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There are few times in my life that I see something and my breath is taken away. I am massive fan of art but like many of us, I don’t have the time to go to galleries enough. Luckier enough, while watching diggnation, I saw a video that simply was amazed. The video is truly impressive, as it is seven minutes long animation. The animation was made by painting an image on a wall, taking a picture, repainting the wall and taking another picture. Consudering that for each second of film there could be as many as 26 frames, that is a lot of pictures. Even if they painted only 13 images a second, that could be as many as 5460 painting.
The video was by a morden artist called blu. Blu it turns out is a big deal in the art world and is famous for coming his images on public spaces on walls. Looking at his blog, I found he also did a massive painting on the side of the tate modern. I really enjoyed this painting, I look forward to seeing more from this artist.
As the internet changes from mainly text based content to rich media such larger images and flash videos, it is getting harder to view it all this within your browser. In comes Piclens, a browser pluggin for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. This simple piece of software changes the way we ingest media from the internet. PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images and video on the web. It collects all the images or videos on a supported web site and allows you to scroll through them in a wonderful 3D slideshow.
It doesn’t work on every site, which is a bummer, the site has to go out of it’s way to support it but some sites but the most important sites like Facebook, Flickr and Google images. It works extremely with Flickr and Facebook, it is not only does it do a slideshow of all the images on the current page, but all the images in the current album. When looking for an image for a night out, now all I need to do is scroll through the whole album using my mouse. The best bit it that it works with Youtube as well, so you are easierly browser through videos. Best of all on Youtube, becuase it is not reloading adverts and comments on the page, when you view a new video it is so much faster to stream the video.
Personally I not a massive fan of fireworks. I always think that they go on for to long. So the long couple of years I have reallly put off doing anything interesting for the 5th of November. I big part of me doesn’t really understand the holiday, all about some guys who hates the government and wanted to kill lots of people. But this year, I go invited to a friend’s party where there would be fireworks. This time, for the first time in years, I was truly impressed with the fireworks, maybe it was the feeling of friends being around me and watching them or the fact that I was in a dark garden and they were closer and more personal to me, I don’t know. It felt like I was a child again and the magic of the fireworks was back.
With fireworks, come some amazing looking pictures and I really wish I had a good camera with me on that night but I didn’t. So check out the very few pictures I did manage to take with my Camera phone, viewing the new album on my flickr. Also see other pictures I have tagged fireworks.