Here’s a clever photo on photosig! Amazing what you can do to a photo with a little work on your PC!
Monthly Archives: September 2004
the stypod on Queen – Dancer
I’m a huge Queen fan, one look at my CD collection and that’ll become clear. Unfortunately, there are two of their albums I really don’t like. Those are “Hot Space” and “Jazz”. They sound very 80’s-ish, and not in a good way. I think they haven’t dated very well.
Anyhow, the stypod has a feature on Dancer, one of the songs from Hot Space. Besides “Under Pressure” it probably is one of the stronger musical pieces on the album.
/me goes back to Queen at the Beeb.. ah yes!
Islamic terrorism has been stopped once before in US history
It may have been stopped but would the US do it again?
How To Freak Out Motorists
Tie these balloons to the back of your car and watch for the stares and shouts and swerving behind you!
(Thanks John for sending the pic!)
Theoretical Limits to Data Enjoyment
Tom has a great article here. How much can we produce and consume effectively? Our computers and infrastructure are getting to a stage where it’s possible to collect or produce or hoard more personal data and media than we can consume easily!
He took 10,000 photos over the last three and a half years. I take that many photos in 6 months! How can I possibly look over those photos? It’s impossible isn’t it?
I’ve already reached the saturation point with traditional media – buy the Sunday Times on Sunday and maybe, just maybe, I’ll have it read by the following Sunday. I bought €25 worth of books last weekend. This adds to the pile of dead-trees I have yet to read. It’s stressful knowing there’s so much stuff to consume!
I don’t have the same problem with music – fire up xmms, load a playlist and there you go. I can listen to it while I work. It’s when the consumption of my personal data requires my primary attention that I get into trouble!
Maybe I should take that longed for holiday soon just to catch up on my reading?
Spam Words
WordPress users – use spam words! I caught 6 spam comments a few minutes ago with them!
The knot conspiracy – Wedding Photos From Both Sides
Oooh, this thread on dpreview caused a bit of a stir! Someone linked to this thread on theknot.com about copying the photos taken by professional wedding photographers. For some reason the original message is gone but the replies remain.
In this digital world it’s getting harder and harder to prevent copyright theft, and even though the bride and groom paid for the photos, the copyright for those photos remains with the photographer.
Woofy had a good idea – offer images on CD, perhaps only low-res ones with prints later. Darrell refined the idea by suggesting he provide one or two high quality prints as well.
At the end of theknot.com thread several photographers joined in, no doubt from dpreview, their comments are worth reading, if only to remind oneself that for these people, photography is a business.
These linked generated a great conversation on #linux, which did *not* descend into puns or jokes, although that could be because Kevin wasn’t around..
Pseudo-IR Tutorial
Nice! This tutorial describes how to convert a “normally shot” photograph into an infra-red photo. It uses Photoshop, but the techniques described can be done in the GIMP too! Here’s a few more bits too.
While we’re on the subject, here are the top 10 signs you spend too much time at STF! hehe.
Online Photo Magazines
Why buy paper magazines when there’s so much good stuff being published online? That’s what I want to know! Here in Ireland we have to pay tax on magazines that adds an exorbitant cost to magazines from the UK.
Mark noticed that Vivid Light Photography #38 is out now, and Photo Focus is for me, like Mark, a mag I’d never come across before!
Perl and PHP Stuff
Via delicious this morning I have two titbits for your consumption!
Movable Type Ported to PHP – Apparently they’ve done what appears to be a nearly complete port of MT from Perl (bless it) to PHP. This port appears to include support for all current MT tags, it relies on Justin Vincent’s ezSQL DB library and Smarty templates, and even supports a plug-in API.
Why PHP still stinks – from a Perl coder’s perspective. 😉