People In Order

Hello. Not blogged for a while. Not going to now, either. Here’s a nice video though:

Drummers Aged 1 to 100 (via Ed Wilde).

Stuffe of Olde

While having a digital tidy-up in my webspace just now, I stumbled across these relics from the days when I was a budding Flash 4 programmer. These are from between 1999 and 2001, and are making me feel all nostalgic...

Inertia
AJR web design
Z-Domain.com
Pong

Website re-skin / archive

website re-skin, originally uploaded by *ade.

I'm in the middle of a website re-shuffle, with the aim of bringing my photography and design websites under one 'roof', and each sporting the same visual identity.

If you're the sort of person who bookmarks or links to my websites then you might want to update your bookmarks or links as follows:
www.ajrdesign.net is now: http://design.aderowbotham.com
And photography sits here: http://photos.aderowbotham.com

I thought I'd also take this opportunity to archive the previous two AJR Design websites:

2003-2007


2000-2003

Head tracking for desktop VR displays using the WiiRemote

This is pretty impressive. Thanks to Robin for the link.

In a saweet harmony

Rave Generator

Nice.

alight

alight, originally uploaded by *ade.

Taken from Commuting photoset

Indexhibit

I've been playing around with Indexhibit for a few hours and have cobbled together the bare bones of a photography portfolio. It needs a lot more work but I'm pleased with the result so far, after such minimal effort.

I don't know why I didn't look into using Indexhibit sooner. Now maybe I'll never get round to making that new portfolio in Flash. Maybe there's no need?

Something That She Said

A few weeks ago I did a photoshoot with the band Star Chamber (some photos here).

They were a very nice bunch of chaps to work with and, as such, I'm writing this post to support, in some small way, the release of their new EP Something That She Said. It's not the sort of stuff I'd typically listen to, but I really like both tracks.

You can buy the EP (and support their bid to get into the charts) here from TuneTribe.com or here from iTunes.

Night shots from Victoria Peak

Hong Kong, originally uploaded by *ade.

Victoria Peak is a vantage point in the west of Hong Kong island. It's the most popular tourist destination in Hong Kong as the views of the city are spectacular.

Here are my efforts with the camera, taken on the evening of Monday 19th November: View slideshow »   View set »

Also, I've posted one of the photographs at its original high resolution. Depending on your browser, you may need to click on the image to turn off image scaling.

Hong Kong

I just got back from a wonderful holiday with Rachael in Hong Kong, where we got engaged! Apart from the obvious, we had a really good time. It's a great place – highly recommended if you've not been.

I've got 15.5 gigabytes of RAW files shot with the Canon 5D that I've not even looked at yet. This will probably take weeks.

But I also took some snaps with the trusty Canon Ixus, including the one shown above. As usual, they're on Flickr. View the best shots or all of them.

Ominous smoke cloud over London.

Ominous smoke cloud over London., originally uploaded by *ade.

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Ade's musings on reality

Some thoughts I was having on the train earlier:

Ignoring uncertainties, it occurred to me that reality consists primarily of objects or, more simply, 'things that exist in some physical form'. And secondarily, reality contains events, or occurrences.

Logically, we can say that some objects exist and some objects do not exist. And, likewise, some events occur, and some events do not occur.*

So in this objects and events model, ignoring uncertainties, there are four logical combinations:

1. Events that occur involving objects that exist
2. Events that do not occur involving objects that exist
3. Events that do not occur involving objects that do not exist
4. Events that occur involving objects that do not exist

This can be represented by the following diagram:



Interestingly (perhaps) it would seem that events require objects, yet objects do not require events. Therefore three out of the four logical combinations are allowed. This, it occurred to me, was a strangely asymmetrical system. Or perhaps it only appears that way because of our blinkered three dimensional perception of time and causality.

That was about it really.


*Obviously, some objects are created by events and others are destroyed or modified by events.

Monument

Monument, originally uploaded by *ade.

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River Thames

River Thames, originally uploaded by *ade.

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Shibboleth

Shibboleth, originally uploaded by *ade.

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dark morning

dark morning, originally uploaded by *ade.

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New Tune

I've done a remix of the track that I made at the start of the year, and have also 'tweaked' the original a bit. Listen below, or download the mp3s here.

Remix
Firstperson – Day One (day 295 remix)

Re-edit
Firstperson – Day One (day 292 edit)

New old toy

new old toy, originally uploaded by *ade.

Rachael bought this for me from a market in Brussels. It's a pretty basic camera from the 1950s, with a fixed shutter speed and a choice of two apertures. It also has a brown nice leather case.

I'm looking forward to getting some 120 film for it and having a play.

'Most interesting by'

This PHP utility by Isaías González pulls out the most interesting photos by any given Flickr user.

I’ve set up that link with my username, though what it has highlighted is that people seem to like my old photos the best. There are only three photos in that list from 2007 (at the time of writing this).

Now, obviously Flickr’s ‘interestingness’ isn't necessarily a good measure of quality – put something racy, newsworthy or controversial (or indeed a cute kitten) up there and it’s likely that the image will appear in the Explore section before long. But it does tell you whether or not people are looking at and commenting on the photographs.

I’m going to put it down to the fact that I used to spend far more time actually interacting with Flickr than I do now. And a lot of the stuff I’ve been photographing this year has been for some less creative and more commercial purpose.

But my mission is to overthrow every one of the images in that current list. I'm bored of them now!

Footbridge (night version)

footbridge (night version), originally uploaded by *ade.

I was passing through so thought I'd take another one. It's not quite as good as the day version, but then that's my 5th most interesting photo, according to Flickr.