Self-ad

There’s advertisement everywhere these days, including on social media networks.  You often see products or services being hawked alongside your profile.  This is something new that is interesting, especially given the current economic climate: Not only is he advertising on facebook to people in a particular network, he’s looking for a job there.  That’s pretty …

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Tilt-shift

Tilt-shift photography has been around for a long time.  Tilt changes the plane of focus, from the regular vertical plane (parallel to the film), to intersect the film (or sensor) at different angles.  This is why you only see a horizontal band of the picture in focus.  Shift changes the perspective of the photo, to …

Escape from Seattle

No, not me, but after a big snowstorm last week, and the pineapple express this week, Seattle is now cut off from the East and the South.  All the passes over the Cascades are closed due to avalanche danger, and I-5 southbound is closed for flooding (I have multiple packages in transit that are now …

Canon ad

I love this Canon ad for the XSi.  Little do you know, it took 10 cameras and 60 000 shots to make the commercial.  However, it is a bit disengenious to be advertising the XSi (a $600 camera) when all the shots were made with a 1D Mark III (a $3700 camera). Making of video …

Wakeboarding in Venice

Create and market energy drink with ridicously high profit margin. Hire professional extreme sport atheletes Wait for historic city to flood ??? Profit This is wakeboarder Duncan Zuur wakeboarding in recently flooded Venice.  More pictures of flooded Venice.  Video of wakeboarding in Venice.

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You take the biggest pool party at one of the hottest hotels in Vegas, and what do you get? A TV show, of course.

Canada joins the future

It’s been a long time since Amazon launched a Canadian site (over 6 years ago).  In fact, I remember it because it was during my first internship with the company.  But for the longest time, it only sold media products (books, CDs, DVDs, etc) whereas the rest of Amazon’s global sites gradually expanded to many …

tuba man

We used to go to quite a bit of TBirds games (Seattle’s WHL hockey team), and at the end of every game, as we streamed out of the arena, there would inevitably be someone playing the tuba just above the steps in Seattle Center.  It was a familiar sound that was a constant at every …