michael sent me his pictures from the philippines. i really like the one he took of nina and me while at the tamarraw falls on our daytrip over the island. looks a bit like photoshopped, but i guarantee it’s real :-)
technorati tags: habi, nina, tamarraw falls, waterfall
i’m starting to really dig those social web-apps.
one the last discoveries of mine is upcoming.org [1]. upcoming. org is a social event calendar driven by people like you and me. people can manage their events there and i have a neat way of showing some of my upcoming stuff i’m planning to attend or just got in my date book.
in addition to that, i can subscribe to events for a certain city i like (as in “bern“, “zürich“, “tashkent” or “trachselwald“). or subscribe to events of a certain person, no matter city they take place. the subscription is possible as an rss-feed or as as a ical-calendar-file. so if you like, you can add the calendars of your buddies to your ical and see what events they go to and take part or start to stalk them :-)
i’ve started to add some venues and events in bern and hope this starts to catch up in my ‘hood :-)
and i also thought this might be a nice way of “collecting” the people that want to come to certain meetings. let’s see if it starts to take off a bit more. if you add yourself to upcoming.org, send me a note and we can start to share our events…
which leads me to the title of this post: “… in the sidebar” [2]. since the events can be shown to any site with the upcoming.org badge, i’ve added my next 5 events to the sidebar. with some css-tinkering it also looks like it belongs in the sidebar. so if you want to see what i plan to to in the next few weeks, then you can now peek there (but i’m not gonna tell you stuff that i plan to visit the einstein exhibit with nina this weekend, so no stalking me…).
[1] which got bought by yahoo yesterday, which made every news-site post about that, which made me tinker around with it a bit more. so it’s actually a re-discovery, i can’t remember when i first encountered it. what i know is, that i encountered it much later than b. (just look at my or his user number…).
[2] time for all you rss-feed-readers to visit my site
technorati tags: rss, social web-apps, upcoming.org
no matter how you think about trusted computing, you should take a look at that really nice street-art-styled movie [1] from lutz vogel [2] and benjamin stephan. you can either watch it directly on the movie-site or download it here in different formats and sizes or (maybe preferred to all the people involved) leech it with your desired bittorrent-client through this file.
definitely worth those three and a half minutes!
[via pia] [3]
[1] cc-licensed
[2] check out lutz vogels other other short films and projects, they’re all rather brilliant!
[3] i’ve wanted to write that, since we first met :-)
mercedes benz released the new mixed tape. it will be online at mixed-tape.com until the 13th december. go and grab the 15 beautiful and completely legal and free songs in a 92mb .zip-file here.
technorati tags: mercedes, mixed-tape, music
until some hours ago i believed that maybe i made the first ever underwater panorama photograph, while on the philippines. a simple google search proved me wrong, there is already much more impressive work available online (see here, for the first ever published underwater panorama [1]). nonetheless i’m gonna tell you the story of the panorama of my alma jane shot in this post.
while we resurfaced from the alma jane i shot 7 images of the wreck and then tried to reconnect them later on with the excellent hugin for osx. as i mentioned before i started to use makecubic from apple to convert the .tiff-files from hugin to quicktime vr .mov files which are sometimes more pleasant to view.
this particular panorama was the first for me to notice something special:
when i generated the panorama the resulting image was much more pleasing when i added a horizontal guideline along the railing of the ship. this resulted in the image seen on the top left. when i didn’t add that guideline the resulting image was not so pleasing to the eye, mostly because the ship looks really crooked, as seen on the bottom right.
so i uploaded the uncrooked version to flickr, for all of you to see. then i converted the images with makecubic, ’cause i wanted to see how the panoramas look when converted to a quicktime vr. that’s when the difference comes in. the first, uncrooked version looks a bit weird when viewing as a qtvr as you can see in the movie on the left below (760 kb .mov-file).
the second image looks much more like it was in the water, where the movement was a swaying from left to down to right. see for yourself in the movie on the left (769 kb .mov-file).
just so you can see what bonds me to my computer on those long, lazy and rainy sunday afternoons.
have a good week!
[1]: i still might be second :-)
technorati tags: alma jane, diving, hugin, huginosx, panorama, underwater
i didn’t shoot any pictures this week, so i’m picking another one from our holidays on the philippines. although the nudibranch is not in focus i quite like the image below, mostly because of its vibrant colors. you can see some more images from our holidays in the pictures section or on flickr (which is better for the panoramas, ’cause you can see them in a bigger size…).
technorati tags: corals, diving, nudibranch, underwater
in den bergen ist freiheit lancierte einen bergfotowettbewerb (um irgendein monopol zu brechen [1]). jetzt kann bis nächsten samstag (8.10.) abgestimmt werden, damit dann ein foto das schönste ist.
gute freunde werden mein foto erkennen, es hatte die ehre, als “es guets 2005”-karte verschickt zu werden [2].
also stimmt ab, es hat viele schöne fotos drunter (hier alle in gross.). am schönsten find ich persönlich patricks eigenes bild (nummer 1, das mit der tollen reflektion.)
[1]: wieso genau hab ich ferienweise verpasst, ich bin noch nicht durch mit allen feeds lesen…
[2]: nummer 17 in patriks liste (übrigens: 0111000001100110 = pf)
[update]: ich löli hab doch tatsächlich vergessen den link zu linken, wo mensch abstimmen kann: hier
Unexpectedly i was able to make it to the vernissage of syn chron.
And it’s mighty impressive!
update: [via polymer-jan] who posted that this afternoon and made me go and see this.
i’m back.
everything was really nice (except that we almost died on the boat-ride back to manila yesterday) and i’m sifting through the pictures i took.
here’s one of the few i took above sea-level which i like quite a bit.
technorati tags: corals, makro, philippines, verde island
Da hab ich wohl was verpasst…
i’m going on a vacation (again). i’m leaving sunday afternoon to the philippines. nina and me will be diving with the cocktail divers in puerto galera/sabang. hopefully we’ll see some fish and be able to take loads of pictures, so i got to share something with all of you when we return.
have two nice weeks and behave!
technorati tags: diving, philippines
this afternoon we [1] had a security training organized by the slrg. since i needed to see if the underwater housing of my camera is still alright [2], i took my camera with me to shoot some pictures. the picture below shows our head coach doing a fine start.
the full set of all the pictures is online on flickr.
[1] most of the coaches of the swim team
[2] more on that later on.
technorati tags: blue, swimming, underwater
oh my god, my finger looks really crooked! i was not fast enough to get a decent picture, but in the true spirit of fuh2.com i thought it’s worth it.
as other people, i really suffer with all the persons that are hit by the hurricane in the states. but if you watch those two videos below, you really get a sense on how deep the trouble is gonna be once all the news get trough.
the first video shows two reporters of fox news really freaking out while giving their impression of the crisis. you should watch both videos to the end to see the important part!
Hannity-Colmes-Smith-Rivera-freak-in-NO.wmv (5.1mb .wmv-file).
the second video shows kayne west yelling a rather unplanned “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” while on a show with mike myers:
Kayne-West-Bush-Black-People.wmv (4.1mb .wmv-file)
[via boingboing, glider (or go here) and technorati]
technorati tags: hurricane, katrina, kayne west
this saturday i once again went to the ropetech-seilpark here in bern.
this time with the kids from the swim-team (i coach them twice a week). the full set of pictures can be seen here, but i thought the one below stands out of the crop. it shows seraina having loads of fun:
Jan set up a wiki-list for web-people attending/covering the ars electronica this year.
i won’t be there, but surely will watch that list for coverage and images…
i just set up a wiki-list for bloggers, mobloggers, wikis, social bookmarks covering ars electronica 2005 in linz. please help me spread the world so this becomes a useful tool.
web-laun.ch/ars2005/index.php/Bloggers_Mobloggers_Wikis_Socialbookmarks
[via piecoplastic]
technorati tags: ars electronica, wiki
this weekend i found some time to panoramify all my shots from european masters championships in stockholm (you might have seen it on flickr).
through the help of the excellent ptx-mailing-list i found a tool called make cubic (direct download of the 259kb .sit-file here) which is just a wee bit more than a terminal app to convert your equirectangular .jpgs into cubic QTVR-movies, so you can download the image of fatbursparken (that weird semi-round house) as a 2mb .mov-panorama if you click on the thumbnail below (be patient, it takes some time to load).
enjoy!
oh and: how many times can you spot the guy with the yellow jumper and the black jacket?
[1] i know, it’s already two weeks late…
chris dibona shot some really impressive high-speed-snapshots (literally!) of people popping a ballon. you can see the whole set of images on chris’ flickr-page. most of images are just really brilliant. a really nice project, i wonder if my dsc-t3 can be triggered externally…
[via makezine]
i finally found a free minute to sift through my pile of images, and was able to upload a first batch of images from the ecmc in basel.
you can see them here.
if you’d like to see more messengers messing around, then you can see mathieus images (from lausanne) or some more in the images-section of fahrradkurier.ch.
i’m still struggling with a panorama around the sharp turn of the uphill-sprint (the one here). maybe my g4 has not enough ram to handle a panorama consisting of 15 5 mpixel images. i’m trying it soon with resized images and keep you updated.
