Bokeh
The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”,
and anyway I haven’t been in town for a while and this beast needs updating.
So without further ado:
You know what, I think it was in Veerle’s blog, but I can’t find it,
And in a basic attempt to upgrade my photoshop and illustrator skills I am doing the odd tutorial.
In photography the concept is easier, in that your prime subject is in sharp focus, while the background dissolves into a “haze.”
Like I said, just a quicky.. See ya soon..
Add comment January 13th, 2010
Geminids:the year 2009
Geminid meteor shower 09
Excellent pic by Wally Pacholka at http://www.astropics.com/
Add comment December 16th, 2009
Video conversion to meta injection
Hidden complexities
So on and off over the last couple of days, I have been over at the flowplayer forum, getting help and information from a couple of the members there as to why my particular video wasn’t working properly.
To begin I started with windows movie maker just for a bit of fun and to check out the quality of the software, ending up with a really dodgy 36 second film.
So as you can see I added a couple of effects a transition or two and threw in a tune, Now at this point I wanted to add my video, or at least gain the ability to put this video into a web page.
And not just put it there to run in a continuous loop, but have a player to play pause rewind etc.
Enter Flowplayer:
Check out the finished product, (for sake of testing only).
Here:
If you decide to follow the link to the video, you can find there a link to the thread describing how I overcame difficulties with meta data.
The hidden info that describes the quality of your film.
Add comment September 1st, 2009
Javascript libraries working together
Mootools and Jquery
I Started freshfreelance site a while ago and used the mootools Kwix script for the sites main menu.
Took me a while to sort it, and was to be honest never as good as the example, but hey..
All was fine, until I used lightbox on one of the sub pages, they worked fine independently, but when together the lightbox wouldn’t work.
I googled for a while, but found no solution I could get my head round at the time, so I took the cop out and disabled the javascript on the menu, (Just for that one page) allowing the lightbox script to work.
Time passed
and I learned to live with it.
Today however I came across the problem again, wanting to implement the JQuery cycle script to cycle some pics, wouldn’t work, and I knew instantly it was the libraries cinfkict.
Googling more successful this time.
Enter:
jQuery’s no-conflict mode,
I have rambled enough:
the solution as I see it.
This is what I had and it worked solo,
<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('#slideshow11').cycle(); }); </script>
I added
var J = jQuery.noConflict();
and changed the $ for J in the function, and Presto.
<script type="text/javascript"> var J = jQuery.noConflict(); J(document).ready(function() { J('#slideshow11').cycle(); }); </script>
There are more elegant solutions out there, Check: JQuery, and I found help here. Michael Shadle
Add comment August 21st, 2009
Getting away with it !
Billions of web sites..
I’m just guessing, but I reckon that has to be reasonably accurate.
And what do we want,
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To discover the secrets of the univese
To maybe live long enough to live forever
To underatand more primarily our purpose in the scheme of things
To partay
To survive
To underatand
To comprehend
To write, and receive comment,
To connect
To draw wisdom
To enjoy a solid nights sleep
To dream
To take flight
To conjure the seemingly impossible
To be pure energy..
Oh my word, it is our destiny
For the illusion resides in names, historical characters, organic biomass and a contingency reliant upon an understanding of ‘times arrow’ .
Be gone with you matter, for my mix is heavy detailed and constantly in flux.
It is my time and I will fire up the flux capacitor..
See you out there.
Timmy oh Leary where art thou..
Add comment August 13th, 2009
Cold blooded Lizard beasts
Lizzie and Lucy
So to tell a tale of reptilian nature, from the perspective of a lizard keeper, looker afterer,
Lizzie our first beardy came to us about a year ago at eight weeks old, and for a long time we thought of lizzie as a male, (that was what we were told, and our observations confirmed this.)
Wrong we had a female
Masquerading as a boy, a quiet Lizard only discovered as female when a visit to the vet became necessary after lizard displaying some uncharacteristic moods and behaviour.
Zorro as previously was known was with eggs..
Ahhh,
Nought came of the eggs for they were not fertilised, and soon after this little adventure we considered introducing another female as a companion.
They met in the pet shop
All seemed well, pretty much ignoring each other. and the owner of lizard for sale assured us that this particular beardy was the most placid of the compatible bunch.
So a clean vivarium and a simultaneous introduction into new home we relaxed happy that we had brought companionship to Lizzie (our first).
Trouble begins
Lucy the newbe is like hay whats going on with you Kiddo, I’m gonna sit on you and bite you and, whos viv is this anywayz, and Lizzie is like waving in submission and looking really sad, if you can imagine that look from a lizard.
Lizzie ‘the first’ endured this for a day and a half, being sat on waving, and when hope was almost lost, she pulled out the stops and turned the tide, whilst running over Lucy to grab bouncy locust and enjoying she munched and settled down to relax on Lucys back.
Equilibrium is restored.. Go Lizzie, inexperienced, but instinct prevailed.
Say tuned for the next chapter..
Add comment July 22nd, 2009
Bearded dragons
Lucy joins Lizzie
Its our second beardy, Lucy on the right.
More here
Add comment July 19th, 2009
