Spectacular photos from the Russian space programme

The Atlantic published yesterday a spectacular set of photos from the current Russian mission to ISS. See the 3 otherwordly bonus long exposure photos of our Earth shot from the ISS after the fold.

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Vásárcsarnok

Vásárcsarnok, designed and built by Samu Petz, on Fővám Tér in the 9th district, is the largest indoor market in Budapest.

The market offers a huge variety of stalls on three floors. A distinctive architectural feature is the roof which was restored to have colorful Zsolnay tiling.

If you check in try out the most famous hungarian specialities, such as túró rudi, tokaji or lángos.

Join us at the Prezi Creative Camp in Milan!

Interested to know more about Prezi? We are coming to Milan on a mission to find world-class designers who are passionate about people and ideas!

When?: April 13th 2012 from 6 - 9 pm.
Where?: The Hub Milano, Via Paolo Sarpi 8, Milan.

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Design Overtime

On Thursday 29th April members from our design team, Ux research, developer team, and Twiggy (one of our Prezi dogs) participated in the Innovation Expedition design thinking workshop, hosted by Epicenter  - an organization that collaborates with Stanford University to promote entrepreunership and design skills.

Teams from Google, Apple, Prezi, and a group of engineering students from Stanford University participated in the workshop. 

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Birdboy

Birdboy is a short film directed by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez based upon the graphic novel PSICONAUTAS by Alberto Vázquez. If you like the trailer you can watch it for free at http://www.birdboy.net/film.html.

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Line Two

If you are around Budapest, make sure to take the Line 2 tram, between Kossuth Lajos square and Millenniumi Kulturális Központ‎. This line is going trough one of the most beautiful part of Budapest, from the Parliament, besides the Danube, across an old factory quarter to Ludwig Museum and Palace of Arts.

About the New Prezi Viewer for iPad

Here it is! We just released a major upgrade to our Prezi Viewer ipad app. We've been working hard to make it better, in this post I'd like to share some perspectives behind the design. We improved the showing experience, making it easier to show your Prezis, letting focus on your content more than ever and even though this version is still a Viewer we added the ability to revise and retouch your prezis on-the-go.

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John Whitney

To do this we need new tools, and to learn how to control them. They're unlike musical instruments which we have been practicing on for 300 years. We have to start from scratch.

John Whitney was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. He made his first movies in the late 1930's using 8mm film and an home-made telescope. He experimented making animations with many different techniques including a mechanical analogue computer that he built in the late 1950's by converting the mechanism of a World War II M-5 Antiaircraft Gun Director and in the 1970's he moved to faster digital processes. Check some videos after the fold.

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Solargraphies

Year-long exposure of the Toronto skyline

We all have already seen these kind of photographs whith car lights and stars drawing psychedelic lines or with water looking like milk, due to the long exposure times. What is less popular, it's the next level of long exposure. The yellow lines in the above photograph are the result of our sun, brushing the sky during this 1-year long exposure shot by photographer Michael Chrisman with a pinhole camera. A solargraphy.

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A Map of Twitter

 

Here's one of the most interesting Twitter map that I've seen recently. This map shows both where people are tweeting from and which language they're using to tweet (using Google’s open-sourcing of the Compact Language Detector).

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