Schrödinger’s Cat in 60 seconds
Erwin Schrödinger on quantum mechanics: “I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.” Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Category : photography
22 Sep
A playlist of some of my favorite movie titles
Here’s 5 of my favorite movie titles. They run for about 7.5mins in total and you can blame Saul Bass for me thinking about this in the first place, he is genius. Catch Me If You Can has the best titles from a modern Hollywood film and Monsters Inc (my favourite) is superb and unexpected [...]
26 Jul
Ever put yourself in PAC-MAN’s shoes?
I don’t think I can play PAC-MAC ever again, he must be permanently terrified. If you really hate him, try this: http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/ Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
15 Jul
Birthday Air Ballooning
Birthday Air Ballooning, a set on Flickr. Some pictures from a trip in a hot air balloon which took off from The Cotswold Show in Cirencester Park on July 3 2011. the flight lasted about an hour, finally coming down about 5 miles away in a field of thistles, finished off with a glass of [...]
29 Jun
Oh, and here’s a Photosynth I took from on top of the hill at Glastonbury
Shame the camera on my old iPhone is so piss poor, the view was actually pretty cool. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
28 Jun
Lytro, picture revolution. Clicky clicky focus focus
I saw this a few days ago but just realized I should add it here for posterity. May as well sell those vintage prime lenses now. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
20 Jun
Augmented Reality Cinema
A lovely idea although I wouldn’t recommend wandering Edinburgh searching for scenes from Train Spotting unless you don’t like your phone. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
20 Jun
Focus Peaking – for Sony NEX-3 or C3 users
A great bit of help for Sony NEX-3 or C3 users – ‘focus peaking’ – shows what is in focus on the LCD screen by highlighting the object/person in focus. Video below shows this off very well, a great helper for people who use manual focus lenses or in bright sunlight where LCD screens can [...]
27 Apr
Animated GIFs – From Me To You – no not me…
I have a secret rule that in every presentation I give, I have to include an animated GIF. I like the GIF format that it's so bloated with information yet so widely adopted that it can be used to deliver slightly off the wall content to a large audience, as long as they have a [...]
16 Mar
A story about social media
Today I was fortunate to spend 30 minutes talking to the Social Media Leadership Forum. I themed my talk around how we create, consume and analyse content online. Here’s a breakdown of the technologies I talked about. Bing Twitter Maps – http://www.bing.com/twitter/maps See tweets in the context of a map and search for a specific [...]
04 Nov