A Colborne Street panorama
As I mentioned in here I've been stitching together photos of every building facade on Brantford's downtown Colborne Street. Its south side, anyway. Instead of making a traditional panorama, though, I cut and pasted each facade and then "distorted" them to make the perspective lines parallel (read more).
I haven't finished the east side of the street yet, but I've used Photoshop's handy "Export as Zoomify" feature to make an easily navigable user interface. Give it a shot:
http://nickwarzin.com/blog/custom/colborne.html
I already want to print this BIG... 10" high, by 130" long? Yes. I'm a little crazy.
Where do they all come from
I'm a taciturn son of a bitch and won't go into the details of the phenomenon (increasingly mainstream coverage: 1, 2, 3), but someone left a comment in an early blog entry about Chatroulette suggesting an 'ilarious combination of a user slideshow and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", and while that might be too needlessly cruel even for me I will happily present a small collection of screenshots taken over the past couple weeks accompanied by whatever you happen to be listening to at the moment. As long as it's not anything off Revolver.
Under the cut, and generally SFW...
Google Street View quietly rolled out to rural Canada
I probably shouldn't try to describe how excited I've been for this, or how disappointed I was when I noticed that Google didn't initially allow us to explore more rural areas of Canada, because I'd hate to come across like a nerd.
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All kidding aside, it's true: without announcement or fanfare, Street View Canada now has coverage about as thorough as most of the US, though obviously with a density proportional to population (meaning no northern Quebec, though Yellowknife is covered!)
Have fun. Explore. Let me know if you find anything particularly interesting. I'll be adding one of my typical look-what-I-found posts when I have time. Until then, here's a park I visited quite regularly from the age of eight onward:
Kay Cee Gardens, Orangeville, Ontario:
Atrium Invasion 2010
So, on Monday Alicia and I threw a toy paratrooper off the 14th floor of the Atrium on Bay and filmed it. Here are the results:
Drive home from Richmond, VA
Well, hi! Here are a couple GPS routes from my recent drive home. Note that neither of these do much to describe how beautiful some interstate highways are (which is why I'd still like to do a Street View tour of some of the highlights), and neither communicate just how awesome I am at long-distance road-tripping: it was a 14-hour drive, and I think I finished in about an hour. That's right. You'll also see evidence below that I occasionally jump off the highway and move across America at near-light speed. This is also true, and isn't a symptom of a bad GPS receiver in the least.
Golden Horseshoe tour
Interesting (to me) sights around the GTA, with Wikipedia and Flickr cross-references whenever possible:
(okay... I'm having more fun photo-matching than I expected to, so I figure I'll do that in another thread. I'll keep adding "funny" or "interesting" finds to this entry.)
Fun with Identicons
I learned about identicons last night after enabling the Identicon WordPress plugin (leave a comment if you'd like to see what it does), and it has reignited my fascination with visually representing numbers/language/concepts.