Monday, January 08, 2007

Scott Adams's Blog

Scott Adams is well known for drawing Dilbert, but he also keeps a blog. Two posts in particular that are worth reading are how he's "In Over [his] Head" and "Good News Day", when he talks about losing his ability to speak. He's an interesting guy. You should also check out the comments on that speech one just to keep some perspective on what he went through.

Link to In Over My Head
Link to Good News Day

Friday, January 05, 2007

Extreme Resolution Photography


xRes is a consortium of digital artists dedicated to exploring the creative opportunities available through gigapixel digital photography. And this site is extremely cool: in addition to some absolutely beautiful photography, they also have some QTVRs of gorgeous panoramas, and my favourite part, incredibly high resolution pictures you can actually pan around and zoom in on. The picture above is from one of those: a high resolution shot of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. If you look closely at the bottom of the left picture, you can just make out two specks that turn out to be the people pictured on the right side.

The photos are all lovely, but the real interest is the incredible detail captured in these shots.

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Cool Stop-Motion Video


As the always link-worthy BoingBoing showed in a subsequent post, Tony vs. Paul is not breaking any new ground. But the video is very well done with a number of jaw-dropping moments -- that is, if your jaw's not already dropped by the staggering amount of work that went into this. The part where Tony briefly levitates over the swimming pool is amazing!

Also of interest is that the video linked to on BoingBoing wasn't the one posted by Tetricide, the video's creator. It looks like there's some furor over this in the comments, but so far it doesn't look like BoingBoing has issued a correction.

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