I lost most of the photos in a smudging accident. Here are the saved ones.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
There was a Nader protest at myspace HQ today. Since they really didn’t tell us what their purpose was I am going to choose not to write about it. As far as protests go, this one was a major let down. Hardly any yelling or screaming, no riots, no nothing. The Police showed up, looked at the crowd and left with a look of disappointment.
But here are the photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordanlarrigan2/sets/72157606984712289/show/
Only one goal this time. Hike mt Rainier. So far the climb team consists of Rob, Jon, Drew, Sean and myself. We will be departing on Saturday Aug 30th at roughly 6am. Team members are being urged to camp out at my parents house the night before.
This trip will be documented using a canon 30d with sigma 15mm fisheye and canon vixia hv30. That’s right, this will be the first trip fully documented in both photos and HD video. We will be documenting the trip starting the night before we leave for the expedition.
Be sure to check back for the video and photos.
Found these awesome projects last night. I think I will be jumping from touchlib and libavg to touchd and mpx.
and this is just awesome
Recently I had the opportunity to rent two lenes from Lensrentals.com. A 35mm canon L, and 15mm sigma.
The short version, the 35mm shoots super sharp photos, but not very useful. The 15mm sigma. Awesome! Totally blew my expectations out of the water. I will be buying in the near future.
Below are some sample photos I took today with the 15mm.
Now for the story.
Christian said with fire in his eyes. Let’s skate board down to the bathroom! It’s a small hill, we can do it. I nervously responded with, uhhhh sure I guess. We haven’t learned downhill yet but why not…
Shortly after, boards in hand, we scout our path down the small hill. I say with a manipulative tone, Hey Chris you first. Eagerly, Chris smiles and heads down the hill. Not 5 seconds later his arbor board starts to wobble out of control. I ditch my board in fear of the inevitable crash and burn. Whoosh it nails a tree at near lightning speed. Then I look back up and Chris jumps off of his board. No words can properly describe what happened next.
He hits the ground running and just can’t seem to get a grip on the ground. He flies forward head first into the pavement. Flips heels over head, barrel rolls shoulder over shoulder and finally landing in an awakened butt in face ankles in the air position then stops. Silence rolls over the tourist as they watch in awe. He get’s up and says, “I’m good”. Jumps back on the board in an attempt to finish the hill. Not 5 seconds later his arbor boards starts to wobble. He ditches and lands perfectly on his feet. Pops a squat on the board and says I need a minute.
He survives with only scrapes, bruises and a new appreciation for hills and pavement.
You can the full screen Slideshow here
Finally got touchlib setup and running on my apple. Tomorrow I plan on starting the build for the MTmini. Which should get me up and running for some basic multitouch dev by the end of next week. Hoping to eventually reach two goals with this research. The first being a way to manipulate and display complex data. Secondly, combining concepts from touchlib with clutter for linux multitouch desktop apps.
I dropped about 5 side projects for this so wish me luck!
It’s up. Check it out. It only displays one photo at a time and the forward and backwards buttons are on the bottom. There is also a rss feed so you can subscribe to that as well.
Just for today. I am attempting to throw up another feature of my site. A photolog. Not sure how it will turn out, but expect two rss feeds.
Most likely:
photo.jordanlarrigan.com
blog.jordanlarrigan.com
but also possible
jordanlarrigan.com/photo
jordanlarrigan.com/blog
We will soon see
I posted up a site to keep track of my planned excursions. Check it out and let me know if your interested in joining me on any of these trips.
Today marks the the first time in 22-25 years that I have ever missed “our big camping trip”. Today sucks…
In light of this unfortunate side effect of moving to California, I have decided to redesign my site. Currently, as you can see, it only focuses on whatever jibberish I feel like writing about. This does not do me or you justice. So, I am going to create a way more exciting site. Some of my current thoughts include, photolog, videolog(sorta), and hrmm, well that is all I have for now.
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”