Archive for January, 2009
the photo lover’s special
Here’s a recent project/sculpture I’ve just finished: the 17″ photo lover’s special. This piece is semi-functional (it does not take pictures…yet), but each lens and aperture do rotate and adjust. I cut holes in the wood, then sanded and lacquered it when I was finished. I took lenses from various old cameras that I have disassembled, then affixed those lenses for a tasty focal pie. Bake for 30min at 450°. Let stand 10 min. Cut, serve and enjoy!
Wherever you travel, you can use these postcards to stitch routes you’ve taken, landmarks you’ve seen and memories you made as you travel from city to city, country to country. Then drop a stamp on them and send them to your friends or family. From uncommon goods in Germany, each set includes a postcard, thread and needle (spare buttons not included).
great video by Dan Chianelli and Nick Greenlee
The moon will be at perigee (the closest point in the moon’s orbit around earth each month) at precisely 11:37UT today, the closest perigee in 2009, orbiting roughly about 357, 298 kilometers from earth°. It will also be a full moon tonight (January 11th, 03:27UT), but that happens about 16 hours later. For those in the bay area (40° lat), the moon rises at 16:02, is completely full at 19:27, and then sets at 06:51 on Sunday morning.
That will make the moon appear almost 14% larger as it looms beautifully in the evening sky. It will also be a whopping 30% brighter, so if your looking through a telescope, use a filter to prevent eye fatigue. I’ll try and post some pics or video later this evening.
Plus, don’t forget venus which has been twinkling brightly in the west in the early evening; tonight at a distance of .71AU.
And if you ever want to know what’s in the sky, at anytime or anywhere on earth, check out the planetarium by paul neave.
°each month the shamptonian institute calculates this figure by multiplying the mean radius of the earth (6,371.0 km) multiplied by the true distance (as listed in the The Astronomical Almanac for the year 2009).
This is video found on YouTube and uploaded less then an hour ago from the frontline; all the way up to when the police car starts getting shaken down and busted up. You can hear rubber bullet fire in the background I believe.
And then there’s this video, which is interesting as it sounds like there could be some tension between a surly rioter and a videographer (or photographer?…hard to tell which) who is there shooting footage, but again it is hard to tell from the audio. Along comes a person holding a skateboard, and a quick flash gets a shot of a car window being smashed. I’m not sure who the videographer was, but they had a good perspective.
UPDATE: here’s a link to one more video, Oakland Riots; the original piece I saw on tv.
