Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway  //  Service Delivery manager, photographer, dog owner, gardener, reader, learner, software developer and occasional snowboarder

This blog contains all sorts of bits and bobs, from development related stuff, through process and productivity stuff, to photography stuff, and general inspiration things. It's a bit all over the place with no real theme, but then so am I

Email: jane @ dallaway.com
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Jan 29 2012

Every leaf traps CO2

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Beautifully prepared and evocative imagery

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Jan 27 2012

3D Origami Illustrations of Wild Animals - My Modern Metropolis

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These look wonderful, the texture, the folds, they look so, erm, like paper
The blog has some nice history pieces

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Jan 25 2012

Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light

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A friend sent me the link to this on Monday, and I've spent quite a while thinking about it. It is so clever, I have no idea how anyone can visualise this kind of thing.

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Jan 17 2012

Monumental Paper Architecture

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These are stunning, and incredibly detailed. I just wish there was something to indicate the scale of them

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Jan 13 2012

Beautiful land art

Walter Mason is a Berlin-based artist who creates land art.

Lucky for us, he photographs it all before it disappears.

Beautiful Land Art by Walter Mason

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This is a beautiful flickr set of photographs

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Dec 16 2011

Video: Space Shuttle: The complete missions -- by Nature Video

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Adam Rutherford showed this video at the Uncaged Monkeys show this evening. It made me cry. It is amazing.

As an aside, he said that when he approached NASA to get hold of the films, they granted him access to over a hundred hours of footage - most of which was stored on VHS. Having seen how much degradation has happened to my Dad's photographic slides over the past 50 years it is little wonder that some of the footage from the early missions 30 years ago is a little degraded.

More information here.

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Nov 27 2011

What a face! (in sprinkles)

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Not dissimilar to the portrait of Martin Luther King made out of rubiks cubes but still a hugely impressive endeavour containing (literally) hundreds of thousands of sprinkles. And a very cute beagle too.

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Nov 14 2011

2D patterns self-assemble into 3D objects under light (Wired UK)

By changing the thickness of the black lines, researchers can tweak how far the hinge folds -- so 90 degrees for a cube or 120 degrees for a pyramid. Wider black lines fold quicker, because they absorb more energy from the lamp.
via wired.co.uk

I think these are lovely, and mesmerising, and so very beautifully simple. As a friend pointed out, not dissimilar to this

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