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Rich Gibson (Rich)
Sebastopol,
United States of America
Gigapans: 631
Snapshots: 491
Bookmarks: 6
Last Visited: January 31, 2010
Tags:
geowanker,
burning_man,
sebastopol,
programmer,
mapping_hacks,
author
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I'm a programmer, author, and hacker artist in Sebastopol and Mountain View, California.
I work on the GigaPan project, and I welcome questions, comments, and ideas about the project.
I have a blog here: http://testingrange.blogspot.com/
Please email if you want, rich.gibson@gmail.com
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Gigapan with Canon S5IS |
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Nikon D70 and Panosauraus |
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GigaPan with Canon G9 |
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The Studio for Urban Projects hosts a number of events. This time it was "The Love Life of the Octopus" with a film screening, and then printmaking where squid ink was used to paint squid, and then contact prints were made from the squid.
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The front area of the Shipyard in Berkeley, with the Neverwas Haul, and I am standing next to the frame from Fish Bug http://fishbug.net/ on the left.
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The back patio, home of countless gasifier experiments, and plants growing in biochar, and home to bbq's, and where Kimric taught my son spencer about flame rockets.
They involve a propane torch and a foot of conduit over the gas outlet. You slip a 2 liter soda bottle over it, depress the gas for 10 seconds - without a spark - and then spark.
The bottle demonstrates the process of thermal expansion, plus it makes noise and is lots of fun.
Jim joked that Spencer owed him a bottle of propane, and as i recall, when he saw one, either at the store or in my shop, he made me bring it to Jim.
It was a glorious time. Playing with fire and children.
The red shipping container on the right was also the site of my GigaPan Death Leap!
In june 2008, a few months before I started officially working on the GigaPan project I took a gigapan from atop that container of the Gasification workship in progress. When i tried for a second picture the gigapan lurched somehow, and slipped off of the shipping container and landed camera end first.
There was mechanical carnage and destruction. Documented in this flickr set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich_gibson/sets/72157605626723048/
Here is the last GigaPan I took before the death leap:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6060
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The Gasifier Experimenters Kit (GEK) is an amazing technology which turns long chain molecules, like wood chips,
walnut shells, coal, or organic compounds into burnable gas and left over biochar.
This is the shop where the GEK's are currently being made - as of Jan 16, 2010.
http://www.gekgasifier.com/
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Rose and I had doner and let the GigaPan capture the street. We could see it, and I was nervous that someone would bump into the mast, but I decided to get all zen on the problem and allow that maybe the camera would fall over, and maybe not.
It was a good experience, to just let go and be okay with what happened.
This was the closest food the the Sunflower Hostel where we stayed.
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We slid across this icy walkway to get to the SBahn Station near the Sunflower hostel - or we walked a bit more to the UBahn station
when we went to the Technical Museum, or Checkpoint Charlie. You can see the 'Suicide Circus' torward the center right, and
just the experience of snow and trains.
This is apparantly a party neighborhood. Jay and Molly were told that 'this was the spot' to be a for New Year's Eve, and so they
were on this bridge when all hell erupted.
New Year's Eve in Berlin involves rockets and sparklers and roman candles and big bangs, and little oversight and less control.
The rest of us were at the cBase hacker space, along the river. That was insane, but mostly there were just the people at the cBase
party shooting off fireworks there. We could see some others, but we were sort of tucked behind the building along the Spree river, and
in a bit of a canyon.
So our space was insane with fireworks. Jay and Molly report that where they were seemed as ground zero to insanity.
Highly recomended, would go again...but maybe wearing safety goggles.
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I took Spencer and Maddy to the German Museum of Technology. We got off of the ubahn at the Gleisdreieck station and I looked up and was frozen, jaw dropped, fingers twitching with the need to take a GigaPan of THIS MURAL and to do it RIGHT THIS SECOND.
This was Jan 2nd, saturday, in the afternoon. The only angle on the mural was from within the DHL parking lot, which was locked, or _maybe_ with the mast from over the fence.
I walked around the whole lot - the kids entertained themselves by throwing snowballs at each other, but I was unable to find 'the one true angle' which would let me capture the mural in the way it called to me to be captured.
It was also cold. And I didn't have the mast. And I had two rambunctious excitable kids, and did I mention that it was cold? So on Jan 5th the kids and I went out and discovered curry wurst - the kids loved that, and even liked french fries with mayonoise, and then headed back and I talked with poor German to a DHL guy who gave me permission and I captured this GigaPan
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A WWII flak tower, now an aquarium
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Looking over the fence with the Mast
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Looking over the fence with the Mast
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We have a bug here.
Created: January 13, 2010
Taken From: Bridge at Warschauer Strase SBahn Station, Berlin
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Total Views: 2
I started this Gigapan, feeling pressed for time - it was cold and everyone would have to wait for me. But they were back, getting something at a stand, so I tried.
And I was slow, and Rose came up during the first column. And asked what area I was capturing,and I pointed and she said oh, and maybe I wanted to move it over a bit and capture these lovely textured brick arches.
Rose was of course correct.
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