Archive For January, 2005

Cinema Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Petition

Deaf culture doesn’t get much of a look-in here in Ireland but here’s a petition asking for “subtitles on cinema screens for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Ireland”. The UGC on Parnell Square in Dublin has 2 subtitled showings a week so there’s obviously a market out there for it. If you are [...]

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Photojournalist Student Kicked Out Of Dorm

A student at San Francisco State University has been kicked out of his dorm for taking “pictures of partying, binge drinking, oral sex and, in particular, an alleged car burglary”. Here’s the latimes story and a thread started by Omar Vega himself. What would you do if you saw someone breaking into a car? Take [...]

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Can you fool the drink driving test?

I wish I had sound on this PC but I can guess what’s going in this movie. hehe.

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F-Spot – Picasa like application for .net, mono and Linux

Liam’s going on again about how great the combination of “picasa + hello + blogger + ftp” are on IRC but unfortunately Picasa is a Win32 application so it’s not something on my radar. He says that F-Spot is a similar application, developed using Mono so it’ll probably make it’s way to Windows .net too. [...]

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Winter's Day at Iniscarra

The sun set slowly last Sunday. It was a cold but glorious day!

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Battlestar Galactica – Finishes Tonight!

It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, but Battlestar Galactica comes to an end on Sky 1 tonight. I think my favourite episode was just 3 weeks ago when *muffle* *struggle* “argh! let me go!” Oh, alright, I won’t say a word. it’s a good ‘un though! Anyway, here’s the Battlestar Galactica Blog if you [...]

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Insulation Day!

Today was insulation day, pic to follow but we laid 56 sq m of attic insulation in less then 5 hours! Go Us! Thanks Justin for all the help! He’s the one with the red zip!

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Why Focus-Recompose Sucks

I use this technique, as do most photographers I’m sure, but it can make the subject of your photograph blurry as the auto-focus is focused on a slightly further back point. It makes sense when you think about it but it’s still useful when you have a long depth of field. Anyway, here’s the explanation [...]

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The Job of a Photo Journalist

Mark Hancock, as a photo journalist, is exposed to situations that many of us never see. A police warrant roundup is one such occurance and he describes it well. He has several things to say in his accompanying post about what PJs do: Before I continue, PJs mostly cover tax dollars at work. When we [...]

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The beauty of Winter Photography

One day last week on my way to work, the local area was shrouded in a deep mist. The sun tried to shine through but all that could be seen was a glowing ball in the eastern sky. I was late so I couldn’t stop, but this essay on winter photography brings back some of [...]

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