Check out this image of Obama’s inaugural speech. It’s a 1400 Megapixel photo. This allows you to do some ridiculous zooming in. You can even check out Bush’s sour face. Pretty cool. Here’s the article where the photographer explains how it was done. Click on the photo below to see the sweet details
I read a great little post by Lizard about her morning. It is a great depiction of the pain of waking up and the joy of finishing. It takes a while to learn that there’s nothing as rewarding as getting up to run. It always delivers. Liz’s morning: • Get up • Whine • Go [...]
A city speaks to you mostly by accident—in things you see through windows, in conversations you overhear. It’s not something you have to seek out, but something you can’t turn off. I just moved to a new city and i couldn’t agree more with this statement. Over the past 10 years, I’ve lived in Palo [...]
I’m thinking of a move to the West coast because DC is a just a bit too dangerous. There was an earthquake today at 1:30pm in NoVa that measured 1.8 on the ritcher scale. Article is here. Seriously i’ve got to get to LA to avoid these natural disasters
I just read this article which mentions that a new DMV program that would install SmarTrip chips into every new D.C. driver’s license and identification card beginning in October, 2008. This is sweet. Another card i won’t need to carry around in my wallet and hopefully it’ll get more people riding the metro.
Went to watch the queen’s last night. I’ve always heard about it but never made the trip. It’s quite a scene. Check out the good footage i got: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKfReJukyo] PS: Why can’t you rotate video? Seems like it should be possible
We had a great hunt this weekend. In fact, it was the biggest turnout we’ve ever had for a hunt. It clocked in at over 55 people! Had a bunch of teams attend, such as: Team Mckendr: Mairead brought two 6’7″ dudes who were truly able to pimp out their hiding spots Team Davidson: Bryan [...]
I ran The Nation’s Triathlon this weekend. A fun event for those watching and a painful, but rewarding event for those like me who are dumb We started on the waterfront in Georgetown at 7am on Saturday. The fire boats in the Potomac were spraying water all over at the beginning. I’ve never seem them [...]
Finally, a truly modern sculptor. Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Australia to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years (like Fraggle Rock) before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie. Eventually Mueck concluded that photography [...]
I went to a reading tonight of Chuck Klosterman at Olsson’s in DC. As expected, he was articulate and very funny. He read a passage from his new book, Chuck Klosterman IV, and he describes how the book came to be. When he was on a book tour for Killing Yourself to Live (his 3rd [...]
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