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Links and Videos of the Week (2009/29)

2009-07-19

  • Marcel’s (Travel) photography safety tips
  • There’s a reason why we call it evidence… at World of Weird Things
  • My name’s on the way to Mars, too, of course:
    Nasa-Mars-Name Zertifikat
  • Russian drunk yoga (10 images; via @Fischblog)
  • A “normal day” – a video with actions that must have needed lots of attempts… (via @gillyberlin):

     

  • Bullshitting the bullshitters: (via Wortvogel)

Signal!
or Samba do Parede

2009-07-17

Two weeks ago I showed a photo of the projection of a blue “No Signal” error message on the house diagonally across – last night there were tests with signal where they tried to find the best beamer position and settings on the wall (Portuguese: parede) of the small storehouse/garage straight across:

signal1 signal2

And it’s indeed a display for the restaurant/bar “Rubens”1 in the courtyard who will have a samba night next Friday.

  1. which probably also hold the rights for the projected images – if you don’t want them here (even though it’s a little promotion), just drop me a line and I’ll remove them [↩]

40 Years

2009-07-15

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing of the Apollo 11 mission, my blog header will display images that roughly follow the course of the mission from the launch on July 16 to the moon landing on July 20 to the return on July 24 (even though the actual timeline isn’t matching exactly1) – here’s a little appetizer in thumbnail size:

cim3_0716 cim3_0717 cim3_0718
cim3_0719 cim3_0720 cim3_0721
cim3_0722 cim3_0723 cim3_0724
(These images still have to randomly share their spot with “Zensursula”, protesting the installation of an internet censorship infrastructure in Germany, falsely pretending to effectively fight child pornography.)

The photos are of course from NASA (and as such in the public domain), some taken from Wikimedia Commons, some from this exhaustive NASA Image Library.

The Big Picture currently also shows a nice selection of photos.

:idea: A great site re-creating the mission in a “re-live” kind of way and offering many images etc. is WeChooseTheMoon.org – check it out! (via)

Oh, and those still doubting the moon landings were real should have a look at Bad Astronomy or Clavius.

  1. and the launch photo is actually from Apollo 15, the rocket stage split from Apollo 6 [↩]

Projekt 52/28: Large and small

2009-07-15

The next topic of Projekt 52…

28: Large and small (1)

Topic 28: Large and small (1)

Or in this case: Something small looking large, the withered blossom of a spathiphyllum, photographed with a retro adaptor which lets you mount a lens in reverse to achieve a great magnification (these photos show the entire image area – the petal is just about 1½cm in total – ans have just been resized for web-suitability).


But we can go even larger:

28: Large and small (2)

Topic 28: Large and small (2)

The same blossom from the side, even more magnified.


That’s a still good-looking petal:

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