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Originally uploaded by welostinthefire.

Here’s a flickr search for photos tagged london snow, posted after 6th feb 2007, sorted by most interesting. One might filter instead for photos taken after 6th feb 2007, but when I tried this I got noise from ppl whose camera clock wasn’t set right.

Snow has something of a novelty for me again, though we did get a freak hailstorm in Maputo once which the locals said was first in ~20 years.

I just took a couple of photos but nothing good. Was reminded of the old truth: snow is cold. Soaked my only shoes, sniffled home again.

Multimatic is a (python) program to generate layouts like that of the lomo actionsampler and supersampler cameras, from one or multiple photos.

Main site seems to be down. someone else’s blog post here has a few photos saved.

gravestmor » Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini. Fascinating perspective-manipulation art installations. via Longboard

Flipbook Printer

Flickr: Camera Toss.

“This Flickr group is for people who create striking abstract photos by setting their cameras for long exposures and then tossing them in the air.” via BoingBoing.

techdirt: don’t take my picture “Some Georgia Tech researchers have come up with some technology that detects the presence of digital cameras then shoots a targeted beam of light at them to prevent them taking any legible photos.”

full article at zdnet.

Xiluva week

Magazine Cover Maker. “Oh, this is so adorable. Ever had a Flickr image that you thought would look great as a magazine cover? Let the ol’ imagination run wild with Magazine Cover Maker” via researchbuzz

There’s a set of flickr toys at that site, and in general, there’s the great flickr tools collection.

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airborne cats. For Taz, really. (though these are a bit freaky)

hashing again, now that they’ve improved the roads in Maputo. This was right at the end of last week’s run, which despite this crocodile-baiting was my favourite ever. I’ll try to get a better resolution copy of this.

sunset in edinburgh
Taken in Edinburgh a couple of years ago.

Saw the jet-li film “Danny the Dog” yesterday (trailer). It’s full of scenes of Glasgow, which means I can point people at it and say “there’s my old house”.

Looks like Grant.St. is in there at one point. No one has a glasgow accent - probably figured it would be too hard to understand. Also jet li wouldn’t have stood a chance against a wee ned wi a chib. Shame Morgan Freeman and the girl didn’t buy it right at the start, then they could have not been in it at all.

It’s also worth watching for Jet Li’s impersonation of Mat Lucas’ character Andy from the comedy show “Little Britain” - “want a piano”.

Great picture of some guy surfing the biggest wave ever surfed - 70 feet. Look at the top of it, and imagine looking down…

Amazon.com: All Products Search Results: lomugraphicHere’s what I want, lomugraphy, a camera with an array of lenses which fire sequentially. Plenty of really sunny days here in moz, which is necessary as you can’t put a flash on to help with all four exposures.

Also, I’ll have to scan/photograph the resulting photos for you to see.

But can’t anyone make these things a bit more robust? I reckon there’s a space for putting some playful macros on a digital camera to reproduce the lomugraphy effect from burst mode and output pre-composed chopped images from the sequences.

Flickr: Photos from neillzero.

If you have a flickr account, let me know to add you to “pals”, so you can comment the photos. Revisiting flickr I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to work with, so I will put some more photos up.

photos from a police car. via metafilter

Some experiments involving sending a camera in the mail and asking for the mail workers to take pictures on the way.

From most recent to most distant: here - Kyle Van Horn,

here - same guy (overview, various attempts),

here - p22 mail art (camera at bottom of page).

the cat in the hat, obviously. bom fim de semana.

Video for “The Sad Song” by Fredo Viola -

“This is a video I made for my song entitled “The Sad Song”. The video was created entirely using 15 second jpg movies from my little Nikon Coolpix 775 still camera, reconstructed in AfterEffects.” nice.

Via onde I can’t remember.

update: ah, it was from this metafilter post.