radiohead vid

RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

iphone bug

So, if you unplug your headphones while listening to a song, the iphone will think that the headphones are still plugged in. This means your phone will not ring and you can't hear anything when you try to talk. Kinda frustrating to say the least. Change the volume with the side volume toggle and if it reads "(headphones)" by the volume setting, you have the bug.

The fix is to plug the headphones back in, go to the ipod area, stop the song from playing, go to a different menu in the ipod player and then go back to the main menu. Then you can unplug the headphones and reset the glitch.

That should do it.

If you left the house without the headphones or the $20 Griffin adapter (for gen 1) you are shit out of luck I guess. Way to design a recessed 1/8" jack apple.

Yikes

U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen, people briefed about the plan said on Thursday.

I wonder if it's time to pull the money out of the bank and buy a gun? This is serious end game stuff.....

Fuck it.

You know, I was just gonna post about Karl Rove refusing to testify, but you know what?

Fuck it.

They won. It's over. They got away with it all. Screw it.

War, oil, Iran some to be attacked. Screw it. I'm gonna fiddle while America burns.

Now where's my camera, I'm gonna take purty pictures.

DEMOCRATS WEAK ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FREEDOM.

DEMOCRATS WEAK ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FREEDOM.

The issue put Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in a particularly precarious spot. After long opposing the idea of immunity for the phone companies in the wiretapping operation, he voted for the plan on Wednesday. His reversal last month angered many of his most ardent supporters, who organized an unsuccessful drive to get him to reverse his position once again. And it came to symbolize what civil liberties advocates saw as “capitulation” by Democratic leaders to political pressure from the White House in an election year.

Now this would be fun.

GDR

The Great Divide Race is a self-supported, solo competition following the 2,490-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Traversing Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, the route demands over 200,000 feet of climbing along it's length. Competitors carry all equipment necessary to negotiate the backcountry, restocking on food and other supplies from the small towns along the route.

Interesting read on stills and motion

The Cloud is Falling

So is the answer for photographers is to pick up a video camera? Should we all produce audio slide shows?

Well - maybe. While there is ABSOLUTELY no doubt that every photographer out there should be actively developing their video shooting and editing skills today and learning it at their schools/universities - I do have some important reservations and concerns to point out.

Have a coke and shut the fuck up

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Updates

Afternoon all.

All sorts of new things going on here. Just moved to Portland and delt with all of that so the updates have been slow because of that.

Have a new small photo studio in here which I am setting up. Hope to have some new pics and projects rolling soon.

For the record, moving sucks.

Oblivion

lens culture: David Maisel

Certain spatial fears seem endemic to the modern metropolis, and Los Angeles defines this term in ways that no other American city can approximate. This amorphous skein of strip malls, gated developments, highway entrances and exit ramps, lays unfurled over the landscape like a sheet over a cadaver. Surely the earth is dead beneath the sheer weight and breadth of this built form?