So a few times over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen cars driving down the streets of San Francisco with 8 digital SLR cameras attached to the roofs, for the longest time I couldn’t figure out why they would be just taking photos of the street.

It reminded me of how they made the Matrix bullet time with multiple cameras facing in on the subject. You can find a very thorough explanation of the Bullet Time technique on YouTube

Well, I’m positing that with the cameras facing out, it’s the work of Google, digitizing the “Street Views” of The City for their Google Maps application.

It’s incredible, I just needed to look up my friend’s zip code and typed in his address, and then I was given the option to check out the street view. This is especially useful if you’re on foot and don’t have GPS, you can actually *visualize* the place you’re headed to.

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There is so much potential in the Casio Exilim EX-F1 for those interest in capturing athletic events, nature, and performance. Indeed it is a revolutionary camera, in that it doesn’t tout it’s mega-pixels but is a paradigm shift in camera features with a blazing frame rate.

A Camera for the Shot You Missed - New York Times

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Here’s a little bit of an interview from her live show at Amoeba Records.

I had a list of things I’d like to get from before I moved to San Francisco (2002), I just found the 3″x5″ card, and here’s what was on it…

1. Technics 1200’s and mixer amp and speakers (found the speakers on the street, amp was gift, and I bought a Numark tt1650)
2. Midi Controller / synth (Oxygen2 controller)
3. Midi interface / sound card (imic works great)
4. Ink Jet Printer capable of large paper (Tektronix can print 11×17 wax prints)
5. Max Ram 3×512mb (1.25gb ram in desktop)
6. Titanium apple computer 677 mhz 40gbhd (12″ Aluminum  Powerbook May 2004)
7. Subaru WRX or 2.5 RS coupe (Zipcar member since 2004)
8. Snowboard (got snowskate in 2003)
9. Digital Camera (Rebel XT Summer 2006)
10. Action Sampler + panoramic camera (gift from Fiid and Susan 2005)

I have succeeded in every one of these categories except I have no need for a car anymore because of my bike and car sharing…

I found this bit of paper and it gives some insight into what I was thinking about at a second year New Genres graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute.

What kind of projects are you interested in? Network art, installations / large prints, compression algorithms, Nano-fabrication

What would you like to get out of this class? Coding and access to others interested in art/tech/psych/science…field trips.

It’s been a while, and I’ve had so much going on, but suffice it to say, I’ve been skating at 2 parks on Monday, the weekend was filled with moving and getting furniture (new to me) and photographing a party, meeting with a client, and this Thursday I have a performance and Friday I have another meeting. I’m excited that things are finally coming in, after two pretty dry months, where I was doing a lot of contacting, and not much response. It feels really good.

So I made my first wide angle skate video today, talked with TZ for hours, had a student community meeting, got to go to an opening, read Rolling Stone and Thrasher, and yet I’m still up. I have a huge week coming, calls are finally coming in from the networking I’ve been doing so that’s positive. I may have a freelance photo gig soon. Hope so.

Headed off to battle financial aid…

Geez.

Sarah Albrecht - Billy Idol
Douglas Holleley - Sting
Julia Featherngill - Villain from Bladerunner
Joe Zane - Max Headroom
Pete - David Bowie
Pete - Johnny Rotton
Pete - Dolf Lundrin