WACO Aircraft 360 Panoramic Photography of Cockpit!

I’ve been promising it and here it is! Here’s the link to one of our WACO Classic Aircraft Corporation biplane cockpit 360 panoramic’s!

Here are other WACO aircraft post on this blog:

• WACO Aircraft factory photos
• Photos of my workspace while editing WACO Aircraft cockpit panoramic’s
• Our First WACO cockpit 360° Panoramic shoot

WACO biplane cockpit 360 panoramic screenshot. Click link in blog post or this image to see the high quality full screen panoramic for yourself!

Photoshop CS4 training

Waco Aircraft Factory Photos

I am posting some of the normal photos I took when we were at WACO Classic Aircraft Corporation doing a 360 degree photography panoramic shoot of cockpits for them. You just don’t see quality craftsmanship like this anymore! Just amazing work! You have to see these wooden wing frames that are made the way they use to be for the biplanes in the 30′s by real craftsmen!

Amazing craftsmanship! You have to see it in person to realize how well it is made and to what extent the attention to detail is!

A view of a whole wing structure. Craftsmanship and attention to detail like you wouldn't believe!

Lacking the color treatment of the other photos posted in the posting but you get to see the pretty vibrant red!

Pictures of Photoshop Editing of Airplane Cockpit for 360 Pano

Here are a couple of iPhone shots of my workspace while I was working on 360 panoramic shots of a biplanes cockpit. See post before this one. Just thought I would post this for those interested in graphic design and photography. I sometimes find things like this inspirational.

We are going back in a few days to shoot another and possibly other normal photography shots.

Stay tuned because I might have some exciting news on this project in the future! Also when the 360′s are done and up on the sites I will post links.

To see some of our other high quality 360 panoramics click here. We will be adding more of our high quality 360 panoramics for your viewing soon!

Awesome Creative Video

Check out this video!

Miniature Photographer Lori Nix

- photo used with permission -

I found this photographer on Cool Hunting. Her photography is very interesting and has that certain something that makes you want to keep looking at it. For me it’s the same feeling that I get from looking at very interesting historical objects.

Check it out I think you’ll like it and may be inspired by it, I was.
Make sure you watch the video.

Lori Nix’s website

http://www.lorinix.net/

Video about Lori Nix on Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/07/lori_nix.php

I hope my title is how you would like to be described Lori?

Design Tools Weekly Podcast

Design Tools WEEKLY is a free weekly design news podcast.
They also publish a monthly paid subscription newsletter, Design Tools Monthly, which contains all the design news that you would have to dig everywhere to find. You can download a free sample issue and I think you will find that it contains a lot of good information.

Coroflot – 2007 Design Salary Survey

Here’s a 2007 Design Salary Survey from Coroflot.com

Comment below if you have something of interest to add on this subject.

Amazon Kindle Electronic Book Looks Good

Amazon’s new e-book reader Kindle looks very interesting to me. It uses an electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper. The electroinc ink technology looks like real paper not a computer screen. It is not backlit. You never need to sync it to a computer or use cables of any sort except for recharging. It uses SD memory cards and better than that you can download books, newspapers, magazines, blogs and probably more wirelessly and there is no need to find a WiFi hotspot because it uses Amazon’s EVDO Amazon Whispernet which is built on Sprints EVDO network. There are no monthly wireless access fees because Amazon covers that, you only pay for the device and the content you buy.

Kindle weighs 10.3 ounces, the same or a little less than a paper back book. It is currently selling for $399.Basically you can read any book you want if it’s in their download library which now stocks more than 80,000 titles and more will be added daily. Wherever you are you just look for what you want to read and purchase it. The library includes 101 of the current 112 New York Times Best Sellers which are $9.99 unless marked otherwise. The device can hold about 200 books. All of your purchases are backed up for you online by Amazon in case you should need to download them again in the future.

I would have liked to have something like this when I was in school for text books rather than lugging a bag full of books all over campus. The only drawback is that it is currently black and white but E Ink who make the screen technology has a prototype for a color display. I would think they would look into this market if it would be friendly towards this technology but with the money the used textbook stores make on reselling there might be resistance?

Looks interesting. Maybe this e-book will take off?

Trust Your Graphic Designer

Pay attention now! 

New iTunes WiFi Music Store for iPhone and iPod Touch

Steve Jobs announces that there’s a new WiFi iTunes store for the iPhone and the new iPod Touch.

The iPod Touch looks almost just like an iPhone and has Multitouch interface, iPod, Calendar, Contacts, Calculator, Settings, WiFi, Youtube and Safari Web Browser! You can surf the web, buy songs on iTunes WiFi Store and watch Youtube videos!

The iTunes WiFi Music Store will be available later this month and to the iPhone through a free iPhone update.

Also announced is a partnership with Starbucks. When you get near a Starbucks a fifth button will appear in the WiFi music store which will tell you what song is playing at that time in the Starbucks and you can buy the music with the tap of a finger.

Also there will be free access to iTunes WiFi Music Store while at Starbucks with no login required. It will take until the end of 2008 for most major metro Starbucks to have this implemented.