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

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Dec 18 2011

A chat with a lock-keeper

I was chatting to Mark, one of the lock keepers at Hull marina on Saturday morning, and we were discussing the winter and considering whether snow was in the air. He got to talking about last winter when the coldest temperature recorded in Hull was a staggering -28 deg C, when the lock gates froze solid, the police used it as an opportunity to do some training in ice diving in the marina, and that the river Humber froze for the first time since 1963 (I think). He told me to go and look on YouTube for a video of the frozen Humber and the RNLI. So I did and here it is:

Incredible really

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Dec 16 2011

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

via youtube.com

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 30 2011

How to get more women in tech

via How to get more women in tech via Denise

As Denise said "fair point, nicely made"

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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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Oct 19 2011

The Stories Behind Photographer William Klein’s Contact Sheets

This short film, found in Contacts, Volume 1, is a fascinating video in which photographer William Klein takes us beyond his iconic images to discuss the stories revealed in his contact sheets.

The picture is taken at 1/125 of a second. What do you know of a photographer’s work? A hundred pictures? Let’s say 125. That comes out to one second. Let’s say, more like 250 photographs? That would be a rather large body of work. And that would come out to two seconds. The life of a photographer — even of a great photographer, as they say — two seconds.

It’s always awesome listening to well-known photographers talk about their work.

via petapixel.com

Well worth the 14 minutes run time

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Sep 26 2011

Video: Why I love my 3D Printer

I stumbled across this earlier today via a tweet, and just love the delivery, the message and the raw enthusiasm.

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Sep 17 2011

The Ladybird book app

via skitters.dallaway.com

I read about the Ladybird Classic Me Books app the other day via The Literary Platform and persuaded Richard to part company with the 69p needed to buy it for the iPad. He did so, and above is video of him showing it to the dog.

One side note here: Very few apps/tv shows/recorded voices get any reaction whatsoever from Skitters, so her reaction here was both surprising and amusing

I remember the Ladybird books from my childhood, and always have a sense of trepidation looking at new interpretations of things I grew up loving. But I have to say I'm rather impressed - it's very simply done, with simple touch interaction to get animal noises, or the words read out, via a simple hot spot map (which can be made visible) and then the ability to record your own voice on it meaning that a parent who can't always be at their child's bedside at story time, can still be part of that routine.

Also, more than a little eager to persuade Richard to part with a further £1.99 so I can listen to one of the Adam Buxton narrated stories

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Sep 14 2011

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

An interesting video, which starts really interestingly and with a topic that is dear to my heart. But it ends with a concept that I didn't like, the idea that we could generate a digital version of a loved one, and continue to interact with them.

This isn't good enough for me. I can't hug a digital representation, I can't smell them, hear the subtely of emotion in their voice. I struggle to see how this would make grief any easier to cope with

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Sep 14 2011

The light of life

via @rosbarber

Such a simple concept, and transforming a community, all through the secondary use of an item

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Aug 21 2011

Heather Barnett @ Margate Photo Fest

Physarum Experiment No: 016
A collective study in culinary likes and dislikes.
Made at Margate Photo Fest, August 2011.

 

via heatherbarnett.co.uk

Last weekend, whilst we were visiting Richard's folks, we stopped by the Pie Factory to see what was happening at the Margate Photo Fest and stumbled across Heather Barnett's experiments with slime mold. On the video, at about 1:25 some "more oats" are added - these were Richard's interactions with it, and below is a quick snap of Richard interacting with Heather herself.

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