I feel so weird watching this thing walk… It’s a pitiful little creature with a funny style of walking, I bet it gets bullied cause it’s appearance. I’m having a hard time to articulate my feeling.

(By the way I love WordPress’s new embed feature, just paste the YouTube or Vimeo link to here and the clip gets embedded.)

Announcement!!
Today fri 17.7.09 we are celebrating my 50′th. birthday in my apartment A14. There can be some noise, sorry for the disturbance. Best, Jokke.

http://vimeo.com/1908224

“Here is a nice deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set. The words “nice” and “deep” fall a bit short actually.

“Mathematical Porn” is a better description.

“After watching this video things in my room started to bend and breathe!! I hope you enjoy the trip!!

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were “actually” traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

You might like to know that this animation took me about two days to set up. My computer then rendered day and night non-stop for just over a month to produce the animation. The resulting twenty-eight anti-aliased 1280×720 AVI files (each just under 2GB) were each watermarked at full frames (uncompressed) Then I stitched them all together uncompressed. I also added the audio track at the same time. This was all done in Virtual dub. (except watermarking) The final watermarked Avi with audio is a whopping 46GB – Then I compressed it to 495mb so I could upload it onto vimeo. I think it still looks fairly crisp

With the compression settings adjusted to achieve the highest quality, the resulting file size was about 1.5GB and looks absolutely sweet!”

Francesca Woodman. The photos I’ve waited to see my whole life. I had never seen these before until I randomly bumped to these. First thinking they are new and deliberately taken with an old camera to make them appear old. But their actually old, from 70’s, but still younger than appear.

This is kinda boring, bad handwriting.

Astonishing details in a bill! Sounds dodgy to put such a large scan of a bill to internet. Could it be illegal?

Edit: It’s obviously illegal. This sounds pretty extreme: “Due to a vast government conspiracy versions CS and CS2 won’t open an image of many bills, but instead give you a warning box and report you, your IP address, your registration street address and phone nimbers, the contents of your address book and email inbox to the US Treasury, along with other personal information from your hard drive.”

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Monday 14 September 2009. Maybe somebody owes that much.