two weeks ago, i came by the nest of a great spotted woodpecker (dendrocopos major). i would probably have passed by unknowingly, but the young bird kept calling wildly for its parents…

[view photos: woodpecker offspring]

we tried to do a birthday countdown for anna. started with 70, but didn’t get very far…

that same evening: when three of us ordered sparkling water, coke, and a soda, the waitress said “oh, how responsible. are you the drivers?” - “umm, yeah… kind-of.” (just that we were all going in one car. :-))

tom and i had an hour to kill in the forest, and this was what came from it:

it all started with barbara’s answer to me asking what i should bring for an invitation to dinner: “bring half a potatoe and a squirrel!”

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during our high-school graduation trip to kos (greece) in 2003, we recorded our own little baywatch spoof. lukas recently uploaded it to youtube:

anton decided to paint one of his bedroom walls, last month.
he had already moved all the furniture away when we had the idea of doing a time-lapse, so we put everything back to normal, set up the camera, and started from the beginning.

i think it was worth it:

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the video was created using my sony cybershot f828 and the jg-rc2 intervalometer.

sandra (purple) kicked our ass in no time, so we added a very short stop-motion sequence…

a 3-second-interval and 13 fps makes a speedup of about 40x (1 sec. in the video equals 40 seconds real-time).
i’m trying out flash video player 3.5 by jeroen wijering. please let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

remember that strange insect that i wrote about last october?
well, i found some more of those ichneumon wasps, a few days later - and this time, i also did video! it took me a little longer to actually get it done, but here it is…

thanks to frau notanativa for introducing me to the music!
oh, and …believe me or not: i didn’t add the drilling machine noise. somebody nearby started drilling just that exact moment!
 

[view photos: ephialtes manifestator, pt. 2]

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