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Snow storm Emma (01-03-2018):
Forecasters have taken the rare step of issuing a red weather warning alert - the highest level - for south-west England and Wales from 3pm today until 2am on Friday morning.
Snowfall will grow heavier through Thursday afternoon and evening with 10cm to 20cm likely to settle widely across red alert areas, Met Office chief meteorologist Paul Gundersen said.
Freezing rain is likely to create large, hazardous icy stretches as rain droplets supercool and freeze instantly upon hitting the ground.
Scotland has faced the brunt of bad weather so far this week but the worst is expected later in the south of the country.
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Candid street shot, Chagford, Devon, UK.
Day 288 of the 365 Journey
The fist night out for Turkey day weekend in the dunes. Man…look at all those stars!
Strobist INFO:
Shutter Speed 10 Seconds
Aperture 2.8
ISO 1600
Lens – Tamron 28-75 2.8
Focal Length –38mm
White Bal – AUTO
Setup time: 10 mins.
Moonlight, iPhone, and passing cars.
Lights and camera shutter release triggered via Pocket Wizard’s
WEEK 14 – Superlo Foods Southaven
Welcome to the one that was left behind! When Schnucks left the Memphis market, Kroger opted not to take over this location, which, on Goodman Road, is not too far from their “monster” store just east of here. Also, it is a leased store, so they didn't want to get tied up in that (although they did get the fuel station out front as a part of the deal!). Superlo Foods, on the other hand, a local, employee-owned grocery chain, had no problems coming in and setting up shop with practically no changes to the existing layout or décor.
Unfortunately, we won't be doing too much of a time warp with the décor as many would like. This old Seessel's/Albertsons/Schnucks only retains the corrugated décor of the latter, so not many cool artifacts from the store's younger days remain. But maybe this really neat car, which just so happened to end up in my picture, will fulfill your quest for cool things from days gone past!
Superlo Foods // 945 Goodman Road E, Southaven, MS 38671
(c) 2015 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
The friendly people at Klubi "signed" me as one of their in-house photographers, giving me a good chance to see more bands and take some photos as well. Wo-hoo!
Swedish rockers Division of Laura Lee has been one of my favourite bands for years and it was supercool to get a chance to take pictures of them, especially as they put on a good show. Thanks guys!
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Nicholas "Nik" Turner (born 26 August 1940, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) is an English musician, best known as a former member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt-inspired costumes.
I took this photo of the latest hot lot of processor chips of various sizes at the spook shop summit (InQTel CEO Summit). Pretty shiny bling.
I am in the D-Wave board meeting now, and we just got a peek of next week's TIME Magazine cover (below). And it made the Charlie Rose show.
Here are some excerpts:
"The Quantum Quest for a Revolutionary Computer
The D-Wave Two is an unusual computer, and D-Wave is an unusual company. It's small, just 114 people, and its location puts it well outside the swim of Silicon Valley. But its investors include the storied Menlo Park, Calif., venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which funded Skype and Tesla Motors. It's also backed by famously prescient Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and an outfit called In-Q-Tel, better known as the high-tech investment arm of the CIA. Likewise, D-Wave has very few customers, but they're blue-chip: they include the defense contractor Lockheed Martin; a computing lab that's hosted by NASA and largely funded by Google; and a U.S. intelligence agency that D-Wave executives decline to name.
The reason D-Wave has so few customers is that it makes a new type of computer called a quantum computer that's so radical and strange, people are still trying to figure out what it's for and how to use it. It could represent an enormous new source of computing power--it has the potential to solve problems that would take conventional computers centuries, with revolutionary consequences for fields ranging from cryptography to nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals to artificial intelligence.
That's the theory, anyway. Some critics, many of them bearing Ph.D.s and significant academic reputations, think D-Wave's machines aren't quantum computers at all. But D-Wave's customers buy them anyway, for around $10 million a pop, because if they're the real deal they could be the biggest leap forward since the invention of the microprocessor. …
Physicist David Deutsch once described quantum computing as "the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes." Not only is this excitingly weird, it's also incredibly useful. If a single quantum bit (or as they're inevitably called, qubits, pronounced cubits) can be in two states at the same time, it can perform two calculations at the same time. Two quantum bits could perform four simultaneous calculations; three quantum bits could perform eight; and so on. The power grows exponentially.
The supercooled niobium chip at the heart of the D-Wave Two has 512 qubits and therefore could in theory perform 2^512 operations simultaneously. That's more calculations than there are atoms in the universe, by many orders of magnitude. "This is not just a quantitative change," says Colin Williams, D-Wave's director of business development and strategic partnerships, who has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and once worked as Stephen Hawking's research assistant at Cambridge. "The kind of physical effects that our machine has access to are simply not available to supercomputers, no matter how big you make them. We're tapping into the fabric of reality in a fundamentally new way, to make a kind of computer that the world has never seen."
Naturally, a lot of people want one. This is the age of Big Data, and we're burying ourselves in information-- search queries, genomes, credit-card purchases, phone records, retail transactions, social media, geological surveys, climate data, surveillance videos, movie recommendations--and D-Wave just happens to be selling a very shiny new shovel. "Who knows what hedge-fund managers would do with one of these and the black-swan event that that might entail?" says Steve Jurvetson, one of the managing directors of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "For many of the computational traders, it's an arms race."
One of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, published last month, revealed that the NSA has an $80 million quantum-computing project suggestively code-named Penetrating Hard Targets. Here's why: much of the encryption used online is based on the fact that it can take conventional computers years to find the factors of a number that is the product of two large primes. A quantum computer could do it so fast that it would render a lot of encryption obsolete overnight. You can see why the NSA would take an interest. …
For its first five years, the company existed as a think tank focused on research. Draper Fisher Jurvetson got onboard in 2003, viewing the business as a very sexy but very long shot. "I would put it in the same bucket as SpaceX and Tesla Motors," Jurvetson says, "where even the CEO Elon Musk will tell you that failure was the most likely outcome." By then Rose was ready to go from thinking about quantum computers to trying to build them--"we switched from a patent, IP, science aggregator to an engineering company," he says. Rose wasn't interested in expensive, fragile laboratory experiments; he wanted to build machines big enough to handle significant computing tasks and cheap and robust enough to be manufactured commercially. With that in mind, he and his colleagues made an important and still controversial decision.
Up until then, most quantum computers followed something called the gate-model approach, which is roughly analogous to the way conventional computers work, if you substitute qubits for transistors. But one of the things Rose had figured out in those early years was that building a gate-model quantum computer of any useful size just wasn't going to be feasible anytime soon. …
Adiabatic quantum computing may be technically simpler than the gate-model kind, but it comes with trade-offs. An adiabatic quantum computer can really solve only one class of problems, called discrete combinatorial optimization problems, which involve finding the best--the shortest, or the fastest, or the cheapest, or the most efficient--way of doing a given task.
This is great if you have a really hard discrete combinatorial optimization problem to solve. Not everybody does. But once you start looking for optimization problems, or at least problems that can be twisted around to look like optimization problems, you find them all over the place: in software design, tumor treatments, logistical planning, the stock market, airline schedules, the search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, and in particular in machine learning.
Google and NASA, along with the Universities Space Research Association, jointly run something called the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or QuAIL, based at NASA Ames, which is the proud owner of a D-Wave Two. "If you're trying to do planning and scheduling for how you navigate the Curiosity rover on Mars or how you schedule the activities of astronauts on the station, these are clearly problems where a quantum computer--a computer that can optimally solve optimization problems--would be useful," says Rupak Biswas, deputy director of the Exploration Technology Directorate at NASA Ames. Google has been using its D-Wave to, among other things, write software that helps Google Glass tell the difference between when you're blinking and when you're winking.
Lockheed Martin turned out to have some optimization problems too. It produces a colossal amount of computer code, all of which has to be verified and validated for all possible scenarios, lest your F-35 spontaneously decide to reboot itself in midair. "It's very difficult to exhaustively test all of the possible conditions that can occur in the life of a system," says Ray Johnson, Lockheed Martin's chief technology officer. "Because of the ability to handle multiple conditions at one time through superposition, you're able to much more rapidly--orders of magnitude more rapidly--exhaustively test the conditions in that software." The company re-upped for a D-Wave Two last year.
Another challenge Rose and company face is that there is a small but nonzero number of academic physicists and computer scientists who think that they are partly or completely full of sh-t. Ever since D-Wave's first demo in 2007, snide humor, polite skepticism, impolite skepticism and outright debunkings have been lobbed at the company from any number of ivory towers. "There are many who in Round 1 of this started trash-talking D-Wave before they'd ever met the company," Jurvetson says. "Just the mere notion that someone is going to be building and shipping a quantum computer--they said, 'They are lying, and it's smoke and mirrors.'"
Seven years and many demos and papers later, the company isn't any less controversial. Any blog post or news story about D-Wave instantly grows a shaggy beard of vehement comments, both pro- and anti-. …
But where quantum computing is concerned, there always seems to be room for disagreement. Hartmut Neven, the director of engineering who runs Google's quantum-computing project, argues that the tests weren't a failure at all--that in one class of problem, the D-Wave Two outperformed the classical computers in a way that suggests quantum effects were in play. "There you see essentially what we were after," he says. "There you see an exponentially widening gap between simulated annealing and quantum annealing ... That's great news, but so far nobody has paid attention to it." Meanwhile, two other papers published in January make the case that a) D-Wave's chip does demonstrate entanglement and b) the test used the wrong kind of problem and was therefore meaningless anyway. For now pretty much everybody at least agrees that it's impressive that a chip as radically new as D-Wave's could even achieve parity with conventional hardware.
The attitude in D-Wave's C-suite toward all this back-and-forth is, unsurprisingly, dismissive. "The people that really understand what we're doing aren't skeptical," says Brownell. Rose is equally calm about it; all that wrestling must have left him with a thick skin. "Unfortunately," he says, "like all discourse on the Internet, it tends to be driven by a small number of people that are both vocal and not necessarily the most informed." He's content to let the products prove themselves, or not. "It's fine," he says. "It's good. Science progresses by rocking the ship. Things like this are a necessary component of forward progress."
Are D-Wave's machines quantum computers?
For now the answer is itself suspended, aptly enough, in a state of superposition, somewhere between yes and no. If the machines can do anything like what D-Wave is predicting, they won't leave many fields untouched. "I think we'll look back on the first time a quantum computer outperformed classical computing as a historic milestone," Brownell says. "It's a little grand, but we're kind of like Intel and Microsoft in 1977, at the dawn of a new computing era."
The "Three Brothers"
(located just east of El Capitan).
It is made up of
Eagle Peak (the uppermost "brother"), and
Middle and
Lower Brothers.
Yosemite Falls on center right.
The waterfall on the far right is Lehamite Falls 1,180 feet
Flows for only a short time each year. You won't see it in many photographs.
Photographed 12 May 2006
Nikon 5200
- Best if viewed in the larger "Original View" option -
Little Toyko, Los Angeles
Pentacon Six TL
Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 180mm/2.8f
Kodak 120 film T-MAX 400
Stand Developed in HC-110 1:100 60 minutes
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Jennifer was sitting on a wall outside the Japanese American Cultural Center. There was a ton of people about as the LA Art Book Fair was happening next door at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. I had been feeling a little rusty behind the camera all day, but the energy of all the people, and the artistic vibe in the air was inspiring. I got into the mood shooting a few candids (will be posting those soon) eventually working up the courage to ask a couple of people if they'd be apart of the 100 Strangers Project.
Jennifer was supercool about the idea, and let me take a couple of shots. I developed the roll last night and the shots of her came out with a "high-key" look that I think suites her look. On one of the shots she's holding her phone up, leading me to think she was probably photographing me shooting her :)
Thanks Jennifer for being apart of my 100 Strangers Project
... here's is my first set of 100 Strangers
Also you can find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Possible winner for most thrilling exploration ever...
Here's the story. Last week I had Martino & Mrtnski as honoured guests at my place. Two die hard explorers and darn good photographers from Holland. We were into an urbex all weekender. I checked some possible locations for us to visit, and I found this beautiful but oh so difficult place to enter: HH.
Some background info. This place, which classifies as a château, goes back to the 17th century. It became abandoned in the late eighties. Somewhere in 2004 squatters took over. They possess the building ever since. It's almost impossible for the police to get them out.
Time goes by and this place is gently turning from squatters heaven into junkies heaven.
It's advisable not to go there.
Reinforced by Telefunker & Stef, the Belgian crew quoi, we all meet up to check this place. The big front gate, which is locked by the squatters themselves, is just not doable to climb. We hit the parking lot of a surrounding building to climb over the wall. We're inside the gardens.
Plan A: the safe approach, knocking on the door. Just moments before, Mrtnski asks me if these squatters are ok. Junks... I guess not. Anything can happen. We knock. No answer. We go to another front door and knock again. Nothing. We shout. Silence. Heading towards the backgarden we see a huge amount of bicycles. Fifty something. That's a lot. I check the tires. They're ok. People are living here, right? We knock on the backdoor. Nothing. We check the servants entrance, knocking and shouting. Nothing.
Plan B: entering through an open window.
We find an open window at the back. It's doable to climb through. But we're hesitating. We all have this feeling the place is not empty. Who's going in first? I put my head inside this darkness and I can barely see anything. I take a deep breath, face my fears, and head in first. I find myself in the middle of this total squatters' chaos: litter, trash, empty weedbags, human faeces, Cara pils, tinfoil papers, candles, dirt, empty bottles, ... The smell is awfull. I take a brief moment to listen. Silence. I think it's ok.
Everyone's inside now. For some strange reason the doors to the main hall are locked. We find a servants stair in the back and go up. First floor: rooms of squatters. More dirt. More trash. We go up to the second floor and manage to go to the main part of the house. We're in this beautiful hallway.
And then... a door opens. Some strange dude with a hammer in his hand approaches us. He looks frightening. Adrenaline levels are way up now. "How the hell did you guys enter this building?", he asks. "Through an open window at the back", we reply. "That's not possible, I closed everything! How the hell did you guys enter?", he shouts". "Through an open window, seriously!". He doesn't want to believe us. We tell him we're photographers, interested in all that's abandoned. But he's certainly not happy with our little visit here. He demands us to go downstairs and wait. He returns to his room.
In a situation like this it only takes a split second to decide what's the best thing to do. We have no idea how many squatters are living here. And we certainly don't want our skull smashed in with a hammer. We decide to hit the road. In a flat 30 seconds we're all downstairs, out of the window, over the balcony, through the garden, over the wall. Talkin' about an exit strategy.
Just when we're out, the guy approaches us again. He tells us he wants to talk. He's a squatter but he's trying very hard to keep the junks outside. He seems cool and relaxed and we decide to give it a shot. He takes us in and he talks about the previous squatters who made such a mess here. He's sick and tired of them and he wants to restore the building in it's original glory. It seems awkward, but he shows us around and tells us how much he's been cleaning up. And he's got proof too: pictures dating back from the junkie days. He even shows us some rooms he hasn't been cleaning up. Believe me, you don't want to see this.
In the end this dude was supercool. He showed us around and we talked about the past, the present and the future of this beautiful building. Electricity was up again. A sheer 120 Volts added a very creepy atmosphere to the place. Little by little the grandeur of this place was returning. And he's putting so much effort in it. Quite surprising for a squatter. Respect!
This was one hell of an exploration. Thanks guys!
A photographic Christmas card featuring a lucky kid on a supercool Murray Super Sonic Jet pedal car manufactured in the 1950s. See a cropped version for a close-up of the jet and its pilot.
For an earlier earthbound vehicle, see A Pedal Car for Christmas.
Pedal car decals: "Murray. Ball Bearing. Super Sonic Jet. Chain Drive." Note the atom symbol on the tail and the lightning bolt on the side.
© Mark Watson.
Water bomb popped.
taken with a Panasonic FZ50,
frozen with a www.makezine.com/flashkit/
and strobe.
This isn't color-adjusted with post-processing... I took this shot out of my sunroof and the tint of the sunroof acted as a supercool colored filter of sorts.... I have such esoteric techniques.... LOL
Cy - if you like cool classic cars llike VWs/porshce/mercs /landrovers mixed with beach and dogs - check him out - supercool - www.flickr.com/photos/46230766@N02/
commented on my shots from yesterday that he can tell how the seasons are changing from the changing colours on my shots and I completely agree as was thinking the same myself. it feels like over the last few weeks Mother Nature has left the door open in Bondi and all the colour and warmth has seeped out. So time to dig into my digital pantry and artificially inject and resuscitate some warmth onto my flickrstream from a shot I took a couple of months ago ;) .
Puro reflexo /
Just reflection
Added to Cream of the Crop group as my most favorited and most viewed picture.
This shot taken in November 2019 to test Zeiss Super Ikonta 531, used by my father from the 50s to the mid-90s. It seems to work well, no light infiltration, maybe the exposure times below 1/15 are not precise but Ok. The Opton Tessar 1.3.5 75mm lens is very good
Fomapan 400 film, dev.
in Ilford ID11 for 8 minutes
scan with Nikon SuperCool Scan 9000 DE
Questo scatto è stato effettuato a novembre 2019 per testare Zeiss Super Ikonta 531, utilizzato da mio padre dagli anni '50 a metà degli anni '90. Sembra funzionare bene, nessuna infiltrazione di luce, forse i tempi di esposizione inferiori a 1/15 non sono precisi ma ok. L'obiettivo Opton Tessar 1.3.5 da 75 mm è molto buono
Fomapan 400 film, dev.
in Ilford ID11 per 8 minuti
scansione con Nikon SuperCool Scan 9000 DE
Fashion Mixer 1: Ra-Ra Skirts, sold in these three variations.
Fashion Mixer 2: Twin tops, sold in six variations. Two tops in each pack.
Models: Supercool Sindy 1988
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Big Chicken worked hard to have the ladies focus on him and the camera, while rude, unstylish, dumbbell, lumberjacks swarmed
the place.
When he went through the negatives later that evening, there weren't one single photo were all three of them looked into the camera at the same time.
Something had to be done...
Whole Roll Project
Vancouver BC and a bit of the way back, September 2018.
Diafine, Supercool Scan 4000
Trooper is a Premium British Beer inspired by Iron Maiden and handcrafted at Robinsons brewery. Malt flavours and citric notes from a unique blend of Bobec, Goldings and Cascade hops dominate this deep golden ale with a subtle hint of lemon.
Whole Roll Project
Vancouver BC and a bit of the way back, September 2018.
Diafine, Supercool Scan 4000
Fortunate to have a friend, Mitch Bautista who walked me through the rudiments of outdoor strobing.
Model: Zeke Nolasco
Make-up: Toni Rodriguez
Location: Alabang Hills, Muntinglupa, MM
Zeke Nolasco is one of the finalists in Project Runway Philippines.
...while keeping your supercool… and harnessing the refractive echoes of many trillions of parallel universes engaged in the computation…
D-Wave’s quantum annealing paper came out in Nature today (here's a plain English summary).
“Fabricated using standard integrated circuit processes, the processors tested contained 128 superconducting flux qubits and 24,000 devices known as Josephson junctions, making them among the most complex superconducting circuits ever built. Designed to solve optimization and sampling problems, the processors have been successfully used in a variety of tasks including financial risk analysis, bioinformatics, affinity mapping and sentiment analysis, object recognition in images, medical imaging classification and compressed sensing.”
It also makes a wicked machine learning coprocessor, as shown by Google.
Image courtesy of D-Wave. The brilliant monitoring squares are comb-meanders, and the wiring spacing forms a diffraction grating tuned to a specific wavelength of light.