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The golden spire

by cimddwc · 2008-07-16

At first, I only showed the first image and a little quiz “what do you think is special about this image?” Well, it’s a night photo as can be seen on the second image in original brightness, which has been slightly modified in brightness and contrast (with Corel PhotoPaint’s automatic function):

(click for large versions)

From the right, the moon is glaring into the photo, the elongated dots in the sky are stars which actually moved that far within the 20 seconds of exposure – and that there are brighter parts on which the moon doesn’t shine directly is also caused by the street lights, of course.

The “disturbances” seen in the bright spire in the following detail and the stripes that can best be seen in the bright image above are caused by the (black) mosquito net through which the photo was taken:

golden spire (detail)

Like an elephant…

by cimddwc · 2008-07-03

The scaffolding was removed recently from the department store that has been extended and received its new escalator in February, and so it shines in all its splendor – and, well, it somehow looks to me like an elephant with its tusks cut off:

Or what do you see?

Projekt 52 week 27: (old) masonry

by cimddwc · 2008-07-02

The topic of week 27 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

(old) walls/masonry

Well then:

Week 27: (old) walls/masonry

Part of an old warehouse – other parts of which were already shown in week 20 – right in the town’s center, with construction work next to it.

Update 4 Jul: They’re actually erecting a scaffolding around that building today…

And as I got to know in the mean time, it actually is protected as a historical building – a nearby hotel already parked their guests’ horse-drawn carriages there a long time ago.

Тунгуска

by cimddwc · 2008-06-30

Exactly 100 years ago, on 30 June 1908, there was a tiny explosion1 in the midst of Siberia in the Tunguska region2, felling a couple trees3. So what? Why blame UFOs or black holes for that – tststs…

Okay, seriously: According to the mostly accepted opinion of scientists, it was an asteroid exploding 5–10 km4 above ground – which explains why there’s no big crater; results of a research group last year indicate that a lake a few miles away from the epicenter may be the result of the impact of a fragment.

» More in Wikipedia.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

with a power of 10–15 megatons TNT, equivalent to over 1000 Hiroshima atom bombs [↩]
accordingly, this post’s title is “Tunguska” in cyrillic letters [↩]
60–80 millions on an area of 2000 km² [↩]
the exact numbers vary a little, depending on the source [↩]

Let’s have a Wordle

by cimddwc · 2008-06-19

Word clouds on steroids, if you will, can be created with Wordle, with some options for font, layout and color. For instance, this may look like the following image (click to enlarge) for my “On the trail of afterlife” article:

Or like this for what I wrote about this full moon astrology rubbish yesterday:

Nice toy…

Or my complete blogroll (including brief descriptions):

That could be turned into a kind of blog baton – for everyone with a sufficiently large blogroll, ideally with descriptions: How does your blogroll look like in Wordle? I don’t pass it on specifically, though, if you want to participate, just do it…

(via Evil under the Sun)

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