Archive for October, 2008

Me as Beetlejuice = Fun :)

Who knew that each time you were peeling off of a roll of scotch tape you were exposing your fingers to low levels of X-Rays?
Soviet scientists discovered this fact back in the 1950s but preferred to allow Americans to kill themselves from excessive exposure to X-Rays instead of making the discovery public. They also did not find a practical use for it since the emissions were much too low for the sensing devices used in those days. The discovery was recently declassified which resulted in ULCA researchers verifying it and determining that current technologies could actually utilize this phenomenon with unpowered X-Ray devices. I can just imagine it now, a paramedic telling you hold still while he peels scotch tape next to your arm. LOL

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Australian photographer Keith Loutit has created several amazing tilt-shift time lapse videos. Tilt-shift photography uses a special lens that rotates (or tilts) and shifts the lens parallel to the image plane. This creates an extremely shallow depth of field mimicking the effects of macro photography. The result is an image that appears to be made of a miniature model.
Very cool stuff.

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.


Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.


Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.