24 Hours Palma de Mallorca

TimeLapse really makes sense to shorten a timespan and squeeze a lot of time into a short while. Well, everyone tried to do it all the time and multitasking is on e way of archiving something similar.
TimeLapse photography has something relaxing, partly because one can enjoy a few moments knowing you get only ‘the best of’. With this example you get the best of a popular holiday destination over one day in just 03:25, if this is no selling point.

Palma de Mallorca's Bay, a 24 hour Timelapse from Franklin Tello on Vimeo.

GigaPan - Winter Park

I am testing some new gear, a GigaPan set to use for automated, very detailed panorama shots. I have done a few test over Christmas and it works really well and delivers impressive results. Even though the apparatus looks complicated the setup is straight forward. However the thing drains it batteries very quickly and because it is so cold at the moment I can only about do ten panoramas with one load of AA batteries.
It is a lot of fun and the detail of the images are great, the downside really is that one image is just too big and all the raw data eats up so much space on the hard drive.



Image by single-blogs

NEW Shirt For Males

Hi guys!

Here's a new shirt (retexture) I made

from base game mesh.

I only made one for now but hopefully

next time I could make more *crossed fingers*

Also this shirt will be the last upload for this year (2009)

But don't worry I'll be back next year

and bring more goodies for y'all!

Anyway, back to the topic...

This shirt has default texture

that looks like pattern but it's recolorable.

(1 alpha channel - the whole shirt)

It looks good either in dark or light colors.

Enjoy And Happy Simming!
NewOne


NEW SHIRT

Young Adult & Adult
Everyday I Formal I Career

1 Recolorable Part


FRONT PART

(click on the pics to enlarge them)

BACK PART

RECOLOR

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Model by Me:

Hayden

Custom Content by Me:

Shirt

Skinny Jeans

Custom Content I Used:

Hairs by Cazy

Skin, Brow & Blush
by Subaxi

Eyes by Sims2Time

Credits:

Delphy for CTU Tool

All creators above for creating cool CC. Thankies!

Hayden
(I Love You So Much! :)

News Map

At the moment as long as you map something your on the top. Mapping is not only very much 2009 but also 2008 and probably 2007. However, mapping is no longer only to be understood in a very simple physical geography sense, but can be applied to any field really. It is extensively found in medicine and as far as literature.
One very interesting application of mapping can be found in the visualisation of news. There is very little as boring as browsing the news to find something you are interested in. For me it is either the headline I want to read or I don’t want to read it. I am lazy, am I? Partially it is probably also the news industry that trained consumers to go for the bold headlines and this now bites back. There is simply too much information out there, especially on the internet. Look at Google News, probably the most pragmatic way to present news. TV stations or news paper web sites usually take a more sophisticated approach to sort and resent the content. However they also have to sell ‘a product’, where Google only drags together headlines. Because of the wast amount it is about organising and making the interesting bits and pieces easily accessible for completely different tastes and interests.
The question really is, how do you do this. Mapping might be a good start.


Image by single-blogs - screenshot of the website in full screen mode (click on the image for the real dynamic version)

The NewsMap.jp project uses a treemap visualisation algorithm to display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualisations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognisable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
The newsMap creators website can be found HERE, there is also a project bog.

TimeLapse - Back and White

I haven’t consciously seen this before and it blew me away, a timeLapse in black and white. How beautiful is this! I love it and this is already reason enough to post it. However it gets even better and with the sunrise the colour fade in and the scene develops a different character.

Timelapse from Andre Merilo on Vimeo.

Tracking Santa

It is a really busy season for Santa Clause as he has to bring presents and surprises to children all over the world in only a couple of days. Its is every year the same rush, but luckily he’s got his little helpers. Together they spend all year long preparing for the mad trip to dispatch all the goods. However these days the big trip can be followed on line, Santa is tracked by NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command).
Check out the website where you can see him at different locations all over the world going about his business, mainly flying his sledge. There is little detail on how he actually slides down this chimney...


Image taken from NoradSanta.org - screenshot, map showing Santa’s stopovers.

There is also some detailed instructions on how to use the site in this slideshow.

Wish you all ...

... A Very Happy Christmas!

I hope y'all have a wonderful moment

with your family and friends.

NewOne

4 NEW Skinny Jeans

Hi guys!

Here are some new skinny jeans
as I promised before in previous post here.

(Yes, moar skinny jeans XD)

Don't worry these are gonna be the last set I made.

In total there's 4 jeans:

(click on the pics to enlarge them)

Acid

Bleach

Cobalt

Twister

Young Adult & Adult

Everyday I Formal I Career
1 Recolorable Part

I made 2 files for these: 

Separated

All 5 in one single row
[I included the previous one]

Enjoy and Happy Simming!

NewOne

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All 5 Skinny Jeans

Acid

Bleach

Cobalt

Twister

Models by Me:

Adam

Hayden

Jiro

Tyler

Custom Content by Me:

Armbands Tattoos
Boondock Saints Tattoos

L4D Tattoo Sleeves

Layered Shirt, here

"Science" Tees, here

"Imitation" Tees, here

Custom Content I Used:

Skin by Aikea

Hairs by

Aikea

Bosie
Cazy

MS3B

Necklace by Rose (FREE)

Pattern by Plum

Chistrap by Kitty Klan

Brow by Nandonalt

Credits:

Delphy for CTU Tool

All creators above for creating cool CC. Thankies!

Adam, Hayden, Jiro and Tyler
(I lurv you all! ;)

Tracking the Void in Amsterdam

A tracking project based in amsterdam has produced a really nice visualisation of the GPS log data. A couple of people tracking themselves on their daily commutes presumably with a igotU GPS device.
The visualisation is done in processing.
It is amazing how quickly the structure of Amsterdam becomes visible. Compared to the London UrbanDiary map here in Amsterdam a much clearer urban structure shows. This is probably down to a number of factors, for example the urban morphology is fundamentally different between Amsterdam and London and the mode of transport is probably similarly different. A lot more bicycle transport, which makes for a more divers picture, than by using public transport or even traveling underground with the tube.
But because of this is makes for a really nice visual comparison between the two.

Tracks in the void from Steven M. Ottens on Vimeo.

Tracking the Void in Amsterdam

A tracking project based in amsterdam has produces a really nice visualisation of the GPS log data. A couple of people tracking themselves on their daily commutes presumably with a igotU GPS device.
The visualisation is done in processing.
It is amazing how quickly the structure of Amsterdam becomes visible. Compared to the London UrbanDiary map here in Amsterdam a much clearer urban structure shows. This is probably down to a number of factors, for example the urban morphology is fundamentally different between Amsterdam and London and the mode of transport is probably similarly different. A lot more bicycle transport, which makes for a more divers picture, than by using public transport or even traveling underground with the tube.
But because of this is makes for a really nice visual comparison between the two.

Tracks in the void from Steven M. Ottens on Vimeo.

Dusk to Night

Nice timeLapse merging the changes of light.

Timelapse test 9 - Dusk to night transition from Andrei Zdetovetchi on Vimeo.

The View From the Road

Kevin Lynch’s book ‘The view from the Road’ is on one hand a really interesting and straight forward investigation on how to describe and classify aspects of the city from a particular viewpoint. On the other hand it is also a beautiful narrative engaging with the subject. Aspects of mobility are important in the preliminary conception of urban narrative as a succession. Graham Shane points out that Foucault identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence mainly because of its quality of mobility and time (Shane 2005, p.252). Shane introduces the narrative as: “Because of the increasing speed of travel and communications, the Picturesque landscape entered into the narrative of the journey and city”. A series of projects and investigations fit into this approach of the narrative. For one, this is John Brinckerhoff Jackson with ‘The stranger’s path’ (2000) where he describes the town from the perspective of an arriving stranger (male) and how the town is read as a sequence of elements resulting in a aggregated narrative. There is also, in the light of Brinckerhoff Jackson, the Venturi and Scott Brown investigation of a similar object, but from the perspective from behind the wheel of a car. The same is true of Kevin Lynch’s narrative in ‘The view from the road’ (Appleyard, Lynch. 1964). They all document the scenography and choreography of movement and flows within the city or town but also beyond and into the landscape. This to some extent could be called the narrative of the machine, in reference to the urbanMachine and the functional city.

​
Image by Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard, - The View from the Road, detail -taken from chass.utotronto.ca

timeLapse of a road trip through Toronto

Toronto drive time-lapse from Adam @ Unit3 on Vimeo.

Appleyard, D., Lynch, K. & Myer, J.R., 1964. The View from the Road, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University.

Jackson, J.B., 2000. The Stranger's Path. In Landscape in Sight. London: Yale University Press.

Shane, D.G., 2005. Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modelling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Skinny Jeans For Males

Hi guys!

I made this skinny jeans the other day for my boys ;)

[For now I only made one but I plan to make more plus new outfits]

Anyway, these jeans have some extra wrinkle on it (you can see it in pics)

So this jeans is perfect for your messy sims. XD

Here's the detail

(click the pics to enlarge them)

You can find this skinny jeans in

Everyday l Formal l Career

category outift.

And they're recolorable (of course) and for YA/A only.

Enjoy and Happy Simming, Everyone!

NewOne

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+ You can get more skinny jeans here +

+ + + + + +

Model by Me:

Ethan from here

Custom Contents by Me:

Skinny Jeans

Layered Shirt

Custom Content I used:

Skin by Aikea

Eyes by Miniie

The rest are from the game

Credits:

Delphy for CTU Tool

All creators above for creating cool CC. Thankies!

'No One Cares About Your Blog!' Tees (Male + Female)

Hi guys!

I made these graphic shirts specially for MS3B owner.

Yes, no one cares about your blog! ... just kidding! ;)

Of course we do.

And we also care about your family.

Be strong and please know you're not alone.

I just lost my dad this year.

I wasn't there when he was sick

and the worst is I couldn't make it to his funeral.

I got there late one day after.

(my family lives in other part of the globe)

Also I made these for him as a Thank You gift from me.

I got so many visitors and I know no one will cares about my blog

if it's not because of his help.

So, Thank You So Much MS3B!

+ + + + +

'No One Cares About Your Blog!'

Male + Female Tees

[Long & Short Sleeves]

(click the pics to enlarge them)

For YA/A Male only

Recolorable

Everyday l Sleepwear l Athletic

+ NEW +

longer sleeves shirt

Separated Files

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Longer Sleeves Tees For Male

Short Sleeves Tees For Male

For YA/A Female Only

Recolorable

Everyday l Formal l Sleepwear l Athletic l Career

Separated Files

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Longer Sleeves Tees For Female

Short Sleeves Tees For Female

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Models by Me:

Ethan, from here

Alice, from here

Custom Contents by Me:

'No One Cares About Your Blog!' Male + Female Tees

Skinny Jeans

Custom Contents I used:

Skins by

Aikea

234jiao

Hairs by

Cazy

Eyes by Miniie

The rest are from the game

Credits:

Delphy for CTU Tool

All creators above fro creating cool CC. Thankies!
Alice & Ethan
<3

Traveling Means Sunshine in my Guitar Case

A great movie made from timeLapse sequences by Christoph Schaarschmidt. It was produced for the Travelshooter Short-Film-Contest in southern Spain. The equipment “shot this video in Gibraltar, Granada, Ronda, Olvera, Salobrena and Setenil with canon 50d and used Sigma DC 18-200mm 1:3,5-6,3 and Sigma APO DG 70-300mm 1:4-5,6 Macro”.
Great work - enjoy!

travelling means sunshine in my guitar case from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.

Memory - TimeScapes

Memory has a lot to do with repetition. It is a lot easier to remember something if it is a repetitive element that fits whit in a chain of elements. The memory then can be constructed from bits of information along the chain, but without knowing all the exact detail of one element. This applies to actions that become routines because they have been repeated a great number of times in a relative short period of time but this also applies to larger or over a longer period of time stretching events. E.g. memorials or remembering days.
Longer time periods are very difficult for the human brain to structure. We quickly loose orientation and mix up events. Sequencing is here very helpful. To have a string type of aid to line up the events can keep the orientation. This is where the concept of the calendar comes in as a narrating tool to structure events in the past but also in the future. It provides the framework to organise on the basis of time.
However, there are other sources that can be used to aid orientation. For example photographs can be used as memory triggers. A photograph is much more than simply a flat image. Multiple layers are attached to it, including spatial, social and also temporal aspects. This is obviously related to events of the past, but the human brain is able to use these experiences to also project possible events in the future. For example a photograph of last years Christmas Party, triggers memories of this years party and raises expectations for next years big Christmas bash. This conception raises the question to what extend memory is linear and it could be argued, that remembering is not linear at all, but mainly a construction, usually along similar characteristics.
Nevertheless the overarching, accurate calendar system has completely penetrated our everyday life. Everything lines up with this framework and to a large extend our pocket diary is the only point of reference regarding temporal aspects of life. Of course nowadays it is most likely no longer a physical, paper version but rather some sort of software piece on one or all the gadgets in your bag. For a long time these softwares have simply imitated the paper version and only recently they start to develop individual characteristics and possibilities. Take for example dipity.com where events and objects are represented on a horizontal timeline. It will integrate with a lot of different media. not only does it contain text based notes with an assigned time but video, image, links and so on. You can even link a large variety of other sources of activity to it. This can be twitter, facebook, youtube, vimeo, flicker or any RSS source. This is pretty cool and I obviously fell in love with it immediately. Similar service offer friendFeed, daytum or plurk.com.
But it doesn’t stop here. Location is very 2009 and everything has to be tagged with at least a location. dipity is actually quite cleaver and tries automatically to identify the location of events and gets it pretty precise. Regarding location based memory you get a number of additional services such as brightkite but also twitter for example does include latLong now.
There is a large palette of accessible apps for everyone to store memories live and build up a pile of bites referring to your life.


Image by single-blogs - screenshot dipity

The University of Leeds runs a large scale project to collect memories and store them and make the accessible to researchers. The project is run by the School of Sociology and Social Policy under the title TimeScapes. It runs in connection with the BBC where you can find a dedicated page. Leeds runs a series of workshops and conferences on the topic. It seems that the main challenge is not to actually find the memory, rep. the participants to share the memory, but to store it. It requires a multimedia database and this is tricky and becomes even more difficult if it is opened to eternal researchers for data processing.
On the BBC website the memories are strictly presented along an overarching time axis. This seems very rigid and for a start excludes any of the non linear narratives between narratives discussed in the beginning.


Image by single-blogs - screenshot MemoryShare

However, the obvious problem is how to combine multiple individuals’ memory in a nonlinear fashion. One way is the traditional concept of the calendar as discussed above and as the BBC uses it for the timeScape. Another option could be the locative data, this also provides a shared point of reference. A really interesting project here is the cityOfMemory.org, a web based memory project covering the New York area. Here the numerous memories are linked through the use of the map.


Image by single-blogs - screenshot cityofmemory

>Aldo Rossi “the museum of pain” in “What is to be done with the old cities?“ in Architectural Design no 55, 1989, p 19

Google Street View TimeLapse

Driving around Paris from you comfy chair is obviously possible nowadays using Google Street View. You can zoom along the road.
Video by coprod.fr, music Phoenix - Liztomania

Google Street View challenge /2009 from CorentinZ on Vimeo.

Mental Maps on Google

Google has put online a set of maps containing local knowledge. Basically it represents pieces of local peoples mental map by locating their favourite spots and share it with the world. They can be accessed at Google Favorite Places.
Vancouver is the first Canadian city to go online and ten local experts share their most important places as the Google Blog reports.
Bif Naked (map) - rock singer-songwriter, breast-cancer survivor, Gordon Campbell (map) - Premier of British Columbia, Kit Pearson (map) - children's book writer, Governor General's Award winner, Monte Clark (map) - owner of Monte Clark Gallery, Rebecca Bollwitt (map) - Vancouver's Best Blogger & Top Twitter User for Miss604.com, Rob Feenie (map) - Food Concept Architect for Cactus Restaurants, Iron Chef champion, Ross Rebagliati (map) - Olympic Gold Medallist, snowboarding, Simon Whitfield (map) - Olympic Gold & Silver Medallist, David Eaves - public policy entrepreneur, open government specialist (map), triathlon (list taken from eaves.ca)
But you also get other famous peoples favourite locations, as for example Al Gore’s spots or Tony Hawk’s most liked places. All in all this could start building up a personal world view through favourite spots. However at the same time it also points out the limitation of the Google Maps interface and especially the graphics. THe way locations get tagged and how information is embedded really is not intuitive.


View Ross Rebagliati's Favorite Places in a larger map

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