Photography, technology and Vancouver life.
The projector tracks whatever is drawn on the building with a hand held laser pointer pen and displays the lines as giant blue graffitii. It makes for some interesting light shows. Check out the video here (Quicktime) or the Flickr gallery of the event. There is also another verison of the video up on YouTube. Finally, for the really curious, there is a basic howto posted here.
Here’s a poetic continuation of those Mac ads we’ve all seen.
I wake. For a moment, I stare at the ceiling trying to remember something. Something important. Something important happened last night, but the details escape me. Something fascinating yet sinister, like touring the CIA offices. Something exotic yet somehow familiar, like putting hot sauce on meatloaf. I wonder if I have a hangover. I wonder why I am thinking about the CIA and meatloaf. I roll onto my side.
There is a strange woman in bed with me.
A lot of things happen at once. First, I realize that this is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and I am a lucky, lucky man. Second, I realize that this is not my wife, and I panic. Third, I realize that she’s awake, has been watching me sleep. Fourth, before I can really react to thoughts 1 and 2, she smiles at me and speaks with a lovely accent I can’t quite place: “So. You like new wife, yes? Yes. Up now, I make breakfast.”
She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night. She seems to know this, and smiles at me again, but apparently she’s serious about making breakfast. She turns and strides confidently from the room. As she does, I see for the first time the large Microsoft logo splayed across her back. My stomach lurches as I suddenly remember everything.
Windows Vista. I bought a new computer yesterday… and it came with Windows Vista.
…continue reading at chalain: So Beautiful, So Disturbing. Wait for the part where she strangles the paperboy. You can also look at Yahoo New’s “Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista”.
Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He was the author of the flags campaign “Meet the World” that has been circulating the earth in chain letters via e-mail.
Any ideas for a Canadian one?
www.BrazilianArtists.net, the A-Z of Brazilian Arts, Entertainment & Cultural Events in the UK
“You can’t imagine the power. You feel like nothing, like a leaf from a tree going up,” she told Australian radio.
Wisnerska, from Germany, was preparing for the 10th World Paragliding Championships above the town of Manilla in New South Wales when the storm struck on Wednesday.
With terrifying speed she was whisked from 2,500 ft to an estimated 32,000 ft in about 15 minutes.
A 42-year-old Chinese paraglider, He Zhongpin, was also caught in the storm and died, apparently from a lack of oxygen and extreme cold.
Here are a few examples of what photoshop and some artistic talent can do.
Vancouver’s cops have espoused vague, technologically ignorant objections to city-wide WiFi. They argue that the ability to communicate anonymously will help criminals (cough pay-phones cough) and that WiFi is all about people stealing each others’ connectivity. It’s like the Vancouver cops have never even considered the possibility that people might deliberately share their Internet connections with their friends and neighbors just to be neighborly.
Police are concerned that unrestricted wireless access would give criminals an advantage by making it more difficult to track them… “In this particular project, we’re not concerned about the project in itself. We will mitigate risks properly. In the general sense, however, we have concerns. You can go by coffee shops and even people’s houses and piggyback on their wireless,” he said.
This is kind of like saying that we should ban cell phones because they allow criminals to communicate with one another more efficiently.
globeandmail.com: Wireless network needs safety net, Vancouver police say via Boing Boing
Apparently a man jumped from a plane expecting an ordanary skydive, but when the time came, he had both his main chute and his backup become tangled. Somehow he survived and caught it all on his helmet camera. Here are some other skydiving feats that I’ve mentioned before, and here is the video:
There are many more amazing photos over at Winners gallery 2007 — World Press Photo. You can also check out the World Press 50 Years Gallery.
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