right on. :)

Some crazy stuff from http://www.gigapxl.org/

It's a project in large-format photography, and a sampling of its capabilities - the crazy thing is that these are all from the SAME PICTURE (first ones posted) - not zoomed, separate shots.


Torrey Pines Golf Course -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/TorryPines-100.jpg


Keep in mind this is the same picture - just showing a 4% area of the full-size -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/TorryPines-3.6.jpg


Insane detail ability -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/TorryPines-cart.jpg


Good thing he wasn't picking a wedgie or something!

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/TorryPines-golfer.jpg




Another example - reflecting pool at Balboa Park -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/bp-a.jpg


Getting closer -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/bp-d.jpg


I had to look twice to see the couple in the original picture -

http://www.gigapxl.org/images/bp-f.jpg

Hi Luwin,

I've seen the site before and the technology and process are quite interesting. This kind of photography can have fantastic historical applications. I always love the side-by-side shots of a downtown location from 50 years ago with a present-day shot. Side-by-side gigapixel shots would have that much greater impact IMHO. :D

soon my Miata will be boosted again... don't you think this is pretty?

http://www.flyinmiata.com/depts/images/turbooutline.jpg

265HP to the ground..... mmmmm:D

that would be nutty in you uber light 1st gen!!!!!

i was thinking hard about getting a mazdaspeed3 for a while, but i am really in love with minis.

the "WORKS or GP" MINI is freaking AWESOME!!!

If I wanted FWD fun car it would have been the miniS, but I need RWD, turbo miata fits that bill perfect

i went to kansas city for a week to visit my girlfriend at school for her birthday. a few days before i left i read this story on another board, and when i saw where i took place i just had to visit it. even better because it ended up being a few blocks from her house.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1375/...3b54b44cbd.jpg

Woman tries to flush newborn down toilet at McDonald’s restroom, police say
By CHRISTINE VENDEL
The Kansas City Star

A baby born in a toilet at a McDonald’s suffered no injuries from the water or the mother’s reported attempts to flush the toilet, police said Tuesday.

The premature baby, who was born at an estimated 32 weeks of gestation, was in stable condition at a hospital Tuesday. Kansas City police said they expected the infant to survive.

Police continued Tuesday to investigate the circumstances of his birth about 12:30 p.m. Monday inside the restaurant at 3741 Broadway. No charges had been filed Tuesday against the 20-year-old mother, a McDonald’s employee.

Co-workers and police gave this account:

While working in the drive-through area, the woman appeared to be in pain and said she needed to use the restroom. When she had not returned in 15 minutes, another employee checked on her and asked what was wrong.

“You don’t even want to know,” the woman reportedly responded from behind a closed stall door. Later, she said that she was bleeding and opened the bathroom stall door to show the co-worker.

The co-worker thought the woman was suffering a miscarriage and told a manager to call 911.

Paramedics responded to the call and talked to the woman, who still was on the toilet. She reportedly told them she had “flushed three times but that it would not go down.”

A paramedic asked her to stand and saw a baby face down in the water under some toilet paper. The baby was not breathing and had no pulse.

The paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. An employee standing outside the restroom soon heard the baby crying.

The baby’s mother reportedly told the ambulance crew that she did not know she was pregnant or had given birth. But police said they have information that the woman had told friends about the pregnancy, and a co-worker said many McDonald’s employees either suspected or knew it.

An ambulance took the baby and mother to separate hospitals. Police did not interview the mother Tuesday because she was sedated.

Investigators were conducting a child protection investigation to determine whether a crime had been committed, said Sgt. Michael Hicks of the juvenile unit. He said they would be looking at the woman’s actions, state of mind and mental capacity.

“She’s the key,” Hicks said. “The potential was there for this child to be harmed, but fortunately, he was not.”

The woman, who had worked at the McDonald’s for about a year, lives with her grandmother, according to co-workers. Workers from the Missouri Children’s Division took custody of the baby, Hicks said.

mmmm boooooooooost:D:p:D:p

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1209/...f22ee7bdb4.jpg
backwards/forwards circles on some bridge in marina del rey.

F U its all about me me me
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_5093.jpg

Random Disneyland pics -

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193661103-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193662252-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193665027-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193668000-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193668073-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193668434-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193669011-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193669987-M.jpg

http://luwin.smugmug.com/photos/193669970-M.jpg

I would like to say I hate ALL SUVs and Trucks driven by people that have no use for them. My miata has been hit three times. two of those times were "hit and run", all three were obviously lifted trucks/SUVs. My coworker tells me I should install an orange flag on my bumper like you see on children's bikes or ATVs out on the desert.

Here are some pics from this past week. This weekend my GF and I purchased a new chameleon at a reptile show in anaheim. We currently have a female Veiled chameleon and we picked up a male Panther. We haven't named the new guy.

Stella... can ya see her? (female veiled)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_5971RS.jpg

Stella
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_5976RS.jpg

Stella
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_5981RS.jpg

Stella's home
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_6012RS.jpg

The new guy
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_6000RS.jpg

New guy
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_6008RS.jpg

New guys home
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...IMG_6010RS.jpg

That's a great pic!

(who's arm was that?)

That is a face I could love. I realize that these little creatures aren't very soft, but I would pet them anyway. Stella is darling and the new guy is adorable too. Thanks for the pics. :)

those are girl cars.....:o

lunch

http://three91.com/lunch/lunch20070910b.jpg

EDIT: black border deleted so as not to be mistaken for art

Holy floating plate!!! :p

i have a ball python named stella. i found out a week ago that stella is a boy. so now i need to get a female. how was the show? my gf and i were going to go but we didn't feel like driving out there and paying to get in.

lunch

http://three91.com/lunch/lunch20070911b.jpg

EDIT: black border deleted so as not to be mistaken for art

How is it that YOU can take a picture of top ramen and it turns out as art? :p:D
EDIT: oh, and that is NOT a healthy lunch, young man!

Sapporo Ichiban, thank you very much.


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