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I Go Fast!

September 7, 2015 — 2 Comments

Flash

F/ 18.0, 6.0, ISO 100.

Day 250 / 365

What is the Flash’s favorite movie?
Fast & Furious!

Interesting Fact: The Flash first appeared in the Golden Age Flash Comics #1 (Jan. 1940), from All-American Publications, one of three companies that would eventually merge to form DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, this Flash was Jay Garrick, a college student who gained his speed through the inhalation of hard water vapors. When re-introduced in the 1960s Garrick’s origin was modified slightly, gaining his powers through exposure to heavy water. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(comics)#Publication_history )

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

June 27, 2015 — 12 Comments

Raindrops

F/5.6, 1/60, ISO 800.

Day 178 / 365

What did one raindrop say to the other?

Two’s company, three’s a cloud

Interesting Fact: The highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in 24 hours is 182.5 centimetres (71.9 inches) in Foc-Foc, La Réunion. This occurred during tropical cyclone Denise on January 8, 1966. ( http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/weather/rain.html )

Let it go!

May 1, 2015 — 11 Comments

cartoon

F/5.3, 1/15, ISO 1600.

Day 121 / 365

What if you would be able to play with what you draw…

Interesting Fact: John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph. A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with the thumb, then by a gradual motion of the hand allows them to spring free one at a time. As with the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope, the illusion of motion is created by the apparent sudden replacement of each image by the next in the series, but unlike those other inventions no view-interrupting shutter or assembly of mirrors is required and no viewing device other than the user’s hand is absolutely necessary. Early film animators cited flip books as their inspiration more often than the earlier devices, which did not reach as wide an audience. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation )