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KN | Kitsune Noir » International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters by Simon Page
I came across some work by Simon Page after rooting around Dropular but when I saw these posters I was absolutely blown away. Simon started out doing these posters as a personal project but when the International Year of Astronomy folks saw them the decided to use them as promotional pieces.
October 2009
Cañon City Daily Record - Film crew wraps up shooting in area
Cañon City Daily Record - French filmmakers focus on prison industry in Fremont County
technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python
I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.
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September 2009
Derek Powazek - How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in.
THOMAS PAUL at ELSEWARES / 718-502-8893
Latest busks | BANDSTAND BUSKING
prettyGallery - by Stephane Caron
August 2009
UK Street Art x Banksy vs Bristol Museum | Gallery, videos and reviews
The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse on Vimeo
November 9th 2007 - November 13th 2008
one year on foot - 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
thelongestway.com
musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo
Additional info:
- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.
- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.
- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.
- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.
- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo - "Olive Tree" and 2) The Kingpins - "L'aventurier" - visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.
- This is not a strict "1 pic a day" video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.
- The core of this project is in fact my website "www.thelongestway.com" where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.
Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure?
printf("Olá mundo ;-]");
July 2009
Sparkles everywhere, CubicWeb gets fizzy (CubicWeb's Forge)
Fyzz parses the SPARQL query and generates something we decided to call an AST although it's still a bit rough for now. Fyzz understands simple triples, distincts, limits, offsets and other basic functionalities.
The Regional Assembly of Text | Our Store
The Regional Assembly of Text was opened in late August of 2005 by the two of us, Rebecca Dolen & Brandy Fedoruk. While attending the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, we collaborated on a number of projects and curated a series of book shows together.
After graduating in 2003 we decided to put our minds & hands to work. The result of which, was our very own little store. Focusing on text as a theme, the store features many lovely things designed and built by us.
24 hours in SF: A Geolocation App - Google App Engine - Google Code
Never knowing when a strike of inspiration will cause me to work until late at night (or early in to the morning), I always wanted an application that could tell me where I could grab a cup of coffee or bite to eat where I was, when I was looking, be it 1pm or 1am. So, I decided to write such an application, with the Google Gears Geo-Location API to determine location, geolocation to search for nearby businesses, and Google Maps for easy visualization.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the future of XHTML
June 2009
Typography of the San Francisco MoMA : un album sur Flickr
Phototype: image manipulation with Javascript
James Carr » Blog Archive » TDD Anti-Patterns
TDD Anti-Patterns, and decided to first quickly jot down some of the most common ones that others or myself have encountered “in the wild.”
Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09
Random Etc. - js-vector-maps on github
I've been experimenting with some javascript classes that mimic the structure of mapnik's Layer/Style/Rule classes and render OSM data (via GeoJSON) to a <canvas> element. I've also finally taken a look at how github works, so I've decided to share the initial code there in case people are interested. If you don't want to check the code out for yourself there's a demo page here (tested in Firefox and Safari only, so far).
May 2009
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS
March 2009
Digital History Hacks (2005-08)
When I began this blog, I had the idea that it would be an integral part of my critical and reflective technical practice. For the past three years, it has served admirably, providing an easy way to share ideas and code and putting me in touch with a wide range of colleagues and new friends. During that time I've tried to stay true to the promise of "hacks," even if I pushed the boundaries of both "digital" and "history". As my technical work has evolved, however, I've begun to feel like this blog is less and less suited to my day-to-day activities. Rather than try and force it to fit, I've decided to build something new.
Flash - Incredibly realistic coffee smoke effect
My new ticket tracking system is now vaporware!
documentation first.Instead of just banging out code, I decided to write the documentation and the list of supported features FIRST.
