This is very clever timplapse photography, it uses a tilt shift focus (possibly a lens baby) to trick the human eye into thinkling that the video is made using models.
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Category: Miscellany
Swine flu
It had to happen no sooner had the flu thing hit the media, someone comes up with a google maps mashup.
Take a look at the link to the Google swine flu mash-up it seems fairly easy to do you just need to find some example code, the difficult bit is finding some data worth mashing (is that correct English?)
Contented cat
Todays picture is of my cat, who spends a lot of time sleeping. What a life! By the way I have created a slide show from my Flickr account, you can also click on the link above. Currently you will only see my public photo’s but if you ask nicely I can give you a password to see them all.
Curry
Rory and Martin want to be famous
Weight Watchers meeting?
Each member of the team felt duty bound to bring enough snacks for everyone one so we had enough crisps and dips to feed a hundred. Just we we thougt we might run out of snacks the fish supper turned up.
Cheap stuff
Credit crunch chilli
Here is a recipe for veggie chilli nicked from Caroline Sharp. My recipe for a big saucepan full of chilli, that can be frozen.
Ingredients:-
Two onions, three green peppers (missing in picture), two chilli’s, garlic, cumin seeds, coriander, Quorn mince, tins tomatoes (2) of flagelots, berlotti, haricot, green lentil, and sweet corn, salt, pepper, and anything else you like to bulk it out.
Fry your cumin seeds, onions, green peppers, chilli’s, and garlic. Add the tomatoes and all the other tins of stuff, leave to simmer, for a while. Cheap lovely food.
High Dynamic Range (HDR)
HDR is a photographic technique that uses several bracketed images to extract and use a bigger range of luminance than would be available in a single shot. Here is a wikipeida link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging. Also here is an embeded picture in Flickr
Google reader
Google reader is an RSS feed reader. It is a great way to keep track of multiple websites. The real benefit is that you don;t actually have to visit the websites themselves, and you can keep track of what you have read and what is new. To use it goto http://reader.google.com signup with your gmail account and add some feeds.
Walk with Abida, Connie and Helen
Started at the Old Swan again. Yellowhammer, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Red Kite, Rook, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Robin, Great Tit, Pheasant, Redwing, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Blackbird, and finally Fieldfare. Weather was superb, blue sky and the clouds were fluffy.