Porsche 911 Sport Classic!

* Production of 250 only.
* £140,000 GBP.
* 408bhp.
* 0-62mph in 4.6 seconds.
* Fixed 'duck-tail' spoiler.
* Special paint called Sport Classic Grey.

Released late 2009 - all sold!

3D lens for Lumix

Just when I thought I had finished playing around with Sterescopic images, look what made an appearance!

Panasonic seem to be thriving ahead with the Micro 4/3rds format and have released this 'world's first digital interchangeable twin-lens, making it possible to shoot 3D with an interchangeable lens system camera'. Of course it's not still photos but 3D video that all the fuss is about. Panasonic say it will be on sale by the end of 2010. Prices? Well with the recent Lumix 'fish-eye' lens retailing at a eye watering £750GBP I'm not holding my breath.

Lumix GF1 Sample Shots

The newest addition to my life, the Panasonic Lumix GF1, micro four-thirds format digital SLR!

With 14-45mm lens kit.










Here are my sample shots:

ASCII Art

The first ASCII art I can remember was about 1983 when one day a boy at school was showing off a banner that his Dad had made. It said 'Happy Birthday' with each letter made up of characters on continuous tractor-feed paper - quite the nerd. However it was a man called Ken Knowlton who is famed for being the pioneer for computer generated ASCII art, and computer graphics alike in the mid 60's. His study of photomosaics involved taking a photograph and interpreting it into halftone shades by using typographic symbols.

Here's what all the hype was about... Reclining Nude by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, c1966:










Even earlier than this was 'typewriter art' which made an appearance in the late 1800's. Flora Stacey made this image called 'Butterfly' in 1898...


















ASCII art can be seen as signatures for hackers, programmers and geeks alike as retro is the new cool, and in places where actual images cannot be embedded.
Here's one I made/generated earlier. 10 seconds earlier to be precise...
















Enough of this, time for me to sign off...

a flock of words

Some of my typography images...

Stereoscopic images

Ok, this is my first attempt at a sterescopic image. Gives the impression I was hoping for, even though they may need a little refinement!

Flocking

Zillions of birds making bezier curve patterns

Which leads me to this digital fractal art image with bezier curves. Created by calculating objects and representing the calculation as a still image. Fractal imaging started in the 1990's since computers became suitably advanced, but what about Spirograph that let children create similar images all over the 1980's?!