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I got the Humanscale M8 monitor arm a few weeks back, got the clamp mount by mistake. Sent the mount back to exchange for a bolt-through mount. Just got the new mount yesterday. Took me about two hours from drilling to having everything set up the way i want. I love having my monitors on arms, its been driving me nuts the past few weeks with them not on arms.
A solitary silhouette framed by stone, suspended between city and water in a moment of quiet observation.
Here's a shot taken from behind the desk so that you can see the cable tray and the cable tieing I've done. Also in the tray is my 500Gb Freecom XSS hard drive, as well as the tv card and usb hub I need.
The picture is a panoramic of the famous Clifton Suspension bridge in Bristol. Which is about a mile away from my office.
Resting and testing
Tagged, Waterfront, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Zeiss Biogon 2,8/25 ZM
B+W 386 UV IR cut filter
Aperture 2.0 (raw fine tuning, crop, exposure)
1/20 sec @ f/2.8, iso 160, 25mm (33mm)
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Tagged shots with Zeiss 28/2.8 and Tokina 165.
A comparison of two cameras and lenses. This one was taken by a Leica M8 with my new Zeiss Biogon 25mm lens (vs Nikon D3 + Tokina AT-X Pro 165 in FX mode) If you are wondering why I didn’t ask him to shoot the same scene at the same focal distance it is because I believe the system affects how a person decides to shoot the shot. For instance, if you are using a fixed lens, it is natural to zoom with your feet (or, in this case, ask me to move closer).
I had to move closer to Mark in order to give him a similar sized subject to shoot. I am a little over two feet away from him. In actuality, the lens can close focus up to a foot and a half, but it becomes rangefinder uncoupled at that point. The shutter speed had to be dropped but it is pretty easy to hold a rangefinder past the shake limit. The filter kept me from getting the classic digital Leica “sunburn” and the brightness of the scene meant that Leica’s primitive white balance system wasn’t confused by the fluorescents as they weren’t contributing much to the scene. The place is lit by skylights as well as incandescent and fluorescent lighting.
I cropped off the ceiling, but other than that, no postprocessing was done. The bokeh is very smooth, but this wasn’t exactly the most challenging lighting situation. The scene was metered a third of a stop ovrexposed from ideal so I adjusted that using Aperture’s exposure control.
I have a feeling that this will be a great lens for daytime documentary photography.
(This is the original image other than what was noted).
Safety Awareness Campaign - Ergonomics 101 presented by Vanessa del Aguila from Humanscale.
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Plug into Safety: Don’t Be Shocked By What You Will Learn! is the theme for this year’s Safety Awareness Campaign (SAC) at NASA Goddard. The theme served as a reminder that everyone uses electricity and becoming complacent can lead to some serious consequences. This year’s SAC provides an opportunity for employees to learn strategies to incorporate safety principles while performing daily tasks at work and at home.
In addition to “Electrical Safety” there was a wide variety of safety and health activities and training courses offered to enhance knowledge and awareness of workplace and personal safety. The campaign included Directorate Safety Stand-Down sessions where employees will received information about Goddard’s safety programs and information specific to each Directorate’s safety plans and procedures.
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Safety Awareness Campaign - Ergonomics 101 presented by Vanessa del Aguila from Humanscale.
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Plug into Safety: Don’t Be Shocked By What You Will Learn! is the theme for this year’s Safety Awareness Campaign (SAC) at NASA Goddard. The theme served as a reminder that everyone uses electricity and becoming complacent can lead to some serious consequences. This year’s SAC provides an opportunity for employees to learn strategies to incorporate safety principles while performing daily tasks at work and at home.
In addition to “Electrical Safety” there was a wide variety of safety and health activities and training courses offered to enhance knowledge and awareness of workplace and personal safety. The campaign included Directorate Safety Stand-Down sessions where employees will received information about Goddard’s safety programs and information specific to each Directorate’s safety plans and procedures.
Credit: NASA/Goddard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Underneath the rear of the chair is a convex, curved metal casting. It ends just about directly below the back edge of the chair seat, and it’s the lowest part of the chair suspension. There’s a hole in the casting, with a 3/16” socket head screw that is probably slightly protruding.
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Same idea, different view. You don't really have to tip your chair over on the carpet. Here's what you'll see if you leave it upright.
Now I’ve got my chair tightened up like my kindergarten teacher’s posture lecture. I’ll keep the hex key in my desk for a few days and maybe loosen the screw a bit, until it’s just right.
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To increase tension on the chair back, tighten the socket head screw (turning clockwise) with a 3/16” hex key. Loosening the screw (by turning counterclockwise) should decrease the tension and eventually just let the chair back flop backward, I suppose.
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My office setup, including the Liberty chair, Colombo Trolley, and steel desk. The desk is made by some Italian company that mostly makes commercial kitchen storage and work tables. Since the desk is on wheels, we plan to roll it out and use it as a gaming table.
Today's was one of the few Thankvents, in fact I'd go so far as to say the only one, for which I pretty much knew the subject before the day. Edinburgh. Ma ain city, ma ain true luve (except Kinross-shire)(obv).
The reason for this certainty is, aptly considering yesterday's entry, tradition. It is my mum's birthday and, with the exception of Christmas day itself it contains more traditions than any other day of the year. The central tradition is that she and I go to Edinburgh. Once there (singing obscure carols all the way) we go to the German Market, go up the ferris wheel, go on the merry-go-round, buy a sparkly piece of jewellery for my magpie mum, buy last minute presents, go to the cinema or to the St Mary's carol concert and generally Edinburgh Christmas it up to the max.
Today, however, I was ill. You'd think I would be used to this now, but no. I'm ill on Mum's birthday pretty much every year, the combination of colder weather and end-of-term exhaustion usually proves too much for me. Today was the first time I have actually missed it, though, and I was gutted.
I had bought Mum two tickets to see The Illusionist which is partly set in Edinburgh, a fact which endears it to my family regardless of any other fact about it (luckily it is also rather lovely). We are all crazy about Scotland's capital. Today's picture shows the Cat Nick which is on Salisbury Crags, in a 1950s postcard which is up in our bathroom (along with the recently added festive teatowel). Through the nick you can see the house that my grandad was born in in the Canongait, then one of the poorest areas of Edinburgh. The whole of my dad's side of the family are 'Edinburgh born and bred'. My grandparents are quite insistent on this point, despite the fact that they have lived in Fife for approaching 60 years.
This dedication of locals to their home town is not always seen as a defining aspect of Edinburgh in the way that 'belonging to Glasgow' is a huge part of being a Weegie. I wanted to look into this perceived urban-patriotism in my poetry recital/tour which I did on the train between Glasgow and Edinburgh in the summer (I'm hoping to do the reverse journey as part of the Fringe 2011). Doing that show only made more legitimate my very frequent consideration of what makes Edinburgh individual, and more specifically, what makes it not Glasgow.
The crudest and most sweeping statement on the difference that I could make was this:
In Edinburgh it is always possible to look at the city. From Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, Castle Rock, the Braid Hills, the Scott Monument, the top of Hanover Street and many more heights, the city presents beautiful and famous vistas. Right in the city centre is a one-sided street built in this way so that pedestrians and inhabitants could look back at the panorama of the Old Town. After staying in Glasgow, the enormous space created by Princes Street gardens seems unreasonably luxurious and wonderful. In Glasgow, the city centre is a grid many times the size of Edinburgh's modest New Town, lined with buildings which dwarf even George Street. The buildings of St Vincent Street are higher and louder than the sky. Turn a corner in Glasgow and you are more likely to be met with another feat of the architectural engineering in your eye-line than with a sweeping view. But none of these buildings makes a postcard. Even the iconic University tower is a single spectacular spike on an otherwise unrecognisable horizon. And thus, ladies and gentlemen, I would claim this unprovable thing: Edinburgh defines itself by its beloved cityself, and Glasgow defines itself by its beloved people, those humanscaled things that you can actually see at street level.
Whether this is true or not (let's face it, it doesn't matter) and whether Glasgow ever manages to catch up with Edinburgh in my affections, I will always be thankful for Edinburgh. And in Edinburgh I will always be thankful for the following:
* The Scottish Poetry Library (nice librarians and noise level and light)
* St Mary's Street (nice Russian shop and knitted stuff shop and pub)
* West Nicholson Street (nice smoothie and ethnoscheiss shops)
* The Main University Library (nice books)
* The Meadows (nice cherry blossom and BBQs and frisbee (ultimate))
* Chambers Street (lots of people and museums)
* The National Museum of Scotland (nice floors and a harp)
* Lauriston Park, Brougham Street and Panmure Place (nice flats)
* The Cameo (nice bar, nice films)
* The Pear Tree (nice pub quiz)
* Heriot Place (nice secret views)
* The West Port (nice book shops and, possibly, knocking shops)(ooh, and nice book festival)
* Cafe Luccano (nice vegan rolls (toasted))
* Bedlam Theatre (nice memories and plays)
* The Forest Cafe (nice Spanish vagrants and vegan food)
* No. 1 Sushi (nice video of people making sushi)
* Real Foods (nice Black Flame Raisins)
* Henderson's(nice background music and vegan cherry pie)
* Cloisters (nice people-who-like-whisky (similarly The Blue Blazer))
Contemplating
Tagged, Waterfront, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3,Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX
Aperture 2.0 (raw fine tuning)
1/100 sec @ f/5, iso 1600, 50mm (75mm)
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Tagged shots with Zeiss 28/2.8 and Tokina 165.
A comparison of two cameras and lenses. This one was taken by a Nikon D3 in DX mode shot in Program mode with Auto White balance and auto ISO (vs Leica M8 + Zeiss Biogon 2,8/25). If you are wondering why I didn’t ask him to shoot the same scene at the same focal distance it is because I believe the system affects how a person decides to shoot the shot. If you have a zoom, then it’s natural to use the zoom, for instance.
The system chose to do ISO 1600 and get a f/5 depth of field. I would have chosen f/2.8 and dropped the ISO down to 420. You can see that the image has very little noise at what used to be my maximal working ISO on my D70 adn D200.
There is no point in shooting on FX mode on with this lens as it vignettes at all focal lengths. Also, since it is a third party lens, the camera does not automatically shade the aperture, this has to be done in the custom menu.
(This is the original image)
My home workspace: Knoll file cabinets,
black granite desktop, Humanscale dual monitor displays, Herman Miller Aeron Chair, HP computers
Renovated Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2016
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Март
Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, October 2014.
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Осень 2014
ergohuman chair, custom built by me desk, evoluent mouse, razer lycosa kb, humanscale keyboard tray, humanscale monitor arm, 42" panasonic plasma tv, humanscale cpu holder, liliput 7" usb monitor, belkin/razer n5te gamepad
the ergohuman chair, custom built by me desk, evoluent mouse, razer lycosa kb, humanscale keyboard tray, humanscale monitor arm, 42" panasonic plasma tv, humanscale cpu holder, liliput 7" usb monitor, belkin/razer n5te gamepad. All ergonomic items purchased from purchased most items from: www.thehumansolution.com/
the ergohuman chair, custom built by me desk, evoluent mouse, razer lycosa kb, humanscale keyboard tray, humanscale monitor arm, 42" panasonic plasma tv, humanscale cpu holder, liliput 7" usb monitor, belkin/razer n5te gamepad. All ergonomic items purchased from purchased most items from: www.thehumansolution.com/
ergohuman chair, custom built by me desk, evoluent mouse, razer lycosa kb, humanscale keyboard tray, humanscale monitor arm, 42" panasonic plasma tv, humanscale cpu holder, liliput 7" usb monitor, belkin/razer n5te gamepad
I have build my own picnic scene. All the visiotors at the exhibit I am at are welcome to sit down and enyoj a fully scale 1:1 picnic in Lego. Next up is a picnic basket and juice pitcher
Here's a shot taken whilst I was setting up the office, you can see that now cables are under the desk at all. They are all hidden either behind the desk or the smaller Ikea Besta. The desk is an Ikea Mikael. The Apple cinema display is great mounted on the humanscale m7 vesa mount as it clears off my desk that bit more.