So I’ve finally discovered (via Joe) a decent gallery application and can now upload my shit photos to somewhere a bit better than chuffing facebook, which resizes things far too small for decent viewing of proper photos, but with this it’s up to me how big to make stuff.

As with wordpress it’s a hella impressive little system, with adding/updating of modules from a web backend, which just makes me want to give up being a web coder, it’s that smart.

Anyway, three cheers for self-absorbed bullshit!!!

So I got bored about 15 minutes ago and decided to make a model of Chicago using some photos I took on a trip there 4 years ago as inspiration.

I modelled all the waves too

All the cars have working engines and doors and that

Oh noes it was just a trick of photardshop!!!

Below: four photos taken with my new wide angle lens for the 450D. Exciting!

Pictured here the This Will End In Dissapointment v2.0 keyboard... Wide Angle!

The (messy) living room... Wide Angle!

TV and more mess... Wide Angle!

Minorly messy kitchen... Wide Angle!

Sadly, whilst taking these I have noticed a ‘hot pixel’ on the camera, but I have actually seen them before on it in low light so we’ll wait until proper daytime shots can be taken before swearing and panicking, overly.

Mordeth13 is The World’s First Motorbiker Vlogger, and he’s been doing it for ages, and Steve really badly wants to be him. That or have his babies, I don’t think he’s too fussed. Either way, this is the venerable Mr Deth13 doing a hilarious video about bikers waving to each other, which saves its true amusement until nearly 4 and a half minutes in.

Bikers waving at each other is a curious practice which never ceases to amuse me, as Steve will attest with me laughing every time he does it whilst I’m riding pillion. As a sidenote, according to dictionary.com one needs to be female to be a passenger on a bike;

pil-lion /?p?ly?n/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[pil-yuhn]
–noun
a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, esp. as a seat for a woman

Anyway, where was I. Ah yes, bikers waving to each other are all freaks

I post this as Mr Deth13 was stopping over with Steve lately, and I got to meet him, and witness The Rave Biker first hand. He’s this: a decent chap!

So the plan is to be able to play some musics and jack it into the PC for proper control over it. Good luck, me!

I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEATRE

1. Be at McDonalds with your mate while his parking ticket expires
2. Screw rushing back, you’re both enjoying your cancerburgers
3. Have a bet on whether he’ll have a ticket or not
   1. If you lose, and he has a ticket, you pay the ticket, £30
   2. If you win, and there’s no ticket, your mate pays you the same
4. Return to his car
5. Find a distinct lack of parking ticket
6. ????
7. PROFIT!!!

A CCTV camera recorded this image of Steve shortly after the incident

Actually possibly quite a few stars being born, and a few on their way out too. This is an image NASA released in April 2007, so I’m only a year and a half late on it.

This is the "small" version of the image, 6,000 pixels wide (for reference your monitor is probably around 1,000 wide) and 7MB, so if you click to view it, give it a minute, yeah

Created from data taken over a span of 4 years, it shows a region of space 50 light-years across, (meaning the distance light would travel in 50 years (that’s 293,931,268,490,700 miles (that’s 293 trillion (or 293 million million, in retard speak (or a shit load, in pretty-accurate-but-quite-understated speak))))) so it’s rather vast.

To try to give some kind of reference, it’s about 3 million times the distance from the Earth to our Sun, that’s being shown here. Or, about 40 thousand times the size of our entire solar system, which handily means that on the full size image (see below) our solar system takes up almost one pixel. On the “small” version above we’re less than 1/5th of a pixel.

If this all seems rather hard to comprehend, just settle for this, from the late great Douglas Adams:

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Now, I’ve always wondered with deep space imagery, where they get the colours from, and finally have the answer from NASA’s write-up of this image. Red shows high concentrations of sulphur, green hydrogen, and blue oxygen. So now you (or at least, I) know!

The full size image is linked here but if you do feel like loading the full thing for maximum detail, bear in mind it’s 200MB in size and almost 30,000 pixels wide. To open this you want at least 2GB of ram, probably 4 to be safe, your browser probably won’t handle it, and if you’re on windows it might well fall over anyway. Probably worth it, though, if you’re into this sort of thing.

Seems the venerable Mr. Love has a name he doesn’t like to publicise much

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This stuff is just incredible. These guys have managed to take static images and merge them with low grade video footage, using smoke, mirrors, and dark magics, to create a video stream as high quality as the static images they input. It’s pretty astonishing.

4:40 into the video, just when you think it can't get any more incredible, YOU SHIT BRICKS

The video of all this in action is right here, and is well worth watching.