That INDIE Dude

Oct 12

Inspired #4: HDR Pt2: Picasa

Posted at 2:29 PM on October 12th, 2008 by Alex

This post is part of an ongoing series at That INDIE Dude called “Inspired”. True creativity and originality demand true inspiration. The point of this series is to help readers find new and fresh areas of inspiration in their lives, so as to help them find their most creative and original selves.

HDR Photography: 55 Amazing HDR Pictures from Picasa.

If you missed the intro and Flickr roundup, start off with this post 50 Amazing HDR Pics from Flickr.

This week I present to you part TWO of the HDR photography inspiraration series: 55 Amazing HDR Pictures found on Picasa! If you’re like most out there, you probably haven’t seen many of these (since photos photos from Google’s Picasa never seem to make it into the spotlight like Flickr). That doesn’t mean they should be overlooked though! With some help from the T.I.D. community, I was able to pick out 55 gorgeous photos without too much hassle. I cheated a little bit too, and included 5 of my own pictures. Can you figure out which ones they are without clicking?

Check ALL of these awesome shots out below the jump! And don’t forget to click the pics for links to the picasa page and more work from these awesome photographers.

Read the rest of this entry »

share THIS!

Tags: HDR, inspiration, photography, picasa
Posted in design | 4 Comments »

Oct 11

Blog Action Day CHALLENGE!

Posted at 6:42 PM on October 11th, 2008 by Alex

It’s THAT time of year again, and I feel inspired to give some money away.

What “time” you ask? It’s time for bloggers everywhere to unite in calling our readers to action on a tough social issue that affects every community in the world in some way or another. It’s time for Blog Action Day 2008, and this year’s topic is poverty. In the midst of the world economic crisis, I can’t think of a more relevant topic.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but I was just inspired by some of the movement already happening in the blogging community when I saw @blogactionday post this:

http://tinyurl.com/bad08hunger Leave a comment and $1 goes to a food bank. Take 30 seconds and do it.

So first off: Go right now over to PINK ASPARAGUS and leave a comment!

Second, being inspired, here is what I am going to do:

Read the rest of this entry »

share THIS!

Tags: blog action day, community, poverty
Posted in Indie Life | 7 Comments »

Oct 10

Uber-YOU 4: Google Protects

Posted at 8:35 PM on October 10th, 2008 by Alex

This post is part of a series on That INDIE Dude called “Uber-YOU” - all about using web 2.0 and other connected technologies for the greatest impact and productivity possible!

Uber-YOU #4: Google Protects

Sometimes we’re the only smart ones in the world, and everyone else is stupid. But, we all have had moments where it’s the other way around: we catch ourselves being the “stupid ones”. So what to do in those situations?

My favorite online comic, Randall Munroe’s xkcd, had a humorous suggestion (click link to go to actual posting):