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Fun with a Fisheye Lens

dustin — 2011-05-16T03:20:37-04:00

2011 was my 6th year attending the Northern Voice personal media conference. I took the opportunity this time to play around more with my DSLR camera. I got to talking with photographer John Biehler about shooting using a fisheye lens, and he was kind enough to lend me his for the second day of the conference.

Fisheye is such a different perspective, it took me some time to get a feel for what it works well on. Here are a few of my favorite fisheye shots from the day (click to enlarge):

See all my photos in my 2011 Northern Voice photoset. The first half were with a 'regular' lens, and the second half are fisheye shots.

I can't believe this is for real

registeredname — 2011-04-11T20:54:56-04:00

He's Back...

Disarmed by a Piano

dustin — 2011-03-18T01:22:31-04:00

I love this piano cover of Disarm. There's a lot more great keyboard covers from the same person on vkgoeswild's YouTube Channel, check it out.

Frog levitator wins Nobel Prize

chrisdye — 2010-10-06T11:29:16-04:00

Andre Geim becomes first Ig-Nobel winner to Win Nobel Prize

If he can win, anybody can win.

I Want To Believe

vinny9 — 2010-06-21T13:57:05-04:00

Trust the Force, Snoop

registeredname — 2010-06-06T12:00:38-04:00

This is both hilarious and disturbing at the same time:

The Fruit of Pointless Nostalgia

Alex — 2010-04-30T14:23:43-04:00

If I had a time machine, I'd give this to 10-year-old me.

http://www.duelinganalogs.com/blog/2010/04/28/super-mario-bros-crossover/

There's An App For That

goodladd — 2010-04-17T07:02:36-04:00

Man proposes via iPad, pushes boundaries of lameness.

Not your grandma's snow globes

registeredname — 2010-02-23T16:39:37-05:00

Check out more of them here.

Pink Lemonade

dustin — 2010-02-02T19:51:27-05:00

Lemonade the Movie - It's not a pink slip. It's a blank page.

Pop Quiz: Real or Fake

Gbrowdy — 2010-02-01T18:45:08-05:00

Without looking it up on the Inter-webs, what is the likelihood, from 1 to 10, that this is a real video and not a joke?
1 = As real as unicorns with sqrt(-1) horns
10 = Gunther is in the Grammy runnings
For some reason I am not convinced either way...it's just so rhythmic and catchy...

Petra's Call flash webcomic

dustin — 2010-01-26T06:57:37-05:00

Petra's Call is an innovative flash-based webcomic from Ninja Robot Dinosaur that you should definitely check out. There are 15 episodes currently, all available through the embedded flash app above.

I met the creator Shane Neville years ago in Vancouver. He since moved out to the Maritimes, but looks like he's back in Lotusland in 2010. Exciting!

Extratar!

vinny9 — 2010-01-25T14:27:25-05:00

Better webseries than the Bitter End?

A skyscraper with no Seoul

chrisdye — 2010-01-07T01:05:43-05:00

While the the opening of the Burj Dubai hogs the world's headlines, the Ryugyong Hotel, a 105-storey empty building in the heart of Pyongyang, North Korea, is in its 23rd year of construction and would cost 10% of North Korea's GDP to make inhabitable. Whether you are for or against the North Korean nuclear missile programme, you have to admit it it has been more successful than this. Honestly, I still wonder how Kim Jong Il's party was able to win all of the seats in the last North Korean elections after this building fiasco.

I Like This

vinny9 — 2009-11-30T19:34:39-05:00

Red Light countdown

This baby does everything

registeredname — 2009-10-06T15:42:07-04:00

I stumbled upon this at work:
http://www.pomegranatephone.com/

I feel this is an old thing (last year?) but the campaign is intense!

Plus there's a twist...

It's always the little things that come back to haunt you

chrisdye — 2009-07-04T15:21:00-04:00

If you ever get a phone call from the Prime Minister, let's hope it's not to tell you that you failed to prevent a world war.

Ballots Not Bullets

vinny9 — 2009-06-05T08:13:03-04:00

Big election coming up in Lebanon

Bryan on High Alert

vinny9 — 2009-05-05T15:26:51-04:00

http://pepsithrowbackhub.com/

Battle of maps

dye! — 2009-04-20T07:47:40-04:00

Can anyone do better?

View Larger Map

Grotere kaart weergeven

I'm A Twit

vinny9 — 2009-03-10T19:21:10-04:00

Montreal Improv's Twitter feed

Anyone else tweeting?

My Brain Just Doesn't Work Like This

vinny9 — 2008-11-27T14:28:45-05:00

PongOut

Pong and Breakout at the same time.

Minority Report OS fo' realz

vinny9 — 2008-11-21T12:31:39-05:00

The first epistle of Chrisdye from the Philippines

chrisdye — 2008-07-25T03:11:08-04:00

Some things you should consider visiting while in Asia:

http://siamniramit.com/ An awesomely cheesy musical dance show featuring all of Thailand's history and culture, featuring a live elephant (which you can ride before the show) and green deities with two foot crowns flying across the dry ice-filled stage.

Vietnamese water puppets: cheesy goodness at one fifteenth the price of Siam Niramit:

Possibly to avoid is the Petronas Twin Towers observation deck, which at floor 41 of 88 floors, is slightly higher than the lunch room at my office.

Size 0/2

Mirzipan — 2008-07-03T12:01:48-04:00

Ashley Judd is releasing a new clothing line for plus-sized women

0/2

vinny9 — 2008-07-03T09:52:10-04:00

Ashley MacIssac is selling 50% of his future revenues on eBay

iranians have a sense of humour?!

Maryam — 2008-05-29T15:20:08-04:00

I thought this was pretty nice. You watch it.

http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=13

(sorry don't know how to link to have the video here directly.

Clean Sweep For Time Cube

vinny9 — 2008-05-28T12:40:38-04:00

Kavli Prize's first winners announced

Modeled after the Nobels, they are awards for 3 fields that didn't exist in old Al's day: astrophysics, neuroscience and nanoscience.

Now That's Super

vinny9 — 2008-05-21T17:33:25-04:00

Supernova caught in real-time

Normally, people only catch these things quite a while after the fact but this one happened right in a spot that was under surveillance for another project. With so many eyes on the sky these days, I suppose it was inevitable but it's still great news.

DOTHETEST

alice — 2008-03-14T12:19:23-04:00

How aware are you?