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3.6.2 released, time to kickoff 3.7 - no rest for the wicked! at...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:57:23 +0100

3.6.2 released, time to kickoff 3.7 - no rest for the wicked! at EyeEm HQ by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:00:08 +0100

by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

golden girls at REWE by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:41:11 +0100

golden girls at REWE by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

cityscapes at Alexanderplatz by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:40:23 +0100

cityscapes at Alexanderplatz by Ramzi Rizk on EyeEm

Jack's: Let's reconsider our "users"

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:37:21 +0200

Jack's: Let's reconsider our "users":

jacks:

us·er
/ˈyo͞ozər/

Noun
1. A person who uses or operates something, esp. a computer or other machine.
2. A person who takes illegal drugs; a drug user.

Synonyms
consumer

During a Square Board meeting, our newest Director Howard Schultz, pulled me aside and asked a simple question.

“Why…

EyeEm Engineering: New API Wrappers

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:48:52 +0200

EyeEm Engineering: New API Wrappers:

eyeemdev:

Last weekend was Photo Hack Day, and boy was it fantastic. Around 130 developers and designers got together, and 26 hacks were demoed less than 24 hours later. Among those, many impressive apps and hardware hacks! You can read a full recap on the EyeEm Blog, or browse through the list of…

Graffiti in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:02:05 +0200

Graffiti in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

EyeEm Engineering: API console and PhotoHackDay II

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:18:37 +0200

EyeEm Engineering: API console and PhotoHackDay II:

eyeemdev:

Next weekend, 200 designers and developers will get together in Berlin to hack the future of photography. This will be the second PhotoHackDay we’ve organized this year. After hacking in a pool back in March, we’re looking forward to hacking in a shipping container this time around!

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My experience, designed.: On the new iPhone.

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:22:09 +0200

My experience, designed.: On the new iPhone.:

myexperiencedesigned:

I bought my first (white) Macbook in 2008, with no prior experience with Macs or actually any Apple product at the time. This was before the great Apple hype had spread to my then-environment, right at the time when many people still assumed that only graphic designers use Macs. Within five…

Urban nature at Cafe Moskau by ramz on EyeEm

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:55:07 +0200

Urban nature at Cafe Moskau by ramz on EyeEm

adamgoldberg: My Impossible Project 8x10 gallery. See the...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:36:25 +0200

adamgoldberg:

My Impossible Project 8x10 gallery.

See the exhibition in NYC, comprised of work from several talented and innovative photographers (and where decidedly sepia shifted versions of some of these shots hang).

Buy the stuff if you can afford it. *

Or simply admire the exponential rate at which IP has advanced over a couple short years.

*I was only bribed by my earnest convictions and genuine passion for their enterprise…and the occasional pack of film.

EyeEm HQ on EyeEm

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:46:19 +0200

EyeEm HQ on EyeEm

taking photos of hipsters in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:45:45 +0200

taking photos of hipsters in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

EyeEm API

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:39:12 +0200

eyeemdev:

When it comes to APIs, we believe in eating our own dog food. The API that we made available to 3rd party developers a few months ago is the one that we use for our own mobile and web clients, our various wrappers (coming soon) were also made for our official clients, the same goes for our documentation.

First, some links: Our developer pages, released in time for the first Photo Hack Day back in February, were recently revamped, as was our API documentation on Github. Also on Github, you can find a php wrapper for our API, which we actively maintain (again, dog food).

Of the many additions to the API, we’d like to tell you about a few location related features in particular. The upcoming version of EyeEm focuses even more on discovering and exploring new topics and places, for that reason, we added a few new endpoints for location-based search that should come in very handy.

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fvdfv dfvdswag vkserc by ramz on EyeEm

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:35:41 +0200

fvdfv dfvdswag vkserc by ramz on EyeEm

Great Crowd in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:31:02 +0200

Great Crowd in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

Gidsy Logbook: Spotlight on: EyeEm Mobile Imaging Masterclass

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:29:43 +0200

Gidsy Logbook: Spotlight on: EyeEm Mobile Imaging Masterclass:

gidsy:

Last Friday, our friends at EyeEm hosted a really neat Mobile Imaging Masterclass, where everyone learned all about the magic of mobile phone photography, and then put this new knowledge to use on a photo walk.

Here is a snapshot of some of the amazing shots that were captured throughout…

flamelikeme: “Tragedy + time = comedy. But I don’t have the...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:47:15 +0200

flamelikeme:

“Tragedy + time = comedy. But I don’t have the benefit of time. So I’m just going to tell you the tragedy and know that everything is going to be okay.”

So began Tig Notaro’s set last night at her show “Tig and friends” at the Largo.

Actually, that wasn’t the beginning of her set. It began when Ed Helms welcomed her to the stage and she crossed over, took the microphone, and said “Thank you, thank you, I have cancer, thank you, I have cancer, really, thank you.”

Applause gave way to reticent laughter as she explained how she had planned a set about bees flying alongside her car on the 405, but that she couldn’t possibly do her “silly jokes” when all this was going on. And that’s when she told us that 3 days ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, in both breasts.

But she didn’t just have cancer. She went on to explain that in some manic twist of fate, while her career is at an all-time high — she is moving to New York to work on Amy Schumer’s new television show, she was on This American Life — concurrently, all these terrible circumstances have befallen her over the past 3 months: pneumonia made way for a debilitating bacterial infection in her digestive tract for which she was hospitalized and lost 30 pounds off of her already small frame, days after being released from the hospital, her young mother died suddenly and tragically (fell, hit her head, died), then she and her partner broke up, and then, now, cancer. In both breasts. (“You have a lump.” “No, doctor, that’s my breast.” — one of her most renowned bits is about someone remarking upon her small breasts)

For the first half of her set, even though she was telling the story in perfect grace and humor, I couldn’t laugh. For the second half, for the first time in my life, as far as I can recall, I genuinely laughed and cried at the exact same time, bewildered at the tragedy and the remarkably calm, clever prism through which she assessed her terrible set of circumstances.

While telling us anecdotes from these personal tragedies, all along the way, she assured the audience “it’s okay, I’m going to be okay.” At one part, when she reached a dark place wherein most of the audience could not find the will to laugh, she said “maybe I’ll just go back to telling jokes about bees. Should I do that?” there were several “NOs” and one insistent loud male voice who cried out

“NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE.”

She looked genuinely taken aback, and relieved. She’d managed to make the tragic not only palatable but overwhelmingly engaging. She’d done it.

Tig’s been one of my favorite comedians for a couple of years now. I told her how much I loved her work after a set at UCB one night, and she received my words so kindly that she came towards me and gave me a hug. I’ve gone downtown to bars by myself and sat for hours alone, just waiting to see her headlining set.

At the end of her routine last night, everyone in the audience gave her a standing ovation, for me her wowed, grateful, happy face blurry with my own salty eyes. She’d released her horrific story into the hearts of her fans. I’m sure we all felt like I did; we were made witness to a truly historical moment in comedy, by one of the industry of comedy’s absolute greatest.

Bill Burr followed her set, inexplicably able to make the whole audience uproarious with laughter by the end. Bill Burr then brought on Louis C.K., the surprise guest of the night, which was a shock - it was my first time ever seeing him live - but it was very difficult to give him my enrapt attention after Tig’s on-stage confessions.

My head is still swimming around what happened last night. We all saw the ultimate embodiment of what comedy is supposed to do: deeply personal tragedies somehow transformed, with the enormous, necessary power of an open-hearted audience, into brilliantly-written truths that we’ll all take home with us and keep with us as long as we’ll have a sound-enough mind to remember that show. If schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortune of others, we all shuffled into another corner last night, schadenfreude’s cousin; we’re not laughing at you, we’re crying with you but trying very hard to accept this avalanche of misfortune through the more edible prism of humor.

I’m so grateful I could bear witness to what happened last night, and more than that I’m grateful to comedy and to Tig Notaro for being not only courageous enough and not only spirited enough but for being so endlessly, achingly HONEST with all of us, the stunned, mouth-breathing strangers in the dark.

—Kira Hesser

streetart in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:49:45 +0200

streetart in Berlin by ramz on EyeEm

projectprovenance: Last week I presented at the mLove...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:24:04 +0200

projectprovenance:

Last week I presented at the mLove Confestival in Berlin. Here’s an abridged version of my talk. I presented a cycle of Connectivity > Data > Open > Transparency > Empathy > Choice… aiming to start thinking about how connectivity, mobile, social, IoT can all help us make decisions that reflect our moral and ethical beliefs and encourage a world of quantified selves that all act in the interest of the environment and society, not just ourselves…