Published May 27, 2010
On Thursday’s Radio Boston, we’ve got a story that’s, well, awesome. Our Tom Urell reports on the Awesome Foundation, a group of 10 Boston-area techy types who pitch in $100 a month to fund a new project they deem awesome.
April’s recipient is Grassroots Mapping, founded by an MIT Media Lab student named Jeff Warren. His group of cartographers attached point-and-shoot cameras to kites and weather balloons to document the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. The airborne cameras have captured a strangely beautiful mix of bright blue and oily brown hues. Do have a look at the slideshow.
Meanwhile, The New York Times covers an Iowa firefighter and aerial photography hobbyist who hacked his Canon PowerShot to snap a picture every 15 seconds — it’s hard to remotely control a camera from the stratosphere. The software he created works on 50 models of Canon’s happy snappers, and a community has formed around it.
We’ll also hear about March’s “Awesome” recipient: Charles Fracchia, who is creating organic ink. Living, growing ink. Your pen never runs out of ink. Because the ink grows. It’s alive.