Archive for January, 2006

Cover Art

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Book Covers are getting much more colorful and arty. And like the old saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover”, but it’s increasingly hard to do. As books are looking much more beautiful and I immediately think ‘wow must have some pretty cool stuff inside’. And it no longer seems that paperbacks are […]

Flickeur…my dreams come true

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Flickeur is an amazing creation. It takes random photos off of Flickr and aranges them in a dreamy and sometimes bizarre way. When I say bizarre, I mean some of the transitions and and effects seem like they were made especially for the photos! It’s just like the description, the presentation can resemble […]

Hysterical Lizard Fun

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Yes more crazy google video! This time it’s the girls from Morning Musume.
Oh no it’s a goanna (a type of lizard from Australia)!! Mahahahaha
This truly is some whacked out stuff that could only happen in Japan. The girls have a piece of meat attached to their foreheads. They pop their heads up through holes in […]

Cutie Neko Dance Madness!!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

CCD Inventors Receive Award

Friday, January 6th, 2006

“In 1969 Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, while working at Bell Laboratories, designed the first Charge Coupled Device (CCD), a working version was produced just a year later. The CCD as we know has become the bedrock the digital imaging revolution including digital photography and video. They have just been honored with the […]

Bling Bling!

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Cheap cameras reborn as kistchy playthings resplendant with glass beads, fake diamonds and rubies!
Gala Collection and more amazing old cameras!

No more bootlegging with Digital Cinema?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

It’s interesting to know that movie studios in America embed all sorts of “invisible” information into reels of film. From forensic watermarking, high pitch sounds to extra frames. All this being undectable to the average human or moviegoer.
Unfortunately this hasn’t really done too much to stop bootlegging. Plenty of people still secretly record movies in […]