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Man-made technologies are often inspired by things found in nature, right? Well, the big camera corps could learn a thing or two about in-body image-stabilization/vibration-reduction from chickens.
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For the invisible things of him
since the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being perceived through the things that are made,
even his everlasting power and divinity;
that they may be without excuse.
– Romans 1:20
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God is SO AWESOME!
(author unknown)
God’s order may be observed
in the hatching of eggs.
For example :
-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days ;
– The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days ;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.
(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)
The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.
God’s wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God ordered that this animal would have a huge body, and for this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.
The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!
God’s wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of fruit, vegetable, and grain seed sections and segments, as well as in the number of seeds/grains.
-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.
The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.
All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundredfold – all even numbers.
God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!
Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and will be fragrant with His presence.
Only the God-planned safe life is successful. Only the life given over to the care of the Lord is fulfilled .
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Turns out those crazy high speed photography shots you see of bullets shattering things aren’t as difficult to achieve as you might have thought. All you need is about $20 and some brains (aka circuit skills). YouTube user destinws2 shows how its done in this 5 minute tutorial.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0sATDVCTME]High Speed photography 101 – Restoring Awesomeness to Art
High speed photography isn’t quite as difficult as one might think. It may be accomplished simply with a flash and a camera capable of holding open the shutter. Most of these photos were taken in my garage with my rifle setup.
The acoustic trigger circuit kit is available from http://www.hiviz.com/. The kits are designed and distributed by Dr. Loren Winters, a high speed photography wizard who is truly a high speed photography pioneer who has given greatly of himself to introduce students to the wonders of Newtonian Physics.
Checkout my FLICKR high speed photoset if you’re bored – http://www.flickr.com/photos/40994371…
The music was created by “A Shell in the Pit”. Please support this wonderful artist by purchasing his music. An example of his work can be found at:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/tr…
Lastly, I’m working on a website http://www.artisticballistics.com. I’m trying to fund my children’s education by selling awesome art created with bullets. It will take me a few weeks to get the site up and running.
Pennywhistle Productions
Artistic Ballistics
A Shell In the Pit
HiViz
Season 14 (1962)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzSflmBxIw]What’s My Line? Henry Makow (Writes Advice To Parents Column)
What’s My Line? Henry Makow (Writes Advice To Parents Column)
From: PetaPixel
One thing I love about photography and videography is that it often allows us to see things in different ways, whether it’s macro photography or slow motion video. The above video is absolutely stunning and will probably blow your mind. It shows an experiment in which a water drop is filmed at 2000 frames per second, revealing something you probably never knew about the behavior of water.
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From: PetaPixel
Another entry for our list of “random things made awesome by slow motion”: here’s a video of a steel ball being dropped into fine sand heated to about 500° C, at which point it takes on strange liquid properties. Be sure to also check out the water drop at 2000 fps video we posted in the beginning of the year if you haven’t seen it.
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I find the giant pinhole camera,
shown at minute 3:15
fascinating!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EchMdvl8SY]The Genius of Photography Ep1 – 1/4
Fixing the Shadows – Part 1 of 4
Fixing the Shadows tells the story of the birth of photography itself and the profound question that it raised, and which has never been satisfactorily answered: what is photography for? Detailing the rival methods of the pioneers Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre for ‘fixing the shadows’, the programme examines how photography took its place alongside other new technologies like the railway and telegraph to transform our understanding of the modern world. It describes how pioneer photographers like the portraitist Nadar asserted the status of photography as an art only for this status to be transformed by the Kodak revolution, which put the camera into the hands of the masses who unlocked its potential for surreality, randomness and surprise. Finally it examines the case of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the schoolboy photographer who demonstrated the true genius of photography in the hands of the amateur. Includes interviews with Chuck Close and David Byrne.
Sue is a wonderful person, an incredibly gifted writer, and a longtime friend!
From: Springset.com…
If ordered through Springset, the book will be signed and dedicated by the author.
Please make checks payable to Sue Sorby or Laura Borges.
(please allow four to six weeks from time of order, thank you.)
Or you can but it from Xlibris Publishing by clicking here to order the book.
From: Peta Pixel
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In 1877, photographer Eadweard Muybridge settled a longstanding debate on whether or not a horse completely leaves the ground at any point during its gallop by taking a single photograph of a horse completely airborne. In the same way, photography was also used recently by a group of researchers to uncover the mystery of how cats drink.
Using high speed cameras, they discovered that cats touch the surface of liquids with their tongues (up to four times per second) before quickly pulling back up, causing a stream of liquid to rise upward. Before gravity pulls the stream back down, the cat closes its mouth around some of it, capturing the liquid. The process is quite different from dogs, which cup the water using their tongues and haul it back into their mouths.
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Yay for the usefulness of photography!
(via NYTimes)
From: New York Times
… Writing in the Thursday issue of Science, the four engineers report that the cat’s lapping method depends on its instinctive ability to calculate the point at which gravitational force would overcome inertia and cause the water to fall.
What happens is that the cat darts its tongue, curving the upper side downward so that the tip lightly touches the surface of the water.
The tongue is then pulled upward at high speed, drawing a column of water behind it.
Just at the moment that gravity finally overcomes the rush of the water and starts to pull the column down — snap! The cat’s jaws have closed over the jet of water and swallowed it.
The cat laps four times a second — too fast for the human eye to see anything but a blur — and its tongue moves at a speed of one meter per second.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd97TnKlRZM]South African ‘Lion King’ Is Like One Of The Pride
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/
Animal behaviourist, Kevin Richardson, has struck up a remarkable friendship with an entire pride of lions in South Africa. Sky’s Africa Correspondent Emma Hurd reports.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHI-esQeMT8]Потрясающая группа поддержки! Как умеет!!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmN6pBEfSIQ]B&H Superstore Video
Since our store opened more than 30 years ago, we’ve gone beyond simply supplying you with professional gear. We’ve aspired to share our knowledge of technology with you in the most personalized way. Visit our store, and youll find a sales staff made up of industry professionals who share your passion for technology and will help you use it to its fullest potential. As you choose from over 198,000 products, feel free to enlist their help.
Click for my favorite photo in ADN’s windy-day gallery
Also shows flipped plane, floating on its floats,
can’t see mountains,
accelerated autumn-leaf falling …
While walking in the woods, I saw:
many trees down (headed for a safer area),
and fire trucks zooming to the airport,
perhaps to rescue the flipped plane.
Related article:
High winds cut power in Anchorage, Valley
Normally, Turnagain Arm (a fjord) can be seen in gorgeous blue below. It looks like it was covered with fog, which isn’t common.
Helmet cam video by Kevin Murphy
Mountain bikers rode up the tram at Alyeska Resort during a bike industry day on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, to preview the new upper mountain trails.
Great movie! Much better than the remake.
There is a deep truth to this movie.
“You fools,
you’re in danger.
Can’t you see?
They’re after all of us:
our wives,
our children,
everyone…”
– Kevin McCarthy
transcribed by myself
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se20_Tpvsb8]RIP: Kevin McCarthy – Invasion of the Body Snatchers Clip
This is probably my favorite love story of all time. And the soundtrack…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-rGuVt4zo]Somewhere in Time (1980)
…one of my favorite movies w/ a beautiful theme song.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kkN6mT9pyk]Theme From Somewhere In Time – Roger Williams (1980)
Theme from the motion picture Somewhere In Time by Roger Williams from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Variation 18. Somewhere In Time was based on the 1975 science fiction novel, “Bid Time Return” written by author James Matheson. …
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At about 7 minutes, this always reminds me of “The Dove” soundtrack
(also composed by John Barry),
also one of my favorite movies[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpXSyQO-Ks]John Barry – Suite from the Motion Picture Score SOMEWHERE IN TIME (1980)
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfcpJb_J38]Somewhere In Time (1980) composer John Barry
A shocking, shiny little 1979 penny released in 1980. Unforgettable score by John Barry. Christopher Reeve worked on this little gem during the shooting hiatus of Superman I & II. His first project & appearance he chose after the first Superman release. Wise choice. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M4tdMsg3ts]Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling
Please excuse the nervousness of my voice.
The full text can be found here:
http://americaviaerica.blogspot.com/2…
From: americaviaerica.blogspot.com…
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Here I Stand
Erica Goldson
…the dilemma I’ve faced within the American education system. We are so focused on a goal, whether it be passing a test, or graduating as first in the class. However, in this way, we do not really learn. We do whatever it takes to achieve our original objective.
Some of you may be thinking, “Well, if you pass a test, or become valedictorian, didn’t you learn something? Well, yes, you learned something, but not all that you could have. Perhaps, you only learned how to memorize names, places, and dates to later on forget in order to clear your mind for the next test. School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible.
I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared. …
Between these cinderblock walls, we are all expected to be the same. We are trained to ace every standardized test, and those who deviate and see light through a different lens are worthless to the scheme of public education, and therefore viewed with contempt.
H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not
To illustrate this idea, doesn’t it perturb you to learn about the idea of “critical thinking.” Is there really such a thing as “uncritically thinking?” To think is to process information in order to form an opinion. But if we are not critical when processing this information, are we really thinking? Or are we mindlessly accepting other opinions as truth? …
The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it. I will never be able to turn back these 18 years. I can’t run away to another country with an education system meant to enlighten rather than condition. This part of my life is over, and I want to make sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers. We are anything we want to be – but only if we have an educational system that supports us rather than holds us down. A tree can grow, but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation.
For those of you out there that must continue to sit in desks and yield to the authoritarian ideologies of instructors, do not be disheartened. You still have the opportunity to stand up, ask questions, be critical, and create your own perspective. Demand a setting that will provide you with intellectual capabilities that allow you to expand your mind instead of directing it. Demand that you be interested in class. Demand that the excuse, “You have to learn this for the test” is not good enough for you. Education is an excellent tool, if used properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.
For those of you that work within the system that I am condemning, I do not mean to insult; I intend to motivate. You have the power to change the incompetencies of this system. I know that you did not become a teacher or administrator to see your students bored. You cannot accept the authority of the governing bodies that tell you what to teach, how to teach it, and that you will be punished if you do not comply. Our potential is at stake. …
So, here I stand. …
From: PetaPixel
Imagine you snap out of unconsciousness and realize you’ve been in a pretty serious accident. You have no memory of what happened, but luckily you were wearing a motorcycle camera that was filming your ride. That’s exactly what happened to a guy in Kashmir recently. The 51 second video above sent chills down his spine when he first watched it after the accident. The footage became the memory he lost in an accident in which he miraculously only suffered a broken leg. Don’t worry, the video isn’t graphic — just jaw-dropping.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcE_K6Ufgw]Kashmir Crash on a royal enfield…
I have no idea how I am still here. I walked away from this with only a lower leg fracture and cut’s/bruises.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX04ySm4TTk]Sonic Boom – Extreme Close Fly By
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2_hLa0u00]Lutheran Airlines
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voB6WiP83NU]Professor Longhair, Big Chief
This is a cheeky little video that Phil & Kie took point on, all I did was film what they asked. Phil picked out the soundtrack and we edited it together one night.
See kie here
http://www.youtube.com/kieistheone
And see phil here
http://www.youtube.com/philydee
And look at stuff I’ve done here
http://www.ampisound.com
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Professor Longhair – Big Chief
From: PetaPixel
HBO posted this interesting behind-the-scenes video that gives a glimpse into the kind of special effects that went into filming the popular miniseries John Adams. It’s pretty crazy how they construct entire realities around the actors using CGI.
And you thought Photoshopping was hard…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUs7hDq2PA]John Adams Visual FX (HBO)
Check out the John Adams Visual Effects feature. For more information about John Adams, log onto HBO.com
…that I’ve ever seen, anyway.
[Update and DISCLAIMER] I put this up merely because it’s fun, not because I support Move On.
I’m more into boycotting Wal-Mart, because they’re the RFID micro-chipping leader, and for other reasons; though, I can see some of the protestors’ points here. Especially, what’s up with the Supreme Court giving personhood rights to corporations, anyway? Corporations ain’t people!
I’m not a big fan of protesting on private property in general, but if someone is to do it, how could they have done any better, with the exception of one of the lyrics and the way she’s dressed? I almost didn’t put it up for those two reasons only. I’m not homophobic.
I am greatly impressed by their creativity, imagination and skillful execution of their plan. This was just flat out fun: strength in numbers, a really catchy tune, the tuba, brass harmonies, percussion, jazziness of the clarinet, umbrellas, using the table as a platform, multiple cameras filming not just the band but the customers’ reactions, often favorable.
They stood up for what they believed in, and then they marched out on cloud 9, having really put on a serious protest that also had this big sense of humor with gargantuan momentum!
I’ve played this about 10 times, and absolutely will again. It’s good to crank it up once in awhile.
Freedom!
Jeff : )
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhMMmqzbD8]Target Ain’t People
http://targetboycott.org —-Learn more—Take Action—Sign the Petition—-
In January, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited $$ in our elections.
In July, Target gave $150,000 to the anti-gay, anti-worker candidate for Gov. of MN.
Last week, a quarter million people pledged to boycott Target
Yesterday . . .
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From: photoxels…
Contestant’s Winning Creation Shot with the Olympus PEN E-PL1 to be Highlighted at U.S. Open National Tennis Championships
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., August 18, 2010 – Olympus announces that Kevin Dowling’s skating documentary video “Blading” is the Grand Prize Winner* of the PEN your story challenge. In May, Olympus asked the public to propose what they would do with the Olympus PEN® E-PL1 portable camera featuring digital single lens reflex (DSLR) image quality, point-and-shoot simplicity and high-definition (HD) video and $5,000 to bring their creative visions to life. Their videos demonstrate the amazing works of art that are possible with the powerfully simple PEN.
Kevin will receive an all-expense-paid trip for two to New York City to attend the Olympus-sponsored US Open National Tennis Championships. There, a sample of his video will be displayed on the giant video board in the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium before an audience of thousands.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHD_Lsu2Tjs]Blading
Thank you to everyone who supported this project. It was truly a team effort and everyone should be very proud today!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bvmEYxEYiA]Slow Motion Video of a Multiple Tower Upward Lightning Flash on 6/16/10
Multiple tower upward lightning flash captured at 9,000 images per second in Rapid City, SD on 6/16/10. A preceding downward positive ground flash triggers upward leaders from seven towers, three of which are visible in the video.
“It’s an almost unimaginable amount of energy.
If the sun’s power output for a single second could be harnessed,
it would satisfy the World’s energy demands for the next million years!”
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from:
The Sun (2009), broadcast on the Science Channel
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So how many suns are in the Universe?
We know from the Hubble Deep Field experiments
that the Universe contains at least 200 billion galaxies!
And these galaxies would contain about 100 billion stars each!
And the Sun is just an average sized star.
Many are enormous in comparison to our Sun!
So 200 billion x 100 billion = ????????????????
See also:
Total Energy of the Stars in the Universe!
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