- 50 Miler Panorama is one of the coolest panoramas I’ve seen. Zach’s dad sent me an email detailing a little of the process:
Dan Hale here – Zach’s dad, and the guy who created the panorama. I did this one entirely by hand in Photoshop. I made nine shots that day, placing the people in only the middle third of the frame of each. I shot with a super wide lens – a 17mm on a 35mm camera. The stitching was painstaking as I wanted to overlap the shots in such a way as to hide the transitions. This process was complicated by the fact that the cloud movement between shots varied the brightness, contrast and color of light. Evening that out took a lot of work. I did have the presence of mind when I did the shooting to use a constant shutter speed and aperture. I could go on and on about this labor of love. All in all it recon it took me 14-17 hours or so of work in PS to get to its current state.
Wow. Hat tip: Zach.
- Nightly builds of WordPress. Oh, and 1.0 is out. More on that later.
- Adam Gessaman has the best response, Locke, Property, and Software, to the lame Aaron Swartz screed on Nick Bradbury’s On Piracy. One thing though, I’m tired of people making comments about Aaron’s ideas in relation to his age. Either talk about his age and be safely ignored, or treat his ideas independently.
- How to fix
<abbrin Internet Explorer. Nifty. :hoveranything in Internet Explorer. Awesome.- Simple Quiz from Dan Cedorholm has some of the most high-threshhold discussion of CSS and HTML semantics around.
- Tantek is naked. Now what he really needs is to shed some of that extraneous list markup that really isn’t adding much to the semantic richness of his site. At least one level of that list could be eliminated. I’m not going to call Tantek’s markup bloated, but he could shave a few K off with that list markup. There are some novel ideas there though. I wonder what he could do with a good content management package. I’ve got a version of WordPress running with markup very similar to Tantek’s, but the blog isn’t public yet so I can’t link it.
- Joi asks Are Blogs Just? I really like how he brings in things from all over the spectrum. Joi continues to pleasantly surprise me.
- Apparently US money has a watermark of some sort so that if you open it up in Photoshop or try to print it the equipment has built-in guards. Pretty crazy.
- WordPress nightly builds. Builds are released nightly, bugs are released hourly. Get 24 new bugs in every release.
- Drawings from a guy on acid.
- Cruft-free URIs in WordPress. 3 steps, one of which is clicking to the options screen and another which may be automated in a future version.
I might add, his website address is http://www.danielhale.net/ if you’d like to see his other photography.
The LSD drawings are kinda neat….kinda funny how he went through a lot of styles of art. Makes you wonder about all those famous abstract artists.
And why exactly does it matter if blogs are “just”? They are one’s own personal expression, and expression is available to everyone in a variety of forms even if one doesn’t have the privilege of a computer and internet access. Maybe I’ll go investigate that link some more.
See? I don’t ignore photomatt! 🙂
P.S. Read more on the “are blogs just?” topic. Understand it better now. Good links.