I haven't done much night photography so although there are obvious problems with the sharpness of the stars (especially along the right of the image - can anyone help explain this?), I am still pleased with the result.

... arriba un día maravilloso!!, abajo puede ser el infierno.

En una distancia de pocos metros podrías encontrarte en un lado o en otro, quizas la suerte?? .... disfruta al máximo!!

a tulip drown in the sea of muscaris.

As you may have heard, Japan was destroyed by an 8.9 earthquake and tsunami.

I almost spent the whole day watching the news and checking the tweets on Twitter. I couldn't barely work because of this disaster. I wasn't gonna sit there and do nothing, so I decided do whatever I can, to help the situation in Japan.

Inspired by the movement created by James White and others like Hydro74 and PJ Tierney. I decided to make this print entitled: Wake from Death and Return To Life. It's a japanese expression "kishi kaisei" and it means "To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst." It's to honour the courage of the japanese people after such a montruous tragedy.

I already sent this 12 x18 in poster to my printer and this will be included into a set of two (2) posters for sale on my online store. I'll include also my Retro Montreal Poster as a gift for your sale.

I'll also put down the prices of what's left from the Montreal Meets Store and ALL the sales will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.

As a designer, it's the least I can do to help those you can't do anything right now and this whole disaster makes you feel very fortunate for what you have in your life. I hope my gesture will inspire you to do the same! Join me.

Thank you and let's help Japan! Peace!

Aoiro.

Abandoned compression video project, 2009. Made with the help of Download Finished.

An archeology of a compression filter.

See blogpost: rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-compression-artifact-to-filter.html

A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their ideas in the work of Sven Konig and send them to his website (on which in 2005 already, Sven published a script that can be used to create such artifacts). Later the company send me an email that said they unfortunately cancelled their project.

I made my own video though, and send it to Goto80, but in the end we also decided it seemed boring to just reuse a technique developed by somebody else - because it feels no longer as an experiment.

I kept track of the bleeding pixel effect and noticed its growing popularity, especially over the last few weeks. This lead me to write a small archeology of this particular compression artifact.

The bleeding pixel effect (or datamoshing) is located in a realm where compression artifacts and glitch artifacts intertwine. The artifacts caused by compression are stable, although unpredictable. Therefore, technically, they are not a glitch because the method is reproducible. They are however often perceived as a glitch (an error). The bleeding effect relies on deleting the information within one frame per 25 (more or less, depending on the frame rate) in a divx or xvid video. I think the most interesting thing about using this effect is that it shows the materiality of digital film by translating the grain of the celloid into the digital pixel.

Timeline.

I know there are more works out there, but these works seem (for different reasons) more important or referenced too.

* Sven Konig. aPpRoPiRaTe!, 2005.

Online distributed software script made to appropriate complete video files found in file sharing networks with minimal effort.

In 2007 Sven and Bitnik collaborative project Download Finished saw the light of day. Download Finished is a website that "transforms and re-publishes films from p2p networks and online archives. in Downloaf Finished, found footage becomes the rough material for the transformation machine, which translates the underlying data structure of the films onto the surface of the screen. the original images dissolve into pixels, thus making the hidden data structure visible. through Download Finished, file sharers become authors by re-interpreting their most beloved films."

* Takeshi Murata. Monster Movie, 2005. Single channel digital video on DVD 4 minutes; sound by Plate Tectonics

* Paul B. Davis (collaboration with Jacob Ciocci/PAPER RAD). “Compression Study #2”, 2007. DVD projection (edition of 7)

* David OReilly. Compression Reel, 2008. Vimeo Video

* Data Mosher. Chairlift - "Evident Utensil" Music Video, 2009. Vimeo Video

* Nabil Elderkin. KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak", 2009. Vimeo Video

Since the release of the last three videos (by O'reilly, Chairlift and Kanye), there has been a lot of back-and-forth comment-talk on who was the first to use this effect. The Kanye video will not even be released because "there is another video out there using the same effect". Even so, most of the video makes seem to be quite nice to me and didn't get me tired of the effect yet.

I think it is only a matter of time before we will see that this artifact is developped into an browser script, like we have seen with much praised image-glitch plugins and browsers like glitchbrowser (2005/2008) developed by dimitre, ant scott, iman moradi.

Then this enchanting artifact will be changed into just another default preset or cultivation.

Anda... you're my only hope - do something, call someone, don't just stand there giggling! Can't you see what he's doing to me?!

best cat ever

former employees were worked to the bone :)

metrorichmondzoo.com/newsroom/pygmy-hippo-naming-poll/#:~...!

www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

9/10 Creative Prints, Port Adelaide Camera Club, March 2017

Designated helpers this day on the Sand Patch grade include a Western Maryland SD40 #7546, pushing this westbound manifest up the grade in the Allegheny Mountains in Larimer, PA.

I brought Elliot down to the kitchen to help me do some holiday baking... and this is how much he's helping...

Hello every,

Please help us to #provide food and milk for poor people and their children to relieve them from #hunger and to stop #starving #deaths of the poor people and their #children, and to fight against the #coronavirus.

Please any #help, your #contribution will help food and milk for the poor people and their children. No fees on this fundraiser of Indian GoFundMe (Ketto) see for more: bit.ly/394TU99

#StandWithChildren #ChildrenSufferingByPoverty #Help #ShareForSupport #GivingHope #SampathiFoundationCharity #HelpingHands #Children #Fundraising #Coronavirus #Hunger #DonateForFood

Cheshire

Manned helpers shove hard on the rear of a loaded BNSF coal train as it attacks Crawford Hill , Nebraska

Brooklands Cemetary

The big news before the new year was that CN would be leasing some unique power to help out where the railroad was power short. Among the newcomers is supposed to be a fleet of C40s. I don't know where they're coming from, but I thought a shot of one of CN's ex CNW standard cab GEs would be nice. Heres the 2127 spinning out of the curve in Griffith and headed west on the "wrong main" back in August, 2017.

Fuji X-M1 Porst 35mm F1.8 ISO 200 T1/50

Help. I'm not built for Sale shopping. Seeking solace in the Ikea cafe. Rob Draper.

I will never ... (never? yes I am certain I can use that word) get tired of looking at Picasso's "expression".

I'm looking for some help does anyone make clothes for Bratz because I would really be interested , I'm looking for ..... A juicy style track suit , please please can someone help or guide me in the right direction thank you so much guys

B

This image was taken at a wedding I photographed for a friend....we got him in there in the end and the wedding was a success ; )

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i'm sorry for the lack of pictures lately, i guess that's why i haven't been getting as many views as before :/

i just dislike when people view and don't comment, ya know? i comment or favorite like everything i look at :P

i've just been so uninspired and busy with other things recently. i might be taking a break soon.

i'm not even sure how much i like this.. i just needed to upload.

what a hectic week :( and its only wednesday.

this shirt makes me look huge..

sooc.

Struggling with a new laptop. Does the colour and exposure look OK on this???

"I lied about my coding proficiency on my resume." - Anonymous !Reliquary! Team Member

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I can't help but think of one of my favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan songs as I look at this. 'Living Life by the Drop' wasn't a good thing in his case but for me it's total bliss. Exchanging the bottled drop for beauty like this has been life transforming. Not to mention, I feel great the next morning too.

When I first saw this, I was initially attracted to the droplets on the blade of grass. I didn't even notice the accumulation on the leaf until uploading the images - but now I'm smitten. It seems I get a bit of tunnel vision this time of year. My eyes look through rain covered glasses. During lunch today, I do plan to look up a bit... however; I'm not promising.

Take care ~ Beth =]

youtu.be/H7ZPMScX9-k

After seeing a load of artists doing designs to raise money for HelpJapan.. I decided to do the same. I created a cute little vector Japanese sun with a nasty bump on his head.

This is getting made in to a a3 poster printed on 170 gsm gloss art paper and selling them for £4! and the proceeds go to the charity to raise money for Japan. buy here limitedtalent.bigcartel.com/

Twitter: @DanzG

Store!: limitedtalent.bigcartel.com/

Website: Limitedtalent.com

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No se me ocurre otro titulo a mi foto... quise hacer algo tenebroso.... como salida de esas películas de suspenso/terror que no me animo a mirar (porque la verdad soy muy miedosa y luego sueño con mostruos).... bue ahi les va la version terrorifica de esta pelicula... escapando de mis miedos!!

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Banding or Posterisation. Does anyone know how it comes about and how you get rid of it????

Look closely and you'll see some banding in the sky, almost like waves, where the gradation is not smooth. I read that it can be due to heavy processing. The example here has a vignette added but I know it's not the reason because it happens without vignettes too.... A suggestion was to use 16-bit processing but that doesn't really do the trick. Sometimes, yes. But not always. And now what's really driving me mad is that it appears in some of the shots straight from the camera.

It would be wonderful if someone could let me know what's going on and suggest a solution.

I've posted the orginal of this shot below.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

The exif data is:

1/30th sec @ f11

-1 1/3 exposure bias

ISO 100

Centre-weighted average metering

BTW, it's voting time at Takara Nomination Contest #5

elements : italy

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