Disillusioned by Technology | MIT Technology Review The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World “I think this shows two coexisting visions of history,” she says. “One is history as progress, but there is also this other vision of history as rolling apocalypse. A lot of us are […]
Month: December 2013
Lenses of Perception, PD, & Walking at Work Week 6
I photograph things on my walks to and from work for a number of reasons. I enjoy it certainly but it’s also about making sure I am really looking around. It is interesting to see what I notice and how it relates to the lens I choose to carry.1 What I think about quite a […]
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Two Different Time Lapse Experiments
Time Lapse Trip from Richmond VA to Tampa FL from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. This is my first attempt with the GoPro. I think it’s set to one shot every 30 seconds. You can see me fiddling with the settings a few different times if you’re masochistic enough to watch it through. The battery ran […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
Swiss cows and the environmental future – Veronique Greenwood – Aeon “The market supports to local agriculture would end, yes. But the farmers would be paid directly by the government for something else. They would be paid for, among other things, keeping the mountain pastures clear of trees, keeping the forests clear of the cows, […]
Reddit Pic Requests
It is always strange to wander about in Internet communities with a fairly established culture. Reddit is not someplace I’ve ever spent any real time and while I still haven’t done much with it, I have been checking in on Pic Requests. It is really wild to see the diversity of requests and the speed […]
Repairing Photos – Semi Tutorial – PhotoShop CC
I’m still not entirely sure this isn’t some sort of art project. The pictures are just too perfect and comments like the one here don’t exactly allay suspicions. I kind of hope it is. It’d be doubly weird to be “fixing” intentionally created errors. In any case, as part of my 30 minutes of something […]
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Bucharest Ripples
I’ve continued to mess around repairing some of the photos from the Costica Ascinte Flickr account. I got the following email from one of the Costica Ascinte account members. Hi Tom Following your example, I’ve tried to repair one of Acsinte’s pic too: this one and the original: Take care, Cezar Popescu It’d be easy […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
Better and better keyboards. – Massively Parallel Procrastination Pretty interesting to watch the process and the role of 3d printing. tags: keyboards 3d printing iterative design weekly The Space Review: Secrets and signs (page 1) “Those obsessed with Freemason conspiracy theories would probably go into orbit after learning that in 2000 the secretive National Reconnaissance […]
Creepiest GIF Yet
I made this as part of my 30 minutes of random art. It took 30 minutes in part because I had lots of help and ideas from my children who also balanced on me as I tried to select items. It’s something like extreme ironing but with PhotoShop. On the other hand, it may very […]
Play Until You Win
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Tom Woodward I wrote this in response to Gardner’s post here and in particular this quote from Thomas Merton that Gardner referenced. “[A publisher asked me to write something on ‘The Secret of Success,’ and I refused.] If I had a message to my contemporaries, […]