Weekend Diversion: A Stacked Photo Fantasy
I had never seen the amazing time collapse photos that photographer Matt Molloy has put together before, and you need to see them, too.
Long exposures and stacked, so photos are added together. Photos of analemmas are one example of this, but the ones at Ethan’s blog are way different.
Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013
Some really neat shots in there.
I love that the droplet makes the image look like a globe. The map in the background is inverted, because the refraction inverts the image.
The Best Space Images Ever Were Taken by Apollo Astronauts With Hasselblad Cameras
Starting with Apollo 8, astronauts carried a Hasselblad EDC with them on their lunar journeys. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin each had one during their brief but historic romp on the moon on July 20, 1969. Subsequent men also took Hasselblads, 12 of which are now sitting on the moon’s surface, left behind to save weight on the return trip. Only the film magazines returned to Earth.
The room in the video actually rotates as a unit, and all of the furniture is nailed to the walls and ceiling. Also, the camera remains attached to the rotating room, making it appear as though the dancers are defying gravity.
Famed Broadway dancer Fred Astaire popularized this method in a dancing routine from the 1951 movie “Royal Wedding.”
I read Joe Hanson’s post The Evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex this morening (i.e. yesterday, relative to this appearing) about the correction of the posture of Mr. T as depicted in various media over the years.
[T]he tail-dragger myth persisted, and in 1988’s The Land Before Time (which, let’s face it, is where most of us first formed our images of dinosaurs) Sharptooth was frustratingly upright
I remember thinking that I’m not going to face it, because it’s quite possible our first glimpse of dinos, including an upright T. rex, was (as it was for me) in a movie was as a stop-action clip made possible by the wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.
And, later in the day, it was announce that Ray had passed.
So here’s a video, which includes an upright, posturically-incorrect, rexie, along with similarly-depicted Allosaurs, Ceratosaurs and Sceraptosaurs.
[A] compliation of every Ray Harryhausen animated creature in feature films, presented in chronological order.
Read the complete creature list at http://www.harryhausen.com
This is a chunk left over after I made some more jello treats (Han Solo and Easter Island, as before) this time with about 60% of the water called for in the regular recipe, so it’s much stiffer. (This was ~2 cups of boiling water and then 1/2 cup ice water aded in after dissolving the mix; normal recipe calls for 4 cups. It’s important to use as much ice as you can in that 1/2 cup to cool it down or you will lose quite a bit to evaporation, which matters a bit when you are using small molds)
Filmed at 240 fps. Lots of nice vibrational modes being demonstrated.
Cool slow motion to show off the result of the physics.