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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Caturday!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Today’s Saturday cat photo series is a bunch of close up macros of Pandora’s face, and a noir-ish dramatic black and white shot.

Update: Greetings, DC Blogs readers! If you liked these photos of my cat, there are more of her on Flickr.

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Owning the Clouds – Apology, Withdrawal

Friday, May 30, 2008

Followup to Owning The Clouds and the update: I got an email from Sarah Bernard of 23/6, apologizing for the inadvertent pulling of my video due to Google/YouTube’s content identification. I forgive you, 23/6!

Dear Paulo,
I’m Sarah Bernard, President of 23/6. Please know that we certainly did not intend for our posting the video, “A Message [...]

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Memorial Day 2008

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Amy and I spent most of Memorial Day relaxing at home, though we did go out for a few hours to grab a sushi lunch at Mary Surratt’s boarding house (AKA Wok and Roll), browse the Reynolds Center, and walk around the Haupt Garden.

The Fortune
I don’t normally have a high degree of trust for Asian [...]

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Trees, Crane, Sky

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Walking through Rose Park. Across the Parkway, one of many metal monsters of urban progress thrusts its frame into the sky.
(Trees, Crane, Sky uploaded by brownpau.)

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Phoenix on Mars

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Phoenix, NASA/JPL’s new Mars polar lander, has successfully touched down in the Martian north polar region. This landing was more of a nail-biter than usual, given that the last polar lander mission was lost during descent in 1999; but Phoenix (rising from the ashes of the Mars Polar Lander mission, I guess) performed wonderfully, going [...]

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Baltimore Aquarium

Monday, May 26, 2008

Amy and I took a train up to Baltimore on Saturday to drop off a painting for 15×15, so while we were in town we took a few hours to drop by the Aquarium. I had unfortunately forgotten my camera, so I was limited to my phone, but it sufficed for photos and lots of [...]

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Caturday!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Well, while we’re talking about time lapses, here’s one of Pandora lazing around her scratching rug, recorded with my SD1000’s time lapse video feature — a frame taken every two seconds over a span of about 15 minutes. You’ll see me drop in occasionally to give her catnip and Feline Greenies.

(I’m posting this late and [...]

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Owning the Clouds – Update

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Update: An apology from 23/6, inaction from Google.
Update: Good news! I have uploaded my cloud time lapses to Vimeo. To emphasize the authenticity of the footage, I have uploaded the uncut version, with camera jostles and stretches of relatively empty sky that were edited out of the version more popularly distributed as various parodies out [...]

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Owning the Clouds

Friday, May 23, 2008

Update: Please see “Owning the Clouds – Update.”

So, is the movie at right loading yet? Every moment that it does not load when the play button is clicked, and every moment that this returns an “unavailable” error page is another moment of Google Video denying me ownership of my own work.
Some of you will [...]

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DC Time Lapse – Scattered Clouds

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Fetching images from the ABC 7/News Channel 8 DC webcam every five seconds over the course of about an hour. A gray, windy day, with shafts of sunlight peeking through the cloud cover. Music is the first 36 seconds of “warmday,” by 31d1 via MetaFilter Music.

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