The Monkey King's Domain

Michael Wesely: Open Shutter at The Museum of Modern Art

"For more than a decade, Michael Wesely (German, b. 1963) has been inventing and refining techniques for making photographs with unusually long exposures-some as long as three years. In 1997 he began using this unique approach to photography to explore major urban construction projects, such as the rebuilding of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Buildings that are demolished or constructed over the course of Wesely's long exposures often appear ghostlike, evoking simultaneously a vanishing and emerging presence."

(Link courtesy of EyeBeam Reblog)

Fake Disneyland

"On a recent trip to Thailand, today's guest columnist Alain Littaye, (author, along with Didier Ghez, of the acclaimed "Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality" book) got a chance to visit Bangkok's largest theme park, "Dream World." He was quite amazed to see how good ideas never die... especially Walt Disney Imagineering ideas. He shares his many observations below in his MiceAge debut."

(Link courtesy of BoingBoing)

UCF Ham Radio operator served as main link in tsunami disaster

This was reported a while ago, but I still think it's damn neat....(My wife Christine, her sister Susan and I are all UCF alums)

"A University of Central Florida ham radio operator K4VUD (and founder of their film program) was caught in Port Blair during the earthquake and following tsunami! He and a team of other ham radio operators arrived in the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands to setup the region's first ham station 2 weeks prior to the disaster. Once they realized what happened they immediately began transmitting for 20 straight hours using car batteries as a power source. Most cellular and land-line communication was down. His team became the main link to the rest of the world from the region."

(Link & Text courtesy of Slashdot)

New Store!

Been working on building a store for all the stuff we want to sell through Brain Scan Studios, started playing with OSCommerce but I ended up using Zen Cart because it worked well with my merchant account service and it was a bit easier to manipulate the design of the cart. Now the new store is prettier, fancier, the credit card processing isn't as clunky as before, and I bought an SSL certificate (The prior store would bounce over to my merchant account's website using their SSL certificate), this is much more sexy looking.

Check out the new store

Check back often, I'll be moving Christine's photographic prints there as well some Touch of Death T-Shirts I have left over and I've got some new t-shirt designs I'm kicking around as well. Oh and possibly a print of Andrew Robinson's amazing cover for Rose #1.

First Rose T-Shirt!

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Announcing the first t-shirt for Rose from the Ashes, the upcoming series from myself and Steve Pugh! Featuring Lo Hahn, the villain from the series on a 100% white cotton t-shirt! Buy one for yourself and your friends!

Humor...

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Christine's eBay auction!

Christine is auctioning off some of her photographic prints, signed and matted for under $17.99 a piece! Check out her website for the auctions!

An inflatable pub

These folks have create an inflatable pub, link to the Wired article.

(Link courtesy of BoingBoing)

Mappr

Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take.