Spaced Out :: 05 2013

I can’t really add to much more to Garr’s blog entry, other than to point you to the short essay/editorial that appeared in Ground Water back in 1985 (Lehr, J.H. 1985 Let there be stoning! Ground Water 23, 2, 162-165)….. in the first instance it makes you laugh, then you can feel the anger and then the wisdom. In short, whilst nearly 30 years ago, the detail of this paper holds the presentation essentials for any academic - it’s a treasure trove of wisdom. Read it and compare yourself against his yardstick - there is no excuse for boring your audience to death.

Fabulous COLOUR film of 1926 London from the BFI….. what’s startling (for me) about this is how little has changed in a lot of London, yet notice that there is no highrise and the streets are so clean.

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Great post from the NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day - this is 9000km swatch running from Russia all the way down through Africa offering stunning images along the route. It was captured shortly after the calibration and testing of LDCM completed and it was moved into its operational orbit - note its not due to enter full operational status until late May. Watch the video FULL SCREEN. It is stunning.

And check out further details of “The Long Swath” which includes a fabulous GigaPan at full resolution.

I was in my local Asda recently and saw the stand below - I don’t think “Follow these simple steps…..” could be further from the truth! The words “can’t be bothered” spring to mind.

I came across the word Pareidolia at 500px yesterday which I didn’t know, so looked it up on Wikipedia. This is what it had to say:

a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant…. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

Perhaps one of the most famous remote sensing examples (below) is the face on Mars….. we’ve all seen them and the WIkipedia page has some great examples.