Category: Digital photography
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Le Mans 2009
I was at Le Mans 2009 endurance car race during the official test runs of last week. I brought back a few photos (despite the considerable problem of shooting pictures under the rain). The whole gallery and the mini-site to buy posters.
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Stop-motion pig and wolf
This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny. YouTube link
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Big Earth
True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download…
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It’s smarter to travel in groups
YouTube link
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Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism
An advanced civilisation if there was one, Aztecs lived in Central America from IXth Century to XVth Century (when their decline was essentially precipitated by their encounter with the Spanish conquistadores). Many facets of this civilisation stay unknown principally because they were wiped out wy the first European colonizers. But one aspect stayed deep in…
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JPEG compression abuse
You know it: JPEG image format allows to compress a photo picture without too much loss. But there is some loss. For real. You want an evidence? Open an image, save it in JPEG; Start over 600 times. The image deterioration will cumulate: Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.
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Do you love chocolate?
…up to the point of creating a chocolate-inspired video? …or up to the point of sacrificing chocolate for the sake of pure art? YouTube link No fish for 1st of April! These are bunnies.
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Best shorts
Link love Those are the best links I found recently. I could not write a full post about them, but they are worth visiting: Box.net launches a web-based free word processor (via Download Squad) Histoface: How to hide an image in the histogram of another image Safer Code – Secure Coding In C \ C++…
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Live dinosaurs? You’re kidding me?
If you want to meet dinosaurs, not only paintings or sculptures, go to the USA, fly to Los Angeles, California. There, in the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, there are free-roaming dinosaurs in the corridors. Not only are these automatons sized impressively, but they intereact with people and kids around them. Woah! Stunning! YouTube link