Wow, this is quite a device. Each screen is connected to a camera at the opposite side. 215 camera/screen combos give the impression that you can look directly through the sphere.
[via Neatorama]
Author: John
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
‘The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello’ is a fantastic view into a Victorian inspired world of airships and gears. This is the first installment in a series of three short films, all to be set in the same Steampunk like universe.
The First Voyage – Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship
This Being the First Voyage of Jasper Morello, Aeronaut of the 3rd Royal Cartographers, and his Journal Recording of the Mysterous Predicament Involving the Lost Airship, Hieronymous.
Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. The chance discovery of an abandoned dirigible leads Jasper through unchartered waters to an island on which lives a terrifying creature that may be the cure for the Plague. The journey back to civilization is filled with horrors but in a shocking climax, Jasper discovers that the greatest horror of all lies within man himself.
[via gravestmor]
Frankenstein Panoramic Camera
Take an old Nimslo 3D camera and mate it with the lenses off a twin lens reflex and you get one hell of a funky looking camera. Each frame is two regular 35mm frames wide, go through the photo set and see the results.
CRACKED Back At It Again
I was never a big fan of Cracked magazine. My brother liked reading it more than I did, I was mostly a Mad Magazine boy. It had it’s funny bits but it always seemed that it was trying to keep up with Mad. Well after a two year break, the old magazine has been re-born. So goodbye to the hand drawn black and white comics, hello to slick color pages and a layout like FHM and Stuff. I’m looking forward to reading the first issue in the new format, I want to see if the humor is still there.
Pinhole Light Meter
I’ve often thought that having a light meter that would work in the realm of pinhole cameras without conversions was only the stuff of dreams. Well not any more.
"I have been taking Pinhole Images with a Zero 2000 Pinhole Camera for about 7 years. To improve the exposure accuracy of my images I have created a prototype specialist Light Meter especially for my Pinhole cameras. One of its more unusual features, and the main one I wanted, is that it integrates or sums incident light over the exposure time. Thus a creating perfect exposures in variable lighting conditions (sunsets, clouds, multiple flashes, etc.) . The f/stops I use are f/45, f/48, f/55, f/128, f/138, f/158, f/176, f/216, f/235 but they are just programmed into the microcontroller. Film ISO/ASA rating (ISO 3 to 8000 in 1/3 stop increments). I user Fuji Provia F100 which appears to have negligible reprocity but that could easily be programmed in. It also functions as a Timer, Normal Light Meter and via its TTL output and a battery powered prototype Shutter Driver I created it can control shutters like the ILEX No 3. Synchro Electronic Shutter (which you can buy off eBay for US $20) or Melles Griot 04 IES 213. I currently use it with a heavily customized Zero 2000 Pinhole Camera and "UltraThin" Melles Griot 04 UTS 203 Electronic Shutter. Here are some pictures of the functioning prototype… I’m kind of wondering if it’s worth taking this project further, would anyone else want to use such a device?" –
Very cool.
[via Make]
The ThumbMac
Cool cool cool! Here is a clever DIY on how to run an old (but still quite usable) version of the Apple Mac OS (everyone remember system 7.2?) off from a 32 MB USB key drives. I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy a few 32MB thumb drives so I can case mod them, this would be a prefect thing to run off from them. Time to fire up my SE and pull a ROM image off from it. I’m off to play Mille Bornes!