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Photography has the power to capture a moment forever. Whether you are aware of the context or not, a photo always tells a story.
The following links are not photoblogs or random photos; instead, each diary is about a specific subject. They differ greatly among each other in terms of approach to that subject, but all of them have the human condition as the starting point.

Some Photos of That Day

This one is the oldest and most known photo diary throughout the internet.
The web site itself doesn't contain any information on the photos or the story, but they were taken by photographer Jamie Livingstone with a Polaroid SX-70 for 18 (yes, eighteen) years - from 1979 to 1997.
There are 6,697 photos that portrait Jamie's life from his youth, through his adulthood, to the day of his death.
For more details on this diary, make sure to check this CBC Podcast
Link: photooftheday.hughcrawford.com

Days with My Father

Captured by Phillip Toledano, this diary shows the struggle of his father with a short term memory condition, or as Phillips says 'living in the twilight of half memories'.
It's truly one of the most moving set of photos I've ever seen. This is the only photo diary that's still active.
Link: dayswithmyfather.com

Love Diary

To finish this article with a more positive note, this one is about love (not that the other weren't).
Chinese photographer Madi Ju tells us her love story with photos and letters - the imagery is absolutely stunning, the style is very casual and very intimate.
A beautiful story in a really sad way.
Link: madiju.com/love_diary.html

I hope you find them touching and they make you think. Enjoy.

Today I was reading some news and came across with the new Google Talk service: chatback.

I thought it was a really good idea and started implementing it on this site right away, so that my future clients could reach me quicker on a first approach.
The problem is that there's no control over who uses it, since the code is universal (it's really just an iframe). Everyone can copy/paste your code and use it on whichever site they like. Worst case scenario: spamming bots all over the place.

Google could implement an API system, like they did with Google Maps, and something a bit safer than an iframe.

A good alternative is the flash-driven widget meebo me, completely customizable and way safer.

Kanye released the first single and video of his upcoming album Graduation called Stronger last month - you can see it here.

The sample is from the awesome tune Harder, Better, Faster and Stronger of Daft Punk, who also appear in the clip.

Stronger was directed by Hype Williams and was shot in Japan. It has obvious references to Akira and the album art was produced by the great Takashi Murakami

All seems perfect except for the typos in the clip. That's right, Kanye tried to keep it cool and include some Katakana characters...

Starting with ストソガ (sutosoga ~ doesn't mean a thing) instead of ストロンガー (sutoronga ~ Japanese for stronger, translated from the English sound) - come on man, an error like that on the title?

And a typo on ガンバレ (ganbare ~ Japanese for go for it, fight or hang in there) - in the clip you can see ガソバレ (gasobare) - appear not once, but twice. These are very similar characters that only differ in the stroke point of origin, but even so...

Couldn't he afford a proofreading team?

A while ago I was contacted by Vitaly Friedman, the chief-editor of Smashing Magazine to take part of a survey along with other designers and teams.

You can now see the resulting article: 35 Designers x 5 Questions at Smashing Magazine's website - Very interesting stuff.

Thank you once again, Vitaly!

Whether you just want to have a good laugh or be completely stunned with so many inventive concepts and contraptions, go to atelier-v.ch

Here's a very good example of things you'll find there:

My favorites are, besides the above one, the oilfinger, the photo holder and the towel holder. Fantastic, like a fresh breeze of creativity.