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Well I had a great time filming our latest episode of Photwalking with Robert Scoble, Photowalking 10, down at Maker Faire yesterday with Scobleizer. For those of you who have never been, Maker Faire is pretty amazing. The Faire was started by by Dale Dougherty and has grown into a huge annual event.
Robert and I got to spend some time yesterday talking with Make Magazine Senior Editor Phillip Torrone who said that this weekend they were expecting about 50,000 people. That's about 30,000 more than the 20,000 or so folks who showed up last year. According to Phillip the next Makers Faire will actually be in Austin.
So what exactly is Maker Faire? Well it's part Burning Man (except not out in the desert and without all the sex and drugs), part obsessive compulsive collector, part inventor's workshop, and part DYI indie tech geekery.
The highlight of the Faire was probably the launch of over 200 2 litter bottles of Diet Coke using mentos (see photo above). Another highlight was a talk on innovation and computer history by Steve (Woz) Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. I also really enjoyed checking out Shawna Peterson's neon exhibit. Shawna offers a class in Emeryville on making neon. Here's a link about her from Make. I'm trying to build a set of images representing the largest personally shot collection of neon in the world, so you can imagine it was a treat for me to chat with Shawna a bit and check out a photo book of her work.
I brought my son William down with me and we spent most of the day with Robert and Patrick Scoble checking out the event and filming our next episode of photowalking. Robert knows everyone of course so I had a great time meeting lots of new people as well.
It was fun meeting Matt Cutts from Google for the first time. I've admired his blog for a while and it was nice to finally get a chance to meet and talk to him face to face. Ryan Block from Engadget was there. Andrew Baron from Rocketboom was there. Robert and I had a nice opportunity to spend some time with both Dale Dougherty who is the Founder of Maker Faire as well as Make Magazine's Phillip Torrone. And of course it's always a pleasure spending any time at all with the lovely, no, very lovely, and talented partycrasher herself Sarah Meyers. Jeremiah Owyang introduced me to one of the Ustream guys. Kristopher and I are hoping to Ustream live when we do our next upgrade of Zooomr. Shel Israel and Dave Alpert shot with us a bit, and... well, damn, there were just a lot of cool people down there to hang out and chat with. I even met a chocolate blogger, Brian Stephens.
I'm definitely looking foward to next year's Maker Faire. Maybe next year I'll try to go down for both days. I feel like I got a lot of great shots but didn't come anywhere close to covering it the way I really would have liked to.
Scoble has his write up on our day here. Scott Beale also has some great photos and a good write up over at Laughing Squid.
Created by dropping ice. You can see the trajectory followed by ice in the middle.
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The fireworks show wasn't as great as the others I've seen before but this one was a first.
Fireworks on top of the water!
Shimoda, Japan
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From a pretty average morning a moment of light and colour..
Taken this morning at 10 to 7.
Hope you enjoy this splash of colour.
Mr Shaw described how he and his 85-year-old mother, Juliet, were in the house at about 4.30pm when he smelt burning, initially thinking it was his daughter's hair straighteners.The 50-year-old said: "I went to put it out with a bowl of water and as soon as I did this there was an almighty bang."Then the grass was on fire causing my slippers to light up.
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First attempts at high speed photography
2 flash guns were used to light and freeze the action and the strawberry was shot with an air pistol
Audio trigger system was used to fire the flash guns built by Andrew Rose
1 second exposure @ f/8
Haven't got tired of shooting dandelions yet! :)
I've finally got around to creating a dandelion set!!
Large on black! :)
I zoomed my lens while I took the photo. There were several experiments, but this one pleases me the most.
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Merry Christmas everyone!! I had no time today so I took this and it was inspired by Atmoic Turquoise. I really miss my mustang but she'll be off the road for a while still due to vandalism. Hope everyone had a happy holiday!!
This past week has been full of dreaming, I don't know how, I didn't had the capacity to dream, all I used to remember when I was awake was black color... So Dreams this week have been shocking, gross, scary.. here's the worst, is very personal, so if you don't want to feel overwhelmed, please don't read it.
EDIT: I THINK I PREFER NOT TO SHARE IT, sorry, I deleted it before anyone could read it.
No pro account yet, and guess not soon either, I have to spend money in so many other things :(
I do realize there are mistakes in the editing, I lost the first edit when PS closed and had a headache for hours now, and I don't know... I ended up liking the crap editing on it, makes it look more surreal.
A shoot of me doing this picture in the comments section :)
Whats cooler then having one badass looking flower in my back yard. Having Two check out 2nd photo. click L for a closer view
One of the most frustrating things about my camera is that the images it captures are never sharp enough. By “sharp enough” I mean my eyes sees them sharper! So last week I bought a super macro lens called Raynox DCR-250, and I think it improved my close up pictures dramatically. This can best be seen in the lower navy/purple marker (beside the black marker). The details (sharpness) on that marker, and a couple others, are amazing. I even uploaded the original image just in case you are interested in seeing it in its original full size.
For a price of $54 I think the Raynox DCR-250 is a very good lens in that it is very sharp, however its depth of field is paper thin: anything beyond or closer than that imaginary line is a blur. This is not completely a bad thing if you want everything else except what you are focusing on to be a blur, but that means it is almost impossible to use without a tripod, and forget about using it if it is windy outside! (Unless you have a very good friend who is willing to hold a tree branch for you! LOL!) I think I am keeping this lens. I have a feeling it will come in very handy in the future.
I was aiming for a shot like those used in stock images which I really like because they are so simple and right to the point! I hope I achieved that :)
PS: I must admit, those markers are the best $1 I’ve spent in my life!
(Toronto, ON; summer 2008.)
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