Archive for January, 2006

Scanner photography

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Every once and a while I stumble across something truly innovative. Recently in my web surfing (on Slashdot) I came across a site called Scanner Photography. The concept and method of producing his photographs I find very inspiring. His approach of using a custom made camera utilizing a scanner results in images that are simply [...]

Kountry Gentleman

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

A friend introduced me to a band named Family Force 5 and their latest video the other day, and while I normally enjoy music videos, I don’t often feel like they’re worth telling too many people about. However this is a special case, this video stands above the crowd for several reasons. However the reason [...]

Revenge of the Brick

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

The creators of those wonderful little multi-colored bricks, Lego, have made the best CG film of the century! Well perhaps not, but it’s quite entertaining. Their spoof of Revenge of the Sith, is hilarious, and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recomend it. Revenge of the Brick originally could be seen on the [...]

WMV without Windows Media

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could play Window’s media files on a Mac without the Window’s Media player? Well it seems that there is a way. Flip4Mac has just been released for free, and it allows a Mac user to view WMV files and various other window’s media formats in Quicktime, instead [...]