A friend sent me this image from The Illuminator, a group that rose from the Occupy movement.
Very inspiring in light of the events at the Boston Marathon yesterday.
Peace.
GeoFlow
A very interesting story about Microsoft’s new Excel integrated geomapping technology here. This software will allow Excel users to visualize geographic and chronological data in 3D. Data visualization is about to become much easier to do!
da Vinci’s Demons
I just finished watching episode 1 of the Starz series da Vinci’s Demons. It is a drama set in Renaissance Florence. It’s got Medici intrigue and some (potentially) good characters. The young Leonardo is presented as a revolutionary, always prepared to challenge the powers that be. It has some very interesting (again, potentially, since I have only watched the one episode) story lines of a subterranean Hermetic culture that could challenge the power base of the corrupt Vatican and its Pope.
I am, however, pissed that I cannot get the accompanying iPad app since it is only available in the United States. I sure wish that someone would invent some technology that would allow for instant access of data across the world. They could call it, oh, I don’t know, the Internet? You’re welcome.
and finally, some sculpture
Some ceramics
My first digital image with my Olympus 4/3
From 2007 in the Market. And this was done with my Olympus E-410. I am still tracking down images from my 2.1 megapixel camera so technically not my first photo taken with a digital camera.
My first tilt-shift photos
I was at the airport leaving for Vancouver (2007, I think) and I had seen the technique done with a tilt-shift lens and I tried to emulate the effect in Photoshop.
Going through old photos
This is what it looks like here….
That is as far outside as I am prepared to go.
Weekly wrap up
I mentioned a few posts back about the early roots of my love of movie title design. I happened to run across this post on Open Culture here. It is called The Film Before The Film. Enjoy!
Some really cool long exposure wake boarding in the dark with glow sticks photos here.
An incredible time lapse from New Zealand here. And a very impressive portfolio of work by the artist Bevan Percival as well. Check out the spectacular lenticular cloud time lapse here. Incredible work. I am totally envious of this stuff!
And while we’re talking about time lapse, here is my all time favorite, always worth a watch is The Mountain. The music, from Ludovico Einaudi – “Nuvole bianche” is excellent too!
And, finally, from The New York Review of Books, an excellent article on Japanese photographers Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto and their documentary photography.