Check out this awesome ceramic pinhole camera created by Steve Irvine.
“It is made of stoneware, fired to 1,300 degrees C. (2,350 F.) It has a matte black glaze on the inside. Overall, it measures h 22.5 x w 20 x 20.5 cm. on the outside. It’s designed to take a 4 x 5 inch piece of photo paper. The negative holder on the inside is made from three strips of black weather stripping.”
Heres the example shot.
Source F295 Via Boing Boing
This photo is also part of a project called “Geographic Composition“. A bunch of photographers in different geographic locations ranging from Seattle to Sweden are given a theme then we submit pictures of said theme a week later. The first theme is “Beginnings”, and this was my contribution. You can find everyone else’s submissions here.
The U.S. Naval Observatory provides a simple and easy to use website to lookup the sunrise & sunset time for anywhere in the world. You just need city and state, or latitude and longitude for the rest of world, and you’re golden.
Here’s whats happening astronomically tonight.
The following information is provided for Bellevue, King County, Washington (longitude W122.2, latitude N47.6):
Tuesday 26 June 2007 Pacific Daylight Time SUN Begin civil twilight 4:32 a.m. Sunrise 5:12 a.m. Sun transit 1:11 p.m. Sunset 9:11 p.m. End civil twilight 9:51 p.m. MOON Moonrise 4:57 p.m. on preceding day Moonset 2:00 a.m. Moonrise 6:07 p.m. Moon transit 10:20 p.m. Moonset 2:27 a.m. on following dayPhase of the Moon on 26 June: waxing gibbous with 86% of the Moon’s visible disk illuminated.
Full Moon on 30 June 2007 at 6:49 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Pretty cool, no?
Link Via Strobist
Chasing That Feeling
We adopted two pooches over the weekend, they’re originally from a shelter over in Montreal, Canada. The pups are a Shih Zu/Maltese mix, 9 months old, and weigh in at 7 & 9 lbs (3.14 & 4 kg). They’re remarkably energetic and have succeeded in freaking out the cat. It’s interesting to watch since they’ll gang up on her, one going around the left side while the other circles around the right. Plus they’re just as fast as the cat, so her only advantage is her ability to go vertical. So now my bedroom is the designated cat zone, with a baby gate to prevent raids, while the office is the DMZ.
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