Where’s Willis. The story behind the creation of a 2.6 gigapixel image of Londons Southbank
People who are following my blog on a regular basis have without any doubt noticed that I have somehow become fascinated by gigapixel panoramas over the past couple of months. A few weeks ago, SkyMovies contacted me asking if I would be interested in working with them to create a gigapixel panoramic picture for their [...]
BBC iPlayer goes HD!
The BBC has finally released HD streaming and downloads of some of their programs. The quality is pretty amazing, but the requirements towards your Broadband connection, and as important, zou computer are rather impressive and will certainly be an issue for a lot of the users these days. To quote Anthony Rose: It should be [...]
Hosting Gigapan images on your own server
Over the last couple of days I have played around a bit with the backend of how the server side of hosting the Gigapan images is working. I was interested in two different topics: What is the best way to embed the images into an existing website, and second: Can I host a Gigapan image [...]
Form 5090
As most of you know, I am spending a bit of time these days taking pictures in and around London. And I can now add myself to the list of people who ave been stopped by the police under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. And a such I have now my first (probably not [...]
Panorama: Canary Wharf by night
I finally made my first attempt at shooting a high resolution panoramic image during the evening. Regular visitors will recognize the view of Canary Wharf already. It was unfortunately rather windy outside, causing the camera to not be always as stable as needed for these long exposure shots, but for what it’s worth, I am [...]
London Millwall Inner Dock Panorama
As always, enjoy. View of Millwall Inner Dock towards Canary Wharf Panorama size: 877 megapixels (59295 x 14798 pixels) Input images: 154 (22 columns by 7 rows) As always, you can find the complete list of my panoramas here.
Gigapan images on your iPhone
Last december Microsoft released an iPhone version of Seadragon, which is a viewer for Deep Zoom images. By default, Seadragon can not be used to view GigaPan images, but thanks to Daniel Gasienica, this is now different. Daniel released GigaPan Mobile, which is basically a Python script on top of Google App Engine with know-how [...]
Canary Wharf panorama
Here is another GigaPan Panorama. This time it is a view of Canary Wharf taken from the Milwall Docks yesterday. Unfortunately the weather conditions were not perfect to take a panorama due to the fact that the clouds were moving rather fast, and as such it creates a rather unusual pattern. Anyway, enjoy. Canary Wharf [...]
Photowalking at the Southbank – more panoramas
As mentioned in the previous post, I spent yesterday afternoon walking along the Southbank along the river Thames, taking a number of panoramas using the GigaPan robotic camera mount. I have finished the stitching process and they are all up on the Gigapan.org website now. Enjoy zooming around the pictures. For a better experience, go [...]
Photowalking with the GigaPan
It was yet another sunny winter day here in London yesterday. I decided to take a tripod, the Gigapan and the Canon G9 out for a walk along the Southbank along the river Thames. While my computer is still busy stitching some of the panoramas together, I have finished uploading the first one to gigapan.org. [...]
View from Greenwich
Open full screen viewer View on gigapan.org View from Greenwich observatory in London, 0.33 gigapixels taken February 08, 2009 Click the image to view the image at gigapan.org, which will allow you to zoom through the image and discover many more details. Have a look at my other images at the GigaPan site.
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You know you’re from Luxembourg when…
This list has been compiled on the “You know you’re from Luxembourg when…” Facebook group. Parts of the list have been published at other places already, but anyway. I find it very amusing, especially since somehow I agree to most of the statement..scary (because most of them are true) and funny at the same time. [...]
TuneWiki and qik finally on the iPhone 2.0
Until today jailbreaking your iPhone running 2.0 or higher did not offer many exciting applications. of course there was winterboard which allows you to use thems and personalize the look of your phone, which is really nice (like summerboard on the old software), and of course there is ssh, terminal, Bossprefs etc..but still noting the [...]
New Domain, new Design
Well, after having had my little blog for nearly two years now, It was time to refresh the design a little bit. I hope you like it, although I am still tweaking it here and there. At the same time I have also decided to move the blog to a different, more obvious domain name. [...]
Suzanne Vega & Seth Lakeman – iTunes Live Festival
I got two tickets yesterday to go and see tonight’s concert at the Koko in Camden/London. The gig, which was part of the London iTunes Live Festival featured Seth Lakeman and Suzanne Vega! To be honest, I didn’t really know Seth Lakeman before, but it was a wonderful concert, and will certainly invest some of [...]
Luxembourg in the lead – we are back!
After Kim Kirchen managed to wear yellow during 4 stages, he lost if to Cadel Evans. Well, Today, on stage 15 up to Prato Nevoso, another one of our three riders from Luxembourg managed to take the lead and is now wearing yellow: Frank Schleck! With a lot of help from his brother Andy, he [...]
Roude Léiw, huel se… Luxembourg in the lead!
For the first time since nearly 50 years, a rider from Luxembourg is in the lead of the Tour de France! 1959, Charly Gaul was wearing the yellow shirt for the last time for Luxembourg, but since Thursday, we are back! Kim Kirchen is currently leading the Tour, and although it is still a long [...]
O2 update on iPhone 3G availability
It isn’t really getting any better. O2 informed their potential customers today about the latest status. You can go to http://shop.o2.co.uk/info/ to read it for yourself, but it isn’t good news. Read the following to get an idea: we’re confident that everyone who wants an iPhone will be able to get one by the end [...]
Pre-ordering a 3G iPhone through O2 – what a nightmare! – updated
As a lot of you know, I was a happy owner of the first generation iPhone since summer last year and was looking forward to the new 3G iPhone! Some time ago I “registered” my interest to pre-order the new iPhone from O2 here in the UK, and as rumours predicted it, on Monday morning [...]
iPhone 3G Prices in the UK
O2, who will still be the only carrier offering the iPhone in the UK has published the prices for the phone and the corresponding tariffs: Monthly Charge £30 £35 £45 £75 Cost of 8GB iPhone £99 £99 Free Free Cost of 16GB iPhone £159 £159 £59 Free Minutes 75 600 1200 3000 Texts 125 500 [...]
Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote in 60 seconds
As usual, thanks to the guys at Mahalo Daily, save yourself a lot of time: Watch the keynote in 60 seconds instead of nearly 2 hours. Enjoy. WPvideo 1.10 Download!