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2012-12-06T16:37:05-08:00
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Seriously long exposure photography
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/12/seriously_long.html
via blog.sub-studio.com Michael Wesley's open shutter projekt features photographs exposed over a period of years. These ghostly images are shot with a large format camera using filters and a very low aperture. Looking into them is like looking through...
Barry
2012-12-06T16:37:05-08:00
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SOLANGE - LOSING YOU
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/10/solange_-_losin.html
via youtube.com This is a bit of guilty pleasure... Effortlessly cool, but what else would you expect from Beyoncé's little sister!...
Barry
2012-10-02T17:28:47-08:00
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Quadcopters, robotic lights, music - time to "Meet your maker"
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/06/quadcopters_rob.html
via youtube.com Meet your creator is a brilliantly conceived robotic dance performance. Be sure and watch all of it as it has a false ending... Put together by Saatchi & Saatchi this piece features an incredible team of artists...
Barry
2012-06-27T10:49:17-08:00
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Aqueous II - The Sequel
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/06/aqueous_ii_-_th.html
via behance.net UK photographer Mark Mawson creates scenes from an alien world with his underwater paint photos. Stunning and unexpected, be sure and check out his other galleries in this series....
Barry
2012-06-04T11:05:27-08:00
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FUTURE SELF
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/05/future_self.html
via vimeo.com Sublime beauty can happen when technology, art, dance and music come together. FUTURE SELF is inspiring, it represents the new avant-garde of the art world....
Barry
2012-05-24T11:02:34-08:00
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Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/05/photographic_sp.html
via thisiscolossal.com Michael Mapes dissects photos and displays them as a sort of science project. The fragments are placed in specimen boxes or on pins or in glass vials in such a way to rebuild the portraits into beautiful...
Barry
2012-05-03T13:30:34-08:00
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Turning a church into a musical instrument: Archifon I. - Interactive Installation
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/05/turning_a_churc.html
via vimeo.com Visitors to this Czech church user laser pointers to play baroque music by pointing at statues and features. Very tastefully done......
Barry
2012-05-01T14:41:21-08:00
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Rails console: restore data by copying between databases
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2012/03/rails_restore_d.html
Okay, this is the 2nd time I've had to do this. So I'm writing this down in the hopes that it will help somebody else but also so that I'll know how to get started in the heat of...
Programming
Barry
2012-03-12T13:14:16-08:00
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Running the Numbers
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/07/big_numbers.html
Big numbers are really hard to visualize. Charles and Ray Eames showed us how quickly they scale beyond human scope with their powers of 10 video Now Chris Jordan uses art pieces made up of thousands of photographs to...
Barry
2008-07-10T00:22:28-08:00
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Lilly's Birthday Weekend
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/lillys_birthday_weekend.html
Lilly's 13th birthday celebration was a long, drawn out, affair. The night before her Birthday (Friday) she returned from a 2 day school hiking trip so we had a relatively quiet evening with just Maike spending the night. We ate...
Barry
2008-06-25T20:19:18-08:00
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Getting Rails and Prototype to talk XML
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/getting_rails_and_prototype_to.html
Another Ajax programming with Prototype tip. This one is aimed at Rails developers. I wanted to use Ajax.Request to communicate with my Rails application via XML. Turns out this was fairly straightforward apart from one major gotcha! Receiving XML with...
Barry
2008-06-12T11:30:37-08:00
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Trip to Arcachon and Dune de Pyla
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/06/trip_to_arcachon_and_dune_de_p.html
We climbed the dune, swam on the beach and had dinner on the Arcachon sea front. A sunny and blustery day with incredible clouds and light. Leia and Floor hit the top of the Dune! Big crowd up to the...
Barry
2008-06-04T19:54:15-08:00
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Javascript Tip - Using setTimeout with prototype object methods
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/05/javascript_tip_using_settimeou.html
This is a little esoteric but I thought I should share it as it took me a while to find a solution. I use prototype as my framework of preference for building web applications. Recently I've been refactoring code I...
Barry
2008-05-29T14:08:25-08:00
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Amsterdam
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/05/amsterdam.html
Barry
2008-05-20T20:24:41-08:00
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Ireland
http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2007/08/ireland.html
We had a great time in Ireland. We ate and drank far too much while catching up with family and friends. We also managed to hook up Mark and Jules and spend a weekend in Feathard where my mum has...
Barry
2007-08-24T13:20:48-08:00