Amazing Skyscraper Photography

18 Friday Jul 2008

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I came across some amazing photography, I saw a version of the image below in a magazine news letter.  The picture below is a genuine shot of the Dubai skyline taken from the Burj Tower which is being constructed. Once the Burj is complete it will be the world’s tallest building at around 800 metres, that is twice the height of the Empire State Building.  It is worth keeping in mind that the oil princes in Dubai are competing with each other for the tallest and most elegant tower blocks.

Look carefully at the clouds to the left of the buildings, the cloud is blowing in from the right and you can see how the buildings are breaking up the cloud and creating ‘shadows’.

 

This photo was taken by a guy called Jack Frost who is a seriously talented photographer and has lots more amazing photography here and blog here.

 

SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM

17 Thursday Jul 2008

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  SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM is the latest evolution in the integration between jBPM which forms a crucial element in the orchestration of JBoss’ SOA (Service Orientated Architecture) stack.  We’ve produced some video clips complete with commentary together that show the core parts of the SeWhy for JBoss jBPM along with looking at SeeWhy in the broader context of BI (Business Intelligence) and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). The SeeWhy page here has both low res streaming versions of the videos and downloadable high res versions.

If you’re interested in work flow and how you can monitor and measure its activity both in terms of IT operational performance and in the business context then the three clips will be ten minutes well spent.

 

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Paul Weller – Live EP

17 Thursday Jul 2008

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image With Paul Weller having participated in the iTunes festival in London this year, there has inevitably been an iTunes exclusive EP announced that was released on Monday.  The EP features six tracks:

  1. Peacock Suit
  2. From the Floorboards Up
  3. All I Wanna Do (is Be With You)
  4. Out of the sinking
  5. Invisible
  6. Sea Spray

Initial comments on iTunes don’t look too promising though – the suggestion being aside from only a small part of the whole gig that the recording is extremely clinical in nature.

 

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Another free song from Coldplay

16 Wednesday Jul 2008

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To celebrate the start of their North American tour Coldplay are giving away another song from their website called Death Will Never Conquer – to download it you need to provide an email address on the coldplay site.

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Note that the track is pretty sort and simple with pretty much Chris Martin performing solo at a piano.  The track is also only 128kbps.

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RA DIOHEA_D – HOU SE OF_C ARDS

16 Wednesday Jul 2008

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Radiohead’s latest video is certainly gaining a lot of attention, purely because of the fact that it was shot without any cameras.  The end result is amazing. As you can see …

 

 

But having an engineering background I found the short video clip about how the video was made, just as intriguing…

 

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gigapixel shots of Yosemite Valley

11 Friday Jul 2008

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  I came across a fabulous project from reading Robert Scoble’s blog – The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Project.  The goal is create a large scale gigapixel image of the valley walls to help research such as rock fall in the park. The work has been done with xRez. The XRez site for the Yosemite project is here.  I have to admit that I’ve always liked Yosemite since I first saw photos taken by Ansell Adams, and having been there and tried to capture the glory of the place myself find photography in the area fascinating.  To see how beautiful the valley is and the stunning detail of the gigapixel images checkout the Glacier Point photo xRex have posted here.

 

I recommend installing the plugin and looking at some of the high definition pictures the image detail is simply stunning. Here is a clip from a zoomed in view to illustrate …

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And my efforts …

 

 

 

Chain Letters the Photo Way

10 Thursday Jul 2008

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Photojojo have come up with an interesting and fun challenge.  Rather than sending a letter and getting the people to send on the letter to everyone they know (a chain letter), this works by taking a picture with a picture in it, or retrospectively adding the picture digitally.  Pass this on to friends who repeat the process.  So eventually you have a photographic Russian Doll effect.  It would be interesting to see how many pictures can be nested.

The full article and example can be found at http://photojojo.com/content/photo-projects/the-photo-chain/.

 

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Bruce Springsteen to release EP

10 Thursday Jul 2008

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  According to the Boss’ website (here) he will be releasing a live EP containing tracks taken from the current ‘Magic Tour’ with guest appearances from Alejandro Escovedo, Tom Morello and Roger McGuinn.  The EP will be available in digital download form from the likes of iTunes.

The EP is to help raise money for the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund, a charity setup after the death of Bruce’s long time keyboardist. As the release is for a charitable cause all profits and royalties are going to the charity.

 

Thom Yorke follows Johnny Greenwood and goes classical

07 Monday Jul 2008

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A number of music sites have been reporting on Thom Yorke’s classical dabbling including Filter-Mag.com. Unlike Greenwood’s full orchestral score of There will Be Blood, Thom’s effort is only a contribution of a group of classical remixes.  With Thom and Jonny having gone all classical, and the experimentalism of Radiohead what are the chances of a full ‘classical’ Radiohead album?

FixMyStreet – neat map relate service

04 Friday Jul 2008

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I came across this rather cool little service – FixMyStreet.  It allows you to mark onto maps problems from potholes to fly tipping. The website will then submit the problem to the appropriate authorities. To can also see what other problems have been reported.  a lot easier than tying to work out which council and which department to report a problem to.