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I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

2012-01-08T20:26:00.001-08:00

Who's driving that backhoe?!

He's watching us in the rear view mirrors.

It's Tweety. Sylvester better watch out!

Hee hee hee.

Eclipsing Moon Sets Over the Pacific

2011-12-10T17:13:00.001-08:00

I just managed to wake up in time to watch and capture the last lunar eclipse of 2011.

This is the time lapse I shot of it. Not too great as I only spent about 15min thinking about doing this then getting everything together and climbing onto our roof to shoot this at 5am. I only have a 18-55mm kit zoom lens for my DSLR so the moon is pretty small. That's what I get for not planning ahead. Still this is better than the last lunar eclipse I made a movie of a few years back and my failed attempt earlier this year when I was standing out in the rain waiting for a break in the clouds that never really came.

Here is an animated gif of the same movie looping back and forth to make it easier to see the eclipsed moon. It did not do this while I watched because the moon set while still eclipsed.

Here are four stills from the time lapse. I wish I had not been sick all week so it wouldn't have been so hard to wake up earlier. I woke up at about 4:45 just in time to look out the bedroom window and see the moon starting to go into shadow. I think it was 5am or later before I got myself bundled up with all my gear onto the roof to start watching and taking pictures.

Here is the view I had. It was pretty great except for the one big street light almost directly below the moon. I should have lowered the camera more to block that but then you wouldn't be able to see the ocean. It was pretty great to watch the eclipsed moon setting over the Pacific Ocean! Be sure to click on these pictures to see them nice and big. Right clicking and view in another window/tab is even better now that they have the odd new image viewing thing going on.

Here i s a little closer view. The lights on the horizon are crab boats. It's crabbing season and the one time of the year the pacific isn't totally dark. The crab boats some times make it look like a small city out there. Good thing the moon even when eclipsed is nice and bright.

Be sure to open this one in a separate tab/window. This is a panoramic from just before the moon disappeared into the low clouds on the horizon. Can you spot the moon? I love the views at sunset and sunrise (and moon set as well in this case)from our roof.

Brains!

2011-10-31T18:07:00.001-07:00

This is what happens after late nights of astrophotography, early morings surfing and long days making animated films. I was turned into a Surf Zombie!

Kitties are wary of the Surf Zombie!

Inky makes for a super good Halloween Kitty while hiding from the Surf Zombie!

But his brains are irresistible and I must feed!

Surf Zombies Poo Too! Especially after a large helping of Kitty Brains! EErrr, EEERRRrrrr, Ahhhh...

From Planets to Nebulas

2011-10-31T01:52:00.000-07:00

10-28-2011, Tonight Jupiter is in opposition (closest point) with earth this year so I went out to take a few more pictures.

Not to bad. You can see the Big (aka Great) Red spot just about to disappear around the left side there.

Here is Jupiter's other side. I think this might be the most detail I have managed to get of Jupiter yet.

As usually here is a 3D image so get out those red/blue glasses!

And here is a short little animation I put together with some of the images I took. This probably spans about 10 minutes. Jupiter spins really fast making a complete rotation in just a little less than 10 hours. Maybe one long winter night I will see if I can capture a full rotation.

In between shots of Jupiter I did a little looking around and took a few other images. Here is the Ring Nebula or M57. It is a planetary nebula because some of these look a bit like planets through the telescope.

Next on the planetary nebula list I took a look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula or M76. This picture didn't come out to good but you can make out the core section and just a tiny bit of the fainter outer ring. I'll have to try this one again.

And then I turned the scope to the first planetary nebula I tried to image, the Eskimo Nebula or NGC 2390. This came out a little better than my previous attempts but I'm sure I can do better.

Finally I turned to one of the easiest targets the Orion Nebula or M42. I think this is my best nebula image so far. The thumbnail is a bit blurry because I scaled it up a bit but if you click on it you can see a nicer large version.

Here is a self portrait of me at about 1:30am imaging the Orion Nebula. If you know your constellations you should be able to make out Orion. The 3 stars of his belt are almost right above my head and I'm kind of looking at his sword which are the 3 stars just to the lower right of his belt. The Orion Nebula is the middle star of his sword. If you click on the image to see the larger version you might even notice that middle star glowing which is the nebula. Oh, and how the hell do I fit in my tiny little car?! It's clearly half as big as me or at least that's what the wide angle lens on the ground does. Lucky or unlucky as it was the last people to leave before me happened to turn on their car lights just as I took this picture causing the nice glow and probably screwing up an image or two. But it was all good since the Orion Nebula came out just fine.

The Big (aka Great) Red Spot

2011-10-22T17:29:00.000-07:00

I managed to find/process a better image of Jupiter from the other week.

And now it's time to get those red/blue 3d glasses out for 3D Jupiter!

And here is a 3d version of Jupiter and it's moons.

And finally here are all the images I took the other night processed, set to the same scale and made into a ping-ponging time lapse animation.

I saw Uranus and the big red spot last night

2011-10-14T04:47:00.000-07:00

Check it out, it's Uranus. I took a picture of Uranus last night!

And here is Jupiter, it's big red spot and it's 4 of it's moons. The moons are hard to see so click on the image to look at the bigger version where the moons will be easier to see.

I think these are my best images of Jupiter yet!

Here's my telescope and a couple of guys from work, David and Mark, that were hanging out looking at Uranus and the big red spot with me -:]

Same Stars Diffrent Night

2011-09-17T13:53:00.000-07:00

Went out the other night to catch super nova 2011fe close to it's peak intensity and to work on my imaging techniques. I got the super nova again just fine. Not sure if my images are any better though. I think maybe the are a little less noisy but I'm not really sure.

Here is M101 and Super Nova 2011fe. I think you can tell the super nova is a tad brighter than the image from a few weeks ago but again I'm not totally sure.

I think this may be my most detailed image of Jupiter yet.

Here is m8 a.k.a. the Lagoon Nebula. It was the first deep space object I tried to image about a year ago. I think this image is much better than that attempt which you can see here.

And Comet Garradd is still up. I think this image is a bit better than the one from a few weeks ago as well.

Exploding Star, Comet, Whirlpools and Jupiter's Pimple!

2011-09-04T12:28:00.000-07:00

Went out to look at and take pictures of the new super nova 2011fe. Had lots of fun and met a few other guys, Warren, Corey and Dave, out doing the same. My images didn't turn out as well as I hoped but I got something. Lucky for me Warren had some pointers and I if all goes well my next outing should get me some better images. And Dave gave the rest of us coordinates for Comet Garradd so I managed to get some pictures of it too. Again not so great but better than my first attempt at a comet picture!

M101 aka the Pinwheel Galaxy and Super Nova 2011fe.

In case you couldn't spot it here is where SN/2011fe is. By the end of the week it is supposed to be bright enough to see through binocular!

And here is Comet Garradd.

M51 aka the Whirlpool Galaxy. Cool even if it is a pretty bad image with butterfly stars because of tracking issues. At least you can make it out right?

Check it out, Jupiter has a pimple! Actually That's Jupiter's moon Io just starting to peak out from behind it. Dumb luck. Not sure if it's cool or not to have Io stuck on Jupiter's side like that. Mostly I think it's kind of cool. Oh, and this is probably the best image of the night even though I wasn't set up for taking images of planets. I would have taken more shots but my camera battery died right after this. Stayed for a bit longer just looking through eye pieces and chatting with the other guy. All in all a fun night!

3D Flying Crane

2011-06-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

Or is that crane fly in 3d?

Here a close up of the body.

Deep Space Nailbula

2011-06-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

I got this back in December the first night with my new 8" telescope. I just got around to processing all the photos I took of it recently. It's my first nailbula. What is a nailbula you ask?

It's what happens to your nail when it gets stuck between bits of the German Equitorial telescope mount! Ouch! Astronomy is dangerous! I think I end up with a new cut or pulled muscle every time I am out with my telescopes. Who would have thought.

And in 3d because I know you all want to see nailbula in the 3rd dimension!

Beach Block Face

2011-06-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

Just relaxing on the beach.

And in 3D!

It's Cinco de Mayo...

2011-05-05T22:50:00.000-07:00

...a fitting day to post a picture of the Sombrero Galaxy (aka M104). It's not a very good picture but I was talked into posting it. Now to go get a better picture of the Sombrero Galaxy! Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Riding a Robot!

2011-04-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

Me riding an industrial robot arm powered by a friend in the streets of Baltimore. Found this looking through old photos and videos and thought it was worthy of a post. It was years ago and believe me I tried to figure out how I could get it to my place but the thing probably weighed a ton or more. It was there for a few weeks before it finally disappeared. Still sad I couldn't find a way to get it home. Still I got to ride on it -:]

Saturn at Opposition

2011-04-16T15:11:00.000-07:00

Saturn at Opposition on April 4th which is when planets line up in this case Sun-Earth-Saturn. This Puts Saturn closest to Earth and high in the night sky and very bright because we are looking directly at Saturn's full day lit side. Though because of our orbits we are almost always looking at it's day light side. It was also the brightest it has been in 3 years because it was in opposition and it's rings are showing more and reflecting more light at us. This is by far the best picture of Saturn I have taken yet.

Nice Green Clip

2011-04-03T18:40:00.000-07:00

I like this rusty green clip.

I also like it in 3D. To bad everyone doesn't have a nice 3D display. It looks much better in full color. The red/blue really kills the greenness of it.

Ringed Planet Reprocessed

2011-04-03T11:36:00.000-07:00

There is a new version of Registax and it seems to work a bit better. At least it seems to pull a bit more detail out of the same images than the previous version. Here are the same two images of Saturn using the new Registax 6.

A little sharper right?

Starting t o look a bit over processed but I think it's still a bit crisper than before.

Look at that Ring

2011-04-01T02:32:00.000-07:00

Yeah! Better pictures of Saturn.

Not sure which I like better but they are much better than any other pictures of Saturn I have taken so far.

Found a pic of Saturn

2011-03-27T17:30:00.001-07:00

I was looking around at some of the images I took over the Xmas-new years holiday and found this image of Saturn. It's pretty heavily processed but I figure it's one of the better images of Saturn I have right now. Though I hope to get a better one in the next week or few.

Tsunami hardly found in SF

2011-03-14T00:40:00.000-07:00

So for everyone that was wondering what it was like here at Ocean Beach, San Francisco during the 2011 Tsunami here is a little movie I made from video and photos from that morning. I am talking through the first few shots going on about how normal it all looks for O.B. and it really does look normal for around here. The regular swell which I say is 10-15 feet might have only been 8-12 feet but it was by no means huge for O.B. maybe on the medium creeping into the bigger side. It makes it really hard to see the Tsunami at all.

Well there you have it. Not to exciting. Here is a video that is slightly more exciting someone shot down in Half Moon Bay near Mavericks.

Riding Tall Ships

2011-03-05T19:21:00.001-08:00

We went for a ride on a tall ship a few weeks back. Fun! I scaled these images a bit on the page and they look a bit blurry so click on them and see the nice big clean versions.

There were two, this is the Hawaiian Chieftain. We were on the Lady Washington. I think the Lady Washington was used in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It did look a lot like a pirate type ship.

It was pretty rainy and not to windy most of the trip. The rain and clouds were kind of fun.

Look at all the rigging. We got to help haul the sails up and do some other menial sailor jobs like coiling the rope and such.

You can find Linda enjoying her self in some of these though I don't think she enjoys me taking pictures of her.

I love all the rigging. They were climbing up in it to put it up and down and make some adjustments to it. I am very tempted to volunteer for a week or two to learn how to do it and to climb up in the rigging.

An even wider shot with sailors up on the masts and all that fun. You can find out more about these particular tall ships, how to book a ride or volunteer and all that here. This is the end of this really tall post just like the ships!

SF Ladybug

2011-02-27T22:38:00.001-08:00

In 3D!

Cat in a box

2011-02-17T00:00:00.000-08:00

Oh my.

Our Micro Panther Playing Fetch

2011-02-15T08:39:00.000-08:00

I think our micro panther, also known as Inky, got jealous of his sisters fetching internet fame and decided to show off a little. He doesn't normally play fetch but every once in a while he gets the bug.

Darker Skies in Southern Arizona

2010-12-30T13:23:00.000-08:00

We went down to southern Arizona where my Mom grew up. She has some friends that had a great place with pretty dark skies and nothing blocking the view in any direction. here are a couple of the pictures from our visit

Andromeda Galaxy aka m31. I tried out a lens that doubles the telescopes field of view so i could see most of Andromeda Galaxy. it causes some distortion on the outer edges of frame.

Orion Nebula (m42) again. Much brighter in dark skies which helps create a lot more contrast. Cant wait to get back out in dark skies again!

Jupiter!

2010-12-27T17:25:00.000-08:00

Jupiter and 3 of its moons as seen from Phoenix.

New Telescope!

2010-12-26T11:47:00.000-08:00

I got a nice new telescope a few months back but have not had a chance to use it until last night. We are at my Mom's in Phoenix where it is less foggy, wet and it actually seems a little darker but probably not. Anyway here are the goods. Be sure to click on the images fot the larger versions.

M42. Very first picture!

M42 after a little more fiddling.

Same image unedited.

Moon.

Eskimo Nebula.

Eskimo Nebula a bit closer and tweaked.

Took some pictures of Saturn too but I need to stack them and dont have the software on my travel computer.

Pistol the Fetching Kitty

2010-12-21T22:20:00.001-08:00

Pistol loves to play fetch. She will play for 5 or 10 or 20 minutes at a time and beg and cry when we wont play with her. As a matter of fact she is begging right now....

...and I'm back. We must spend hours a week playing fetch with her. She wants to play first thing after eating in the morning and is always begging us to play all night. I really love having such a cute fetching kitty!

More Beach Strandings

2010-11-28T17:56:00.001-08:00

Yum! We think this looks like a Sun Fish. What do you think?

Sun Fish are cool and get huge, like 2 tons huge. This was a foot or two long and probably 5-10 lbs. Still don't know if it's a Sun Fish but I do know it's 3D!

Also today there seemed to be a mass stranding of tennis balls.

We saw 30+ tennis balls along the same stretch of beach that the jelly fish stranding was. You can see them off into the distance if you look close.

Dutch 3D Tennis Ball Stranding Shot!

Just in case that last one was to exciting here is a more standard 3d shot for you.

Jellyfish Heaven...

2010-11-14T22:00:00.001-08:00

...is where jellyfish go to get away from Mormons and drunk Eskimo.

Jellyfish heaven is a lot like LA. Or maybe not. More like SF.

Wow there were a lot of Jellyfish washed up this Saturday afternoon.

And they were not small. Lots and lots of big jellyfish. Though this one was bigger than most which were more dinner plate size. I tried to talk Linda into taking a few home to make jellyfish salad with. She just laughed it off. When we were out on the beach today there was just big piles of jellyfish goo left where they had merged into one big glop. They also smelled kind of bad.

Last of the Abominable Snow Unicorns

2010-11-03T16:42:00.000-07:00

Once thought only to exist at the end of the rare double Himalayan rainbow now captured on camera for the first time ever in Redwood "Climate Best by Government Test" City, CA USA.

This is the Wall in 3D

2010-10-13T22:05:00.000-07:00

Yes they are in red/blue 3D. I suggest clicking to see them big.

Fuzzy

Moon like

Volcanic

Wall Circles

Fish Heads

2010-10-11T22:18:00.001-07:00

Look two fish heads on the beach. We don't see these very often which is odd since it seems like something you would see on the beach all the time. Right?

The beach patrol stopped and took a look too. They said they were white seabass that were caught on a boat off the coast where they cut the heads off and throw them over. They said you don't see them this far north very often. Then again I have no idea so they could have just been filling my head with silly things.

And here are the rest...

2010-08-15T22:22:00.000-07:00

...of the things I saw while catching my shooting star.

Jupiter and its moons (nearest to furthest), Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto! I think you might have to click to get the larger image to really see the moons.

And my first semi-successful deep sky image. This is M8 also know as the Lagoon Nebula.

It's a little more blurry than I would like but you can see it!

I caught a falling star!

2010-08-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

Finally! That took about two years of trying and two recent sleepless nights watching and shooting hundreds of pictures of the Perseid meteor showers.

This is the full shot with the Milky Way doing it thing. Click for a bigger version. This was not the best shooting star I saw over the last two days but it is for sure the only really clear one I captured. Now I'm itching to get out to see another meteor shower.

I also got some photos of a few nebula, some new shots of Jupiter and it's moons and a LOT of shots of the Milky Way. Needed some sleep so they will have to wait for another day.

ZAP!

2010-07-21T00:01:00.000-07:00

I was on vacation last week back east in the Outer Banks where we got some fun lightning storms. I downloaded a motion detection script for the canon firmware hack (chdk) and gave it a test run. It worked great!

Double zap as in, "ZAP ZAP!"

Big squiggly zap

zap.

Ominous zap over the some houses.

Spooky zap.

Purple Storm Drain Stuff

2010-07-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

Linda's find.

My find.

Drain closest is where Linda's find sat and the drain across the street by Linda's feet is where mine was.

BOOM FIZZ CRACKEL Crackel crackel ...

2010-07-04T23:15:00.000-07:00

It was pretty tame for the most part. I think this makes it look more exciting that it was. These guys did do it up with 4 or 5 minute long sets during the night and were about as exciting as it got this year.

It's been cloudy and windy..

2010-06-20T22:40:00.000-07:00

...and hard to take pictures of things in space from here.

But I did get a slightly better image of Saturn the other day.

Boring Space Stuff

2010-06-13T22:10:00.001-07:00

There is a comet out right now, C/2009 R1 a.k.a Comet McNaught, which I decided to try and find. Then I thought I would try and take a picture. It didn't work out so well.

I could see it okay with my telescope but my picture came out pretty bad. I had some major technical difficulties with my astrophotography rig as in I didn't test it at all before heading out. I was mostly just wanting to take my new telescope with tracking head out for a proper test run. It worked really well unlike my photo rig. I saw lots of fun stuff, Comet McNaught, Saturn, Jupiter and a galaxy or two.

I had better luck taking a picture of Jupiter.

It was a lot brighter and played better with my half working photo rig.

These two are the same but with different stack processing (stacking is taking lots of pictures of the same thing then using some fancy computer magic to get a better image).

Not sure which I like better.

Oh, and here is the first test I did a few months back trying to get a picture of Saturn.

You can sort of see it. Once I get my setup working correctly I should be able to get much better images but it's pretty exciting to get anything right now.

3D Flying Cat

2010-05-09T21:43:00.000-07:00

Meet Pistol the 3d flying cat! I think it defaults to parallel but if you click on the video it should take you to youtube where you can pick your 3d flavor.

um....

2010-03-14T22:43:00.000-07:00

...I wanted to run but I couldn't look away.

Tiny Jelly

2009-12-18T00:00:00.000-08:00

I love taking pics of the little Jellyfish. Our beach has lots yeah!

It's a Knob

2009-12-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

In 3d.

Giant Hook

2009-12-08T00:00:00.000-08:00

I got me a giant hook 'cause there's only one fish in the sea for me.

Packet

2009-12-05T23:04:00.001-08:00

Feed those flowers.

4? Looks like 3 to me.

Pumpkin Stuff

2009-11-01T10:41:00.000-08:00

We haven't carved pumpkins in a long time, maybe 6+ years. We went a little pumpkin crazy this year.

In addition to carving pumpkins we did some fun pumpkin cooking. Don't they look good?

Taking the top off to reveal the delicious pumpkin innards.

Yum!

Linda digging in to her pumpkin. We made WAY to much. One small pumpkin would have been enough for both of us. We have leftovers for days.

Here are all of our pumpkins, 3 carved, two to be eaten and one yet to be carved.

Here is the super cute one Linda carved while we waited for our pumpkins to cook. Who likes cats?

Pistol decided she didn't want to be a ghost or skelliton. She wanted to be the headless cat -:]

Inky just sticking with the black cat look.

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T18:12:00.001-07:00

Inky was made for Halloween! Spooky!

Pistol is just plain old cute snuggling the pumpkin. We are trying to decide if she is a ghost or a skeleton for Halloween.

New 3D Camera!

2009-10-25T19:14:00.000-07:00

I have been waiting 25+ years for this camera! It's the Fuji W1 3D and I it rocks my 3D camera world!

Here it is next to my previous stereo camera rig. Much more compact for sure. It has been in my pocket for the past month.

One of the coolest features is the free view (no glasses needed) stereo screen on the back. It's a little hard to see but the screen is stereo 3D in this picture. Click on the image (any image on the blog also) to see it bigger. Maybe that' will help show the stereo screen better. I'll try and get a better picture of it soon.

Here is a picture of our black cat, Inky, I took with it.

And here is a super cute picture of our white cat, Pistol.

I was going to do a review of the camera but I'm to lazy right now. Mostly I LOVE IT! It does 3D super good. If you ever wanted a solid stereo 3D point and shoot camera this is it. Kind of expensive, $600, but that is about what my last 3d rig cost and it's not nearly as good in the 3d department. Oh, and it is probably takes at least as good a 2d picture as most point and shoots. You can check out the Fuji site about it here. It also does stereo video! I'll post some up at some point soon.

Party In the Sunset!

2009-09-24T00:38:00.000-07:00

Nothing says "Party!" like an pile of Smirnoff bottles
.

I imagine the people who left these here probably looked about same the next day.

What's with the wine bottle? I hope they weren't mixing.

Banana In the Road

2009-09-21T00:35:00.000-07:00

And look, it's got guts coming out -:O

Tree Clown

2009-09-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

HA HA HAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa...................

Small Fuzzy Green Ball

2009-09-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

Our kitties would love to play with this.

I bet they taste like fish. I our kitties love fuzzy balls and fish.

A little piece of wood that was behind the fuzzy ball.

Another fuzzy ball! And wood! And Linda's feet!

We all have to eat.

2009-09-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

There have been a lot of dead sea lions on the beaches the last few months.

This one looked like a shark got the first taste but this gull is filling up now.

This was the next day.

Gross.

Crab from the dungen

2009-09-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

Big old Dungeness Crab.

3D close up!

Sunset Sunsets

2009-09-08T00:00:00.000-07:00

The joke when we moved to the Outer Sunset 6 years ago was that we would never see a sunset because it's always foggy. Sure it's foggy, sometimes really foggy, but we get to see more than our fair share of sunsets.

Nice right?

Some other random sunset from our roof. Be sure to click the images to see them bigger.

Sidewalk Skull

2009-09-03T22:10:00.000-07:00

Spooky.

3D Sidewalky Skully!

Big Shell Moth

2009-08-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

Found this big moth around 5:30 am when I stopped to get gas on my way to surf the other day.

Shell Moth

It's body was really nice and plump.

Space Rock

2009-08-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

We found this cool rock on the beach that clearly came from outer space.

I like Space Rock.

OBX Edition -- Fastest Pumps In Town

2009-08-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

On our way back from the beach we stopped to get gas. I clearly picked the right gas station to stop at.

OBX Edition -- Triceritops Jelly!

2009-08-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

There were millions of little jellyfish all over the beach our last day in the Outer Banks. Some of them had cool/scary little horn things. I liked this little Triceratops Jelly!

OBX Edition -- Pink Rocket Ship!

2009-08-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since I've found a Pink Rocket Ship! The first time was when I was about 8 or 9. A friend and I found a bunch of these Pink Rocket Ships someone had thrown out. They were on the street corner by a trash bag some animal had ripped open. Lucky us! We grabbed a few Pink Rockets each and ran off pretending they were from the James Bond movie that had the rocket that opened up in the front and ate the other space craft. Notice how they have the opening on the front just like in the movie. Any way later that day I showed my Mom the cool Pink Rockets. She didn't really seemed as excited about them as I was. After she explained what they were used for I relied why and didn't complain when she told me to go wash my hands.

Pink Rocket prepares for beach blast off in, three(D)!...

two...

one...

Zero, Blast off!

OBX Edition -- Still Life

2009-08-15T20:12:00.000-07:00

This was the top of the dresser in our room in the historic beach cottage we stayed at in the Outer Banks, NC for my annual family vacation. The cottage was pretty neat. It was old, kind of spooky and had lots and lots of doors many of which seemed to go nowhere (maybe they were for the ghosts?).

Kats

2009-07-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

Got a new phone. Took some pictures of the kats and posted this with it

Green Boot With Polka-dots

2009-07-20T01:00:00.000-07:00

Nice boot!

Baltimore Edition -- Xbox 360 Rice Burner

2009-07-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

Apparently California doesn't have the only rice burning tweakers with bad taste. I wonder if it actually has a 360 in it? I wonder how often they get the Red Ring of Death while driving it?!

Baltimore Edition -- Dr. Bunny Teeth

2009-07-10T01:00:00.000-07:00

Dr. Bunny Teeth was spotted peering into our friends kitchen window. What was he looking for?

Boom! Boom! Boom!

2009-07-04T23:54:00.000-07:00

Shooting the Independence Day celebration from my rooftop on 48th Ave SF. Click the picture for a nice big version.

Baltimore Edition -- Hampden Trash Baby

2009-07-04T19:13:00.000-07:00

Unlike in SF the folks in Baltimore don't try to hide their (white) trash babies.

She looked frightening yet happy sitting there on her Hampden stoop.

Little 3D Flowers

2009-06-28T22:46:00.000-07:00

Lets Go Get Coke...

2009-06-23T01:01:00.000-07:00

...anything else is just a joke. So lets all drink coke.

Made in Tijuana with real sugar. Now that's some sweet 3d -;]

Small sidewalk stuff

2009-06-19T01:00:00.000-07:00

Rusty Bolt.

Broken Glass.

Sick Sea Lion(s) -:[

2009-06-17T23:45:00.000-07:00

Saw this little guy this morning. Make sure to read the full story and see more pictures on my boring-sf-surf blog.

Little Crab

2009-06-14T19:06:00.000-07:00

Saw this little crab on the beach today. It is the smallest live crab I have seen at Ocean Beach. It was maybe 3-4 inches across.

Here it is walking.

And in 3d!

3D PIZZA!!!

2009-06-08T21:49:00.001-07:00

OH SHIT! Our pizza place just took it to my next level! We ordered a pizza to pick up last night and this is what we got! When we saw the box up on the rack I almost lost it. When they guy got the pizza he said, "Hey look it's in 3d." Then there were some funny references made, I gave them a good tip and walked out with a huge smile.

And of course in stereo 3d but this doesn't show off the text colors as well. But how could I put 3d pizza up with out a 3d picture right?

Ocean Beach Cryptozoology

2009-06-06T09:00:00.000-07:00

Rare sighting of the O.B. Giant Sea Horse-Giraffe creature. This is the only that came out. I guess in the excitement I didn't get the camera settings or direction right. I guess the shadow is proof enough though right? Does anyone know what it's official name is?

Crock Watcher

2009-06-02T16:45:00.000-07:00

Crock Watcher, watch that Crock!
Watch that

Punk Rock Pizza

2009-05-30T16:40:00.000-07:00

Our local pizza place, The Pizza Place on Noriega, has a lot of punk rockers working there. When Linda orders our pizza to go her name is usually all punk rock.

Beach Craters

2009-05-27T16:35:00.000-07:00

It's like a micro meteor shower hit the beach.

Even closer 3d goodness.

Boring Cats

2009-05-26T16:29:00.000-07:00

Now that we have two kittens I don't think I will be able to prevent self indulgent boring cat posts. Here are two kitten teeth in 3D that Linda found on the floor.

Pistol showing off her new teeth.

Inky doing what he does best, chillin'.

ACK! Trash Baby! In 3D!

2009-05-24T16:23:00.000-07:00

This little trash baby gave Linda a fright the other day.

I don't think these pictures do the creepiness of the trash baby justice. It was really really creepy to open up the trash and see it in there even after I knew what it was. I think Linda's first thought must have been something like, "Fuck! A dead baby in our trash!"

In the year 2525....

2009-04-03T16:02:00.000-07:00

...if man is still alive. If woman can survive., they may find...

...that the mid tide line at Ocean Beach, San Francisco has become a tow-away zone Monday-Saturday. This is what I imagine my street (48th Ave, it's right by the beach) in SF to look like in a few years due to global warming. At least it will be in 3D -:[]

Trash Rabbit III?

2009-03-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

So what do you think, does this count as trash rabbit III? For reference here's Trash Rabbit I and Trash Rabbit II.

Hello Kitties!

2009-03-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

It's a Hello Kitty gym ball in 3D!

2nd Kats picture. Not as nice as the first pic but this one is in 3D!

And our two new(ish) kitties, Pistol and Inky. I'll let you figure out which is which.

I say newish because they have been putting up with us for about 3 months now. Not sure why I haven't posted a picture of them yet but they totally fit today's theme. I think they are about 7 months old and super cuddly in this 3D! picture.

Window Crystals Are Cool

2009-03-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

I have always loved the cool ice crystals that form in the windows of airlines. Here is a close up of the little tine hole in the window with lots of little ice crystals. In 3D!

Trash Rabbit II

2009-03-12T17:55:00.001-07:00

This is the 2nd trash rabbit I have found and taken a 3d picture of. The first one can be found here.

I just liked the way this log looked in the ivy.

FREE!

2009-03-08T18:24:00.000-07:00

YEAH! But what exactly is free? Make sure to look at this with some red/blue (not those weird Superbowl glasses) 3d glasses because it is in stereoFREEd! If you click on it you can see it much bigger too which is extra cool in freeD!

Small 3D Sidewalk Finds

2008-10-21T22:34:00.001-07:00

A screw.

A dead bee.

Tired and Tiny

2008-10-20T23:49:00.000-07:00

El Gato Grande catching some rays, meow, purr purr purr.

There's nothing wrong with a little Dikdik. In 3D!

The little monkeys always seem to want to play with me.

Hee hee hee, I always want to play with them too! When I had my beard I wanted to get a beard monkey to keep it clean. These little Emperor Tamarins would have been just the ticket. Plus they seem to like me so I think it would have worked out well.

Jar of Beard

2008-10-19T23:31:00.000-07:00

I lost a beard growing contest a few months back. The contest was to see who could go the longest without shaving. I got sick. There is nothing worse than getting snot all over the top of your mustache and soup all over the bottom of the 'stash and chin beard. I shaved out and put my shavings in a jar that I keep on my desk at work. I ripen bananas by the jar of beard as you can see.

Here is what I looked like a little while before I shaved out.

Knee Surgery and Work

2008-09-18T06:36:00.001-07:00

I tore my ACL had surgery and have been recovering for the last 4 months and have a few months to go. Here is a cool video of them drilling holes in my bone, putting a new ACL in and a screw to hold it in place. I hope she holds.

It's amazing of fast your leg shrinks when you don't use it. Here is what happened after about a week off my leg. IN 3D!

Nice right?

On top of that the movie I have been working on has had me working 12 hour days 6 days a week (well only 10 hrs on Saturdays) for the past two months with physical therapy for my knee. What fun!

It all made me to lazy to post anything here. But the movie is winding down, my knee is way better and I'm ready to catch up on the last 3 or 4 months of posting I have meant to do.

Street Candy

2008-05-18T23:52:00.001-07:00

So yummy and 3D!

Robot Building

2008-05-18T23:41:00.000-07:00

So this is a no SF find but I had to share. We took a trip back east to visit family and friends where I saw this Robot trying to hide in or as a building in downtown Harrisburg,. Capital city of Pennsylvania USA! I tried to warn everyone but they didn't seem to care. People from PA are fearless and or crazy.

Look at those eyes just waiting for the fearless Harrisburgians to drop their guard.

Giant Robot hiding in a building in 3D!

ROBOT!

That sand's not dirty...

2008-05-18T23:24:00.000-07:00

...it's full of GOLD! For a long time we wondered what was the cause of all the black sand on our beach. The first thought is always pollution. SF is a decent sized city so it would not be surprising if it was some kind of industrial waste. But having spent lots of time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where there is naturally occurring tar which make some of the sand black I was not convinced it was pollution. Only thing is they don't call people from SF or Ocean Beach "Tar heals" so I figure it isn't tar. So what is it? Apparently knowing that SF is all about the gold rush of '49 the sand went and got some gold in it! Yep all that black sand has gold in it. Though it turns out not very much which makes it mostly not worth the effort to extract it. But that didn't stop some guy in the 80s from trying to haul some off. To bad for him it's a state park and they weren't down with his plan. Any way it's nice knowing all that black sand we drag in our apartment has a little gold in it -:]

We have some fun cars in our hood -:]

2008-05-18T23:17:00.000-07:00

I wonder if you can get that at the Honda dealer? I sure hope so!

Such a nice conversion. It looks like it's made of wood. If so that guy or his dog has crazy skillz. But who cares if it's wood or not that ride is sweet!

Submarvan

2008-03-08T13:50:00.001-08:00

Not sure if this has been around the neighborhood or just surfaced but is one of the coolest vehicles I've seen in a long time.

So you know I took some 3D pictures to share -:]

And here are some night shots I took the first time I noticed the conning tower.

I like this action shot of the Submarvan diving into the murky depths of the Outer Sunset streets.

Fly On The Wall

2008-03-08T13:41:00.001-08:00

We don't get to many flies here by the beach in SF. I guess it's because it stays pretty cool year round. It has hit the mid 60s a few days this week which I guess is warm enough to trick flies into heading to the beach. But as this guy found out the beach in SF isn't much good for sunbathing and was chilling on the wall which gave me time to take a very close up 3d picture. Yeah cold 3d fly!

What is it part 1 (or is it 3?)

2008-02-25T00:30:00.000-08:00

I always loved those "guess what this is pictures" so here is one in 3D!

Do you know what it is? If so don't say anything, if not keep reading the blog as I will put some more pictures down below to help you figure it out. Oh yeah, I think 3d glasses are a must for this fun so if you don't have a pair on hand right now stop right now and go find a pair. If you don't have any close this page or post a message here so I can get your address and send you a pair or two.

Lunar Declipse

2008-02-25T00:07:00.000-08:00

So I haven't posted in a while but after seeing the post Todd put on Snap! of the lunar eclipse I figured I should post the time lapse I took of the lunar declipse out here on the left coast.

And here is a close up cropped, zoomed and motion tracked version so you can see it a little better.

And the moon is back!

Trash Rabbit

2008-02-25T00:04:00.001-08:00

It's a trash rabbit in the third dimension! I wonder what is in the bunny?

The Sunset

2008-02-24T23:50:00.001-08:00

Another beautiful sunset here in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Once again I found I needed to climb up on the roof and take a panoramic photo. When we first moved to the Sunset everyone kept telling us they didn't know why it was called the Sunset because we would never get to see the sunset due to the year round fog. Boy were they wrong. We get these all the time. Sure it's foggy pretty often around here but not even close to every day and the fog is really cool too. You can always tell there is a cool sunset from the living room or kitchen which look east across the Sunset District because all the houses start turning crazy reds and oranges and purples. And when the city is going off you know the beach has got to look 2x as cool. It usually sends us running for the back windows and occasionally puts me on the roof or us on the beach with a bottle of wine to warm our souls. It's nice living by the ocean here in SF.

P.S. Don't for get to click on the image to see it full size. It's worth it.