Showing posts with label Eye Candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eye Candy. Show all posts
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Eye Candy: Movements in Red (Infrared Time Lpase)
Andrew 's description from his Vimeo post:
"A moving infrared timelapse movie.
This is a personal project culminated from years of shooting IR
stills and never really being satisfied with the results. Shot primarily
in Albemarle County, Virginia, the movie was captured using a Canon 5D
mark II converted with a 720nm IR filter over the sensor. The sensor
filter allows normal camera operation but shoots only IR images. I used
a rail from Dynamic Perception to create the moving images and
processed everything in Adode Premiere/After Effects.
Check out my website andrewshurtleff.com to see some cool IR stills under the fine arts section. Thanks for watching."
VIA: Bad Astronomy
Thursday, February 28, 2013
APOTD: Ghost Nebula
Caption: NOAO
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. vdB 141 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes referred to as the ghost nebula, its awkward name is its catalog number in Sidney van den Bergh's catalog of reflection nebulae, published in 1966. Several stars are embedded in the nebula. Their light gives it a ghoulish brown color. North is down and East is to the right. Imaged August 28, 2009.
Image: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF [high-resolution] Read NOAO Conditions of Use before downloading
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
APOTD: Molecular Cloud in Monoceros
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| Image: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and N.S. van der Bliek (NOAO/AURA/NSF) [high-resolution] Read NOAO Conditions of Use before downloading |
Caption: NOAO
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic II camera on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory on January 11th, 2012. It shows a portion of the giant Monceros R2 molecular cloud. It is a location of massive star formation, particularly in the location of the bright red nebula just below the center of the image. The image was generated with observations in the Sulphur [SII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, north is to the right, and east is up.
Monday, January 14, 2013
APOTD: Tectonics on Enceladus
On Oct. 5, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles)
of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning
mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this geologically active moon of
Saturn.
Craters and cratered terrains are rare in this view of the southern
region of the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere. Instead, the surface is
replete with fractures, folds, and ridges—all hallmarks of remarkable
tectonic activity for a relatively small world. In this enhanced-color
view, regions that appear blue-green are thought to be coated with
larger grains than those that appear white or gray.
Portions of the tiger stripe fractures, or sulci, are visible along the
terminator at lower right, surrounded by a circumpolar belt of
mountains. The icy moon's famed jets emanate from at least eight
distinct source regions, which lie on or near the tiger stripes.
However, in this view, the most prominent feature is Labtayt Sulci, the
approximately one-kilometer (0.6 miles) deep northward-trending chasm
located just above the center of the mosaic.
Near the top, the conspicuous ridges are Ebony and Cufa Dorsae. This
false-color mosaic was created from 28 images obtained at seven
footprints, or pointing positions, by Cassini's narrow-angle camera. At
each footprint, four images using filters sensitive to ultraviolet,
visible and infrared light (spanning wavelengths from 338 to 930
nanometers) were combined to create the individual frames. The mosaic is
an orthographic projection centered at 64.49 degrees south latitude,
283.87 west longitude, and it has an image scale of 196 kilometers
(122.5 miles) per pixel. The original images ranged in resolution from
180 meters (594 feet) to 288 meters (950 feet) per pixel and were
acquired at distances ranging from 30,000 to 48,000 kilometers (18,750
to 30,000 miles) as the spacecraft receded from Enceladus. The view was
acquired at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 73 degrees.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute [high-resolution]
Caption: NASA
Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Plastic Demoscene Group: Catzilla
Catzilla is our latest project to date. It's a real time PC benchmark that will get all the juices from your PC.
Finally we had some time to make a proper demo. It was made with a nice collaboration with Platige Image. We did the code, they did the art. The music was made exclusively by Bent 'subsquare' Stamnes.
Thanks for watching!
Monday, December 24, 2012
This Week's Time Lapse: While You Were Sleeping, Perseid Meteor Shower 2010-2012
Posted by YouTube user: JeffSullivanPhoto
Via YouTube description:
"Three years in the making and mastered in 4K video resolution four times
greater than1080p HD, this astrophotography footage by Jeff Sullivan
was waiting for the perfect musical accompaniment, which turned out to
be "While The Sun Was Sleeping" by Life Audience."
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Eye Candy: Long Exposure Photo Of Moth Flight
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| Image Credit: STEVE IRVINE |
"Fluttering
wings leave lacy trails as moths beat their way to a floodlight on a
rural Ontario lawn. The midsummer night’s exposure, held for 20 seconds,
captured some of the hundreds of insects engaged in a nocturnal swarm."
Sunday, June 17, 2012
This Yo-Yo Video is WAY More Intersting Than You Probably Think It's Going To Be
So here's a sentence you've probably never heard before- "Hey, check out this Yo-yo video, it's amazing!" Or, if you have heard that sentence before, than your reaction was probably to stare back blankly, while slowly backing out of the room. I totally understand. But seriously, it's awesome, I think. Though there's always a fair chance that I'm just more easily amused than you are.
-CAINE-
Thursday, May 24, 2012
This Week's Time Lapse: Annular Solar Eclipse
Posted by Youtube user: mrcorypoole
Last week's Annular solar eclipse, in just over a minute.
Enjoy.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Eye Candy: Ruin
So I actually found this animated short from OddBall Animation a while ago, and just haven't managed to get around to posting it. Simply put, it's amazing. Probably even more so if ,unlike mine, your Internet provider has not throttled you down to point where you cannot watch things in HD. But what makes this 8 minute short even more impressive, is the fact that it's mostly the result of the work of just one person. Though the films creator and director Wes Ball, does point out that he had a bit of help on the model rendering for the drone and main character, as well as a single intern to help with some of the animation. CHEATER!
Seriously, it took one person two years worth of work to make this. I can't even manage to post a single blog entry once a day, much less design my own, photo realistically detailed digital world, from scratch.
I am Jack's deep, burning, sense of shame and inadequacy.
-CAINE-
VIA: Oddball Animation
Monday, April 30, 2012
Stupidity at 2500 Frames Per Second
Posted by Youtube user: Zululicious
Instead of a time-lapse, this week, I give you destruction at 2,500 FPS. I found this oddly mesmerizing. Indoor firework and flour and candle are my favorites. Trust me, flour and candle is WAaaY more awesome than it sounds.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sometimes I Take Pictures
Yes, I know, I neglected you all again this weekend. I’d like to say I have a good excuse..but I don’t. I’ll start catching up later. For now, Here’s a picture I took. Because I’m on my lunch break, and I don’t have time to “science” right now.
-CAINE-
Friday, April 6, 2012
Time-Lapse: The Earth and Stars From Space
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station. from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo
Created by photographer Alex Rivest, by enhancing publicly available data from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to focus primarily on the field of stars moving in the background, the above time lapse is filled with an array of amazing images. From glowing green aurora to, to entire continents lit up by the night time lights of civilization, it’s truly an awesome piece of video. My only critique would be the music (of course). Because personally, I think smooth jazz should remain buried behind the disturbingly overgrown pubic mounds of 1970’s vintage Hardcore pornography where it belongs, and I’d have chosen something more subtle and soothing to go along with the video. Like, say, Hate Eternal’s, “The Art of redemption”. Or maybe a classical piece like, say, SLAYER’s, “Seasons in The Abyss”.
Go ahead, try it. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Okay, probably not.
But It’d mean a lot to me if you did. =)
Sunday, April 1, 2012
"Brown Sweat"- Bioshock-Themed Craft Beer
I’ll be honest, I really wasn’t a massive fan of Bioshock as a game. I got the first one, played for a few hours, got bored, never went back again. But that’s the usual path for me and shooters. What can I say, I’m just not a fan. But, as most geeks were; I was impressed with the games aesthetic, and I do enjoy beer. So of this Bioshock themed home-brew, I approve.
VIA: The Drunken Moogle
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Apocalypse Later, Surf Now, An Apocalyptic Surf Music Video
Surfing, doesn't even come close to making the list of things I've EVER had an interest in. I hate the beach, I don't swim, I don't like the sun. But hey, throw in an aerial battle of apocalyptic proportions, and suddenly, you have my interest. Love this.
I still don't care about the surfing thought.
-CAINE-
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Sometimes I take Pictures
Been having a hard time concentrating on anything this weekend, consequently, no posts thus far. But I did take some pictures, this is one of them.
-CAINE-
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