Happy Birthday, Rocky!

Here's a little something for my brother's fifthteenth birthday. Quite a year!
Technically, I already got him a present, but when he told me he'd beaten Half-Life 2 the other day, I couldn't resist. Happy birthday, bud.


I've got another post in the pipeline soon. Sorry about this, the new semester's been a little crazy. But more soon, I promise.
Later days.

I took my boat for a car. I took that car for a ride.

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Tilt-shift photography experiment!

So my first post proper of the new year is a result of my many meanderings online. Thanks to boingboing, I learned about the wonders of tilt-shift photography, where manipulating the focus in your photos creates the illusion that everything in your photo is really really tiny. It's cool enough as photos, but when you recreate the effect on film, it's absolutely stunning. Check out this video of Sydney Harbor by Keith Loutit:


Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Isn't that great? Anyway, a featured site on boingboing today was one that allowed you to upload your photos and tweak them to create a faux tilt-shift effect. I pulled out the most promising pictures from my three academic travels. Here's what I created:









And my personal favorites...









Still not as cool as the real thing, which, speaking of which, have you seen what some photographers have been doing with real miniatures? There's this one guy in London who does amazing photos... I'll have to find him....
Anyway, hope you have a wonderful tiny new year.

Where the light bends at the cracks

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