If you don’t know what the Giro d’Italia is, then what rock have you been hiding under? If you hail from European shores then you will recognize it as one of the biggest cycle racing events around, full of bikes, babes and borderline obscene-behaviour on the winners podium as the victors can only seem to express their joy in one way: a good old-fashioned mucky video…

War is hell, or at least that’s what they say in the Hollywood movies, but whatever your take on human conflict, to be part of putting your life on the line changes your perspective on life forever. On your return home you are totally aware of what is most precious to you – home, family, children, and most importantly, your loved ones – and you make sure that that you let them know exactly how you feel about them, whoever you are. Whether you’re gay or straight, you have the right to love and to be loved.

Street racer isn’t just the name of some 90’s video game that combines the fine arts of go karting & violence, street racers also exists IRL. And Dubai is their capital, where down at the International Marine Club all sorts of insane racing action’s going on. Prepare to witness awesome as a Nissan Juke-R takes on the best supercars money can buy.

So buckle-up and watch GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez taking Nissan’s badass Juke-R down there to see if he can pwn some of the most famous supercars on the planet.

It’s Friday so, you know, put the cynicism to one side for a few minutes, bury the hatred for all mankind, and lets all come together in peace and love and celebrate people. Yay people! They’re amazing, look at them surfing and dancing and driving and doing all the good stuff. But not you, you’re not amazing, you’re just watching amazing people. As you were.

Meet the gorgeous Madalina, she is a model. Watch enthralled as she sways and writhes in time with the throbbing dubstep beats of Darren Leigh Purkiss‘ track, “The Persian”. Whilst the online fashion website Motilo is all about helping you choose the best clothes to put on, this proves there’s still plenty of fun to be had whilst taking them off. And for that we salute you.

Drones have been scoring high interest points on the interwebs recently and scaring the inner-nerd inside of us all that it’s only a matter ot time before the Skynet uprising, but this is different, it has ninjas. Behold the ‘Omcopter’, t’s ability to fly into buildings, close to actors and into high altitudes makes it the perfect tool for low-budget film-making epic-ness. And did i say it has ninjas?

These days most us conduct our love lives through a laptop, whether that be Skyping your other half across the divide of continents or whether the love affair is between you and your computer. But when your computer starts playing up your relationship can hit the rocks, which is why an upgrade is essential every now and then. 4 SSD Angels took 1 ex-ambulance & 50 Samsung 830 SSDs and went to find out, traveling around in an ambulance replacing crappy hard drives with pimped up solid-state drives.

Ever wondered how it feels to be moments away from stepping onto the stage and performing in front of a roaring crowd? Sony is inviting you to immerse yourself in this electrifying atmosphere. Enjoy a multi-dimensional journey featuring a seamless mix of fast-paced imagery, combining photography and ground breaking three dimensional sound. Grab your headphones and join this exciting audio-visual journey created using 3-Dimensional sound – technically known as binaural – that will make you experience rock stardom.

Want to know how this was done? Meet the men behind the magic. The sound designer is a world leading expert in binaural sound, Nick Ryan. He is a multi-award winning sound designer and audio media specialist widely recognised as the world’s leading binaural sound expert, and was in charge of designing and recording the binaural soundscape for this project.

This piece was produced by employing the technique of binaural sound, where sound is recorded using two microphones arranged in the same distance as human ears are apart, to create a sensation where the listener hears like they were actually in the room with the performers or instruments or sounds they are hearing.

The sound designer in this project used ‘dummy head recording’, where a mannequin head is fitted with microphones in each ear, to record the sounds you hear in the piece. A binaural recording is intended for replay using headphones and will not translate properly over stereo speakers.

This year alone he has created binaural campaigns for Nike, launched a real time 3D audio iPhone game with no video and interpreted a novel into an audiobook – www.nickryanmusic.com

Complementing Nick’s sound design is photographer Andrew Scriven, who was a finalist in the SWPA 2011 Open category and was chosen to take part in this project because of his attention to detail and consideration he puts into every shot. He is British and previously worked as an Analyst in the city of London.

He gave up his job to pursue his dream of becoming a photographer and recently took a 12 month journey around the world which took him to Antarctica, on-board a 3 mast tea clipper where he captured the photos which lead to him being a finalist in SWPA. www.andrewscriven.co.uk

For more information about how you can start using this amazing technology check out this information pack and see how it is all done.

Now you have to admit that this looks dead-good, eh? If ever you wanted proof that you can’t keep a good man down (or a dead evil one), here it is. Osombie is an independently-produced, feature-length zombie film, packed with violence, mayhem, guns, blood and discussions about Pokemon. Oh, and zombies. Lots of zombies. We featured the first Bin-Zombie film (Zombinladen – The Axis of Evil Dead) back in September 2011, but this production takes it to a whole new level.

The story follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive, despite having been buried at sea. In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO Special Forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and that Osama has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists. When the group crashes headlong into the growing zombie apocalypse, Dusty and the troops must find and destroy the root of the zombie insurgency before it infests the rest of the world.

Osombie is packed with desert (Utah, that is) action, cgi explosions, and cgi blood, but the fun factor is looking mighty high. It stars Corey Sevier (The Lost Future, Age of Dragons) and model Eve Mauro. It’s been shot and edited, and the filmmakers are currently seeking a post-production budget on Kickstarter.

The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.

Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.

“I felt like there was kind of this void,” says Mantoani. “There were all these anonymous photographers out there who have not been given enough credit.”

Jeff Widener holds his photo of Tank Man in Tienanmen Square from 1989.

At a time when everyone has a camera in their pocket and millions, if not billions of photos are flying around the internet each day, Mantoani wants to help people understand that iconic photos don’t just happen. They are the product of people who devote their entire lives to photography. Giving these people a face, he says, helps do that.

Steve McCurry holds his 1984 photo of a young woman from Peshawar, Pakistan. “I looked for this girl for 17 years and finally found her in 2002. Her name is Sharbat Gula.”

“It was important to step back and understand that cameras didn’t make these photos, photographers made these photos,” he says. “Without these people and their understanding of photography, these moments would not be there for us to understand and appreciate over the course of time.”

Neil Leifer holds his photo, Ali vs. Liston, which he took on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine.

Mantoani, a San Diego-based commercial and editorial photographer who is well known for his portrait work, decided to challenge his own craftsmanship by shooting the portraits on the enormous 20×24 Polaroid format. Only a few 20×24 Polaroid cameras still exist, and the film can be prohibitively expensive — about $200 per shot.

Bill Eppridge stands with his photo of Robert F. Kennedy after his assassination on June 5, 1968.

Over the course of the project, some of the photographers who participated passed away. Polaroid went belly up, making 20×24 film that much harder to come by. The weight of each photo’s importance as a historic document became more apparent with each loss.

Elliot Erwitt: “The picture I am holding was snapped in 1974 just across the street from my apartment in New York’s Central Park. It has been 38 years since that event and sadly I have lost track of the participants.”

“We have come to a point in history where we are losing both photographic recording mediums and iconic photographers,” Mantoani says.

Brent Stirton: “This is Virunga, the first National Park in Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Silverback Mountain Gorilla, along with 6 females, had been killed by a group trying to intimidate conservation rangers into being less proactive in their efforts against poaching & illegal charcoal making.

Scarcity and history also increased the pressure to produce a quality image. “Digital has allowed you to hold the hammer down and work it out later,” he says. “This process really forced me to go back to my roots and try to get everything perfect before I even made the exposure.”

Brian Smith: “The magic of photography happens when you don’t see what’s coming next.”

Some portraits Mantoani nailed on the first shot, others took three or four tries. The process often became a collaboration between Mantoani and his subjects, who offered their own advice.

Douglas Kirkland: “This is from my Evening with Marilyn.”

Steve McCurry, for example, looked at his own first portrait and commented on the amount of space that Mantoani left between his head and the top of the frame. McCurry insisted that Mantoani could do what he wanted, but Mantoani was happy to take the advice — especially considering the source.

“The shoots sometimes became little mini workshops,” Mantoani says.

Harry Benson: “Brian Epstein — Beatles’ manager — had just told them they were number one in America, and I was coming with them to New York, 1964.”

Some of the photographers not only lent their advice, but also their rolodex. The first few photographers Mantoani worked with were instrumental in getting him access to the larger community. Some photographers still said no, even with the referral. Others, such as Herman Leonard, took a long time to come around.

Karen Kuehn: “From the 1993 Cats Story shot for National Geographic. The director Thomas Kennedy asked me to shoot an entire story about ‘cats.’ He did not want it to be typical! So problem solving this assignment was good fun. The Russian Blue Cat and Ballerina legs was inspired by George Balanchine — he used the idea of cats landing always on their toes to teach his dancers.”

“When people realized that I wasn’t out to take advantage of them but instead wanted celebrate this group of photographers, they wrapped their arms around the project,” Mantoani said.

Lyle Owerko: “No one knew such a beautiful warm day would serve as the backdrop to one of the most painful and confusing events to the heart of mankind. This picture is one small part of such a huge event that ties the threads of thousands of stories and millions of people together.

The book is the first step in preserving and broadcasting the archive. Mantoani eventually wants the original prints to become part of an exhibition.

Mark Seliger: “Originally an inside opener for Rolling Stone cover story of Nirvana in conjunction with the release of In Utero, my first Polaroid (with Negative) was by far the most emotional and revealing of his spirit. Two months later Kurt died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. This photograph became the memorial RS cover.”

“I wanted to create this archive so that some day when the photographers are all gone, my grandkids can not only appreciate their photos, but also know who they were and what they looked like.”

To find out more or purchase a copy of the book, please visit the Behind Photographs website.