ITHCWY WebCam
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
I Thought He Came With You now has a WebCam looking out towards the Pacific Ocean from West Portal, San Francisco.
Farallones
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022.
Sunset behind the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Farallones #timelapse #farallones #farallon #sanfrancisco #sunset #video Time lapse video of sunset behind the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, California. )
Sunset sunset
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022.
Sunset over the Sunset district in San Francisco. There is also the start of moonset at the start of the video and then clouds roll in and, unusually, out before the sun goes down.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Sunset sunset #timelapse #sanfrancisco #sunset #moonset #video Time lapse of sunset over the Sunset District in San Francisco, California. )
Fog over Twin Peaks
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Monday, January 20, 2025.
Fog sweeps in over Twin Peaks in San Francisco.
The photograph titled "Fog over Twin Peaks" captures a mystic view of a cityscape shrouded in fog. In the foreground, delicate silhouettes of tree branches frame the scene, adding a sense of natural grandeur and tranquility. The slowly rolling fog blankets the urban landscape, partially concealing a towering radio tower that rises defiantly against the dim sky. Below, the lights of the city glimmer like scattered stars, creating a surreal juxtaposition between the man-made and natural elements. The image evokes a serene, otherworldly atmosphere, where the ethereal mist blurs the boundaries between land and sky.
The style of the photograph embraces a minimalist approach, focusing on a few key elements to convey its message. The composition is well-balanced, with the prominent radio tower slightly off-center, drawing the eye upwards through the layers of fog. The use of framing with the branches adds depth and a natural border, directing focus toward the central elements of the composition. The color palette is subdued, with soft grays and blues blending seamlessly, enhancing the mysterious mood. While the atmospheric quality of the fog is beautifully captured, the image could benefit from a bit more contrast to highlight the hidden details within the mist. Overall, the photograph successfully evokes a sense of calm and intrigue, inviting viewers to linger and explore its depths.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Fog over Twin Peaks #photo #timelapse #video Timelapse of fog sweeping over Twin Peaks in San Francisco, California. )
Venus Sets
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Sunday, September 18, 2022.
Time lapse of Venus setting as seen from Bernal Heights in San Francisco.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Venus Sets #timelapse #venus #video Video (time lapse) of Venus setting from Bernal Heights in San Francisco, California. )
Never Ending Fog
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
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World Time Lapse
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022.
I've just made a new time lapse video using web cams from the Catfood WebCamSaver directory:
If you haven't seem the time zone version it's a completely different take.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: World Time Lapse #timelapse #webcamsaver #webcam #webcam #video Timelapse made from public security cameras all around the world. Accompanying music is "Black Rainbow" by Pitx (feat. ERH, acclivity) )
Reviews and links for September 2010
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017.
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson
4/5
I'm a big fan of Bronson and I became a father last Thursday, finishing this book the day after. NurtureShock is packed full of the latest research on child development from infants (I can't believe how happy I am that Baby Einstein doesn't work) to teenagers. If you're unwilling to vaccinate you can probably skip this, otherwise I'd say a must read for parents. But do check back - will update this review in eighteen years or so...
WAR by Sebastian Junger
3/5
WAR consists of Junger embedding with infantry trying to hold a valley in Afghanistan. He visits several times over the course of their deployment and gets caught up in a frightening amount of action. It's as much a book about dealing with this personally as it is about the soldiers he's there to cover. There's very little context about why the valley might be important, or about the war in general, just an account of the hard pointy end of warfare and the psychology of the troops before, during and after.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott
3/5
It's a passionate manifesto for focusing on new media for marketing and PR, and a reasonable guide as to how to go about it. I found repeated chapters on the same topic to be a bit grating but if you're completely new to blogging I guess it could be helpful. Readers would be better served by including more on SEO basics and less on Second Life. Worth a read if you're not even blogging yet, probably a pass otherwise.
Links
- Lucas to release Star Wars in 3D from BBC News - Home (Bastard.).
- Star Trek pizza cutter from Boing Boing (Need this!).
- Blacklisted books from BBC News - Home (No).
- The coming BlackBerry row from BBC - American Frei (Those who don't remember the Clipper Chip are doomed to repeat it...).
- David Miliband: This is Ed's day from BBC News - Home (And it will probably make for a really crappy Miliband Christmas.).
- S.F. Mayor Newsom vetoes fee on alcohol from SFGate: Top News Stories (Cheers Gav!).
- Timelapse Footage of San Francisco and its Fog at Night from Spots Unknown (Often the fog here looks like a time lapse.).
- Ewan McGregor in a Spitfire from BBC News - Home (A Spitfire 'jet', really?).
- Pope aide in 'Third World' jibe from BBC News - Home (Criticizing Heathrow and BA is hardly the same as criticizing the UK. Also, he's right.).
- New way to curb binge drinking from BBC News - Home (Is it Pernod?).
- Clinton endorses Jerry Brown for Calif. governor from SFGate: Top News Stories (Wow. Probably says more about Meg than Brown.).
- Young 'exposed to unsuitable TV' from BBC News - Home (Right, so send them to bed early so they can watch porn on their laptops...).
- Call for homeopathy cash pull-out from BBC News - Home (Does it have a Homeopathic ER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0)?).
- Why do so many people like toast? from BBC News - Home (of toast?).
- Turtles Eating Things from Boing Boing (Except... they're tortoises! One might expect Blade Runner savvy BB to spot the difference. Sigh.).
- Why patent lawsuits and hot tubs don't mix from All Salon (From the headlines you never thought you'd read department...).
- WTF stamp from Boing Boing (Want).
- Top Gear's 'The Stig': Revealed? from BBC News - Home (It's all a decoy to prevent the real identity from leaking out (Julian Assange)).
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Time Zone Time Lapse
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022.
The video below shows twenty-four hours from noon UTC to noon UTC on June 7, 2010 using webcams from the Catfood WebCamSaver database. It proves that I really will do anything to avoid finishing off the new Catfood web site.
You can probably figure out that the three blocks of cams are the US, Europe and Japan. The position doesn't reflect the latitude in this version, it's just a random selection of cams for the timezones represented in the database. As it's July and most of the cams are in the northern hemisphere you'll see long days and short nights. I'll try to remember to create an updated version around the autumnal equinox.
The program that generated the frames ended up being simpler than i thought. Because it's fetching images from a lot of different sources I had a timer creating and then saving a frame once a minute and lots of worker threads fetching the images. Each worker thread is assigned a frame number and once it's got the image it locks the main frame and tries to paints it's own area. If the frame number has moved on the image is abandoned. You can see some of the cams flickering on and off in the video — these went down while the frames were rendering or just took longer than a minute to respond.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Time Zone Time Lapse #timelapse #timezone #catfood #webcamsaver #video Time Zone time lapse showing twenty four hours around the world with webcam images from Catfood WebCamSaver. )