Oscar Myer is currently promoting a new mini-sized food product and thought it a good idea to down size their wiener mobile. The new set of buns is a MINI Cooper S with the traditional red and yellow paint job with a ginourmous bun and hot dog on top. Catch the video for a quick making of. Watch out for the hot dog related humor.
No word yet on Dawn Wiener's reaction.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Yazoo: On Tour!
Brit electro synth-pop Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke Yazoo are back together to promote a new 4 disc box set of their early and short-lived work together. They have announced U.S. tour dates, two of which are in New York July 16 and 17, 2008.
Stunning pictures of San Francisco Fleetweek Airshow
Check out these photos by Bernard Zee from the 2007 San Francisco Fleetweek airshow. There are some really stunning pictures like the one to the right which shows visual distortion from the shock wave of the aircraft. Amazing!
Link. Thanks, Jim!
Moment of Hammer Time Zen
Thanks Flickr, you always come through.
Cameratoss, addition to the photographic vernacular
I just learned about this one today. Cameratoss is a term that is much what it sounds like. Darken the room, turn on specific point light sources, set camera for longish exposure, trigger and toss. I might not be trying this with my new camera, but maybe a small point and shoot with the tether around my wrist.
Link to Cameratoss Flickr group. (photo by davespilbrow via Flickr)
Unordinary Camera Accessories
Lens Babies
The Lens Baby is a flexible lens that fits on your SLR camera to give you finger-tip selective focus on subjects. Compress the Lens Baby in one direction and you get a tilt-focus effect, similar to that of a large format camera. The results are endless. Lens Baby also makes accessories for video cameras as well.
Joby Gorillapod
The Gorillapod might be the best impromptu tripod available. Position the three fully jointed legs in any position or secure it to a railing, lamppost or chair-back to get a shake-free shot. The rubber-ringed joints stay put.
Thanks, Ray!
How Old is Your Hearing: The Mosquito Ringtone
The Mosquito Ringtone came about after a crafty British man who invented a device called The Mosquito, the Mosquito is a device that emits a very high frequency tone meant to annoy teenagers (adults are unable to hear the tone). Some crafty students decided to convert the same technology into a ring tone that only they (teenagers) could hear! By utilizing this free ringtone, you can get phone calls and receive text messages while in class or school without teachers knowing it.
The highest frequency I could hear was 16.7khz. Maybe it's my speakers. You?
Link. (image by gravitywave via Flickr)
Astropix.com by Jerry Lodriguss
Be sure to check out Jerry Lodriguss's web site astropix.com for a terrific gallery of extraordinary pictures of celestial objects, most shot with pro-sumer Canon equipment. But the best thing about his photos are that he tells you the details about each picture giving a wealth of information about the shot. Jerry is located in Philadelphia and is a photographer for the Philadelphia Enquirer.
Astrophotography, redux #1
With the recent aquisition of the Canon 40D, I thought I'd put it through it's paces and try some long exposure to see what the noise was like. The results were very pleasing. I'm using a Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L USM lens which is a great lens, although a bit heavy. Click each picture for a larger view.
This first image is a composite of two shots, each 15″ @ f2.8, ISO 400, 24mm focal length. The bright lines at the bottom are caused by aircraft moving through the frame. The break in the line shows the end of one shot and the beginning of the next shot. The stars are just beginning to shift as the Earth rotates.
The second image is a composite of 30 shots over 10 minutes, also east 15″ @ f2.8, ISO 400, 24mm focal length. The stars have a more dramatic shift over 10 minutes. Still, the shift isn't smooth due to the time between images (I need a true intervalometer (Wikipedia) to make this work well). Several aircraft can be seen whizzing through the frame with their stobes flashing regularly.
1,301 Florescent Bulbs Lit Solely by Magnetic Fields
I've heard stories that this was possible, but never actually saw evidence of it. High voltage power lines carry such an enormous amount of power that they give off a large magnetic field. In this case, large enough to light florescent tubes. I read a little backstory on this; the tubes don't glow very bright, these are all long exposures. But, the proof is there.
More information can be found here.
Link. Via Gizmodo