Posts tagged as "photo"

Posted by Markus on 7th April 2009

2nd of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the second part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

1st of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the first part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. As I mentioned in my [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone

Today I made a leap towards a future I’ve been supporting for a long time, but something I have been reluctant to start enjoying – electronic books. For a long time, I’ve been on a personal mission to reduce my use of paper by embracing everything digital – be it all my writing, mind mapping, [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

Last week on Varha.com from 30th March – 5th April

If you didn’t have time to read all the posts last week – here’s a simple summary for you to enjoy your Monday with! GDC: Mass Effect 2 Leaked Footage Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Euphemisms of Markus GDC: Mass Effect 2 Leaked Footage | Gossip Gamers.Mass Effect quickly became one of the [...]

Posted by Markus on 5th April 2009

Finland loved Heroin

The main Finnish newspaper ran a story today about an interesting fact. In 1936 Finland became number one in the world in the use of Heroin. The previous number one was Japan, and the other statistic where Japan and Finland are leading the pack is suicides. According to the article Finland used more Heroin than [...]

Posted by Markus on 3rd April 2009

Awesome shopping bag designs

Our design-loving friends at Toxel posted a collection of photos showing amazing shopping bag designs from all around the world. Although many cities and places have started banning the use of disposable bags in stores, it’s good to see some originality to be included in the bags. Good ideas don’t have to be less ecological [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd April 2009

Passion for games

I love many things in life, and I think my life would be boring without this fact. One of my deepest and most sincere loves is gaming in pretty much any medium. When I was born, our family was fortunate enough (and more so by older brother who was born eight years before me) to [...]

Posted by Markus on 1st April 2009

Garfield minus Garfield

Another colleague and friend of mine, self-proclaimed genius and another brilliant photographer Miemo Penttinen revealed one of the coolest things to know this year – Garfield minus Garfield. It is a web comic by artist Dan Walsh and its premise is pretty much summed up in the name of the cartoon. It is based on [...]

Posted by Markus on 1st April 2009

Surreal Lego photos

A friend and colleague of mine Henri Block has found Legos again and purchased his first lego in 25 years (in his words). Now I know he’s a brilliant photographer, but his approach to shooting the Tiny Chef just makes me smile and I hope it will have the same effect for you. He has [...]

Posted by Markus on 31st March 2009

Wireless = Paperless = Personalized

Personalization can offer huge performance increase for education and also help to save in costs and the environment. A paperless school can teach students to use today’s technology naturally and effectively as a part of their own knowledge. The learning process as a whole needs to change to accommodate this availability of information by teaching [...]