Tilt-Shift Photography of American Commuting
Check out Vincent Laforet's beautiful work. Let me give you an explanation of the tilt-shift miniaturization technique and more of Laforet's work, this time a selection of tilt-shift sports photography.
Check out Vincent Laforet's beautiful work. Let me give you an explanation of the tilt-shift miniaturization technique and more of Laforet's work, this time a selection of tilt-shift sports photography.
Emlyn sent me this beautiful and fanciful display of longboarding prowess:
This video inspires me to dig out my Original Hybrid but then I remember that one of the trucks is totally broken and that Seattle hills are not so friendly.
I out-sprinted the bus almost two blocks---gotta catch that 26 Express. The traffic lights may have helped a little bit.
Interestingly, the iPhone works with the WordPress code editor but not with the visual editor. I think this special Safari version has issues with certain dynamic elements, such as the Facebook status editor. I happily await [...]
I have mentioned this statistic to quite a few friends, and today located the sources to support it:
Fleet-wide, Ford cars and trucks averaged 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg), narrowly avoiding last place in the fuel efficiency report for the third straight year... ...19.7 mpg on average is less efficient than the old Model T Ford.
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397.9 miles / 10.94 gallons = 36.4 miles per gallon. Huzzah!
The miles for this calculation were the odometer reading between filling the tank on Friday and filling the tank today. The gallons consumed were the amount of gas necessary to refill the tank today, after having driven the aforementioned miles to Portland and back, and [...]
I nearly ran over a cyclist on my way to work this morning. I was rolling up to a left at a left turn yield on green intersection and the oncoming lanes were completely clear. There was no one in the crosswalk. As I began my turn, a cyclist sped into the crosswalk from the [...]
On December 8th, the day before my birthday, Sparkle Motion asserted its dominance once again. Trina and I were at Red Mill in Phinney Ridge, waiting for delicious burgers (veggie or otherwise), when Trina remembered that she had forgotten her Nalgene in the car. I gave her my keys, and she returned a few confused [...]