Please spread the word. The planting of the memorial tree for Trent Keegan will take place on August 17 at 2pm on the green area at Palmers Rock on the Promenade. It is on the right side of the car park or the opposite side from where the memorial was held, for those who attended. Those attending are welcome to join for a few drinks at a to-be-decided location to honour Trent and his 34th birthday, which would have been on August 12.
I just watched this TED talk with Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Photosynth, a powerful application in development that stitches thousands of photos together and extrapolates the position of the photographer, creating a virtual model of the area photographed (found on BizarroBlog). A written explanation doesn’t do it justice, you really should watch the demo. I’ve just been playing around with the prototype on Microsoft Labs, it’s really incredible. This kind of thing is going to replace the linear, click-next-in-slideshow model of sites like Flickr and Photobucket, and what’s incredible is the complexity of the metadata that’s going to build up around each image: as people tag images in the likes of Flickr, that data is applied to all connected images. The best thing to do is try it, and if your computer hasn’t got the chops for it watch the talk on the TED site.
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen ever on the internet. Russian Nuclear Ice Breakers. They must be great craic at parties.
I’m going for a shower with some anti-existentialism shampoo.
Melissa Mannion has just launched her rather attractive wedding photography blog. Melissa is probably one of the most obsessed best wedding photographers in the west (alongside Vanessa Jordan!) and the photos on her blog are simply stunning. Welcome to the blogo-thingumy Melissa!
This is my friend Ciaran on his hols in Thailand last year:
I just couldn’t help myself.
With apologies to Peter Jackson.
