That has to be the best advertising campaign I've seen to date. They take their blender, and blend stuff with it, by example here we have a piece of Apple-geek-tech.
Everything goes through it, from a can of coke to canned spam, baseball, golf balls, handles, lightbulbs, bic lighters, lightsticks, videocamera, you name it they tried.
And the best part of it, is Michelle actually owns one, I now just have to convince her to let me play a bit with it !!!!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Embedding slideshows - Ein Hod
Saturday we went again to Ein Hod, but this time before everything was closed and we didn't miss the village entrance. We had a very nice afternoon, visiting art galleries, and enjoying local brews eating home made pizzas with live blues. Life is good over here :).
Trying to embed directly Zenfolio slideshows into the blog, for the lazy ones that don't feel like going to visit the galleries :). Edit: I removed the gallery it was slowing down the blog wayyyy too much.
It doesn't work that well for now, but Zenfolio doesn't expect its users to embed their slideshows in other pages so for now I doubt I'll be able to do any better. Let me know if you prefer the slideshows that way, or the old fashioned way.
Trying to embed directly Zenfolio slideshows into the blog, for the lazy ones that don't feel like going to visit the galleries :). Edit: I removed the gallery it was slowing down the blog wayyyy too much.
It doesn't work that well for now, but Zenfolio doesn't expect its users to embed their slideshows in other pages so for now I doubt I'll be able to do any better. Let me know if you prefer the slideshows that way, or the old fashioned way.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Valentines
I recieved beautifull roses for Valentines this year, here is a picture of them... in Infra-Red light:
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Panoramas
As I don't have a wide angle (I resisted the urge to buy one until now), when I face a nice scenary I end up taking multiple shots hoping that one day I won't be too lazy and will stitch it together. Well, sometimes it happens, and here are 2 panoramas. The first one is taken from "La Grande Motte" In Tignes, France, looking towards the "Mont Blanc":
The second one is the river and Charles bridge in Prague (In both case I suggest to look at the large version to see something).
The second one is the river and Charles bridge in Prague (In both case I suggest to look at the large version to see something).
Monday, February 18, 2008
Patriots
As I was saying a couple of days ago, the tension is raising on the northern side of Israel. A battery of Patriots (those relatively inefficient anti-aircraft anti-missile US defense systems) got deployed in Haifa according to Haaretz. I suppose it's meant to comfort the locals more than really meant to provide any real protection. Anyway, since I've been here bad stuff always came from where I expected the least so I suppose nothing's gonna happen.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Car bombings
Imad Mughniyah died yesterday night in the explosion of his car in Damascus, he
Israel denied involvment but got fingerpointed immediately (probably rightfully). It is quite interresting to read the comments on Haaretz article to realize how many people this death made happy, and how much vengeance is prefered over justice. Obviously justice was impossible as he was a clandestine and kind of protected by Syrian state, but does it render the use of the same low methods as the "terrorists" acceptable ? Unfortunately many seem to think so.
Why am I posting this rant ? Well Hezbollah has said they would avenge, and the last time there was an escalation with them I spent a "Katyusha" summer. Just a few weeks after an incident at the Lebanese border that saw one death and the political tension raising to terrible levels between the Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, I just hope ther won't be any escalation (they seem to use Israel as a common ennemy to unite each others when things go really wrong)...
Anyway, the situation around here is sad, the "peace talks" are going at the speed of an arthritic snail, Gaza is locked and boiling, suicide bombings are restarting in Israel, Iran is as radical as ever, and Mossad still assassinating.
Hopefully the sun is shining and spring is starting, so I can forget all this as soon as I look through the window.
headed Hezbollah's operations branch serving in a role similar to chief of staff, and had been wanted by Israel and the United States for years due to his role in numerous bombings, hijackings and abductions in which hundreds of people were killed.
Israel denied involvment but got fingerpointed immediately (probably rightfully). It is quite interresting to read the comments on Haaretz article to realize how many people this death made happy, and how much vengeance is prefered over justice. Obviously justice was impossible as he was a clandestine and kind of protected by Syrian state, but does it render the use of the same low methods as the "terrorists" acceptable ? Unfortunately many seem to think so.
Why am I posting this rant ? Well Hezbollah has said they would avenge, and the last time there was an escalation with them I spent a "Katyusha" summer. Just a few weeks after an incident at the Lebanese border that saw one death and the political tension raising to terrible levels between the Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, I just hope ther won't be any escalation (they seem to use Israel as a common ennemy to unite each others when things go really wrong)...
Anyway, the situation around here is sad, the "peace talks" are going at the speed of an arthritic snail, Gaza is locked and boiling, suicide bombings are restarting in Israel, Iran is as radical as ever, and Mossad still assassinating.
Hopefully the sun is shining and spring is starting, so I can forget all this as soon as I look through the window.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Prague
We had originally planned to travel to Istanbul that weekend, but Nico decided to go to Australia so we picked our second choice (that was really not too hard) and traveled to Prague. This was a weekend optimized trip, so we spent thursday and sunday night in the airplane and two days in Prague.
We got a really nice weather, cool and shun shine. Friday was not too busy, which let us enjoy a slightly less crowded town. I don't really know how to describe the city, goth-geous or gor-thic, but we both enjoyed it. We walked so much that our legs were hurting at the end of the trip :).
I took countless pictures in this photographer's dream place, met photographers all over the place, chatted with a few, and spent time watching all these stands selling old black and white postcards (so I converted a lot of pictures to B&W).
When we were not lurkking around we were listening to the jazz groups playing in the street and stopping either for fast-Czek-food or slow fancy food: we needed the energy.
Vladimir Pinta, we even bought one of his albums, I don't think he can look bad on a picture.
Bratwurste in the streets
At Kampa park, finest dining in town
We had some bad luck with our visit of the castle, it was closed over the weekend for some election, but we still enjoyed the view from morning till after dawn.
The restaurant we planned to go at Nebozizek was also closed that day, this was the day...
This will be enough for pictures on the blog, you can go to my zenfolio for more, and I'll probably keep posting more during this week as I still have like 100 to process..
We got a really nice weather, cool and shun shine. Friday was not too busy, which let us enjoy a slightly less crowded town. I don't really know how to describe the city, goth-geous or gor-thic, but we both enjoyed it. We walked so much that our legs were hurting at the end of the trip :).
I took countless pictures in this photographer's dream place, met photographers all over the place, chatted with a few, and spent time watching all these stands selling old black and white postcards (so I converted a lot of pictures to B&W).
When we were not lurkking around we were listening to the jazz groups playing in the street and stopping either for fast-Czek-food or slow fancy food: we needed the energy.
Vladimir Pinta, we even bought one of his albums, I don't think he can look bad on a picture.
Bratwurste in the streets
At Kampa park, finest dining in town
We had some bad luck with our visit of the castle, it was closed over the weekend for some election, but we still enjoyed the view from morning till after dawn.
The restaurant we planned to go at Nebozizek was also closed that day, this was the day...
This will be enough for pictures on the blog, you can go to my zenfolio for more, and I'll probably keep posting more during this week as I still have like 100 to process..
Saturday, February 02, 2008
The lost artist village
We decided to go visit a nearby artist village called Ein Hod. We stopped on top of the Carmel in Dalyat for some excellent Druze food (okras, dolmas, mjadara) on the way there. We ended up arriving in Ein Hod neighborhood around 3:30pm (yeah that's late but we had a lazy saturday). Once there, I don't know how it happened but we just could not find the village, we had a strawl around 2 tiny villages that were nowhere close to an artist place, more like a dead ultra-religious area but with an original synagogue.
Once the sun started to set we took the car back home and... we spotted Ein Hod right by the road, we were probably absorbed in some very important debate or something like that. Anyway we went around the place in half an hour and kept repeating ourselves "We have to come back here". The place is really cute, and the few artis workshops that were still open were worth it, so next time we'll go early enough!
Once the sun started to set we took the car back home and... we spotted Ein Hod right by the road, we were probably absorbed in some very important debate or something like that. Anyway we went around the place in half an hour and kept repeating ourselves "We have to come back here". The place is really cute, and the few artis workshops that were still open were worth it, so next time we'll go early enough!
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