Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs. If Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin were into photography, their photographs might look something like these:
“Wooden Box with Horseshoe Magnet”
“Atomic Model”
“Demonstration with Hair Dryer and Aluminum Foil”
“Candle in a Vortex of Water”
“Fifteen Hours”
Regarding his work, Charland tells us,
Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty. It is the basis of my practice and results in images that are simultaneously familiar and strange. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate experiences of wonder. Each photograph begins with a simple question “How would this look? Is that possible? What would happen if…?” and develops through a sculptural process of experimentation. As I explore the garage and search through the basement to solve these pictures, I find ways to exploit the mysterious qualities of these everyday objects and familiar materials.
To check out more of his work, you can visit his website.
Image credits: Photographs by Caleb Charland and used with permission.
Scientific Curiosity Captured in Photos
Posterous unveils Post Editor 2.0: Your universal posting tool - The Official Posterous Posterous
Posterous is not a microblog. It's your place to post everything. Now we've added a simple but powerful new post editor that lets you post any combination of photos, music, video and docs, and intersperse them with text in any order you want. There are no limitations that force you to choose whether a post is for photos, video, embeds or anything else. It's simple and powerful at the same time.Here's what you can do now with every Posterous blog as of today, both for posting new posts and editing old ones.
Upload any kind of photos, music, videos and documents
Select and push multiple files up in one batch, all with no additional software install.Image rotation, reordering and deletion
Reordering image galleries is as easy as dragging and dropping them into the order you want. Rotating images to the correct orientation is super easy, and deleting is just a click too.
Combine and ungroup image galleries easily
Finally, sometimes you want to break some images out of a gallery or rearrange which photos are where. That's easy with our ability to expand and combine galleries.Rich text and media the way you want it
Whatever you upload is automatically and intelligently mixed with the text of your blogpost in any order that you desire. Just cut and paste or drag the media to where you want in the document.Try it now, enabled for all Posterous sites and users today.
Now you can create and edit posts without all the hassle. What are you waiting for? Next time you edit a post, you'll get dropped in automatically.You can also post at any time via the web by clicking Post by Web on your Manage page.
You asked for it, and we delivered. Posterous is about creating simple software that does what you need without complicating your life. We've got your back. As always, feedback, questions and bug reports are welcome at help@posterous.com.
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Building Dynamic Websites | Harvard Video Course
Course Description
Today's websites are increasingly dynamic. Pages are no longer static HTML files but instead generated by scripts and database calls. User interfaces are more seamless, with technologies like Ajax replacing traditional page reloads. This course teaches students how to build dynamic websites with Ajax and with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), one of today's most popular frameworks. Students learn how to set up domain names with DNS, how to structure pages with XHTML and CSS, how to program in JavaScript and PHP, how to configure Apache and MySQL, how to design and query databases with SQL, how to use Ajax with both XML and JSON, and how to build mashups. The course explores issues of security, scalability, and cross-browser support and also discusses enterprise-level deployments of websites, including third-party hosting, virtualization, colocation in data centers, firewalling, and load-balancing.
Lectures
Lecture 1 - HTTP
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of HTTP in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 2 - PHP
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of PHP in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 3 - PHP (continued)
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of PHP in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 4 - XML
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of XML in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 5 - XML (continued)
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of XML in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 6 - SQL
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of SQL in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 7 - SQL (continued)
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of SQL in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 8 - JavaScript
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of JavaScript in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 9 - JavaScript (continued)
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of JavaScript in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 10 - Ajax
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of Ajax in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 11 - Ajax (continued)
Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of Ajax in building dynamic websites.
Lecture 12 - Security
Professor David J. Malan discusses security as it pertains to building dynamic websites.
Lecture 13 - Scalability
Professor David J. Malan discusses scalability as it pertains to building dynamic websites.
