i’m still in the process of organizing my photos, but i’m positive that the upload will soon begin.
in the mean time – one of the best advertisements i’ve seen in a long time:

in fact, i think it’s the best one since afri-cola in 2002 (click on “groovin” at the end of the list.).

that makes the new score:

***edit***
it turns out that just the day after i posted the afri-cola-link, they published the new and completely different version of their website… i’ll keep looking and will post the link here when i find the video.

as ze frank likes to say:

flowers are the only things you can kill, wrap up in paper and give to someone without it being creepy.

for example: here’s some dead puppies. they’re red. irish setters. red means i love you.

in that regard: happy valentine’s day!
 

he’s also done a valentines day video last year, and check out his blog (note part 5)!

local time: 26.11.2005 19:38

fuer die deutsche version dieses posts, bitte auf “[blah blah...]” klicken!

ok, here are some photos from the tolga bat hospital, and from the trip to the reef.

and as a special goodie, i’ve uploaded this little proof, that i was NOT killed by the first private host in singapore, who would have taken over my identity.
(hi, dad ;-) )

videopost – please choose language below

[view video*]
english version (MPG, 20 sec, 1,77 MB)
german version (tyrolean dialect) (MPG, 20 sec, 1,77 MB)
* sorry, i just had to copy caroline’s idea of the banana-mic. besides, i didn’t want to buy a whole loaf of bread just for a 20-sec video…

 
[view photos: cairns photo update]

 
[lyrics quote of the moment]
it’s so beautiful here, she says
this moment now
and this moment now
vienna teng – recessional

[more...]

i never got to post this *here*, but there it is now:

in the last few months, every now and then i found some time to play with my JG-RC2 and i’m really content.

the final firmware isn’t available yet, but i’m fine with the preliminary one, so far. (that’s how i got it in the first place – the final product version is not available, so i ordered the beta-version. but only the firmware will be different in the final version – and it’s upgradeable.)

[more...]

remember the previous time-lapse project that i published?

all the pupae hatched about 3 weeks ago. actually, when the first one hatched on july 20th, i decided to slow down their final steps of development and caused a not so unusual (just think of today’s climate) …cold-weather period. ok, i put them in the fridge. they were not harmed, but didn’t hatch until i had the time to watch over them, two days later.

when i got home on friday, i quickly set up the equipment and placed the pupae in front of the camera. because there were 5 pupae and i didn’t know which one would hatch first, i had to take (bigger) overall-view photos and crop the interesting part later.

i had relocated the pupae onto a nearly planar twig when they were done pupating, so i could focus on all of them at once.

the whole process of one peacock butterfly (inachis io; tagpfauenauge) hatching only took about 14 minutes (including the unfolding of its wings), so it was at least three times more exciting to watch them hatch live.

i was shooting at a higher resolution (so i could get all of the pupae in the picture and still have detail) and the “temporal resolution” (interval: 4 seconds) was pretty high too, so although i had 5 pupae, only one video turned out the way i wanted…

 
here’s the video:

butterfly hatching (download video)

i also put up a few of the single photos as an overview:
[view photos: time-lapse, part 7: butterfly hatching]

i was just surfing around, and surfing on from there, … and then i found ellen degeneres’ website.
and then i surfed that site and discovered her public announcement, saying that children shouldn’t flush down their fathers’ fish, and i wanted to link to the file.

in the source code, there were lots of javascript-masking of the actual file, and in an html-comment, the following address was written down:
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/…/ellengreeting_dl.mov

i thought, “how nice, they made a little note for themselves and forgot to erase the real link!”, but i think this is actually a special video that ellen recorded for people who wanted to get the video directly.

 
here’s the link i wanted to show you in the first place:
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/…/ellenpsa_dl.mov

i love that woman’s dry sense of humor!!

 
i also found this in one of her tv interviews:

[quote of the day]

 

 

on saturday, i went by a huge field of stinging nettles, and i noticed that the peacock caterpillars (inachis io, tagpfauenauge) had already left their community and spread up, so each one would have their own plant.
this is usually a sign that it won’t take long until pupation, which i thought makes a great time lapse subject.

i collected a total of 14 caterpillars, plenty of their feeding plant (=stinging nettle, urtica dioica), and went home to set up a terrarium that would fit their needs.

it took me some time to get what i needed: there should be all but one spot where they *wanted* to pupate, because time-lapse recordings require very fixed settings. eventually, i came up with a way: i let there be only one horizontal element where they could hang themselves up, and shaded that part of the terrarium.
soon, the first one settled down, and i could set up the gear.

by the way: don’t assume that slippery glass would stop them from going anywhere – they just spread a thin carpet of silk-strands and go where *they* want.

[more...]