such as with a travel diary, with possibility to go "real-time" in this capacity. For sure their are some individual early adopters out there before all this, but is the technology ready for the masses? Perhaps more importantly, are we ready?<br /><br />This post shall discuss their technology mostly, my experiences with it so far as a storytelling/sharing platform. It's certainly an intriguing concept, and Nokia, by no means has the market cornered on this. Please consider that this is the opinion of capable, albeit new, user to this technology in general. Addressing if we are ready is worth an entire post (at least), and perhaps one I'll write after the experience.<br /><br />The tools provided by Nokia for this undertaking are comprised of 4 parts primarly:<br /><ol><li>A GPS enabled camera phone (mini-computing platform), the Nokia N82 in our case.<br /><br /></li><li>An application on the phone designed around athletic workout performance logging, which has the side benefit of catching and uploading photos taken during a running log.<br /><br /></li><li>A web service for sharing these "workouts", <a href="http://sportstracker.nokia.com">sportstracker.nokia.com</a>. This presents a bunch of information you'd expect to see in an athletic analysis of a "workout", but also displays a GoogleMap with a line indicating your path, and photos you'd taken associated to points on that line. You can add captions and view individually photos one at a time on the workout page too.<br /><br /></li><li>A combined "interface" for the 4 travelers of the "Urbanista Diaries" (<a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=campaigns,n82,urbanistadiaries,home">link</a>), plus the blog widget of the similar intent included on this blog.</li></ol><br />A quick "impression" of my findings relevant to the task of each, as this post is already long, I'll share specifics and my plan to compensate for problems later:<br /><ol><li>Phone: Nice product, perfectly capable... only complaints about the hardware are mostly minor... better battery life, keypad usability, and camera-mode ergonomics being the biggest complaints. Forgive the details but I'm not really a phone geek, I'll post more specifics later.<br /><br /></li><li>App: Simple enough, but horribly off-task when it comes to mobile/geo "story telling". Covers the basic requirement though, and that is provide <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waypoint">waypoint</a> data that can be later associated to content. Seems to take eons to find your location at first start up, and draws quite a bit of battery when actively logging. A couple features that should be user tunable are not.<br /><br /></li><li>Service: Again, woefully off-task. We are told it's in "alpha" even for the athletic uses, so one would hope they plan a major overhaul/relaunch if they wish to take these other activities more seriously. But as it is, it's buggy, painful/slow to use, and lacks many things one might expect, and have come to expect (if not demand) if it were really to function as a user-generated content sharing service. What's more is we were told not to even attempt the "live logging" mode during our journey, for it is far too unreliable still. But it is what it claims to be in it's current manifestation, a sports/workout logging/sharing service... how boring. ;-)<br /><br /></li><li>Inteface: Nokia put some effort into this one, it's very slick! It is unfair to judge this one as a web-service, because it's really just some promotional media. But slick usually comes with a performance hit and this one packs quite a punch. The flash combined with GoogleMaps and speed at which it delivers photos in the slide-show mode is almost unusable. All the bare-bones essential elements are there, slideshow, captions, map, route taken, photos as placemarks etc etc... but somewhere they completely botched the usability in favor of looks. Ironically considering the intent, it is also quite hard to "follow" someone via this interface. I think it's meant to maybe use once, get a thrill out of, and hopefully buy a phone (never to look back). Certainly not your next killer web 2.0 or social media application. But I rant a bit, my main quarrel with it besides the speed, is actually a GoogleMaps API shortcoming it seems, the lack of detail (waypoint count) in the routes you can render as polylines), resulting in a map display that has a huge margin of error relative to the actual path I took.</li></ol><br />All that complaining and I haven't even started <a href="http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/2008/01/urbanista-itinerary-expanded.html">my trip yet</a>!? Well, I like to be familiar with my tools including their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations so that I can utilize them, compensate for them, workaround them, and sometimes capitalize on them to maximum impact. How, would you imagine, that I wound up throwing a camera in the first place?<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />I hope <a href="http://www.nokia.com">Nokia</a> and <a href="http://www.WOMWorld.com">WOMWorld</a> weren't lying when they indicated they really wanted our unbiased opinions. This trip was meant to be a "challenge", which I am still excited about and up for... but I think the challenge part was supposed to be the journey... not the tools, which were pitched to us as simple, capable, and perhaps even pleasant.<br /><br />Subsequent posts will also indicate my "plan" for a tool set to accomplish this mythical "mobile geo-specific storytelling", and my trials and tribulations coming up with one. I plan to do this extra work so readers and friends can "really" follow along, and do it with free tools already out there.<br /><br />If you read this all the way to the bottom, you GET A TREAT!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2214847057/" title="Kinetic 926 (by mtnrockdhh)"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/2010/2214847057_6f9f882f4f.jpg" title="Kinetic 926 (by mtnrockdhh)" alt="Kinetic 926 (by mtnrockdhh)" width="500" height="375" /></a><br /><b>Kinetic 926</b><br /><em>originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh/2214847057/">mtnrockdhh</a></em><br /><br />Some glorious interference patterns in a camera toss by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnrockdhh">David Hull</a>, my ever dilligent moderator of the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/cameratoss">Camera Toss</a> flickr group.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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One of those fronts is being "constantly connected" and in communication via an array of applications on the <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=products,n82">Nokia N82</a>, a Symbian S60 3rd Edition platform. Information overload indeed! Phones that are also computing platforms are entirely new to me, so this will either be a wonderful resource, or simply a huge distraction while traveling. ;-)<br /><br />Here is a list of applications I've installed and configured, and other relevant info if you wish to be in touch via any of them:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://sportstracker.nokia.com">Nokia Sports Tracker</a><br />A GPS logging and route recording application geared towards athletics and training, but more powerful in that it will allow you to export your GPS logs in several formats including GPX and CSV. This is the one that drives the <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=campaigns,n82,urbanistadiaries,home">Urbanista Diaries</a> interfaces provided I can get it to behave and upload photos as expected with minimal fuss.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html">Google GMail Mobile</a><br />Very nice interface to my gmail account. Much better than using the built in browser to access the mobile friendly web pages at gmail.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.shozu.com/">ShoZu</a><br />Probably the best "general purpose" tool for posting media from the phone to a host of social networks and media sharing services. You can configure automatic cross-posting and only have to push it once from your phone. It does also support some geo-tagging features such as when pushing to flickr, but alas it does not actually result in JPG EXIF geo-tags on photos, just service specific geo-data. Things I share in real-time will probably be posted this way... otherwise postings will occur at semi-regular intervals. It also supports subscribing to "ZuCasts" of media from your contacts etc. Seeing new photos from my flickr contacts on the phone is kinda cool, but I also have over 1000 contacts... definitely data overload category. Photos I upload with ShoZu will end up on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/clickykbd">my flickr</a>. Movies on <a href="http://vimeo.com/clickykbd">my Vimeo</a>. (whoops, just looked and ShoZu doesn't have vimeo uploading yet).</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html">Google Maps Mobile</a><br />A great implementation of Google Maps for mobile devices. The verdict is still out on weather Nokia's bundled map application or google will be more useful while traveling.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=slick">Slick Instant Messanger</a><br /> I tried several IM clients, including the built in features... but this app is by far the most elegant. Supports: AIM, MSN, Y!, GTalk (clickykbd), ICQ, and Jabber. It also claims to support VOIP calling over protocols that have it, GTalk for example. I think I'll even forgo giving my phone number to my services like <a href="http://twitter.com/clickykbd">Twitter</a>/<a href="http://pownce.com/clickykbd/">Pownce</a>/<a href="http://clickykbd.jaiku.com/">Jaiku</a> in favor of the chat relayed version of such messages.</li><br /><li><a href="http://nanika.net/Metro/">Metr0 (Public Transporation Guide)</a><br />I look forward to trying this one in practice. I don't live in a city with a real Metro system, but boy do I love using them when they are available, which is everywhere on <a href="http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/2008/01/urbanista-itinerary-expanded.html">my trip</a>. Up to date routes and stops for all lines in a given city, also calculates directions via metro systems in both "fastest" and "least connections" solutions. Wish it had some maps integration though.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.ubahnstation.net/mweather/">Mobile Weather</a><br />Just what it says, you can configure which cities to get updates for and when it uses the network, or opt to update manually on demand. Will be handy to know if I need to purchase more layers before Helsinki.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fring.com/">Fring</a><br />Primarily designed as a VOIP client to save money on calling, supports many chat protocols and VOIP including Skype! I will probably only use it as a Skype chat or VOIP, because I much prefer Slick IM for general chat use.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.operamini.com/">Opera Mini</a><br />Complete browser alternative to the bundled one. Great scolling and navigation features... the only downside seems to be I don't know how to integrate it so that other applications call it when opening web content.</li><br /><li><a href="http://mosh.nokia.com">MOSH (Nokia's File Sharing Service)</a><br />I just started to play with it, but already found some nice themes and ringtones (keyword FREE).</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.jaiku.com/">Jaiku</a><br />A Twitter/Pownce like service, recently aquired by Google. Also does media sharing and you can roll in your other RSS feeds out of the box so that they also post notifications to your contacts. I'm currently sharing the feeds for this blog, my del.icio.us, and my flickr. But <a href="http://www.thenokiaguide.com/">another Urbanista</a> reported he had a hell of a time getting the client to use his networks available (and never succeeded). I haven't tested the N82 with a SIM yet, but I know that the Jaiku app refuses to use the WLAN when it is available.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.locr.com">Locr (GeoTagging Photos)</a><br />Yet another way to geotag and post photos. I was playing with this one when I was looking for a solution that actually embedded the locations into the EXIF data. This service, however, is not it. Their stand-alone desktop app would do it but unfortunately doesn't read any of the log file formats that SportsTracker exports... and I really don't feel like running two gps logging apps simultaneously. Also it appears you can only directly post to Locr's photo sharing service... so not nearly as versatile as ShoZu. For reference, I did also try <a href="http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/">ZoneTag</a> but it appears to be relatively, if not completely, broken on this platform. I did eventually come up with an elegant EXIF geoTagging solution, which I'll use while traveling. I'll share it in a later post!</li></ul><br />Any Symbian Guru's reading this? Have suggestions for indispensable applications I might have missed? Most notably ones that are <a href="http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/2008/01/and-now-for-something-completely.html">useful while traveling</a>?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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<a href="http://www.kineticphotography.net">Ryan Gallagher</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793151861678812811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17875395.post-478126840148950962008-01-18T10:29:00.001-06:002008-01-22T22:26:45.028-06:00Win some Nokia N82s perhaps?One thing I forgot to mention so far. Nokia has a competition that starts today related to the <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=campaigns,n82,urbanistadiaries,home">Urbanista Diaries</a>. They are giving away eight <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=products,n82,demo">N82 models</a>, one a week, for the next 8 weeks of Urbanista.<br /><br />I'm not fully aware of the structure of the competition, something about guessing our photo locations I think, but there should be more info up <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=campaigns,n82,urbanistadiaries,competition">on this page</a> later today.<br /><br />They'd really do well to send us participants some more of their press-release type content on these things. ;-)<br /><br />Good luck!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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