"I don't know why, but human beings seem to be strongly attracted to waterfalls. One of the first photos most newbies want to make is a serious waterfall photo. It's not hard to do well, and here are seven tips to get you started on your way."

An amazing set of 700 16x16 pixel icons, icensed under a Creative Commons license (attribution). The zip file contains a useful webpage for viewing all the icons. An excellent resource!

Check out this amazing set of 700 16x16 icons for website design. I plan on using some of them for a new project I'm working on. (Creative Commons license)

A good overview of the basic terminology used in computer storage.

A great tutorial for learning the basics of Cascading Style Sheets.

"Photography is an all encompassing term used for all types of image capture but there are in fact distinct variations in the manner in which photography is approached in different genres. Different genres of photography require a different style and perspective. The techniques used by photographers vary based on the subject, the situation and the end use of the image or scene."

"If you would like to know more about how to use Flickr then read on!"

A good history of cameras over the past 30 or 40 years.

Get an overview of how to work with layers in Photoshop. Use the Color Range command and invert an image. Jump an image to an independent layer.

Cartoon lions! Cartoon tigers! Cartoon bears! Who doesn't love cartoon animals? Ever since I was a kid, drawing animals has always been a favorite.

I'll use this site as inspiration for my students when learning how to draw characters in Flash.

Nicole Young shows how to create a "paper border" using layer-styles in Photoshop.

Irving Penn, one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.

Momentum is building in the support for the electronic portfolio as a valuable digitally-based tool for learners, instructors, and academic organizations. These may be produced in various digital environments such as web-based applications like wikis or in the form of a web-page driven CD/DVD-ROM.

When news broke last month that Ikea had changed the font in its catalogue-replacing Futura, after more than 50 years, with Verdana-twittering typophiles took their outrage to the Web.

The intention of this research was to closely analyze a few scenes from Pixars "Toy Story" to see how they were using the principles of animation. The principles of animation I've listed in this page is not restricted to the ones outlined in "the illusion of life". I went through a few other books and articles to come up with this list of principles an animator has to look out for while animating. So I've included blinks, dialog anticipation/follow-through and some other issues which has to be kept in mind while animating. Also, while analyzing the scenes from "Toy Story" I realized that its not a good idea to try to use all these principles in each and every scene in your animation.

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.