There is a Flickr group for “beater eaters,” how cool is that? I love the internet, I really do. A picture Julie took of Theo is the newest entry, thanks to an invitation from the Admin!
It’s hard to imagine now but there was a time in 2006 when Youtube didn’t own the video world, back when it was an independent project from some of the Paypal kids. I preferred its competitor Jumpcut, which allowed you to do simple editing online—splicing videos with pictures, adding headlines, etc. Then came the feeding frenzy: Google gobbled Youtube and Yahoo scored Jumpcut and the fate of the video services quickly followed the fortunes of its new masters.
Jumpcut is officially closed now, so I’m downloading my videos from there. They’re all short enough to repost to Flickr (another Yahoo property (so why couldn’t Jumpcut auto-import into Flickr? Grr…)). So here’s my archives from the early days of user generated video:
Francis Makes a Mess (Summer 2006)
This was a daily (sometimes hourly) occurence a few summers ago.
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Loading the FGC Gathering Truck (Summer 2006):
A big moment for American Friends, 2006 was the first time the main annual gathering of liberal Quakers was held on the West Coast. Jerimy P and Stephen D. boarded a rented truck a week before and drove the FGC Bookstore from Philadelphia to Tacoma, Washington.
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Theo sings the Thomas Song (Spring 2007):
The Thomas the Tank Engine song as sung by 3-1/2 year old Theo (don’t be confused by his initial description of it as the “Gordon Song”!),
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Francis Sings Elmo (Spring 2007)
Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble telescope in solar transit via @timoreilly
Via NASA HQ Photo account on Flickr:
In this tightly cropped image the NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit at 12:17p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
You can see more of Thierry’s fine work at: www.astrophoto.fr
Tiltshifing works best in hilly areas where you can get up high and get a rolling landscape with good foreground and background. Which is to say it’s damn hard to find something interesting to shoot in South Jersey.
Nonetheless, here’s my favorite picture so far, of a mill race in the long-abandoned Ninteenth Century Weymouth factory. Note this was made with Tiltshiftmaker website, not with this new Adobe Air App, which I’m just trying out now. Via Lifehacker.
