Archive for the ‘Just Fun’ Category

Lensbaby I

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

The other day I got a new fun lense for my camera: a Lensbaby Composer.  It’s an artistic tilt-shift lense… it takes some getting used to.  I like the effects though: have a look at some of the pictures I took with it.

World Naked Bike Ride in Vancouver

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

I was just on Granville Island having a beer with Wayne (visiting from Germany), when suddenly hundreds of naked cyclists came rolling by!  A quick google back home and I found out that this is the yearly World Naked Bike Ride – a protest to “put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and [...]

What is Vancouver?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

A few days ago, I was inspired by the short film Bathtub IV (have a look at the other films too!), so today I wanted to see if I could do it too.  Those films are done with special tilt-shift lenses, but with imagemagick and some batch scripts, I’ve been able to replicate the style [...]

Jenga – Canadian style

Friday, April 17th, 2009

There’s something really funny going on with a house down the road from us – it looks like they’re playing Jenga with it!  They’ve stripped the inside, stripped the outside, and put the whole house up on four Jenga towers, and are digging underneath.  I guess they’re putting in a basement, but it seems like [...]