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Vancouver City time lapse

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:22:13 +0000

“Vancouver City” music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. For more information and music downloads go to www.innerlifeproject.com.

This time lapse is shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original resolution is 6 times better than HD (high definition). The images have been resized for HD and are much better quality than shown here on YouTube.

Youtube user: TimeLapseHD. Dan and David Newcomb

I have enjoyed both the time lapse and the music. I hope you do so.

After watching this video I am thinking about a worldwide city time lapse competition. What do you think?

Photocroms of Holland from 1890s to 1900s

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:30:26 +0000

Like postcards, the photochroms feature subjects that appeal to travelers, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, and daily life and culture. The prints were sold as souvenirs and often collected in albums or framed for display.

After travelling to Belgium, Norway, Scotland and Turkey we arrive today to Holland and its canals. Amsterdam has been called the “Venice of the North” for its more than one hundred kilometres of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.

Around Paris -Time lapse HD

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:00:41 +0000

Today I should be at Roland Garros but next days I will probably revisit most of the places shown on this nice time lapse of the city.

Photochroms of Turkey from 1890s to 1900s

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:08 +0000

After travelling to Belgium, Norway and Scotland we arrive today to Turkey. These photos refer to Constantinople because they were taken before the city was renamed in 1930.

Constantinople was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe’s largest and wealthiest city.

It was officially renamed to its modern Turkish name Istanbul in 1930 with the Turkish Postal Service Law, as part of Atatürk’s national reforms. This name in turn derives from the Greek and Slavic colloquial name Stambol.

[Wikipedia]

Music by Ben Woods. Play > About to Fall

Photochroms of Scotland from 1890s to 1900s

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:00:11 +0000

After our previous trip in the past Photochroms of Norway from 1890s to 1900s, today we are going to travel to the last years of 19th century in Scotland thank you to the Library of the US Congress (LOC).

The Photochrom Print Collection has almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views of North America, but only a 5% has been uploaded to flickr. Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan. The richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches.

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division assembled this collection from two sources that provided prints in mint condition. In 1985, the prints of Europe and the Middle East were purchased from the Galerie Muriset in Switzerland. In 2004, Howard L. Gottlieb generously donated the North American views.

Opera beyond Internet at Sydney

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:48:30 +0000

Play music Carmen by Victoria Baker

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honour. The citation stated

There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent.

The Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the world’s most distinctive 20th century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.

[Wikipedia]

Opera is also a browser and at The Big Foto is reaching Internet Explorer share this month. Firefox is the king.

Browser		% visits
Firefox		68.62%
Internet Explorer		12.82%
Opera		10.66%
Chrome		4.83%
Safari		1.54%

Volcano

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:00:36 +0000

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet’s surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time.

Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging.

Volcanoes can be caused by “mantle plumes”. These so-called “hotspots” , for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.

Wikipedia

Train stations

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:25:24 +0000

Train stations is another post related to trains, like trains leaving the station, it has been requested by the spanish high-speed rail site altavelocidad.org (only available in spanish).

Let me know if you find it interesting in your comments, thank you.