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Lots more beautiful imagery can be found at DPUF.

Feelings are facts will showcase the first collaboration between world-renowned Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, and leading Chinese architect, Ma Yansong. Eliasson and Ma will create for UCCA a unique experience through architecture and light. The images like they should be a on a cover of a Boards of Canada LP. Lovely.

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Lomo pay homage to the camera that started the lo-fi photography revolution by releasing a 24 carat gold version of the LC-A (Kompakt Automat). The Russian camera became popular for its rich colours, shadowed borders and light leaking and soon gathered a loyal following.
The gold casing is clad in brown leather and simply oozes seventies retro appeal. It will set you back £460 – that’s double the price of a standard black one – but it does come in a nice box! Get one quickly at the Lomo site, as there are only 130 being made.

Carrying on the photography theme from the 26 Gigapixel post last month, here’s a site called 360cities, featuring panoramic views of different locations around the world. We are quite used to sites offering 360 views that are often ‘stitched’ together in Quicktime, but this site takes this concept to dizzying extremes (quite literally).
Check out this example, a panoramic view of Lake Tekapo in the south island of New Zealand. If you want things to get a bit trippy, right click and choose ‘Little Planet View’ and watch the landscape curl up into a tiny globe, or unfold into a huge tunnel. Each one is a work of art (and you can actually buy prints online).
They’ve even included a how to get started section, with a list of equipment needed to produce the images.

This is an impressive 26 gigapixel image taken on the roof of the ‘Haus der Presse’ in Dresden.
If you go to the site, Gigapixel-Dresden, and click on one of the thumbnails below the main image – it will zoom in and locate a detail far away in the main picture. As of December 2009, this was the largest digital image in the world, allegedly. I expect that’s already been beaten by now.
Big Brother will be watching, as long as he has a Canon 5D Mark II camera (21 megapixels) with a 400mm-lens like the one used in this example. Scary!