Wicked photography technique

Here is your completely random and cool video link for the week:








Keith Loutit is an Australian photographer who uses tilt/shift lenses and time lapse photography to create some wickedly cool videos. The subjects in the frame appear as though they are model miniatures, one effect of using the tilt/shift lenses from a distance.

Ideas...

Ok, it has been decided. I'm going to do it. Sometime in the near future, I'm going to start a photography blog. I write too damn slow to be a traditional blogger any damn way, and I really need to kick myself in the ass to really learn photography. I'm in the process of brainstorming (I love that word - brainstorming) and planning. I don't want to dive in, and make another "hey look at all this random crap that I took crappy pictures of" blog. The hamsters in my brain are awake and running 'round and 'round in their wheels for the first time in a long time, so stay tuned.

In the mean time, I'm tossing around some name ideas and would like to know what you think of my favorite thus far... what do you think of "The Silent Shutter"? There is some meaning behind it which I won't get into now, but as your initial reaction, do you think it would be an easily recognizable and remembered blog title?

Hollywood of the midwest?

Hey, if Clint Eastwood and Jeff Daniels believe it, then it must be true. It's not new news for us Detroiters, but when the rest of the country starts to talk, it could be a sign that we might actually be onto something here. Sign me up.

Embedded video from CNN Video

This is just a test

D-Tales and I have been searching for a good way to show/hide text in longer blog entries. As you know, we tend to be a bit descriptive at times. Well, after a slight bit of experimentation, testing, and cursing, I have finally found a good way to do it.

Click here to show/hide.

You are a fart knocking, dingle berry munching, testicle goblin.

See, now aren't you glad that I shared this with you?

Evidence of the apocolypse

As if you needed anymore evidence that humans are not meant to exist for much longer, here is more proof. It is true, as Agent Smith had once pontificated, humans spread like a disease. As a whole, we choose to completely disregard the importance of living in balance with our environment, and Nadya is just another ignorant, delusional waste of space that exemplifies that idea.

Winter Blast

It's alright, you can say it. Winter Blast was... not much of a blast. The carnival rides were laughable. Due to the ironically warm weather, the ice sculptures were melting into indistinguishable mounds of slush. The skating performances might have been entertaining, but there was no way of seeing them unless you managed to push yourself right up against the edge of the rink. And as for the live music, I cannot comment because I couldn't find any during the time I was there (though I didn't look very hard, I will admit).

HOWever... I must say that even though the event itself was relatively lame, it still makes me proud, in some small way, of being a "Detroiter." During tough economic times like this, especially in the city itself, it would have been very easy to scrap the entire show, but they didn't. They made the most of it. They managed to wrangle up some sponsors, and keep the event alive. The turnout was surprisingly good, in my opinion, as well. Campus Martius was full of people, as were ALL of the local bars and restaurants, and the Bar Blast was rolling strong for most of the night. Hell, they even managed to bring back the ice slide. How can any event go wrong when it has an ice slide?

Here are a few pics from the evening:

Krispy Kream Barf

My car battery died yesterday, and I had a little time to kill while it was being serviced, so I decided to run across the street to the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop and put some food in mah belly. I had never been inside a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. Never ever. In fact, I'm not sure that I had ever eaten one of their doughnuts until yesterday. Oh, dear lord. I had no idea what I was about to experience:

1. They do not sell anything that has any food value. Nothing. Just doughnuts. Lots and lots of doughnuts.
   
2. Their doughnuts are manufactured on an openly-viewable assembly line of grotesque and gooey death. One cannot gaze directly upon the conveyor of dough, frying oils and sugary glazes for too long, else one may go blind (if you don't believe me, try it).
3. The smell of gooey death is thick and detectable from miles around, and can induce instantaneous vomiting on warm days, if you're not hydrated properly.
4. Krispy Kreme employees do not have the mental capacity necessary for returning the shop's tables and chairs back into place after mopping the floor. "How did we end up with an extra table?" Rocket scientists need not apply.
5. If you can eat more than one Krispy Kreme doughnut within a week's time, there is something very wrong with you.
6. The hats are awesome, and free. And so, if you're going to eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut and then barf it up (because that is the only way to eat one), then at least wear the hat and look good while you're doing it.