Voice of Haiti funds and promotes environmentally friendly, self-sustaining community development projects in Haiti. They are also a conduit for other organizations, individuals, experts and resources that help meet the needs of community initiatives.

The concept for Indie Music For Haiti works like this:

• You can view videos or audio files submitted to Indie Music for Haiti. If you like a particular band, make a donation on their behalf.
• Bands and Musicians can upload music that they wish to contribute to the project, along with specifying a charity that they wish the proceeds from their online performance to go to. If you are an artists this is a great way to get publicity for your band, while promoting a great cause.

Our friends over at Asparagus Media and ServInt threw a benefit concert in Washington DC to kick the event off last month, and we worked to take everything they filmed that night and build it into a website. The charity concert raised $10,000 for Haiti relief and we’re hoping that the website will help to further those donations.

As an interesting side note, the website is powered by our open source project, MediaCore Video CMS. The homepage automatically updates with the latest videos submitted.

Indie Music for Haiti

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

Our heartiest congratulations go to all the staff at CPAWS who have worked incredibly hard this year to preserve Canada’s unique wilderness.

*Note: If you are interested in donating to CPAWS more information can be found on their site.

Our goal is to empower galleries to sell more art, build relationships with many thousands of new art buyers online, and enable art fans everywhere to find and spread your art online while still giving your gallery complete control of your artwork. The power of the social web has been proven many ties over, and Print Society is making it easy for your gallery to take advantage of it, connect with art buyers everywhere, and build a following.

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows. High dynamic range imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff’s detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s. The process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range, was first reported in 1993, and resulted in a mathematical theory of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter that was published in 1995 by Steve Mann and Rosalind Picard.[2] In 1997 this technique of combining several differently exposed images to produce a single HDR image was presented to the computer graphics community by Paul Debevec. This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Signed, Stuart, Nathan, Anthony and Melanie

“We took this as an opportunity to reinterpret the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space.” (via swissmiss)

Technical Note: I took these photos on my iPhone 3GS and posted them via the Wordpress iPhone app.