Sunday, April 18, 2010

DWARR



One man doom metal band hailing from South Carolina, circa 1980's

Well, did you evah

I wanted to listen to some chonez on myspace (specifically Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps because I don't own any neil young and I thought it would be quite nice on a sunday evening), but my computer is being a slow bitch ever since I upgraded 10 dollars to longer period of broadband usage.

But look at this:



I hadn't thought about this song since I was a kid untill stumbling upon it now. But I had no idea who Iggy Pop or Debbie Harry were then. So I quess my musical taste wasn't all chud back then, even though this is probably considered chud by meany. I like it. However, his Duet with Kate pierson is better.

Bonus clip:


Definitely not chud.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Space is the place



This is a photo of the space shuttle Atlantis traveling across the path of the sun that I happened upon whilst cleaning up my favorites, the best silhouette I have ever seen.

Transit duration: 0.8s. Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m.

Takahashi TOA-130 refractor (diameter 130mm, final focal 2200mm or 3400mm) on Manfrotto video tripod, Baader solar prism and Canon 5D mark II, plus a detailed map of Florida, a GPS (for the precise location) and a radio-controlled watch (for the precise time). Exposure of 1/8000s at 100 ISO (RAW). The ships being too small and too fast to be watched through the viewfinder, a "blind" series of 16 images (at a pace of 4 images/s) starts 2 seconds before the predicted time.


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