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August 30th, 2008

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

I know, I know, I’m late to this party. But I really didn’t want to spent $5 to buy it on iTunes. Turns out you can stream Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog from Hulu. Thanks Hulu!

If you’re a Neil Patrick Harris fan (like me), or a Joss Whedon fan (like these people), or in search of funny musicals(?), you’ll love this.

August 25th, 2008

45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos [PICS]

Tumbling Dice

This blog post from smashingmagazine.com showed up on page 1 of digg’s images (with 1413 diggs as of right now). My Tumbling Dice picture is #37 of the 45 examples. Just today it got over 2500 views on Flickr. Sweet!

The blurb on digg:

“Motion blur is frequently used to show a sense of speed. You can artificially achieve this effect in a usual scene using cameras with a slow shutter speed. This article presents 45 beautiful examples of motion blur in photography. It provides you with some inspiration of what can be done with motion blur.”
read more | digg story
August 25th, 2008

School Is In Session

The Whole Crew
Summer Vacation is officially over. Today was our first day of the fall semester for our remote outpost of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, or ETC-SV (for Silicon Valley). This group shot is of the students, plus Jiyoung and me (faculty) and Michelle (staff) in front of the EA logo in Redwood Shores. Like last semester, EA is providing us with space – which we dearly love.

Linhan, Youngwook and Siyang were out here last semester, too, so there’s only five new names and faces to get to know.

One of this term’s projects is based out of Australia, so half the team is heading down under on Friday for a week. The rest of us are meeting with a local company on Friday to get acquainted with some very cool display technology. You can follow along on the ETC-SV blog that we just set up.

August 24th, 2008

My Extended Family

My Extended Family
Four generations, all decendents of Nels and Lizzy, my Great Grandparents. If my Grandparents were still alive, five generations would be represented here. My farthest away relative at the event was a second cousin twice removed (and yes, I actually know what that means!).

Taken on Saturday at our family reunion in Newberg, Oregon.

August 24th, 2008

Yosemite Light Curtains

Yosemite Light Curtain (4)
Eric stumbled upon how to take pictures like this while we were walking inside a covered bridge in Yosemite. It’s as simple as taking a long exposure (about 1/2 second) while walking – the space between the vertical boards allow slits of light to be painted on the camera’s sensor. Eric and I each shot dozens of them. Here’s a few others I love:
Yosemite Light Curtain (1) Yosemite Light Curtain (2) Yosemite Light Curtain (3)