Underwater photos
JP Trenque’s amazing underwater photos from the BBC’s Photographer of the Year 2005 competition – [via] Link. The photos were taken with a Nikon D100 camera in a Sea & Sea housing – Link.
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HOW TO – Kite aerial “panography”
Andrew writes – “I noticed a bunch more recent posts on KAP (Kite Aerial Photography). I don’t know if you have discovered Scott Haefner’s site, yet. He has combined KAP with panoramic photography to get some impressive images.” Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner – Link & how they’re made. Noted panographer and maker Philo […]
Telescopes ‘worthless’ by 2050
Get outside and see some stars folks – “Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says. Aircraft condensation trails – known as contrails – can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds. If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, […]
Custom photos on pencils
You can put your own custom photos on pencils using this site/service, $1 each. [via] Link.
HOW TO – Build your own cockpit
Here’s “a nice collection of articles dealing with building your own cockpit, rudders, and any other stuff to enhance your computer simulation experience.” Link. Pictured here, Let’s Rumble by Craig Engler in DIY: Home Entertainment. Hack your couch to give you a kick in the pants: attach bass shakers to your furniture to round out […]
Avimator – Make your own animations for the virtual world!
If you hang out in the user created virtual world Second Life one of the popular things to do is use animations for dancing, interaction, avatar personality and using for filming (also called Machinima) – animations are usually created with Poser, but now there’s a new free way to create the animation files (.BVH) . […]
500 experiments and more – Exploratorium
The Exploratorium has hundreds of simple experiments, hands on activities, projects and things to make! [via] Link.
