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1 March 2008
Stone Steps Near the Portland Rose Gardens
This is the very first spherical panorama I ever made, stitched together from 30 photos in June of 2006. I finally managed to convert it to a computer viewable format. It shows neat stone steps leading up to the Rose Gardens in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon.
You can view with quicktime or with shockwave.
27 February 2008
Eagle Creek, and Flickr
So rather than implementing comments on my own website, I'm at the moment opting for Flickr.com. So now you can go over there and flame my photos in comments! Probably I'll keep most of my cartoons on this site, and just dump my photos there (as well as here). If you don't want to sign up with Flickr, you can of course still email me.
Anyway, here's a panorama in which we see the shadow of the Creature of the Punch Bowl, shortly before it mauled my leg. With the assistance of Adam and Mike, I managed to escape, and you can see my empty shoes left as a reminder to others.
In any case, this is one of my older panoramas that I converted to be computer viewable.
25 February 2008
More First Thursday Panoramas
Behold the Pony Club, one of the Everett Lofts in downtown Portland. That place shows strange comic art, and sells various odd comics, including some of my books sometimes. The shot on the right shows a large drawing by Theo Ellsworth protecting the crackers from Dylan.
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24 February 2008
Just another working day
I was on my way to work the other day, and on the Hawthorne Bridge, the sunrise really struck me. So anyway, at the end of the day, even with my brain scrambled from the day's events, I happened to notice a really striking sunset! These photos really don't do the sky justice.
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20 February 2008
Bush Blows Up Moon, Protests Follow
President Bush today decided to blow up a falling spy satellite, but missed by about 60,000 miles, and hit the moon instead! It turned completely red for a while, but suffered no permanent effects. He told reporters that, "Well dangit, the moon is just an easier target to aquire that some puny little space junk!" But seriously, owing to a freak atmospheric phenomenon, the moon in the photo appears to be much larger than it actually is. To the right and up a little from the Hawthorne Bridge, you can just barely make out the Orion constellation amidst all the jpeg compression clutter.
I have some other eclipse photos which I'll post later. If you like them, you should tell me!
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18 February 2008
Foggy Morning on the Willamette
This photo was taken one foggy morning just after the first big storm of winter, December 2007 in Portland. When I try to view this photo with Freepv on Linux, for some reason the top photo is 1/3 smaller than it should be, and tiled 3 times, leaving a huge black rectangle floating in the sky, and I have no idea why. Seems to work for real quicktime on other machines, though.
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14 February 2008
Parkour in the Park
Some of the first Portland parkour for 2008. Present were Julian, Tim 1, Tim 2, Monkeyjunta, Oni, Adam, and me, hiding behind the camera. This could have been a fairly good panorama, but I forgot to take enough photos of the reeeally long shadows that day, and of the people after they landed. The shadows I drew in are just silly, but I'm tired of working on it!! I do like the trees, though.
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9 February 2008
At the table with the Friends of the Nib
For First Thursday at Floating World Comics in Portland, Oregon this month, Jim Woodring and the Friends of the Nib came down from Seattle to sit around and draw cartoons. I happened to be passing, and took this panorama hand-held..
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2 February 2008
Inside Lick Observatory's 120 inch Reflecting Telescope Dome
Aside from the hideous moire pattern on part of the dome that I'm too lazy to process out, this panorama came together reasonably well. They also had a short video that visitors can view about how the telescope was brought up mountain on the very narrow winding roads and assembled in the dome.
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26 January 2008
Panorama of My Grandma's Backyard
This panorama is my first attempt at building a panorama from multiple exposures. Each section is built from two photos: one light and one darker, which are blended together using Enfuse. There are various other ways to combine exposures, but enfuse is fast, easy, and has adequate results (so far!). I also have to keep reminding myself to make sure I focus on the right area!! My final photos straight down focused on the tripod rather than on the ground. GRRrrr!
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20 January 2008
Portland MAX station in the depths of the night
So this is what a MAX stop looked like at 4am just after the winter solstice of 2007, while I was waiting for the train to take me to the airport. Also new is that I totally reprogrammed my sphere photos page, so that it has a much slicker interface..
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15 January 2008
Another observatory on Mt. Hamilton
Here's a qtvr of the dome containing the 120 inch reflecting telescope of Lick Observatory at sunset.
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6 January 2008
Presents, and the World Wide Panorama
I now have 2 panoramas in the World Wide Panorama, a great repository of thousands of total panoramas, from across the globe. One of mine is my parkour panorama and the other one is a room full of presents.
There is also another parkour panorama, by Gerardo Sanchez which is better!
click to view panorama page
4 January 2008
Lick Observatory
During my winter travels, I took this picture of Lick Observatory on top of Mt. Hamilton in California, overlooking the haze covered Silicon Valley. I made 4 panoramas up there, the rest of which I'll post some other day!
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10 December 2007
Continuous Parkour
Here's the so called droste effect, made with the mathmap plugin for the Gimp. You might also be interested in this Escher print. I realize it's a littel choppy. I'm working on it..
1 December 2007
Parkour Sphere
Here's another spherical panorama, this time of parkour at Keller Fountain in Portland, Oregon.
 
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24 November 2007
Marquam Bridge Spherical Panorama
I've managed to figure out how to use Hugin to stitch together photos I've taken with my new fisheye lens. Yes, you can just go look at the scene below in Google Streetview, but mine has more color to it. Below left is the resulting quicktime-vr file, and below right is the whole panorama. It's not perfect, but it'll have to do for a first try. I'm still trying to figure out how to correct for the chromatic aberration of the fisheye.
If, like me, you are running linux, you might have to use freepv, to view the quicktime-vr, since quicktime on linux cannot properly handle qtvr files, as far as I'm aware.
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15 November 2007
Ho hum..
Ok, so I've been a bit slack with the updating again. I know it's a cop-out,
but here are some links to other people's work that I've found pretty neat:
Carel Struycken, who played Lurch in the modern Addams Family movies, happens to make very nice spherical panoramas:
www.sphericalpanoramas.com
Here's a site with over 3000 spherical panoramas that anyone can download and look at. If you are running linux, you might have extra problems, as they are all in Quicktime VR format, not particularly well supported in linux, but if you can get it to compile, you can use freepv. If you are using debian, you might have problems getting the web browser plugin to work, since it wants Firefox or Mozilla related dev files, and there don't seem to be equivalent Iceweasel dev files, unless I'm missing something...
geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp/index.html
Lastly, here's some info about an autistic man by the name of Stephen Wiltshire who, after flying over Rome in a helicopter ONCE, spent 3 days drawing an extremely accurate 10 meter panorama of Rome:
www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk
www.break.com/index/autistic-man-draws-near-perfect-panorama=of-rome.html
22 September 2007
Fame and Glory
Holy crap, one of my Laidout tutorials has been viewed over 1000 times since I posted it last week!! The other ones are more like a couple views a week, but that one, OVER 1000!!!! What the hell? There can't possibly be that many people interested in a tutorial for software that probably only I use?! Instead of posting actual content to my site this week, I am simply going to sit back a bathe in the glory. Oh, and next weekend I will have a table at the Stumptown Comics Fest. It will be Saturday and Sunday, the 29th and 30th at the Lloyd Center Doubletree, 1000 NE Multnomah St. in Portland, Oregon. See you there!
15 September 2007
Laidout Version 0.08
I've been a little lazy with the cartooning again, and for similar reasons: Version 0.08 of Laidout is now released. New is a paper tiling interface so that you can take some collage of images, for instance, and print it out spread across several pieces of paper, so you can make large posters with a little inkjet. Here's a tutorial about that, using an image I threw together of Pluto, God of the Underworld, responding to being demoted to a mere dwarf planet:
17 August 2007
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Comic of the Moment I finally finished inking Seaside Retreat, which ended up being 16 pages long instead of 14 pages. It is now available in print form in Tales of Inertia, Number 1, which also contains the first 11 pages of Weak Daze. 
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EventsIn other news, the Portland Zine Symposium has come and gone, met lots of odd people, sold some books, and people actually showed up to my workshop on Open Source Software for Zine Making. Fewer people came to it as compared to last year, but fewer people left during the middle of it too, and I'll take that as an improvement overall. Having a projector to demonstrate things was very handy. |
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