Transmissions http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/ Shooting into the sun since 2001 en-us 2012-12-06T16:37:05-08:00 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Amsterdam http://www.planet-hood.com/Updates2/archives/2008/05/amsterdam.html Barry 2008-05-20T20:24:41-08:00 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