Archive for December, 2009
North on the FDR
The bent vertical columns are something I see when shooting with a moving digital camera. What I think is happening is the sensor is capturing the frame from left to right, top to bottom. Therefore when the next row of pixels are caught, the above rows are already shifting to the right.
I may be way [...]The Known Universe vs. Powers of Ten
The video above, from the American Museum of Natural History, reminded me of the “Powers of Ten” short film (below) created by Ray and Charles Eames in 1977.
The techniques and technology are vastly updated, but the scope and impact are relativel similar.via matt langer
“She Took My Shoes Off”
Saw this evening that Jennifer Diamond shared a link via FB to photographs of Mr. Rogers taken by Lynn Johnson.
This collection reminded me of the Fred Rogers entry on Daily Routines. I’d come across the Daily Routines post months ago, but still find the article, as taken from Esquire magazine, to be really quite endearing.Again, Merry Christmas!
Tycho – Coastal Brake
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Cosmic Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Movie Posters of the Decade
In the midst of all the end of the year and end of the decade roundups, I missed the collection of the decade’s top movie posters as assembled by The Auteurs.
I’m not a huge fan of the collection, but I thought that in addition to the Funny Games poster, the poster above for The Girlfriend [...]They’ve Gone to Plaid!
Chain of Hyper Space scenes from films (a collaboration with Mike Merrill).
Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at the end of them. In fact, here are the primary uses of Warp Speed/ Hyper Space as plot device:
A) [...]Shakey Face
Photography by Brandon Voges on Behance
I Don’t Believe in Global Warming
Banksy via Wooster Collective
Yellena on Etsy
My name is Yellena James. I am 29 years old and I’m currently living on the Central Oregon Coast with my super-talented musician husband and two cats, Masha (good kitty) & Fisher (bad kitty). I was born in Sarajevo and lived there until the end of the civil war, in 1995. During the war, I [...]
