Don't believe what you see

I think a lot of people have become wise to what can be done with Photoshop when it comes to faking things. But video?



Thanks to Engadget for the lead to the Univeristy of Washington.

Climate Change and Fame (of sorts)

I'd like to say "Hi!" to GloriaDawsonPhoto if she reads this. She's the first person to contact me to ask whether she can use one of my photos on her web site. I don't know whether she found the picture on the blog or on Flickr, but she's contacted me via Flickr's mail system. I really appreciate the courtesy of the enquiry - not strictly necessary as the pictures carry a creative commons licence.

What an ego boost! Internet fame here I come.

One for you Grev

Finding Nemo 2
Originally uploaded by IFDImages.

I found this fine photo thanks to Boing Boing and I immediately thought of my ex-colleague Greville Commins who likes scuba diving and sushi.

If you like interesting images, particularly those used in advertising, them IFDimages Filkr pages are worth spending some time looking at.

Picasso and Picasa

Early this year I visited Las Vegas in the quiet season, just after CES, for a meeting of the Board of EEMBC. The meeting was held in The Wynn hotel owned by Steve Wynn who recently hit the news because he ripped a hole in his very valuable Picasso painting.

I think I was told that the the Wynn was the most expensive hotel ever built in Las Vegas (at least until the next one). I was very disappointed with it. The room I had for my first night was very noisy and I got myself moved for the second. More importantly, the place seemed to lack class. It oozed money but lacked class.

From Las Vegas

You can see that a lot of the money was spent on marble. These pictures were taken in the men's "restroom" (as the locals call it) in one of the public areas. The walls of the cubicle are solid marble. Very tasteful.



Why "Picasso and Picasa"? Because these pictures are stored on Picasa Web Albums, Google's (sort of) Flickr-alike. I don't think Picasa's web presence is as interesting as Flickr, but it integrates nicely with Picasa the desktop photo-app.