Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Last month, Craig ‘just a dude who lives in Chicago’ Shimala decided to make a time-lapse video. It’s really rather good. Sez he:

June was the first month this year that I had no travel plans so I challenged myself to wake up everyday at around 5am to capture the sunrise on downtown Chicago. I’m pretty proud I was able to wake up 29 of the 30 days at such and early hour of the day. Each shot you see in the video is in sequential order. 9 of the 30 days Mother Nature did not cooperate and provided either rain or heavy overcast skies. As a result, those days were left out since the captured footage wasn’t much to look at.

Music: Spark Mountain by Umber.

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Biologist, philosopher, and atheist prophet Richard Dawkins really put his foot in it. The New Statesman says Dawkin’s career as a public intellectual is kaput. The Atlantic Wire has him losing a flame-war against his very own fan base. In the blogosphere, the most devoted Dawkinsians—people who’ve spent their adult lives in adoration of his every utterance—are boycotting his books and calling him a buffoon. A classist, male chauvinistic, and potentially racist buffoon. And why?

Because some asshole in Ireland doesn’t know how to ask a girl on a date.

Wait. WHAT?

READ ON: Richard Dawkins Torn Limb from Limb – By Atheists (Gawker)

The iPhone SLR Mount from Photojojo lets you add Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses to your iPhone. The blurb sez:

Two loopholes on each end of the case let you tie on a camera strap, so you can hang it around your neck just like your real DSLR.

Now that your favorite camera has it all, what’re you going to do with your DSLR?

Anyone?

$250 for the iPhone 4 and $190 for the 3G/S. Lenses not included, naturally.

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Ocean Sky: an award-winning time lapse film of Australia’s Southern Ocean Coast by ‘hobbyist astronomer’ Alex Cherney. Sez he:

In August 2009 I took my first long exposure photograph of the night sky. I was so thrilled with the results that I dedicated most moonless weekends since then to photographing two things I love the most in nature – the night sky and the Ocean.

Music by Redmann.

Full screen or not at all, this one.

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