Beautiful Bits

Year-long exposure of the Toronto skyline

We all have already seen these kind of photographs whith car lights and stars drawing psychedelic lines or with water looking like milk, due to the long exposure times. What is less popular, it's the next level of long exposure. The yellow lines in the above photograph are the result of our sun, brushing the sky during this 1-year long exposure shot by photographer Michael Chrisman with a pinhole camera. A solargraphy.

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Here's one of the most interesting Twitter map that I've seen recently. This map shows both where people are tweeting from and which language they're using to tweet (using Google’s open-sourcing of the Compact Language Detector).

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Sliding alone on dunes of sand in a vast, empty desert sounds like fun, isn't it? Add fields of stone needles, some curiously looking pieces of architecture by a long forgotten ancient civilisation, an eerie classical music score and a heroine with a magic scarf and you receive the upcoming PlayStation game Journey.

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Informal lunch at the Prezi office. And yes we do eat fruits.

This is the first post of a new category that we called "Budapest Insights".
We love living and working here in Budapest. We feel like sharing some of the awesomeness or surprising things we see happening here in Budapest, inside and outside the office. Hope you'll enjoy these too.

When we buy a product, (it can be an ipod, shoes, or a  car) usually we don’t have conscience about how many processes and people are involved to make us happy. Maybe we could not even imagine how those processes affect environmentally and socially the landscape of the world that we are shaping.

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We wish you all the best for this new year, happiness and success in your projects. We are looking forward to a very exciting year at Prezi. We'll keep on making our dreams come true and hope you will too. Let's make 2012 good!

Swiss comedian and artist Ursus Wehrli became famous thanks to his Tyding Up Art books. He meticulously deconstruct famous artworks such as Paul Klee, Van Gogh or Keith Haring and reorganized them by arranging elements by color and size, "optimizing" the composition. He introduced it as a manifesto that yearns toward a more rational, more organized and cleaner form of modern art. I can't help but seeing a nice dose of provocation here. Beyond the funny aspect of this work (and subtle criticism about his swiss origin), he shows how the process of rationalizing itself can be questioned.

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Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

 I couldn't say Little Printer is the most useful gadget ever. But with its perfectly simple design and smart optimized templates I really start to think i need one. Download the iphone app and you can set up what you are interested in. Send your feeds to your printer and read actual paper notes instead of your tiny screen. Available early next year.

I am after the maximum communication with minimum elements.

I just stumbled upon these illustrations by Noma Bar, an Israeli artist, illustrator and designer based in London. I love how he associates simple elements to strongly communicate the idea. This minimalist graphical approach is very powerful and capture the essence of the represented things with a limited pallet. He subtlety and precisely manipulates shape and form where familiar symbols and pictograms evolve into new meaning.

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Polynoid, the team which brought us '458nm', the now classic scene of biomechanical snails making love to some ambient electro chill (above) and 'Loom', another exercise in animating creatures of the forest — is now seeking new directions and working on spots for MTV. <">