A little bit later on that night, three people tried to get inside the rubik's cube costume, which ultimately spilt in half and became a very slippy dance floor/twister mat.
Holy McItosh wins this week with one of the funniest pieces of music I've ever heard, if comedy is all about anticipation then this is almost unbearable.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Fanny asked me to knock-up a poster for her, looks
like it will be a fun event... and a bar.
Thanks to the lovely Jo Ratcliffe of jocandraw for showing me this one!!! Hee hee - can't stop watching it!
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Created by the clever people at Alexander, Langley and Ratcliffe, with a fair bit of help from budding animator Dan Patterson.
It's a shame iTUNES won't let us put our animated GIF into their shop - but then again if everybody animated their album covers it would probably make shopping for music feel like being sick on a rollercoaster.
This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, to one of Saturn's moons - Titan - shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera during its descent and after touchdown. The camera was funded by NASA.
The almost four-hour-long operation of the camera is shown in less than five minutes. That's 40 times the actual speed up to landing and 100 times the actual speed thereafter.
Sounds from a left speaker trace Huygens' motion, with tones changing with rotational speed and the tilt of the parachute. There also are clicks that clock the rotational counter, as well as sounds for the probe's heat shield hitting Titan's atmosphere, parachute deployments, heat shield release, jettison of the camera cover and touchdown.
Sounds from a right speaker go with the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer activity. There's a continuous tone that represents the strength of Huygens' signal to Cassini. Then there are 13 different chimes - one for each of instrument's 13 different science parts - that keep time with flashing-white-dot exposure counters. During its descent, the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer took 3,500 exposures.
The whole thing is so unbelievably futuristic - it nearly made me cry.
