February 2005 – Something Odd!

FOTO.com – 9 Euro Cent Photos!

Has anyone used foto.com to print their photos? Prices seem to be too good to be true!
I received an email from Pixaco who now ship to Ireland. They’re very competitive too with prices starting at 14 Cent/photo!

James Blonde – Super Spy

Shocking night in Kinsale on Saturday. Happy birthday Justin! Anyone else see this secret agent around the place? He was keeping a low profile and so hard to spot.

GIMP Lomo Examples

mF’s GIMP Lomo script that I mentioned already works a treat with the settings he suggested! It works fine in GIMP 2.2 and here’s an example to prove it! Daffodils pictured by the Ballincollig Bypass in Co. Cork a few days ago.

Original

Lomoified

Going Home

Pictured on the Grand Parade on a freezing cold evening a few days ago.
This is the first time I used the perspective tool to shuft a photo slightly because I wasn’t in the exact middle of the frame!

Cork debuts as Cultural Capital

The Chicago Tribune published an article on Cork’s City of Culture designation this year!

For sale: Joystick, 30 games, c64 included!

Oooh, I want one of these joysticks! Each one has a C64 and 30 games in them! Games include Speedball, Pitstop 2, Eliminator, Paradroid, Cyberdyne Warrier…
Must load up Vice and give those games a blast again!
(via Look At This…)

Digital memories: we can forget them for you wholesale!

Good article from The Register on how volatile and prone to loss our digital data is. Who’ll keep our data safe after us? Digital Banks? Will our descendents have photo albums to look at?

DIY Flash Diffuser

One of the tips here is using the end of a shampoo bottle as a flash diffuser. Must remember to try that one. I like the idea of using a Nokia hands-free lead as a remote control for the Canon 300D! I wonder would something similar work for my 717?

Then I went searching and found all sorts of interesting things!
Oh yes. a few more tips for you. View source if you don’t want to watch the annoying vertical scroller!

GIMP Lomo Plugin

mF posted a Lomo plugin for the GIMP. His example images on flickr look good but I haven’t been able to get the script to run in GIMP 2.0, will try in GIMP 2.2 tonight.

script-fu: Error while executing
(load “/home/donncha/.gimp-2.0/scripts/lomo2.scm”)
ERROR: unbound variable (errobj script-fu-menu-register)

GIMP: Plug-In “script-fu”
(/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu)

attempted to install procedure “script_fu_lomo” in an invalid menu location.
Use either “<Toolbox>”, “<Image>”, “<Load>”, or “<Save>”

Update! Here is a GIMP Lomo plugin that works in GIMP 2.4!

Seashore – GIMP derived Cocoa app

Seashore is described as, “an open source image editor for Cocoa. … based around the GIMP’s technology” which is a boon for some but others will run screaming for the hills. 🙂