A showcase photo-blog for the "best of" camera tossing and general musings on this form of kinetic photography.
Created and maintained by RyanGallagher (clickykbd)
Re-sharing the information for a friend's exhibition coming up in Paris. He's extremely talented and was a great host for an evening when I met up with him last year. If you are in the area, check it out.
... to a flickr community near you. Something new, a project, a theme, a chance to collaborate, a chance to create something that is "bigger" than just one photographer!
There will be a few more posts in wrap-up mode related to my participation (now concluded) in the Nokia Urbanista Diaries and things I did along the way. But this one is particularly pertinent.
In London the WomWorld outfit (WOM standing for World of Mobile), organizers of the manpower behind the Urbanista project, scheduled a meetup for all their mobile device enthusiasts and beta/trail participants in the London area. They brought lots of the nseries devices for people to play with, including several more of the Nokia N82, the phone/camera I had been logging and documenting my whole journey with.
Here is a fellow meetup attendee performing the classic "over the head crowd/event portrait" shot. Exactly the same thing I was doing when I took his picture.
But really, in classic British form, the whole event was a chance to talk, socialize, and of course, drink. Which, combined with the other activity planned for the evening, THROWING CAMERAS, makes for some amusing situations. Not really a full blown workshop like my last effort in Italy, but more of an informal demo followed by LOTS of impromptu participation. Organizers brought some rope lights and "fairy lights" (which I learned is what they call "christmas lights" in England) and some soft surfaces for cameras to land on. Just about everyone had a go at it and the best results were emailed to WOMWorld, where the staff picked their favorite.
Their winner was Abul Hussain, who took this photo in his first evening of camera tossing using his camera phone (a nokia for sure, but not sure which one):
Photo by Abul Hussain, 2008 at the WOMWorld Meetup at The Crown, London on March 5th
There was a good turn out to the event, and although I had to leave early to rest up for another full day in London, the party went on into the late hours. Here is another view of the scene at The Crown. Not a great shot but does demonstrate the powerful punch of the zenon flash on the N82.
I actually wish I had more of the camera toss results from everyone that evening to share. If you were there and reading this, head over to the flickr group and stick them in the pool or discussion threads.
note: post delayed, in Vienna as I publish, was written before leaving.
My contribution to the Nokia Urbanista Diaries begins today! At 11:35pm CST on Feb. 21st I board a plane for Washington, and then on to Vienna, Austria, where I will be meeting up with Ms. Jen, the previous participant as she concludes her 2 weeks in India.
After that short stop in my beloved city with lovely cafes, it gets a little more hectic and fast paced! See my previously posted itinerary or just look at this map for where i'll be stopping off during my two weeks...
You can follow me and view photos I produce over at nseries.com (if your machine doesn't choke on their intensive FLASH) but I've particularly enjoyed watching Ms. Jen's photos scroll past in my news reader (Google Reader) after subscribing to her flickr stream.
Yup, of course you can do the same with me, but I thought I'd go a little further in the effort to make following along easy, and experiment with other "tracking" web-services. I've assembled a page that pulls in location plus data from all kinds of places (my friendfeed.com feed) that I'll be posting media and text during this journey, and even means to reach me on the go. If you are a mobile geek or GIS/GPS geek be sure to check it out, as this is my first effort at such things. But, I mostly threw it together (indeed, one sitting and quite crude) for my closest friends to keep tabs on me and invariably harass me.
I'll be posting here when I get the chance... but that might be infrequent, so definitely use that cheat-sheet if you want constant updates. Are you stalking me? Do I know you? (Half Joke, Half Scary)
The Goa Airport Tarmac originally uploaded by Ms. Jen
Apparently there are some perks involved in running high profile creative blogs.
I'm a bit late in announcing this relative to the other participants, but in late Feburary (21st) through early March (8th) I'll be visiting seven major cities in Europe, the final participant in a camera-phone trial project entitled the "Urbanista Diaries" for the Nokia N82 device, which includes a rather advanced point & shoot camera, and GPS tracking, among other features. The project is organized by WOMWorld and the first participant (Devin Balentina) is already traveling through the United States!
Check out Nokia's slick intro video (which one of the participants capped for sharing on our blogs):
I never really considered myself a "blogger", as this is a pretty topic specific blog with hardly any text content, but I suppose one just has to accept the inevitable. I've also been slow to adopt "hyper-connected" ideas, my first camera-phone was the one I just bought before going to Italy. So the offer to participate was a bit of a surprise to say the least! I consider the whole thing quite an experiment. I also tend to have an aversion to pandering to corporate media and interests, so I consulted with a few respected dear friends and colleagues to get a second opinion on participating, and the answer was a strong yes. They pretty much nailed my weakness with the offer of free travel too.
So on February 21st I'll be off to meet the previous participant (Ms. Jen) in Vienna and then make my merry way through my own set of cities (all in Europe) and end up in Helsinki, home of Nokia.
My itinerary looks like this:
Vienna, Austria on Feb. 23rd
Berlin, Germany on Feb. 25th
Milan, Italy on Feb. 27th
Paris, France on Feb. 29th
Bristol, UK on March 2nd
London, UK on March 4th
Helsinki, Finland on March 7th
Austin, Texas (Home) on March 8th
I would love a chance to meet up with readers of this blog, artists, designers, photographers, creative folks, scientists, philosophers, you name it! Suggestions for what to do during the short time I have in each location also welcome! Please leave comments, find me on flickr, or email me at the address in the contact section of my personal site.
For reference, the other participants (and blogs) in order are:
You can track all of our progress and look at the photos we snap through the nseries.com interface which includes mapping that looks like this:
... or through a widget (which you are free to install anywhere), which I'll migrate into my sidebar shortly.
Migrated to sidebar along with travel calendar
There is quite a bit more to share on this topic as my departure date approaches, but this post is quite long enough already. Stay tuned. Ryan signing off.
PS, I find it immensely amusing that I can count the number of self portraits I've taken on less than 10 fingers... and one of them (not spectacular) ends up plastered all over nokia's website. An experiment this is indeed! Wish me luck.
Okay well not really, but the analogy is certainly strong. There is a group on flickr called Flickr Group Roulette where every week they pick a differently themed flickr group and play-along. A couple weeks ago they landed on the infamous Camera Toss and perhaps experienced a little more "gambling" than they were comfortable with! But kudos to them, the participation was extremely high, and most first time tossers too!
Somewhere in their thread it was suggested they go for the self-portrait style tosses. With mixed success here is their efforts! Congratulations on taking the risk, I know they had fun.
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