Fotografic Memories: Memories, Music and Timelapse

Photographer Salman Ashrafi notes that in today's world, depending on what we do, we rarely find the time to just sit and observe everything that goes on around us. His movies, known as 'Fotografic Memories' represent Salmans' work to make up for this loss of time and we really like his technique of combining frames with timelapse and music as the first example below of Toronto demonstrates:

Downtown Toronto from Fotografic Memory on Vimeo.

The technique and concept can be adapted to any situation - below is the 'memory' of a bus ride in London comprised of 738 photographs:

BUS RIDE from Fotografic Memory on Vimeo.

Finally, Building and Clouds - Dubai:

BUILDINGS + CLOUDS from Fotografic Memory on Vimeo.

For more memories and information see fotograficmemory.com, it is well worth taking the time to explore the other work and clips on the site.

Noticings : The Game of Noticing the World Around You

This is a nice concept - taking photos of things you 'notice' and uploading them to flickr with the tag 'noticings' and a geolocation. Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about.



In short, Noticings is basically a game about learning to look at the world around you, as their site states - Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.

You need a camera, and a way of recording where a photo was taken. That might be adding it by hand to the image within Flickr, or it might be a GPS. The ideal device to play Noticings is a camera with GPS built-in, such as the camera on a Smartphone like an iPhone or Android device.

Head over to http://noticin.gs/ to take part, we like it a lot!

Thanks to Ben over at Section 9 for sending this in.