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- 2008's Best Contest Photos You Never SawDecember 24 2008
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: A lot of great photos were overlooked in 2008 in the slew images we received (an average of more than 500 submissions) for each of our twice-monthly photo contests. In celebration of the year coming to a close, we've gone back and pulled out some of our favorite contest photos that just didn't get the votes they deserved.
Click through the gallery to see these resurrected gems.
This is the first of a two-part series. Check back next week for more great photos.
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Black-and-White contest
Home Sweet Home
by DSzwakPhotographer's comment:
"A view from the back patio of my childhood home outside of Limerick, Pennsylvania."
: New Slang
by Ron ColomaPhotographer's comment:
"A neighbor's child looks on as my family arrives in my mother's hometown of Sison, Philippines."
: Dust Bunny Thief
by Nick WilsonPhotographer's comment:
"Hey! That fly stole my dust bunny!"
: Cupcakes
by Kim Hino - 'Art of Participation' Connects Viewers, ArtistsDecember 16 2008
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: Photo: Brita d'Agostino/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO The new S.F. Museum of Modern Art exhibit The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now turns the typically quiet gallery walk into a hands-on interactive experience. The pieces in the retrospective exhibit show how artists have dabbled in two-way communication with viewers over the past 60 years. The refreshingly self-reflexive exhibition draws on a rich history and examines the relationships among museums, artists and the public.
The show explores "how the public relates to the museum and vice versa," says Rudolf Frieling, the museum's curator of media arts. "Art frames you as a participant and art is framed by the museum."
Click though the slideshow to sample the historic and contemporary work in the show, along with visitors' interactive reactions to the exhibition or interactive art. The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now runs through Feb. 8 at SFMOMA.
Left: Museum visitors examine a contemporary version of German artist Hans Haacke's News, first shown in 1969. Haacke's original used a telex machine to print a news stream from German press agency DPA. In the updated work, a printer in the gallery spews out news reports obtained from RSS feeds of several online news sources, bringing events of the outside world into the gallery i
- How to Turn a Desktop Scanner Into a CameraNovember 25 2008
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Got an old scanner kicking around? You can easily repurpose it for use as an
artistic and experimental digital camera using some black foam-core board, a
roll of light-proof tape and a cheap lens. Learn how in Wired.com's How-To Wiki.
- Gallery: Vintage Pics Capture 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera'October 28 2008
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: An obsessive-compulsive collector shares his fascination with vintage Halloween photographs, using Flickr to impart these haunting images.
"My theme is 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera,'" collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would have affected the way they celebrated Halloween."
Martin, who has amassed a vast collection of vintage images through eBay, said he's using pictures from 1940 and earlier for the Flickr countdown.
Photos courtesy Steven Martin
: "I guess my reason for collecting old Halloween photos stems from a nostalgia for my childhood," said Martin, who grew up in San Diego but now lives in Southeast Asia. "Unlike most Americans ... I don't get an annual Halloween fix, so collecting photos is a way to resurrect old memories."
: "I am really fascinated by how these photographs of people dressed in primitiv
- Coolest Costumes From a Geek MasqueradeOctober 27 2008
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: Brace for shame multiplication, all you procrastinators struggling to pull together the perfect Halloween costume.
These amazing getups were finished in time to flaunt this summer during the Comic-Con International Masquerade, the annual costume ball at San Diego's massive geekfest.
Hundreds of costumed wonders strutted their stuff, singly and in groups, showing off the fruits of their labors and their dedication to sci-fi, comics and other geekish obsessions.
Can you compete? Show us your own geeky Halloween costume.
Photos: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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