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Photograph Of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge

Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010 and filed under photographs | 25 Comments »

Short and Sweet has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a film challenge with a twist.
Getty Images approached producer Basil Stephens and Short and Sweet founder Julia Stephenson with the idea of setting up a film competition which would make use of images in Getty’s Hulton Archive. Stephenson drew from her in-depth knowledge of the short film arena to suggest a selection of talented filmmakers.
After picking out ten up-and-coming directors, she gave them the opportunity to pitch. Four of the filmmakers made it on to the shortlist and got the chance to realise their ideas. They were given three months to create their films.

The challenges aim was to highlight the breadth and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive, which offers a unique resource to filmmakers and creatives alike. But rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers creativity. Examples of these prompters included discover our past, images that shape our future, still & moving imagery, ordinary people, ordinary things and extraordinary people, extraordinary things.

Duration : 0:6:50

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Mystery Giant Skeleton Satellite Images

Posted by admin on March 21st, 2010 and filed under images | 25 Comments »

The video contains satellite images of an object that resembles a giant insect skeleton. The object itself measures 305 feet long in Google Earth, and the total length of the remnants is 1,900 feet. The images are from Google Earth which also appear in Google Maps, and more recently in Terraserver. The ones in Terraserver have better contrast and do not have the overcast clouds, but were of too low resolution at the time of this video. Now, however, they are improved.

The GPS coordinates of this object are:

28.5634N, 35.2808E

The location of this object is on a valley floor adjacent to Jabal Al Lawz in northwest Saudi Arabia.

Jabal Al Lawz is a mountain that some believe is the Biblical Mount Sinai. Biblical references to Leviathan’s location may lend further support to that conclusion. The area is off limits to civilians and tourists.

If you want to see the object in 3-D, print the image from Google and the other view from Terraserver. They must be printed to the same scale, which requires a little effort and precision. Next, place the images side by side, and view them with stereoscopic glasses. You will notice that the black dot on the lower right of the object appears to stick up quite a ways, and appears to be a tree. you will also notice that a hill runs into the ‘head’ of the object, eliminating most of the shadow.

Thoughtful comments are appreciated.

Click on “ACsource” above for Christian video channel.

Duration : 0:3:2

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Image Resizing by Seam Carving

Posted by admin on March 13th, 2010 and filed under images | 25 Comments »

A new technique shows resizing of images while keeping the important features of the image undistorted, also allows you to protect or remove part of the image with anything removed being automagically and seamlessly filled in.