Just watch this. I promise.

Well generally I like any beer, even the bad ones , but Guinness is the nectar of gods (imho). So here is my homage to Guinness and a couple of other cans from my fridge.

Here is my initial experiment with dark-field photography. Of course the first shot has to be my favorite all around drink….Coke.

After coming across this post over at strobist and picking up a copy of “Light, Science and Magic”, I started to play around with some light-field concepts. Here are some of the results….

Here is my attempt to copy an image I saw (liked) on strobist.com the second shot is of my Canon 550EX.

Okay, so over the last few weeks I’ve set my CC card on fire and built a small photo studio at home. So from now on you’ll find out more about my other hobby on nerdlogger as well, Photography. Maybe I’ll register photologger.com or something once I accumulate enough studio shots. As always my travel photography is hosted separately here as a result of their sheer size. Here is post #1 – A really old (and bloody heavy) IBM typewriter my folks have at home. It’s broken, but is kinda cool in a nostalgic way.

Okay so it’s not totally free. Follow this link to Richard Boxes website where he documents how he powered up 1301 florescent lamps without plugging them in. You see he used the electromagnetic field generated by the powerlines overhead to get the lamps to glow.

iCinema has teamed up with Projectiondesign to create the first AVIE (Advanced Visualization and Interaction Environment). AVIE is the first horizontal panoramic streoscopic projection environment. The system uses a cylindrical screen measuring 35 feet in diameter and 13 feet in height. Seven PC’s and twleve F1+ projectors complete the system. Infrared camera’s allow the audience to interact with the projection environment. More info here.

No more blurry shots. That’s what Adobe wants you to drool over while they perfect their Light-Field Camera. Standard cameras allow light to travel through a single tunnel/lens and project it onto the film plane/capture device. Light-Field Cameras do the same, except they use 19 lenses to capture the scene and record it onto 19 shots that capture different focus distances. This frees the photographer to — in their digital darkroom — develop the picture and focus selectively using a “focus brush”, allowing them to bring details from both forground and background into focus. More detail here.

Head over to 360 Cities and take a virtual tour of almost anywhere in the world. This google mashup is very similar to twittervision/flickrvision and shows you 360 degree panoramas from around the world.

Jay Moonah did the OoVoO thing with Andrea Vascellari, Pistachio and Mitch Canter during the last session. Podcamp Toronto 2008 is now officially over…..see you all back here in 2009. For full video coverage visit the Podcamp Toronto 2008 website/wiki and check out the rest of the pics here.

If you’re a twitter nut — not that there is anything wrong with that — or are just plain bored, head over to Twittervision, a real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. It’s all thanks to google’s open API (thanks guys/gals……you ROCK!!!). It’s kinda cool to have it opened — specially in 3D mode — on a large panel. Kinda makes you feel like the “Big Guy Upstairs”, listening to peoples “prayers”. Also check out flickrvision, which does for flickr what twittervision does for twitter…..I like it better.

Yeah, but these guys didn’t care . They just kept going and going and going……More pics here.

Day two is a little slower, I’m not sure if it’s because of subway operation not kicking in until 9:00 am (sunday service) or if it’s the drink fest at the Library Pub last night…..maybe a bit of both. It’s getting busier and hopefully by noon we’ll be at full capacity. In the meantime here are some pics. Tune into the our live video streams via PodCamp Toronto’s website or better yet come on down to Church and Gould and say Hi in person.

These guys sure love their Zooms…..can’t you tell??? more pics here.

Yep, I have proof. The man was here, live and in colour . Lots more picies here.

Well, the afternoon is shaping up pretty nicely. And just to prove that Podcamp is more about “social” than about “pod”, Jenny Bullough and Chloe Barbosa presented an awesome session on “Everything You Need to Know About Second Life”…..and more. Picture gallery is located here.

So we’re heading into the homestretch, atleast for today. The “Zero to Podcasting” sessions in Studio A are fantastic (and fun to boot). Lots of hands-on stuff, tons of help/suggestions to go around…..Check out the rest of the pictures here.

Subject says it all…..more of the afternoon coverage later. All pics are available here.

Well, We kicked off Podcamp Toronto 2008 this morning at 10:00 am. We are expecting 350-400 participants to walk through the Rogers Communications Centre during the two days. Here is a taste of what you’re missing if you’re sitting on your behind at home reading this blog For more info and live streams go to the wiki and click on schedule….. (more pics here).

Note: If you get a RTSP error, right click on the stream link in your browser, copy the link and manually paste it in Quicktime (File/Open URL).