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Tilt-shift video
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | Dancing Baloney, Photos | Permalink | 1 Comment |
This is cooler than the other side of the pillow. It’s real, life-sized video that’s shot with a tilt-shift lens to skew the focus and edited to drop some of the frames so it looks like stop-motion animation of miniatures. The monster truck tilt-shift video is even better.
Tilt-shift is fairly uncommon (and expensive) in still photography, and super rare in video. Now that more and more DSLRs support video this sort of thing should get much more accessible.
Bonus! - Make your own tilt-shift lens on the cheap.
Previously
About that “how to be happy in business” Venn diagram
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Dancing Baloney, Economics | Permalink | No Comments |
You may have seen this Venn diagram called “how to be happy in business.”
I like it, but with one teensy-weensy criticism. The intersection between “What We Do Well” and “What We Can Be Paid To Do” is called “Learn to Say No,” because it’s something you don’t want to do.
The name of the diagram is “how to be happy in business” as opposed to profitable, but most people are happier if their business is profitable. So when you’re starting out that intersection should be called “grin and bear it.” Once you’re profitable you can call it “raise your rates.” I wouldn’t say “no” unless I had more work than I had time.
Les Jones as you’ve never seen him
Friday, March 20th, 2009 | Dancing Baloney, Home Life | Permalink | 7 Comments |
That’s nothing. Check out this video of my sinus CTI scan. I snagged the disc after the consultation was over. This is a series of image slices of my skull from back to front. The two big round things after the the first few images are my eyes, then my nose appears towards the end. The black areas are the sinuses where they’re clear.
Thing is, big areas of my sinuses aren’t clear and I’ve also got a deviated septum. I’ll be having sinus surgery next month. My doctor says this is the new kinder, gentler sinus surgery, as opposed to the old, unnecessarily cruel kind where they knock you out with a shovel, scrape your sinuses with a meathook and you bleed so much they keep your nose packed with tampons for a week.
Seagull optical illusion
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | Dancing Baloney, Photos, Polls | Permalink | 1 Comment |
Is the bird flying towards the camera or away from it? No fair using photo enhancing software, but you can click to embiggen.
Answer Thursday. UPDATE: Here’s the answer in a picture.
Previously:
- Which Way Did She Go? (Optical Illusion)
Which Way Did She Go? (Optical Illusion)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 11 Comments |
Like me, you may find it hard to believe anyone could see the dancer move in any direction except the one you see. You’ll have to trust me that you need to vote and see the results for yourself.
Starbucks Logo History
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | No Comments |
Neat stuff. Vist Insty.
Manbabies.com
Friday, May 16th, 2008 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | No Comments |
Madness! Kids and dads heads reversed. Via Ace of Spades.
And is it just me or does this manbaby look like a young Dr. Zaius?
Run, Pac-Man, Run!
Friday, March 21st, 2008 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 1 Comment |
‘Nother here.
G-G-G-Ghost Tree!
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 3 Comments |
Via Triticale.
Bonus!
Via Cowboy Blob. One week to Halloween.
2007 World Beard & Moustache Championships
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | No Comments |
Winners here. Scroll down for the wilder stuff. That guy above took second place in the freestyle division because Elmar Weisser takes first place every year. His yarn-like beard is unstoppable! A picture of last year’s winners here. Incredibly awesome Flickr photostream here.
The “Don’t Taser Me, Bro” Photoshops
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 1 Comment |
Treacher’s got some.
Here’s mine:
As My Nemo-loving Daughter Would Say, “OH NO!”
Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | No Comments |
Rejected Google Special Occasion Logos
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 1 Comment |
The rejects. It’s probably just me, but I thought this was the funniest:
Supposed to be celebrating: Two decades of the JPEG image compression algorithm.
Reason for rejection: Compression too lossy.
Hat tip to Mental Floss.
Dave Marching in His Plaid Shirt
Monday, January 8th, 2007 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | No Comments |
Change One Letter
Friday, December 1st, 2006 | Dancing Baloney, East Tennessee | Permalink | 4 Comments |
From the World of Longmire comes the craze that’s sweeping Knoxville, if not the nation: Change One Letter. Photograph a sign and change one letter for hilarious results.
(Crouch Florist)
(Place Your Ads Here)
“Tennessee Trash” PSA
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 3 Comments |
Via Chez Bez.
This is a cult favorite from the ’70s. “Tennessee Trash” was an anti-litter PSA featuring an awesome song sung by Ed Bruce. It starred a dirty guy in a wifebeater who drove down the highway in a convertible gleefully throwing trash on the road. This is the version that was re-released in 1998. Didn’t the original end with a voiceover that said “We have met the enemy, and he is us”?
Girl in Bathtub with Cheetos
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 11 Comments |
I noticed the Dancing Baloney category was a little thin, so I’m adding this oldie but goodie. I used to have a link for ordering prints. If you know where to find them, post in comments.
Kissing Fish
Monday, November 27th, 2006 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 4 Comments |
Via Nashville is Talking.
More About “Convoy”
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | A&E, Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 3 Comments |
After this post I was listening to “Convoy” and wasn’t sure what Shakytown was, and I kind of wondered since Jackson Brown has a song by that name. That lead to the “Convoy” Wikipedia entry. I didn’t realize “Convoy” was telling a story about a truck driver revolution. A disjointed, shaggy dog story, but a story all the same.
Would Work Best with Long Driveway
Friday, August 18th, 2006 | Dancing Baloney | Permalink | 2 Comments |
That picture has something I’ll never have in my life. A tidy garage.
YouTube Videos Tagged with “Knoxville”
Monday, July 10th, 2006 | Dancing Baloney, East Tennessee | Permalink | No Comments |
Lots of good stuff on YouTube.
Going to the big city of Knoxville
Trip to Turkey Creek (bad word warning)
- A Ride to Knoxville (bad word warning)
- Trip to Turkey Creek (bad word warning) - If you aren’t offended by the dirty words or the soundtrack (”Titties and Beer,” “Jeff Gordon’s Gay”) this is a great, funny video of three country gals coming to the big city of Knox Vegas. If you ever wondered what would happen when smartass kids in small towns discovered Internet video, here’s your answer.
Sports
Tennessee vs. Florida 2004
- Tennessee vs. Florida 2004
- Jiu-Jitsu Tournament 2005
- Knoxville Skate Scene’s Summer 2006 Website Montage
- Not exactly sports, but: Mentos Mouth Foam with Frank Murphy and Star 102.1. See more from FMintheAM.
- Hot Air Balloon Ride
- Wrasslin’ - Jimmy Golden vs Dr. Tom Pritchard
- Star Wars’ Ray Park Darth Maul Lightsaber Duel (Part 1 of 3) - Part 2 and Part 3
Four wheelin’
Mud pit
Music
Ben Folds in Knoxville
- Ben Folds in Knoxville 2006
- Ben Folds performing “Brick”
- Senryu at the Corner Lounge (bad word warning)
- Jack Johnson in Knoxville
- The Graceful Failures Knoxville 2006
- Keith Urban Knoxville 2006 (more audio than video)
- Keith Urban (much better video)
- Nine Inch Nails Knoxville 2006
- 10 Years Knoxville Disc Exchange
- The Disobedients Knoxville 2006 Corner Lounge (bad word warning, if you can make out what the lead singer is saying)
- The Disobedients Knoxville 2006 Electric Ballroom (I can’t tell what he’s saying, but it’s probably bad)
- Vertigo Knoxville 2006 Blue Cat’s
- Seether in Knoxville
- Bluegrass Prodigies at WDVX studio 2005
- Breaking Benjamin 2006
Friday Bird Blogging - Pileated Woodpeckers
Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | Dancing Baloney, East Tennessee | Permalink | 3 Comments |
Taken near the horse stables in Cades Cove during last weekend’s trip to the Smokies. I went to look for a wild turkey I glimpsed and found these pileated woodpeckers foraging for woodpecker vittles. Near the end of the video you can see one bird feeding the other behind the tree.
This next is a short video of one of the birds pecking at a log.
P.S. I think these are young pileateds. They seem a little small. Compare them to the mature birds at Pileated Woodpecker Central. The crest on these birds is more of a teardrop shape. On the older birds it’s narrower and more angular.
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