Spacedmonkey

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.

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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.

This is a picture of everything that I carry around in pockets and on my person on an noraml day. It is really shocking how much stuff I need to get by from day to day. In this picture there is from left to right:

• Wallet (with Money and credit card)
• British passport Nokia
• N73 mobile phone
• National rail card
• Key (with small pen knife and bottle openner)
• Creative Zen Vision:M
• Watch

I am shocked that it all fits in my pockets and my person. Everything that I have with me has it’s use. It will be interested to do this again in 5, 10 and 15 years time see how much I carry changes. I think that in the future I will only carry a phone with built-in mp3 instead of having two devices. Will I have car keys or sweets for my children. This picture remids me of what my life is really from day to day. This picture was taken for the The Items We Carry Flickr group pool.

I can not believe I thought of this before. If you were hated George Bush or simply need a laugh you think about give this a try.

1. Create a new file.
2. Name it “George Bush”.
3. Press delete to send it to the recycle bin.
4. Empty the recycle bin.
5. Your PC will ask you, “Do you really want to delete “George Bush?”.
6. Firmly Click “Yes.”
7. Feel better

Spacedmonkey now has a image gallery. The “photos” includes all the times I have taken with my digital camera and mobile phone over the last couple of years. There is some really nice pictures like graffiti which I found around the corner from where I am currently living in portsmouth.

It is a feature that has been in the pipelines for a long time and until laterly I haven’t managed to get working. All the images in the photo gallery are hosted on my Flickr account which I have been updating weekly for nearly a year. It means that you can browser the many images without worrying about bandwidth limits. This is all made possible by a lovely plugin called
Flickr Photo Album for WordPress. It is simply amazing, as it works so well with Flickr. It even has many of the features of Flickr, like search, feeds and tags.

Adding the photos section shows the move away from what this blog used to be. I have no plans to turn this book into a personal dairy, but it is nice to share my things of interest with the world at large. So enjoy my pictures and watch this space.

I think this picture explains itself. Extremely useful if you ever have to discribe someone, but also just interesting imformation, take it from someone that has petit goatee and soul patch (picture).