With the Olympics just less than one year to go, China is on a building-spree in Beijing and Shanghai. They have invited a number of leading overseas architects to do the designs – with some controversial, but impressive results.
One is the Olympic Stadium:
10 Amazing new buildings in China » Beijing Olympic Games 2008
It’s also the only Olympic facility not quite completed. Amazing the efficienty of a totalitarian state in organizing an Olympic Games.
Wonderful treatment of photos of people by Mary goodsardine.clean.
afternoon light #12 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
more pics like this
Tom Otjes posted a photo of a snowman in Vegas.
Facebook | Tom Otjes’s Photos – Still playing Santa and Snow in Vegas
Workers sculpt “Romantic Feelings”, which will debut at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin of Heilongjiang Province, China, on Dec 17. “Romantic Feelings”, measuring approximately 115 feet high and 656 feet long, is designed to be the world’s largest snow sculpture. The 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo starts on Dec. 20 at the city’s Sun Island Scenic Area.
(Getty Images/China Photos)
more photos – Newsday.com
Peter Long was asked if Schmap could use one of his flickr photos on their Paris page.
What is Schmap?
Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest.
Schmap has 200 cities available already, including Calgary.
It looks pretty cool. (The placement of the Google ads is particularly interesting to me.)
Check it out: Schmap – Dynamic Travel Guides
Peter Long down in Florida has a nice format for their annual holiday update:
If you click on any of the underlined words it will take you to a photo album on flickr where I dump my mostly unedited pictures. Each album may have a handful or a few hundred photos. The small photos below will enlarge if you click on them.
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check it out: Long’s Year in Review
JP and Jenn Wood-Aucoin are proud to introduce Isabelle Victorine Aucoin, 7 lbs 6 oz.
Jenn was the first female Olympic gymnast from Alberta. She aced the competition in Barcelona then went on to a very successful NCAA College gymnastics career, one of the top gymnasts ever from her school, scoring several “perfect 10s”. (Back when 10 was a perfect score.)
I was one of her coaches back in the day at Altadore. Now she’s got her own future Olympian. Wow!
Pete 2007 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Trying some of the special effects in iPhoto:
My main use of photos is on-line, normally posted this size (500 pixels wide, landscape).
The originals are 1920 x 1080 pixels.
Unfortunately this camera has FEATURES that require me learning how to use them.
Details on the palmcorder which so far I like very much.
My buddy Tom recommends one of these gizmos. I think I’ll get one for my new camcorder.
I bought one of these Gorillapod tripods last spring and finally made up my mind to take it out in the woods and see how handy it is for hiking.
Turns out it works pretty well — it stands on benches, grasps on branches, balances on rocks… there really are about a zillion configurations. It’s lightweight and easy to use, for the most part, but it’s got some limitations …
Rick McCharles 