Monthly Archive for March, 2007

New Photo-Restoration Gallery

I’ve just put up a new simpleviewer gallery of some of my better restoration work on old photos. Most of these come from my family tree.

Unknown relative

Please take a look at the gallery.

The shape of the world

I found this quite interesting, but i have a facination with maps: worldmapper.

Basically they inflate/deflate the land area of the nations to represent various statistics. The following shows patents filed in a recent year. The purple blob on the right? …Japan.
nations sized by patent applications

Inspiring Film-Noir Videogames

I just thought this was really cool. Check out Limbo, especially the video teaser.
You don’t frequently see animation this nice on the big screen, let alone in a video game. The parallax and depth-of-field effects work wonderfully with the silhouette style — thus the reference to “film-noir”. I doubt there’s a maltese falcon in the game.

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