(1004) Dinosaurs on White

In what could be a massive technical failure, I'm posting my first-ever video.
(If you have quicktime installed, it doesn't work, and it's not Sunday, let me know in the comments.)

While future projects might include motion, my approach so far has been to accompany a collection of still images with a soundtrack that I've created from relevant environmental sounds. I'm not a strict literalist here - see a dog, hear a bark - but the audio and images are recorded in tandem and do relate to each other in some way. In this case, it was a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum with my camera club yesterday morning.

Running time is 59 seconds.

A 1280x720 video, along with another work-in-progress, can be found on my page at Vimeo.

#942, Power of the Machines

I find the perspective - and the demand - disturbing.

#940, Helvetica with Handwriting

I can't believe that they put the 'No Parking' sign up crooked.

(1003) #906, Bloor Street

Context changes content. I'm not sure if someone thought this placement through properly.

For the purpose of my Weekly Photo efforts, I've decided that I'll count film images as being from the week that they're scanned instead of from the week that they're taken.

I'm not sure what I'll do for a photo for next week, though.

#945, Pale Blue & Dark White

I've had some fun with this one.

Editing by Omission

Tar sand. Swamp-like deposit of a mixture of fine clay, sand, water, and variable amounts of tar-like heavy oil known as bitumen. Bitumen can be extracted from tar sand by heating. It can then be purified and upgraded to synthetic crude oil.

Bitumen. Gooey, black, high-sulfur, heavy oil extracted from tar sand and then upgraded to synthetic fuel oil.

(Source: UNFCCC2009 website glossary.)

There wasn't much coverage of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in the Canadian media - there were some vague hints that Canada isn't exactly on the side of the angels because of the tar sands, and then things fell strangely quiet.

Hotel at Night

There may be something to this whole "look of film" thing.

This scene feels old.