- Happy Birthday Harry.
- Neville FTMFW.
- Tonks/Lupin WTF.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Steampunks at Burningman
Burningman in color infrared
Originally uploaded by ioerror.
Found on flickr, photographic evidence of steampunkery at Burining Man. Given the intense heat in the desert, I don't know if I could handle wearing such attire.
This picture also supports the idea that Pith helmets rock the house.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Day 300
Day 300 - Focus
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.
I'm approaching "endgame" of my yearlong photography project. With just a couple more months to go I'm looking forward to the project's completion.
Still upcoming is my trip to Dragoncon, which has lots of photographic opportunities.
I'm not quite sure what project I'll take on when this is done.
Previously on Slashboing
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Cats love the screech of an electric guitar
Previously on Slashboing:
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Canine spotted at Order of the Phoenix Release
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix midnight movie release 005
Originally uploaded by Summer23.
"Radar" the service dog was wearing this vest at opening night of Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix.
Very smart.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Name that emblem
Day 295 - Name that emblem
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.
I picked up this pin on eBay for a steampunk costume because it looks cool, and the symbology is not readily recognized. Then I thought I should probably know what the pin meant before I starting wearing it.
The left hand side has a coloured enamel bandage wrapped skull, while the right side is an embossed profile of a living man. The bottom has a torch and the letters "EMRB". The pin was made in France, and the auction was French, so I'm presuming that the organization that used this pin was also French.
I have googled the letters "EMRB" and "ERMB" and nothing meaningful has come up.
The question to you is: What is this? What does it represent.?
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Concentric rings mark the earth
Monday, July 16, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Steam Wars: A film extravaganza
Image © 2007 by Larry Blamire.
Previously on Slashboing
Summer Movie Trends Continued
The first big Harry Potter spike we see on February first is for the announcement of the release date of Book 7: The Deathly Hallows. The HP blip on March 28th indicates the chatter that followed the release of the Book 7 Cover. This is about the same impact the release of the Pirate trailer had the week previous. The blip on May 31st during the Pirates craze shows the impact of the announcement of the Harry Potter themed amusement park. Of course the hockey stick at the end of the graph is the hype machine for the latest film, "The Order of the Phoenix." To contrast this I also graphed the impact of the June release of the new Fantastic Four movie, "The Rise of the Silver Surfer." Ouch.
This shows that the Book related announcements garner almost as much attention as the release of a large summer movie. However the Harry Potter movie experience dwarfs the impact of other summer film releases. Of course this analysis is a completely qualitative investigation, so if you dislike Harry Potter, you are free to dismiss its cultural impact. Or worse, one may manipulate these trends to show the shocking dominance of film media over book media, and popular books like Harry Potter over serious literature. Not that I'm cynical.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Summer Movie Trends
The Transformers bump in mid-May shows the echo in the blogosphere after the release of a trailer.
A casual glance showed that "Pirates of the Caribbean" generated the most buzz of the three films, even allowing for the higher base reading from other non-movie posts about pirates.
Interesting? To me? Yes.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Your lack of candy disturbs me . . .
Your lack of candy disturbs me . . .
Originally uploaded by WilWheaton.
Will Wheaton dressed as Darth Vader circa 1977.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Morse Code vs Text Message
Through this research I found the following video on Youtube, where Morse Code is pitted against the fasted cellphone texter they could find. I won't give away the ending.