Broken Primaries

Thanks to Geisha Asobi I stumbled over Broken Primaries – amazing high-speed photos of breaking wine glasses, filled with colored liquids. Very cool, smooth pictures of dynamic events frozen in time…

I love the 80s, the 70s…

Ahhh… VH1 did it again! After “I love the 80s” they have found a new way to glue me to the TV indefinitely- “I love the 70s“. This show, like its predecessor, has a magic fomula of short vintage TV, film and music snippets intercut with some very, very funny commentary by a bunch of [...]

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Daily Spam #3

My wife got a fake citibank email today… Subject: Your Checking Account at Citibank. From: Citibank (Carroll_Karlotte@collegeclub.com) Well… the email address gave it away… Time to take out the magnifying glass and look a little bit closer at this specimen: The collegeclub email address is probably fake – there seems to be a wave of [...]

San Francisco 3D

We were walking across the Golden Gate Bridge last Sunday and I remembered an old pet project of mine – 3D photography! So I took several photos twice with a slight sideways shuffle between shots and merged some of the more promising candidates into 3D anaglyphs. Take a look!

Age of Mars

Not many people have taken notice, but – astronomically speaking – we are currently in an age dominated by Mars. Not only are there several robotic missions on their way to the red planet, but Mars is also going to be as close to Earth as it has not been in 59.600 years. Coming August [...]

Winged Migration

“Winged Migration” is an incredible movie about exactly that. It has some of the most amazing film footage of migrating birds that you will ever see – and to see it in a cinema with a big screen is breathtaking. The film is only lightly narrated and allows the audience to immerse themselves in the [...]

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