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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Change your perspective

18-Feb-09

Tired of the same old, same old, perspective of life. Here’s some alternative ways of seeing things that help snap you out of that automaton existence, that is the day to day. Sub orbital flight around earth When catching a plane at altitude turn you head to be horizontal and pretend you are in a [...]

Why Teens Don’t Twitter

04-Feb-09

Why no baby tweeps? Teens don’t want mum and dad to see their chat. Tracking = bad idea. No, very, very bad idea. Their personal brand is already promoted on Myspace and Facebook through status updates (also with photo content). Why risk leaving this party for one with less people who are also a lot [...]

Quick Tilt-Shift Hack

02-Feb-09

Tilt-shift is a very appealing technique to me. I love photography and when I first learned of the technique from Adrian Lynch on his Flickr.com account I had to learn more. I used a de-focus feature to blur the top and bottom of this photo I took in Tokyo. You can see the miniaturization effect. [...]

Getting into nature, gets you into nature.

01-Feb-09

The easiest way to become environmentally sensitive is to get amongst nature. I always come back from a bushwalk feeling more enthusiastic than ever about saving what I have just seen. This weekend we took the kids and did a walk from Cowan down to Jerusalem bay in the Hawkesbury river (Ku-ring-gai Chase). The valley is [...]