week 5 #12

I created a rollyo account but at the moment I am drawing a complete blank as far as what I shoudl setup a search for. I'll have to think about it and get back to it when I can think of something. I can se how this would be useful for regular searches accross various web pages.

week five #11

I Tried Library Thing today and added 5 posts of books that came to mind that I have read. I can see how this would be useful to someone that likes to keep track of the things they have read. Here is a link to my Library Thing account:

week 5 #10

Ok, here is the Avatar I created in Meez. The back ground was as close to something art related that I liked that I could find. Since I like MC Escher's work, I thought it was a good fit.

Week #4 feed searches

Out of all the feed tools Technocarti is the best looking one. I guess I have to practice how to search for topics I want because I did not have much luck finding feeds on what I was looking for. Then again I did not have much time to search for feeds more thoroughly.

week 4 Bloglines

OK, I setup an account for bloglines and added some feeds to it, but I really don't have a feel for this yet. I can see in theory how this would be helpful but as of yet I really don't have enough things on the web that I check that I would not have trouble keeping track of individually.

New Blog

Since I have more pictures I want to post of other things I have painted and made that really have nothing to do with 23 things directly, I have posted another blog devoted to just that. If anyone is interested, you can find it here: http://em-pulse.blogspot.com/. I will be updating it when i can and may also update my ancient web page and post a link to it here and on the other blog.

autostitch picture program

I found a free stitching program... well actually a free demo, but it is pretty neat. I was able to create some panoramic views of some of the murals I have painted in the past few years. I will see if I can post them here.

There were some pics of some murals that did not have enough contrasts to use, and for some reason the program could not stitch together some of the pictures into one panorama so I split them in to two separate ones. If you are curious about the program, http://cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html is the site where I got the program. It was easy to download, install, and use and I would definety recomend it.

When I have a bit more time I will post more pics of my some of the fings I have done.

Stitching pics

For those of you who have never heard of Stitching before (and I was one of them until yesterday), it is a way to take a series of pictures and "Stitch" or blend them together to make one continuous panoramic picture. This comes in handy when trying to produce a picture of something much too large to fit into one frame of your digital camera (landscape, large object, 360 room view, etc...).

I'm interested in this because I have mural that I painted in my daughter's room that I took pictures of but no one pic gives a sense of the entire mural., so I started looking for a freeware program that would combine all the pictures into one. So far I have found some sites with reviews of some software packages but I have not tried any of them yet. As I try some of these programs I will post the results.

Flickr mashups

After figuring out how to post a pic from Flickr to the blog I tried some of the mashups. A lot of them did not work for some reason on my PC but I did get one to work that displayed pictures associated with points on a color wheel. I thought that was neat but I could see where it would get a bit boring after a short while. There was another mashup that I could not get to work, that associates a picture for a topic you choose with up to three other related topics and their pics.

Cool Pic

It's a Big Big World...
Originally uploaded by Ya Ya

Ok, it took a while to figure out how to upload a picture from Flickr (about 20-30 min. of dead ends), but I think it is working now.

I found this picture while I was exploring Flickr. I think there is something very surreal about the entire scene, as if the observers are looking out onto a huge movie set, or they are completely disconected from the city outside. It also reminds me of an Edward Hopper painting.