tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201971512024-03-07T03:29:32.396-05:00TheBobBlogTheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.comBlogger551125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-63450236048649939192011-11-18T18:36:00.005-05:002011-11-18T19:16:19.097-05:00How to create Tiny Planets on the iPhone<div style="text-align: justify;">One of the most friequent questions I get asked on my blog is how I create my <a href="http://www.ideaattic.com/Landscapes/Tiny-Planets/">Tiny Planets</a>. Tiny Planets are commonly referred to by there technical name, Stereographic Projections. The process involves a tripod and taking a series of overlapping photos using a fisheye lens. Each planet is made up of 20-30 individual shots then merged together with a program called PTGui creating a very large panorama. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The merged image is then brought into Photoshop and manipulated into the planet. The process takes a while and is complex, but produces a very detailed, high quality image (sometimes 1GB in size). While this process is tedious, a much easer process can but achieved using an iPhone and two apps.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZByYjw_4wdB9T3Sl3yNMdZ20c3Q5BlXOKNCF9MBt50ZKI17jWigV5QVnOK-QHA1AfL91rjJmvjZ9x2qU-aBxk2uLcnCeZ_x8gXlJKLQA0ifdLzKngTn-dA8W2wgsTiyDrx7X/s1600/apps.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZByYjw_4wdB9T3Sl3yNMdZ20c3Q5BlXOKNCF9MBt50ZKI17jWigV5QVnOK-QHA1AfL91rjJmvjZ9x2qU-aBxk2uLcnCeZ_x8gXlJKLQA0ifdLzKngTn-dA8W2wgsTiyDrx7X/s400/apps.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486369140863746" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">1) Download "Photosynth"(free) & "Tiny Planets"(99¢) from the App store. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqSErpt8xHnjT7tNaES-N1zvlIShgtSmL1Dh8rojZazXujGvOilELVlVY7SOaICDJxOQNHe-_tePLAaSp6xmEPenf39upEkSyvdEqmUuw_YXPgDrQOxlWmUNMVftQBPl0D-AM/s1600/1.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqSErpt8xHnjT7tNaES-N1zvlIShgtSmL1Dh8rojZazXujGvOilELVlVY7SOaICDJxOQNHe-_tePLAaSp6xmEPenf39upEkSyvdEqmUuw_YXPgDrQOxlWmUNMVftQBPl0D-AM/s400/1.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486365640500754" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">2) Launch Photosynth and start slowly moving the camera around. The App will capture the overlapping images. Be sure you complete a full 360º when taking the photos or the planet will not render correctly. Also be sure to capture the zenith (what's above you) and the nadir (under your feet).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt9epF_8VxYaIL8Hm41tu95toI2AKcp-xxIAB4aOMl6PI2qNh5XIR1NZX4PtD32OktR8UwdOdKeQwr01SHNyndZKILQIrShDKlAXueNbH8i78FceeGQa3b3baIcUJLRqmOuPG/s1600/2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt9epF_8VxYaIL8Hm41tu95toI2AKcp-xxIAB4aOMl6PI2qNh5XIR1NZX4PtD32OktR8UwdOdKeQwr01SHNyndZKILQIrShDKlAXueNbH8i78FceeGQa3b3baIcUJLRqmOuPG/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486366810009890" /></a>3) When you've completed a full 360º panorama, hit finish and Photosynth will start stitching all the photos together. The process can take several minutes and you can choose to skip this process and do it at another time if you're anxious to keep photographing. <div><br /></div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxb0CFiasM2xIPDDxGQUx8sEuiGhFkD5KRRXxSzH1tOrWr05vbDSn3LAIuoIZ_m4RTWGRdnQvMq_f35-zrw-Di-FXqem4jsfyU2YlHqHIGhS_Rq_21d_AUozWc6DF7PBMxcVb/s1600/3.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxb0CFiasM2xIPDDxGQUx8sEuiGhFkD5KRRXxSzH1tOrWr05vbDSn3LAIuoIZ_m4RTWGRdnQvMq_f35-zrw-Di-FXqem4jsfyU2YlHqHIGhS_Rq_21d_AUozWc6DF7PBMxcVb/s400/3.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486363103861250" /></a><div>4) When the stitching is complete, you will able to pan around the photo within the app. To export the image to your camera roll, select "share."</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBElnkvOtujPzsGQGRyNuTsTkGsW_W2KQyEc_0E6i1Im9SM_sqj3mOzDWaajPb-nTqAwKRxND3QOLSvAmyvalKvt0x9w6KuYN2_BvdzHF9z5xxVNHtHxB5zf8sRTOxYpmE1fAC/s1600/4.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBElnkvOtujPzsGQGRyNuTsTkGsW_W2KQyEc_0E6i1Im9SM_sqj3mOzDWaajPb-nTqAwKRxND3QOLSvAmyvalKvt0x9w6KuYN2_BvdzHF9z5xxVNHtHxB5zf8sRTOxYpmE1fAC/s400/4.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486057125432818" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">5) Choose "camera roll"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0_qg4QfEHeknvC4pJAWufAtitLQaXZ_tDVmFgwv4nF1sLnHNUUyMHeWZ42VvruTVfcjpGSDnHjE-OxHO77omrTSspSy_2rvrUKI6iXYM1_1i6mxWRqfsbo1DTv4J3A1ET37B/s1600/5.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0_qg4QfEHeknvC4pJAWufAtitLQaXZ_tDVmFgwv4nF1sLnHNUUyMHeWZ42VvruTVfcjpGSDnHjE-OxHO77omrTSspSy_2rvrUKI6iXYM1_1i6mxWRqfsbo1DTv4J3A1ET37B/s400/5.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486047645148706" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">6) You will be given the option to crop the image, I recommend you leave it as it is. </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AONxpLNNiZYzP4u_6ct2RKmagaiJBqbRXqis5pSHb2mqyyZshLcDzPIQ8IT0bYpoTEYNisNF_AFRgPHFRsvqCnLFrRYiC673svrLyI8kRcFd13y8-AmqGfc_cuqCIuLraVrF/s1600/6.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AONxpLNNiZYzP4u_6ct2RKmagaiJBqbRXqis5pSHb2mqyyZshLcDzPIQ8IT0bYpoTEYNisNF_AFRgPHFRsvqCnLFrRYiC673svrLyI8kRcFd13y8-AmqGfc_cuqCIuLraVrF/s400/6.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486047638296114" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">7) Next, launch the "Tiny Planet" App and load your recently exported panorama from your camera roll.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdPV4BD_yYdaobDvLCYs6u7byZpRNXLlahFyArbhWiFHz9YCNPsS4ckg65XpJhbNZnZhwFLYAjT8VMt-E8tRpoLOKVz-djAO-231L5jFCp5nW9iwMVzu9iG9Dg-x2ATCZB1B86/s1600/7.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdPV4BD_yYdaobDvLCYs6u7byZpRNXLlahFyArbhWiFHz9YCNPsS4ckg65XpJhbNZnZhwFLYAjT8VMt-E8tRpoLOKVz-djAO-231L5jFCp5nW9iwMVzu9iG9Dg-x2ATCZB1B86/s400/7.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486040628224562" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">8) When the image is loaded, select the tiny planet button at the bottom left. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wv7RrvFymf1JD4o5bMnmPhzgCWZ5OHaMloiAQFKioGdbkrry3a0HapwLzVhPdsP98Jy4M5FwIKuxrOtUkiAkKn9soSyvbfkeMkRluuGB1ne50m3MX5Xz9c95sYNSHpU3pUkD/s1600/8.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wv7RrvFymf1JD4o5bMnmPhzgCWZ5OHaMloiAQFKioGdbkrry3a0HapwLzVhPdsP98Jy4M5FwIKuxrOtUkiAkKn9soSyvbfkeMkRluuGB1ne50m3MX5Xz9c95sYNSHpU3pUkD/s400/8.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676486037970217346" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">9) You now have your own Tiny Planet. Select "next" at the top right to export the image back to your camera roll.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a little practice, you can get some nice planets. There are a few other Apps out there that will also do this process. The App 360Panorama has it's own Stereograph feature built in, however it doesn't capture as much area as Photosynth. The App "Retouch" will help with the removal of your feet/shadow in the Tiny Planet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For comparison, I also shot the same planet using my Canon 50D:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHbLpYZgCBYgM96Nzd3VNrHAagOArw75c0K3eIMU4jiLenvtkAL6ELSNG8_pHxlAYq3sbgB5qbH10E2j7bD86V-uTjh_1Xe0D1BseNiWYnt_6CHLSeXqzEaq8CtMdq-RjdfU2/s1600/Screen+Shot+2011-11-18+at+6.11.33+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHbLpYZgCBYgM96Nzd3VNrHAagOArw75c0K3eIMU4jiLenvtkAL6ELSNG8_pHxlAYq3sbgB5qbH10E2j7bD86V-uTjh_1Xe0D1BseNiWYnt_6CHLSeXqzEaq8CtMdq-RjdfU2/s400/Screen+Shot+2011-11-18+at+6.11.33+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676492832945205090" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center; ">From my Canon</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qnYXizCZJpNahGcCY1RpWTkv64J5REgtAVKlJzdk5mom0JGAGsoPAjHXdLL4FFwSJcu3K8E_JMTFFz46ZpCmCRsacEvMDFNqqSbJMgkj8d26LipcARp41n1JvPz8Ev7rVDwj/s400/IMG_1347.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676492828370341010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">From my iPhone4</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qnYXizCZJpNahGcCY1RpWTkv64J5REgtAVKlJzdk5mom0JGAGsoPAjHXdLL4FFwSJcu3K8E_JMTFFz46ZpCmCRsacEvMDFNqqSbJMgkj8d26LipcARp41n1JvPz8Ev7rVDwj/s1600/IMG_1347.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qnYXizCZJpNahGcCY1RpWTkv64J5REgtAVKlJzdk5mom0JGAGsoPAjHXdLL4FFwSJcu3K8E_JMTFFz46ZpCmCRsacEvMDFNqqSbJMgkj8d26LipcARp41n1JvPz8Ev7rVDwj/s1600/IMG_1347.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-48759207016895918112011-02-25T13:37:00.004-05:002011-02-25T13:42:45.126-05:00Home office is now complete<div>After a few months of procrastinating, I finally finished my home office.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOU2UHZuPr5yGyz4YgqUeGbWOtqeRD0CSJgNZelpZIIVwVe7noowVOHsVEA8X8Xra68RX9QgXjzT4T2A2Jl-Bw9znM-v1cTCXUtwy4XgmlhVQR9mE8Fm-mImjflvdLfeHPDgv/s1600/IMG_1195.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJvi2hAdvwZDLsKyzeDsPWEIltWXKUv4TqJ_aWM5Zttrfmg1XpX-k3NZCaWUyMcvmm-Mg6GK5TuMctE2NvAAIHfQjg3H9RC0EZOPUvSIEoirHuj07scF4xiGQqk5ZXbrNXDFi/s400/wide-angle-cell-phone-lenses_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559150518674967602" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">I got a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/cell-phone-lenses/">mini wide angle lens for my iPhone</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> 4 as part of our annual secret santa exchange at work. The lens is a 2-in-1 and also acts as a macro lens. For </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/cell-phone-lenses/">$20</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">, the quality is amazing. One problem, with the iPhone 4, the magnetic ring adhesive doesn't stick to the glass iPhone backing very well and keeps falling off plus I really don't like the look of having something stuck to the back of the phone all the time. I came up with a simple solution involving a mini suction cup and part of a binder clip. Since the lens is magnetic to begin with, it sticks right to the binder clip. I bent the clip a little with some pliers to get it just right. Works like a charm.</span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNj7NbPhArNQUCEEjvg_dko7V32LBdjwHBtux4ytZ56oKhUJaGIgzH34aIidlMsgcqctjZh_g10Bhyphenhyphen6fZTMsKZaYS4DoLj8gNRAqhjsa7Az1QD_t9REM7sFB5bBoOv4EHKrPQs/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-01-06+at+1.51.09+PM.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNj7NbPhArNQUCEEjvg_dko7V32LBdjwHBtux4ytZ56oKhUJaGIgzH34aIidlMsgcqctjZh_g10Bhyphenhyphen6fZTMsKZaYS4DoLj8gNRAqhjsa7Az1QD_t9REM7sFB5bBoOv4EHKrPQs/s400/Screen+shot+2011-01-06+at+1.51.09+PM.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559150394609699154" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSie2akSa-aU-6jXMU-9OaokGxF3GIr1_BfeELdLvVoD4xDGVqO3IwVR2F1y-ixGk-i0VVElEAsUM87CSti2uqoIHYyE7nlD8ig2V_sCYThdF7lDZJJhvWUI9iyTp-bHB7jL4D/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-01-06+at+1.51.16+PM.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipov7SLcaIBqNoxtU65qbScmBDhXQj7gZjyezHV2ZLKKXo_PCId1DOc5NclX2w1cMRmXmkeQsDQ1ce7QcvFdak1iLzO6AeCB_XqU_aEYlaygtcUUrnfMCHaTS_gWjoebl1Miv5/s400/photo+4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616274771810997874" border="0" /></a>yes, these were all shot with an iPhone 4 and a $20 macro lens<br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-73163413642992216822010-12-26T13:13:00.005-05:002010-12-26T13:39:36.278-05:001893 Golding Pearl Printing Press<div><div style="text-align: justify; ">For the past year I've been wanting an old printing press. My life is surrounded by technology and I needed something more analog to occupy my time so I figured this would be a neat project. The problem however was actually finding a working printing press since most got destroyed when computers started taking over. I researched a lot of presses and got it narrowed down to a few models I'd settle for but like I said, it's not like there's an abundance of them around. I tracked down a guy that collected printing presses and had a few of the ones that I really liked so I emailed him to see if he'd want to sell off some of his collection. I was actually surprised to find out that he was just about to start downsizing. He was located 7hrs away in St. Louis so I made the trip over Thanksgiving weekend. The press was a mess, covered in 100+ years of oil/grease/dust/funk but it worked and it was complete so that was the main thing.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The press weighs around 500lbs and is an absolute bitch to take apart. I spent the last month cleaning and getting it presentable. I wanted it to be the focal point in my home office so I totally redid the room as well to really set the press off. Now I just have to learn how to use it.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWmRG3BbqSxCpz3pOYNtXayqigmojbTSAMAUvWsgH2c1-2RBlsuSCYvHYBjBWMywApkQSvrc_e-oJ8gGTWXhXwnHYrBjMfC0OFrxw-imrWLyhMS8zVCifOPp7K6Ndxri3UA4fv/s1600/IMG_1159.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWmRG3BbqSxCpz3pOYNtXayqigmojbTSAMAUvWsgH2c1-2RBlsuSCYvHYBjBWMywApkQSvrc_e-oJ8gGTWXhXwnHYrBjMfC0OFrxw-imrWLyhMS8zVCifOPp7K6Ndxri3UA4fv/s400/IMG_1159.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555061245228534562" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjB7jh4go1IZHTIG1JgDFcZf0bk9YMINBQ5kmEbMj_3tKLYiAbHDcxHikQjGe59yIs7kM_8ScSCJQSBuVz25uYHidsQ3_4WJ7IW-WgxSAZPMZJeDZ_lBnctEl5FfhHRLbAfw4/s1600/IMG_1169.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCjTxbGcHIB3aNpZqO_RA0bbsh21AeOZzp2bu-bMBC8wSJTdoDsnVMvkQgU61Y2gJcl4SYYurD9m9WmaXwkCcZUOrex_svQUBAU52j3krZxGPmkttO8t2cAhGkISiTdGu8sqJ/s400/IMG_1109.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555061024811648162" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FqYM42iDbIsAJx0Vxo7yZgaAFv1TosZ8lJw0xpNHv9w2Ugy3b28dD-ckfreYiFTDpTm6W5AKpKY95kwuuWdfURyOoxncSyAxStEHbstfNe63wnlk3BzJjKuBkFBOZ2lnrQAS/s1600/IMG_1112.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FqYM42iDbIsAJx0Vxo7yZgaAFv1TosZ8lJw0xpNHv9w2Ugy3b28dD-ckfreYiFTDpTm6W5AKpKY95kwuuWdfURyOoxncSyAxStEHbstfNe63wnlk3BzJjKuBkFBOZ2lnrQAS/s400/IMG_1112.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555061016717120114" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Watch my inspiration on Linotype:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15032988" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-15564118176221051002010-11-08T18:29:00.005-05:002010-11-08T19:17:16.134-05:00Crosley USB Turntable is Amazing!<div style="text-align: justify;">My mother just bought me a <a href="http://www.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?DeptID=72859&CatID=72859&Grptyp=PRD&ItemId=19fa2e2&cmRef=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDkQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jcpenney.com%2Fproducts%2F19fa2e2.jsp&rct=j&q=jcpenney%20Crosley%20USB&ei=X4jYTNO2OoGOnwf3wPGzCQ&usg=AFQjCNH7nyYHGYrbibzlk0zHkPi2fkt29Q">Crosley USB Turntable</a> for $150 and it's definitely worth the money. I have it plugged into an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Hi-Fi-Home-Stereo-White/dp/B000BKBYY0">Apple HiFi</a> and the quality is so good you can't tell if it's an iPod or vinyl.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUmLtwUvinyU5m4-m6RXBV5f7rWaEmficOp2yhx6dvMkW6bAuqtqzDqKu-OdBPLQFfAYMImvba1vSNp6wyev6eZNRUtghil_GReT0ZZv1Jh78McWA-GnAX_-bR4YMiENSXrp-/s1600/IMG_2181.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUmLtwUvinyU5m4-m6RXBV5f7rWaEmficOp2yhx6dvMkW6bAuqtqzDqKu-OdBPLQFfAYMImvba1vSNp6wyev6eZNRUtghil_GReT0ZZv1Jh78McWA-GnAX_-bR4YMiENSXrp-/s400/IMG_2181.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537326087650627250" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKQ4bVaoKrJw21lcxvWgKFUBu-J9ceXqEfwER8r32HaWd4JuEPK4umaWyZDMtT6BcOL9gEdnhS8Uwhs0ODxWxtsgB-PaLpQ_h2_zhBb18eQloc5ISP_My4JT0589tRI1zhmaz9/s1600/IMG_2184.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKQ4bVaoKrJw21lcxvWgKFUBu-J9ceXqEfwER8r32HaWd4JuEPK4umaWyZDMtT6BcOL9gEdnhS8Uwhs0ODxWxtsgB-PaLpQ_h2_zhBb18eQloc5ISP_My4JT0589tRI1zhmaz9/s400/IMG_2184.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537326080034384306" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx41-jQiv5xxva6XyFe4wR8D2o4ri5guucDqKYqcBls1fy9pIiSpJOvwdgxOznXjT1_nAEb4MFXBlAnqu1hDR6M2glJlwrfnMIh9AN2UO0svoL8Fvxjno0dMIBD-gEG-lBpVDS/s1600/IMG_2180.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx41-jQiv5xxva6XyFe4wR8D2o4ri5guucDqKYqcBls1fy9pIiSpJOvwdgxOznXjT1_nAEb4MFXBlAnqu1hDR6M2glJlwrfnMIh9AN2UO0svoL8Fvxjno0dMIBD-gEG-lBpVDS/s400/IMG_2180.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537326082376051298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87PASXqU4UHQz7EZqCxf0QmgwFL358Tmy0sJFZI1zoW0p2AlmPsOE5pKwELFd5TKJ_zYKcVVkhMajbBJXxtH66XtXkkPoywO6makXda-X01r8769GVQdDHCMhSROHG_IEuOBl/s1600/IMG_2182.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87PASXqU4UHQz7EZqCxf0QmgwFL358Tmy0sJFZI1zoW0p2AlmPsOE5pKwELFd5TKJ_zYKcVVkhMajbBJXxtH66XtXkkPoywO6makXda-X01r8769GVQdDHCMhSROHG_IEuOBl/s400/IMG_2182.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537326077870340594" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-16266320055091984392010-10-08T10:48:00.002-04:002010-10-08T10:57:41.945-04:00How I was the target of a Craigslist iPhone scam<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWb0UtLe5pohs4ioer-rH9fr9sVOjEeg39gXK7O7R1ol1ED-N2QUN7VXNl5t1NX24FwSgYQNE_gIZi_xKfgwJGXDvOT_Xu83Ipor3J-ihxtySuKROvAtVC_R719VJ_h2bnUcmf/s1600/ar12505960136567.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 148px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWb0UtLe5pohs4ioer-rH9fr9sVOjEeg39gXK7O7R1ol1ED-N2QUN7VXNl5t1NX24FwSgYQNE_gIZi_xKfgwJGXDvOT_Xu83Ipor3J-ihxtySuKROvAtVC_R719VJ_h2bnUcmf/s400/ar12505960136567.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525687309260356194" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Jer and I decided to upgrade to the new iPhone 4s about a month ago. The deal was we would sell our old 3GS ones and break even on the new ones. All our friends were having success selling theirs on Craigslist within hours of posting so we figured there shouldn't be any problems. I posted the 16GB for $299 & the 32GB for $399. I had a response from a guy who said he was interested in the "product" I was selling. Since I didn't know which phone he was referring too, I responded telling him that I had two and which one was he interested in. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">A day later, I got a call from the guy who told me that he was interested in both phones since he also wanted to buy one for his girlfriend. We agreed to meet the next morning to do the exchange. That following morning he called right on time and told me he forgot he had to take his son to softball practice and if we could meet later in the day, which I said wouldn't be a problem. He called back at 3:30 and asked if we could meet at McDonalds since his girlfriend was the manager there and he wanted to show her the iPhone before he bought it. I figured this was fine since it was a public place. When I got to the McDonalds, a hugh black man about 6'5" & 350lbs was sitting in a booth who smiled and said "you must be Bob?" I went and sat down and we talked for about 10-15 minutes. He talked about how he wanted to unlock the phones to put them on the Sprint network and how he was going to give his old iPhone to his daughter. He seemed like a nice guy who was a good father since he had taken his son to softball and his daughter was going to inherent his old iPhone. He mentioned that we just had to wait till his girlfriend got a 5min break to come out and take a look at the phones, which was fine. About five minutes later, he seemed to get frustrated with her and told me to wait a second while he went and showed her the phones.</div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Now, I've always thought of myself as a good judge of character and tend to trust people. I sat in the booth waiting for about 10 minutes (completely out of eyesight from where he had walked) and I start thinking to myself, "I bet that asshole isn't coming back." I sat a few minutes longer dreading what was about to happen. I went over to the cashier and asked where the guy with the iPhones was. The girl looked at me and said "what guy?" I told her the story and she told me I got scammed and that the guy had walked out the front door awhile ago. He was on foot, so I hopped in my car and drove around the neighborhood, which I realized was actually a bad part of town. </div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I was having a minor breakdown in the car. I had never been scammed before and I didn't care for this feeling of being violated. I managed to calm down and go back to the McDonalds and call the cops to file a police report. The cop was there within 10min and spent about an hour with me taking notes and running a trace on the number that the guy had used to call me. I was a mess the rest of the weekend. </div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b><i>The kicker:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The day before all this happened, I called up my insurance company (Allstate) and added a $1,200 mobile communications policy with $100 deductible that would cover theft/damage since I was paranoid about these new iPhones I had just gotten. </div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">When I called Allstate to report my old iPhones stolen, I figured they would investigate me for insurance fraud. However, I had a police report, the original boxes with the serial numbers, both Craigslist ads that I had posted, a witness statement, and so on. I had amazing customer service with Allstate back in April when my <a href="http://the-bob-blog.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-alstate-gave-me-great-settlement-on.html">BMW was totaled</a>, now it was time to test how well their other insurance policies would work. The waiting game began and I was guessing it would take months before there was a conclusion. </div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">After almost a month to the day I filed the claim, I got a call from Allstate that they had come to a settlement. My agent, Shana, started off telling me about depreciation and how they don't make the 16 or 32GB models anymore, I was bracing myself for a huge let down. She said that after the $100 deductible, I was going to receive a check for $732! That was exactly the outcome I wanted and I didn't even have to haggle with her!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>Moral of the story</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Be very cautious of Craiglist ads and meeting people. Also, Allstate is a fantastic insurance company and I highly recommend any type of insurance with them. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-34062691554698473462010-09-28T15:56:00.005-04:002010-09-28T16:02:44.920-04:00Polaroids of Myrtle Beach<div style="text-align: justify;">I just got back from a vacation in Myrtle Beach. Altho it wasn't my first choice, I had a good time and took lots of pictures, mostly Polaroids. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vxc_2COFgQVqz3-WfPXX0nbd3fr4BwOELsUJd86QyfWGPi1Uw8SPTpJlGo6msbSENzgpF3xU9PxqxgC2meYCMquWnEzouuBVldJ5s6bDWr-nzaFMzUZxfLLnTxxNHrGmGi0l/s400/Lifeguard69.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522056291711900402" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-32829116890310992342010-08-18T11:27:00.004-04:002010-08-18T11:34:51.215-04:00What’s the greatest gift your mother ever gave you?<div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Rarely do I use my blog to post personal things but I felt the need to share this with you. </span>The other day I stumbled across a <a href="http://www.realsimple.com/magazine-more/inside-magazine/your-words/greatest-gift-mother-ever-gave-00000000012208/index.html">website</a> that really got to me that asked the reader to submit the greatest gift their mother ever gave them. I’m very fortunate to have my mother with me as many of my friends have lost a parent. Life always seems to get in the way and I never have really told my mother how much she means to me (other then the standard “I love you”). When I read some excerpts from the story, I felt compelled to let my mother know what her greatest gift to me has been. I hear a lot of stories in the office where I work from clients whose parents are in a nursing home and suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's and it makes me think that you can never know what the future will hold and how important it is to make time for a loved one no mater how hectic life may get. So with that I share with you what I wrote my mother and if you're fortunate enough to still have your parents around, you should do the same. </div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><blockquote>I wanted you to know the greatest gift you ever gave me was a sense of humor. Looking back on my childhood, the thing that really stands out is how much you made me laugh. I never realized it till now but all my close friends have to meet the requirement of making me laugh otherwise I don't want them around. As I move through life and things change, it's the one thing about myself that will always remain consistent and I'm so grateful for it. Even though we don't talk all the time and sometimes weeks go by with out contacting you, each time I laugh, you're with me.</blockquote></span></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicp6er1-xLNCvKS8ZzwxlMvt1bSQtHylf9wOnoH3Jd7LnyhESIrJpjwKEzwWMQaX4MByaYEoZ4H4SzF8BZ5KRwzIfhpuunMWNBO0MiJRk2W28nnjOzF95NJ0LK923zGkX_hXYp/s1600/Momandme.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicp6er1-xLNCvKS8ZzwxlMvt1bSQtHylf9wOnoH3Jd7LnyhESIrJpjwKEzwWMQaX4MByaYEoZ4H4SzF8BZ5KRwzIfhpuunMWNBO0MiJRk2W28nnjOzF95NJ0LK923zGkX_hXYp/s400/Momandme.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506773118591787906" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-48217548329411620382010-08-17T11:26:00.004-04:002010-08-17T11:38:20.618-04:00Review of New Polaroid 300<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1-NApAynDE5KzDSwt5eJkx3cOO0E8QjXRM060W94gJ-qjko9j4hFMKddn-ie2KP6YD08IPfhWvHQ1gsIdFDgjNIfHecSYkhr1AbNRur7sWyzsLkLHzu3uOSNL83W18LFNE2j/s1600/polaroid-300-20100429-493.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1-NApAynDE5KzDSwt5eJkx3cOO0E8QjXRM060W94gJ-qjko9j4hFMKddn-ie2KP6YD08IPfhWvHQ1gsIdFDgjNIfHecSYkhr1AbNRur7sWyzsLkLHzu3uOSNL83W18LFNE2j/s400/polaroid-300-20100429-493.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506401271202310994" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the summer of 2009 I picked the wrong time to start my Polaroid obsession since the film would be discontinued later that year. Sure film is still around at <a href="http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=polaroid+600+&_sacat=See-All-Categories">10 shots for $20+ a pack</a> and it's getting a little better since the <a href="http://www.the-impossible-project.com/">Impossible Project</a> started remaking the instant film at a snails pace (8 shots for $14+). Needless to say when I read about the release of the new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Polaroid+300&x=0&y=0&ih=6_3_1_1_0_0_0_0_0_2.146_75&fsc=-1">Polaroid 300</a>, I was more then intrigued and even tho there has been mixed reviews, most of those reviews are from people that don't give two shits about the old style Polaroids so I just had to see for myself. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike the classic Polaroids with the iconic square format, the Polaroid 300 camera takes an odd business card sized film which begs the question, "why the hell the small size?" The camera is ugly and doesn't come close to resembling any of the classic Polaroid cameras, in fact, the camera was designed by Fujifilm and Polaroid just rebranded it. The body is made of decent quality plastic, however the camera is very rounded and slippery (it likes to glide across tables and crash to the floor if you don't set it down gently). My Polaroid camera of choice is the SX-70 which allows manual adjustment of exposure and the option NOT to have a flash go off. The new 300 series has a flash that will fire no matter the setting, which includes 4 odd choices: indoor, cloudy, fine & clear. The fine and clear settings totally baffle me. The "clear" setting is for bright sun, however all my shots were way over exposed on this setting when shooting in bright sunlight (and no I wasn't shooting into the sun). I went through a whole pack of film (10 shots for $10) just testing the lighting conditions. I found this camera to be very finicky even more so then the SX-70. As for the colors, I'd have to say they're a little off with the 300 and you don't get that amazing vignetting effect or the vivid color saturation of the square format Polaroids. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Final Verdict:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_SX-70">1970's era SX-70</a> is still by far the best choice for Polaroids and probably always will be (unless <a href="http://www.polaroid.com/Gaga/">Lady Gaga</a> actually does something worth while as creative director). But until Polaroid or the Impossible Project start making affordable film for the old school cameras, the new 300 will be my temporary fix for instant gratification. </div><br /><br /><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1-NApAynDE5KzDSwt5eJkx3cOO0E8QjXRM060W94gJ-qjko9j4hFMKddn-ie2KP6YD08IPfhWvHQ1gsIdFDgjNIfHecSYkhr1AbNRur7sWyzsLkLHzu3uOSNL83W18LFNE2j/s1600/polaroid-300-20100429-493.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghlMNDMC-Rjxa4dDTmwJvO9GsSf8EF7MLzbbeVkp3Yxu_fvmvfOvyjQIy23D8AMjCHp9uX1qwyCecCEYxKlClPigecVqW8iGMfcExTJiY-juLT1DPZGYyCJF6eQ8BnhBPgg8aC/s1600/ClevelandMallPanoramic.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLIr-NFpFVpQmc7uxmHl0b10_44D8Hi9bVbAFx206ErvdMgbblm77LV8Rq48QjmBsMDSVyJFpo7K_cxXbEZc6FRqBjhghj1_Babn_nZB7nVK22BHYdZbWZDtpXb_lcbTe1ohF/s400/FREEstamp.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506400912601994354" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOCPKi4xkIrVifGewKuykILUpc_TONP5tFJblGsdg0dokKtGTTOnNlCnfHKSDIbuYe1oe63e6UjGEzkyBk-YdOhPRD-auoah2c9xH_HP-ifASbgZ-0eb6Boc_YBtA6hN0Y-p3/s1600/SunflowerInnis.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOCPKi4xkIrVifGewKuykILUpc_TONP5tFJblGsdg0dokKtGTTOnNlCnfHKSDIbuYe1oe63e6UjGEzkyBk-YdOhPRD-auoah2c9xH_HP-ifASbgZ-0eb6Boc_YBtA6hN0Y-p3/s400/SunflowerInnis.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506400895680178834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK34hIUqzEqJrXqWjV3RlcnW9wuWqHFegAjVyTA6YEVkon0P0duZXThBpr18PcZdKWgbfoSV8XNytCdG1a5WihXn-e-YJj9hENYkTOIW3knxOF0XJGxQ9YtlwkvRgTvzL24mdj/s1600/WoodFlowers.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK34hIUqzEqJrXqWjV3RlcnW9wuWqHFegAjVyTA6YEVkon0P0duZXThBpr18PcZdKWgbfoSV8XNytCdG1a5WihXn-e-YJj9hENYkTOIW3knxOF0XJGxQ9YtlwkvRgTvzL24mdj/s400/WoodFlowers.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506400879294733506" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Below are shot with an SX-70 to compare contrast</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr89C_Hl6OOn6dV7sUmcjBNPXgE-p3OujehEnTS6-4NPD6kzjnF2YpXso1LyFe4breEhycAuUZOD8ge-wr9hLbroy3yBYZYfhqbp5jrof8szen0ORaakQszTKmGAJdYp9Smwy/s1600/waterlilly.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr89C_Hl6OOn6dV7sUmcjBNPXgE-p3OujehEnTS6-4NPD6kzjnF2YpXso1LyFe4breEhycAuUZOD8ge-wr9hLbroy3yBYZYfhqbp5jrof8szen0ORaakQszTKmGAJdYp9Smwy/s400/waterlilly.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506401616106669170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rCPZCbkIfyEQ9F2o00JoSUGNzbV0ShZZwWFlsGENHifS0bUam_e15lLDTeCPWS7TQqiahts-7hffS3emVM4COCZaFIY1ksWbtFCbbOSnzZoXBeCD_7xPctExEfhDEVTKcFoE/s1600/RedLauvers.png"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-2UEvXNtXSAulQKklNMJ1BBoGmdJAtboxYv7rv68Lbgz7hmpKG1g43dsZRuokA1A8xO3fbWfTftiqFAzmQ4i2SoLO14bX-RivSo1HAhk3B2cfAH7KGRLoVn0FrMGvGI0s6ne/s400/Safty.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506401591030693922" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV2scs-HCt0shKl7i3sDUTTF2SapxZgqJyHQ1FpZP8JuSIUeqO2opZu-vteyNJL5QZjOHrk3gzonD8siqDWUqw4Y78vuJ2Rrhriy-SCe9tJ0PgtFZVzSXF8q4qYtS0v7UTVCK/s1600/GT40Red.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV2scs-HCt0shKl7i3sDUTTF2SapxZgqJyHQ1FpZP8JuSIUeqO2opZu-vteyNJL5QZjOHrk3gzonD8siqDWUqw4Y78vuJ2Rrhriy-SCe9tJ0PgtFZVzSXF8q4qYtS0v7UTVCK/s400/GT40Red.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506401576337685250" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-32706906245181079492010-08-01T15:31:00.001-04:002010-08-01T15:32:46.788-04:00Carnivorous Plant exhibit<div>Taken at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus Ohio. </div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixw6p3VJbxgx1cF868pKeogVldOBuVLv9x-jScA7_CehU-CTU3drWtEAoSXHR6ZOPSh01MXqH4x_KQJGFAdrlcszgoH1TQfNV4FaZPp5mJiBrs0g-jIUlG9_2S1djBGB1PRXxz/s1600/IMG_9842.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSQ7ytbiZD8rQ8mQjgejav4Ovc3u_mRxbowOuAujttxkt72GufmcxOzKRzJXnnIZLJyVB63CoHSXVZhcEzJGWVV1hbURXVVXdKOqFuErnxn3ZGQG_XBAwq88G4Q5vT_0RErIVI/s400/IMG_9848.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500526504781199586" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-9GJ-L6z8TomFvIqthdJDaHMbbGiP-o8ZvhmYCH7EXdtlxsS3xE3Vp4pWpG9Wl4GfIV2CvPTlfESlGEut-Y8w7w9_qb7H9jBszSjuQolK2hLnWn-Lmb6JeOcBmT7djColjlYk/s1600/IMG_9872.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-9GJ-L6z8TomFvIqthdJDaHMbbGiP-o8ZvhmYCH7EXdtlxsS3xE3Vp4pWpG9Wl4GfIV2CvPTlfESlGEut-Y8w7w9_qb7H9jBszSjuQolK2hLnWn-Lmb6JeOcBmT7djColjlYk/s400/IMG_9872.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500526501022361746" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-44050978926975922010-07-28T20:34:00.005-04:002010-07-28T21:16:27.074-04:00Abandoned Weekend<div>One of my friends recently got into <a href="http://the-bob-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/HDR">HDR photography</a> so over the weekend we went to a few abandoned places throughout Cleveland including a hospital, factory & an apartment building. I've been doing HDR style of photography for years and I must be starting to get too picky with it because I only ended up taking like 40 shots during our adventure.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAzGw1vG9ak7tr02A7ljry2-R8tsunI-Fc5mkmHtD0jdOfBWIuuagpAw6stMPDNVKGX5E5MvMAbU6rlLiQ5dAQB0YWFsbcZSm9vcSMCU4NY5btZIntpYNZsEm-qNmVrSJ2-BTj/s1600/IMG_9672_3_4_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAzGw1vG9ak7tr02A7ljry2-R8tsunI-Fc5mkmHtD0jdOfBWIuuagpAw6stMPDNVKGX5E5MvMAbU6rlLiQ5dAQB0YWFsbcZSm9vcSMCU4NY5btZIntpYNZsEm-qNmVrSJ2-BTj/s400/IMG_9672_3_4_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499130659913093154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBOjv6mXWDSx4uReFqkLccjqieeQCqn26XX4Lsp3WJOP-HUCQsIrFI7psM9Q7aCdfmrxH8JLoDHsC_4xoQVdHsAn7aeECMZI6jW8SOSXvJzSSEoJFAdBFxUk0xELBjt_WE2sn/s1600/IMG_9645_6_7_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktR4CQ9HQfMtrAA9i5bFsHABtiFiNVoMxDSBS4Bx_aQFiO99W6nsYTsJ4Ngl2IW7sLy1g3QOhzYFumEEo8DIfb_7CEv9k5vpc-R6GsPjd-x1v8AyC-aIv2Hi90c4AllWkRUNi/s400/IMG_9813_4_5_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499129791297945746" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-73968334558750484802010-07-12T19:49:00.005-04:002010-07-12T20:20:55.516-04:002010 Goodguys Nationals<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:medium;">15 years ago when I first started going to car shows, my photos were always of the entire car and nothing more. As the years went on I started focusing more on the lines of the vehicles. This year at the Goodguys Car show at the Columbus Fair Grounds almost all of my shots were of car details and only a handful consisted of the entire car. To see the entire series check out <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebobblog/sets/72157600210196963/">my flickr account</a>. I also took a bunch of Polaroids, which I'll be posting soon as well. </span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjES0WcIYN8wZoaxtbfC7xnC-hIxo81SO737rH1vaz3ZJAXQIdp8Nkako2VNsFbDDc-IUnVj29F9a3PkGc9Gdb1eh_W7VJxoEJy86LfjMkjnYP22FbvGdGFsu-X3W5QP3E1KfgG/s1600/AeroCoupe.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjES0WcIYN8wZoaxtbfC7xnC-hIxo81SO737rH1vaz3ZJAXQIdp8Nkako2VNsFbDDc-IUnVj29F9a3PkGc9Gdb1eh_W7VJxoEJy86LfjMkjnYP22FbvGdGFsu-X3W5QP3E1KfgG/s400/AeroCoupe.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493172690428262850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkduxtpSTThrjz4g0OCJw1loHWBChHIUBRpEd45HBsWhEQPwCeQ4d-8Li_CMCdsJVzE7oxnI8ysN2LHKuiB-bDO5ufpOzRz7Ro9Gc82DDPw5gpRJESe5B-aEne9EWokI1ffarJ/s1600/IMG_9053.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieK-9bzTpRHBT8m8FrSfgvf-rEPa9pIyDvHaBPVH0IhiME2GuuzUecKOPL9uBcRlai9aAiMFAKZWszSid9UEMZN_xVPgIFu2TUNgpXRi6LTCF6AxGt_6gvixllqc3E3e4VpicO/s400/IMG_9381.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493171518981931506" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-17197195612618782282010-07-02T21:39:00.004-04:002010-07-02T21:48:09.116-04:00Vintage Photography<div>I've been using Apples Aperture program more and more instead of photoshop for all my editing. I decided to take some uninteresting photos and do some cross processing on them.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvqgYAd0yF4l8MvOv4XKTrKyLiYrur49bfu1LmHbsAZq5-NF0Gp3CiucWmO_Bvd8hRH7Q8hSGnc27o6jg_YofoFmtbHapbAyN10-AncJ05GS-8apeAhw7q3Sk-srmQW3VX_HW2/s1600/Cincinnati+16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvqgYAd0yF4l8MvOv4XKTrKyLiYrur49bfu1LmHbsAZq5-NF0Gp3CiucWmO_Bvd8hRH7Q8hSGnc27o6jg_YofoFmtbHapbAyN10-AncJ05GS-8apeAhw7q3Sk-srmQW3VX_HW2/s400/Cincinnati+16.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489490446221908850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqThdEY3k7BgpzZRFeemVYrlkWavTtaiWANq1hHFQViXga92NEQE0ZBiRuQV805V5lJTfZZz6zx8KeoPVNXwgWIKyVCGLwBXGtMq1gJbDlqLGp_nmKZjc2bHQ-O35HTuSobKOV/s1600/DSC02177.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcLoBYE8yjBltAKuNxOJ-31Vz-Vvo9yyfX9XxCJVBcpPvC3M3UF8YUU_OTezBwxVwO1iW8sgYklJUehjK-Qhye7acnKx47ZVWcUFPIemwY7YfHe8OxMi6-iIrf37bCFdXCR_T/s400/Cedar_Point_2008_11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489489793991007362" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-74084993069924721072010-06-14T07:12:00.002-04:002010-06-14T07:15:29.940-04:002010 Camaro RS<div>After waiting 9 weeks for the Camaro to arrive, I finally got it last week. At the time it had only 6 miles on the odometer & within 3 days I've racked up over 600. Out of all the cars I've owned, this is by far the most fun.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wpe2bowNzYYlm-AUSnNgJTEoxmHcbnOP01vJcvnbxBaLdeBNfTfLi4uW-4Bs12PdiyRcp8dnR8dF9R_xbnEf6ywceVwH6F7o9gJ9cBFqDSI0nAwyAZjOVIKnmKysu22Zrm9K/s1600/IMG_8405.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wpe2bowNzYYlm-AUSnNgJTEoxmHcbnOP01vJcvnbxBaLdeBNfTfLi4uW-4Bs12PdiyRcp8dnR8dF9R_xbnEf6ywceVwH6F7o9gJ9cBFqDSI0nAwyAZjOVIKnmKysu22Zrm9K/s400/IMG_8405.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482586219708432482" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9pHW6vyzbUYkasdIFgpYnMTNCvOYgqeOnI66v2HBfuwy5NoZ0pt3KJq05zdEMuvgtZ1QvVqkYp8cQGtfUVMCzInbMtPCeBJuO1ujUgOoSWkx8aVGAvVxSLuxuUUvjH65bw8ic/s1600/IMG_8443.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9pHW6vyzbUYkasdIFgpYnMTNCvOYgqeOnI66v2HBfuwy5NoZ0pt3KJq05zdEMuvgtZ1QvVqkYp8cQGtfUVMCzInbMtPCeBJuO1ujUgOoSWkx8aVGAvVxSLuxuUUvjH65bw8ic/s400/IMG_8443.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482586217573304434" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-33268591706550323612010-04-25T13:24:00.002-04:002010-04-25T13:27:56.154-04:00Abandoned Knox County Poorhouse<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC7Jstx3EderJSG1dx09ew6ACWP0UUZsNAKRnlfqhj9JxV9xPajj-JrYr9-bShOQqGtbluoOeIdIXhBKp1DNAeRQ2WsJ4Yzxa0H7hweMa0YMWcHy5u1YBzpGbZ8s2R-3YImWL/s1600/Knox+County+Poorhouse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC7Jstx3EderJSG1dx09ew6ACWP0UUZsNAKRnlfqhj9JxV9xPajj-JrYr9-bShOQqGtbluoOeIdIXhBKp1DNAeRQ2WsJ4Yzxa0H7hweMa0YMWcHy5u1YBzpGbZ8s2R-3YImWL/s400/Knox+County+Poorhouse.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464127847261129746" /></a><div>Built in 1878, this 40,000sf, four story tall building was at the time one of the largest buildings in the country. In 1953 the poorhouse was shut down only be be revived by a bible college then in the 1990’s the old poorhouse turned into the House of Nightmares were it was a hunted house one month out of the year. In the early 2000’s the hunted house was moved to a location in columbus because of the house being in disrepair.</div><div><br /></div><div>The first time I visited the house there were some workmen outside, my guess is they use it for storage. During my second visit, the back doors were wide open so getting inside was not a problem. The right wing is totally collapsed inside to the point where any renovation is impossible. I was surprised to find very little vandalism throughout the building. One odd thing, in the top left wing, the smoke detector was going off very softly, however there was no electricity in the building.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjth2opMmRtTkJYSA57r44wtyLLNMD-AB_AU0RYttd2vTp9C7K3rHkJDm6Ip6pJAjFvVqItK9LDiyQw6tZ0Te7x-PDcGA00L7XxhGiek8oZ17vzH37xofraHtk_lDWPa-IiofUo/s1600/IMG_8236_7_8_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjth2opMmRtTkJYSA57r44wtyLLNMD-AB_AU0RYttd2vTp9C7K3rHkJDm6Ip6pJAjFvVqItK9LDiyQw6tZ0Te7x-PDcGA00L7XxhGiek8oZ17vzH37xofraHtk_lDWPa-IiofUo/s400/IMG_8236_7_8_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464127843915902034" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8eQ4bKSaGAqUZ1iXLpeq-6FCRAyROj7D8MtejRodjYpe0rAYx8g9d_ABvbz8SEmtgckO6iYQsxGu6qGMvym1CVu9uHlRAQ5cGNsCP8wfFpYZpI2fGHRSR_QqZS9LqCIy5KNk/s1600/IMG_8298_299_300_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8eQ4bKSaGAqUZ1iXLpeq-6FCRAyROj7D8MtejRodjYpe0rAYx8g9d_ABvbz8SEmtgckO6iYQsxGu6qGMvym1CVu9uHlRAQ5cGNsCP8wfFpYZpI2fGHRSR_QqZS9LqCIy5KNk/s400/IMG_8298_299_300_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464127837195660274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinckuYdZhyDtJzkmFQEjXcdmrc7ESuldRf_4TQ8yJqbBdzZ1__8rAb5WpATs9jhZgk-Ez4pxvwKGPxive6Su_fNrgw23jTyE7owGfob-cfnTnfEd0vZVSWAc85URjeuwgbN67s/s1600/IMG_8314_5_6_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinckuYdZhyDtJzkmFQEjXcdmrc7ESuldRf_4TQ8yJqbBdzZ1__8rAb5WpATs9jhZgk-Ez4pxvwKGPxive6Su_fNrgw23jTyE7owGfob-cfnTnfEd0vZVSWAc85URjeuwgbN67s/s400/IMG_8314_5_6_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464127834528711986" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlFuuTVj_2e9lwatg80kl4eFOltv3IGZu7MB2gvME7hVLMWkyrCPcmEIjrK6206TrpjiO-wImBSr08TNZG7MhVGMp3tzVyUly4IHOfPCrl5hYaWqECxmWESpTT7qwkZEcc3eE/s1600/IMG_8269_70_71_tonemapped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlFuuTVj_2e9lwatg80kl4eFOltv3IGZu7MB2gvME7hVLMWkyrCPcmEIjrK6206TrpjiO-wImBSr08TNZG7MhVGMp3tzVyUly4IHOfPCrl5hYaWqECxmWESpTT7qwkZEcc3eE/s400/IMG_8269_70_71_tonemapped.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464127824607222674" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://rejectedmemories.com/locations/poorhouse/"><b>see more of the poorhouse...</b></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-59756466993824663822010-04-06T10:45:00.002-04:002010-04-06T11:48:13.743-04:00How Allstate gave me a great settlement on my totaled BMW<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaF_YFBRa0vJNaxhXzmbkmwkAXT1XNOF_t_j4oc0G3Y9XdJiCSEPaFvCB3lUJNiqugzuxc_R1ps2opagDOSJJCO2PSxBmsdO7Sv0BcqrDmO9tXrrYivhzFcXFCmKMyqKMpsR7/s1600/photo+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaF_YFBRa0vJNaxhXzmbkmwkAXT1XNOF_t_j4oc0G3Y9XdJiCSEPaFvCB3lUJNiqugzuxc_R1ps2opagDOSJJCO2PSxBmsdO7Sv0BcqrDmO9tXrrYivhzFcXFCmKMyqKMpsR7/s400/photo+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457035690687974034" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">On March 12th, my beautiful BMW 128i was totaled. I had the car almost a year to the day before it was taken away. Everyone involved walked away fine, no one was cited because it couldn't be determined who was at fault and the witnesses were no help. This was my first time ever filing an insurance claim and I was preparing myself for disaster. I have Allstate for auto and home insurance and I bought into their "accident forgiveness" and lower deductible for every year I wasn't in an accident so I was about to see how much of a gimmick it was/wasn't. Since the BMW was only a year old and was a custom order, it took them a little longer then normal to determine what to do. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see nothing remains of the front of the car and the body took such an impact that it bent the roof in 6 spots and cracked the trunk lid. The first time I talked to the adjuster after he saw the damage, it sounded like they may try to repair it. For a few days I was very nervous wondering if I was going to have to remain making a $610 payment on a car that no one would ever want to buy. I finally got the call from a very nice guy who talked me through all the damage and how he was going to consider it a total loss. I felt relieved that I got out of the $610 payment (that was starting to be a burden after a year) but then I braced myself for what he was about to tell me, which is how much we're they going to value the car at. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I still owed 27K on it and from all the blue book sites, the car was being valued at only 32K and that was for a certified pre owned one. I was in disbelief that they we're giving me 36K for it!!!! That is over Kelly Blue Book by a few thousand! From everything I've found on the web, I couldn't find any stories that had a "beyond expectations" result. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After almost a month, I finally received a check for the remainder of $9,200 that will go towards a dawn payment on a new car (the car in choice is now a 2010 Camaro). My insurance also included a rental car for 30 days so I wasn't without a ride. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I did go back to get a pair of Oakleys out of the BMW that I had forgotten, but oddly enough they weren't there, along with some extra money that was taken, only pennies were left. I tried to add this to the claim but anything in the car goes under home owners insurance and since I had a $500 deductible on that, the Oakleys were a total loss.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So moral of the story, Allstate is more then fair with accidents and it's well worth the money for their add-on packages (I'm a gold member) and if you're ever in an accident, make sure you take EVERYTHING before it gets towed away because it's unlikely it will still be in the car when you return to see it. </div><div><br /></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-88620717318632458492010-03-07T11:07:00.004-05:002010-03-07T11:25:38.088-05:001899 Mentor Reflex Camera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1viHuER84ebiiHk9ElkDd-W0Kb8PaaNV1936eMj6bbHbN6DEEkp9kTqpkCus_2gFR40KiNz_fmzjcyU4fU4ec_ktz5B84IDCsfeX96zHsMDVKaKL5WZ3wKQYax3jjo11kVeeH/s1600-h/IMG_7721.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1viHuER84ebiiHk9ElkDd-W0Kb8PaaNV1936eMj6bbHbN6DEEkp9kTqpkCus_2gFR40KiNz_fmzjcyU4fU4ec_ktz5B84IDCsfeX96zHsMDVKaKL5WZ3wKQYax3jjo11kVeeH/s400/IMG_7721.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445924518598436674" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday I visited a few antique malls and managed to get this extremely rare 1899, German made, Mentor Reflex camera for $43. When I was looking at it at the mall, it wouldn't open up and seemed to be broken. When I got it home I carefully pried it with a butter knife and it popped open like magic. This is now the oldest camera in my quickly expanding collection, only problem is it's too big for my current display case so I have to hunt for another one.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-46477184079768324262010-02-25T20:07:00.003-05:002010-02-25T20:09:42.128-05:00IOGraphica<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-2YRMN0al9b9rn_aHuzAkuU510KBbOiSBMJKdnvRYdjYbZgB-PYK517nxQgtcn4aEBTowaWmySkrIKhwi8TEwTI3aApnIhEvh7C41jC-ZPxF9tN1JmmXMep-wQ-c71NlfIOc/s1600-h/IOGraphica+-+2.1+hours+(from+17-50+to+20-02).png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-2YRMN0al9b9rn_aHuzAkuU510KBbOiSBMJKdnvRYdjYbZgB-PYK517nxQgtcn4aEBTowaWmySkrIKhwi8TEwTI3aApnIhEvh7C41jC-ZPxF9tN1JmmXMep-wQ-c71NlfIOc/s400/IOGraphica+-+2.1+hours+(from+17-50+to+20-02).png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442353083042812482" /></a><br /><br />I found a cool little app that creates art from your mouse movements. Download it free from <a href="http://iographica.com">IOGraphica.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-23416069294295365382010-02-23T15:57:00.002-05:002010-02-23T16:00:05.778-05:00Neglecting the Analog World<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnOl98uhh_hKo_nqqDR0JB0HHMm-v8v1gaFRAqjRQc3KrgITkPtZnRV9mVacpxj1phK2X8X6YCKzpbxz9bQwoXKCabr4Rm6tohQhCg0tkXg4fxG3IESso2QTAVjt6ZSuK0cbN/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2010-02-23+at+3.39.56+PM.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnOl98uhh_hKo_nqqDR0JB0HHMm-v8v1gaFRAqjRQc3KrgITkPtZnRV9mVacpxj1phK2X8X6YCKzpbxz9bQwoXKCabr4Rm6tohQhCg0tkXg4fxG3IESso2QTAVjt6ZSuK0cbN/s320/Screen+shot+2010-02-23+at+3.39.56+PM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441546052971391602" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">On a business trip a few weeks ago I did something I haven't done in years, I actually read a magazine. I've been so in-tune with drowning myself in the internet instead of reading a physical, analog <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_publication">periodical</a>. Information is fed to me by way of videos and interactive media or better yet, cute diagrams that can basically sum up much of todays articles since everything seems to have a flow chart representing the idea which is being conveyed. All of this technology is contributing to rotting the part of my brain that use to take advantage of traditional media. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The magazine in choice was Wired, and like all the other issues, the current one consists of how to improve your life by means of digital technology and interacting with "virtual" friends rather then putting forth the effort of face to face rejection by your peers. A small part of me wants to revive the antique means of information intake while the other part can't wait for the iPad to fuel my digital needs. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-84409030490384671732010-02-21T19:53:00.004-05:002010-02-21T20:02:39.258-05:00The story of "Keep Calm And Carry On"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScICW7Js8vwlc7QN-FfeeHJJIugoxQZUkRswjsS3vi5r9nuy8w2NaE8-ZhLYoxUD2IZQZoalw0FAcnj2l7Zh-Dd-ov2ay5ro4lUD6qxdwCzzvj2Wow9GaO_26K5Kd6oLHrpNt/s1600-h/keep-calm.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScICW7Js8vwlc7QN-FfeeHJJIugoxQZUkRswjsS3vi5r9nuy8w2NaE8-ZhLYoxUD2IZQZoalw0FAcnj2l7Zh-Dd-ov2ay5ro4lUD6qxdwCzzvj2Wow9GaO_26K5Kd6oLHrpNt/s400/keep-calm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440865905447668802" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">M</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">illions of copies of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. Now the message has taken on a new lease of life in our troubled peacetime.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The simple five-word message is the very model of British restraint and stiff upper lip. Keep calm and carry on.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In 1939, with war against Germany looming, the Government designed three posters to steady the public's resolve and maintain morale. These featured the crown of King George VI set against a bold red background, and three distinctive slogans - "Freedom is in Peril", "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory", and "Keep Calm and Carry On".</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Two-and-a-half million copies of "Keep Calm" were printed, to be distributed in the event of a national catastrophe, but remained in storage throughout the war.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The message was all but forgotten until 2000, when a copy was discovered in a box of books bought at auction by Stuart Manley, a bookseller from Northumberland.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"I didn't know anything about it but I showed it to my wife. We both liked it so we decided to frame it and put it in the shop," explains Mr Manley.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"Lots of people saw it and wanted to buy it. We refused all offers but eventually we decided we should get copies made for sale."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Sales remained modest until 2005, when it was featured as a Christmas gift idea in a national newspaper supplement.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"All hell broke loose," says Mr Manley.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"Our website broke down under the strain, the phone never stopped ringing and virtually every member of staff had to be diverted into packing posters."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Soothing words</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The poster was just one of hundreds produced by the Ministry of Information during the war to influence public opinion.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"The poster was a major medium in a way that it isn't now," says Professor Jim Aulich, an expert in propaganda art at Manchester Metropolitan University.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"It wasn't competing with television. It was one of the main ways of reaching people, through billboards and on public transport."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Rescued from obscurity after 70 years, the Ministry of Information's appeal for calm has risen to cult status. Mr Manley's store, Barter Books in Alnwick, receives an average of 1,000 orders a month from around the world. Customers include 10 Downing Street and assorted embassies. The design has been reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs, shopping bags and cufflinks.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It has also spawned imitators. One company has given it a twist, replacing the original slogan with "Now Panic and Freak Out".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">To some, the world in 2009 seems as uncertain as it was in 1939, even if modern-day anxieties focus on redundancy and recession rather than bombs and the Blitz. Perhaps this is why the message still seems so relevant.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Of course, it might be difficult for the current government to come up with a poster with quite the same appeal during this time of economic stress. Context is everything, says social psychologist Dr Lesley Prince.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"If the government is in tune with you, you will listen. If you think the government is working on your behalf, you will listen."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">This was indisputably the case during WWII, but is less clear-cut even in the most troubled period of peacetime.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Stiff upper lip</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">And a message of such powerful simplicity might not be so forthcoming these days. Today's government posters attempt to convince the public of an unappreciated danger and get them to modify their behaviour. The "Keep Calm" poster is merely an injunction to think another way and continue acting as you have always acted.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"It's very good, almost zen," says Dr Prince. "It works as a personal mantra now. If people are thinking 'I'm about to lose the house', it's good advice."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">People are drawn to the calming Britishness of the message, says Mr Manley.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"It's interesting to look at the kind of places we often sell to; doctors' surgeries, hospitals, schools and government departments. It seems to strike a chord anywhere that works at a hectic pace."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Prof Aulich adds that the message has universal appeal.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"It speaks to peoples' personal neuroses. It's not ideological, it's not urging people to fight for freedom like some propaganda posters did."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Following the end of WWII, most of the posters are believed to have been pulped, never having seen the light of day. Only two original copies are known to have survived.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Thanks to a chance discovery in a dusty box of books, the soothing entreaty is finally having its intended effect, bringing comfort to a nation in turmoil.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-64999419227270892582010-02-20T22:07:00.003-05:002010-02-20T22:13:53.177-05:00Breakfast Night<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtoM6FuWiyo1EJQtPu1hShGY5hp4ac2JhAwDrxpIq-rNKz3Czcy7xhtNFdnwxMM1-36O-N_E1ROnXbTdVvur44vb12MOGEDbzxqHWVhk33sl8MRXVHQDQ6y6BvVeF2Q0CFQ3L/s1600-h/Deb+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu5JTfFlg1Mw0d_aG73TfU4Xtmsbdk84H4THYYwKWF46aH7ov3VyijBtTkOb_iLDx16IKHleb0O9yO2BSttXkcZclL-ooZpr2yN4kYzi25MNH1hcfYJEFtExIt-XM_tNDrCHQK/s400/computer+room+11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440356829576888674" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-11613551129924323672010-01-29T16:28:00.009-05:002010-01-29T18:37:07.451-05:00iPad + iPhone Matching Wallpapers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosLPViPYlQ7R5lRsXO-icNUba9wFH_vIUfxX1PPmcUiByW8OXhZuSdHvLuaIbj2Gt7rqXKew1jpQ6gFIjNk7ebUVqokDvPDCS8Q6ZLFJ7XxV3jYs52Z_d-QO1AJQ1JH1BTZ8T/s1600-h/ipad+and+phone.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosLPViPYlQ7R5lRsXO-icNUba9wFH_vIUfxX1PPmcUiByW8OXhZuSdHvLuaIbj2Gt7rqXKew1jpQ6gFIjNk7ebUVqokDvPDCS8Q6ZLFJ7XxV3jYs52Z_d-QO1AJQ1JH1BTZ8T/s400/ipad+and+phone.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432303421235095874" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll know that I'm a huge Apple fan (probably <a href="http://the-bob-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/last-day-at-apple.html">working</a> for them didn't help matters). Almost every time Apple releases a new product, I'll be first in line to get it and the new iPad is no exception. I might not care for the name (altho it's growing on me) or the fact that it doesn't multitask (but that could be changed in an update) but those few downsides don't make up for the fact that it will be an amazing product right out of the gate just like the iPhone was. Lots of people are asking me why someone would even want it, well for me it will be a huge connivence. I usually do my web browsing while laying in bed with my laptop and I'm always worried it's going to slip and fall + this will be a great platform to show my photography on and when not in use it can act as a digital picture frame. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the iPad will allow you to actually have wallpaper viewable (unlike the iPhone that only displays it on the front screen) I figured I'd get a head start and create a few iPhone / iPad matching wallpapers. At first when I started making them, I was designing them vertical like the iPhone is laid out, however after watching the demo of how the iPad functions, I noticed by rotating it you will get more of the image on the top (when vertical) or sides (when horizontal). Since the resolution is 1024 x 768 on the device, I just made all the wallpapers 1024 x 1024 to compensate for rotation. Feel free to download the ones you want. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://files.me.com/bkueppers/wq7my3"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrKyfEyCA9pA52x81u8ILCb1Me2DB0jwgXmwGXW9YtnSeMS44dORRSgJT4I92UlRo3DkfCPNNLZ7uW1L7AU65M1e84rfTe4_mBZTjlh0FhFj5nANY6agjUwMp1vM-fA271mKqw/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432302586089548018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://files.me.com/bkueppers/3merpx"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwZp11Efid4qt0NR0olkoQCVOtXxJlKGPV6Fra_xx7gM2VC3GI9JNaLf1dxid143QOjxgQjYcv9z63AY016QwAk4DQvxcVX_Y-RXI_9bQTexOfpX8zlqWHXe5ZU9c4cXt0os6/s400/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432302582634110242" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://files.me.com/bkueppers/z9ixlq"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3S2hJIgOSi-8HBy3WokOENxiAqs5idU2hrFWNR-eKbfYhyjBR2gvHnRe8ZUwDxDTV6qw16QCLFOQP5zTfbPc1r_1itDq2ZyQ_uJyMPBUS06F5Gm1zPt-YQqwOkhEt-xq0JK4/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432302576375809762" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://files.me.com/bkueppers/v1qlnh"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8U52QQinJQ_Ltldr6RrDSNOMeeZYROiSjuRHJF2fSFkdRX3Wz6bNlVJiHKBkp5jfnWPbOs9IzkNPp04xSSM1xC14hmVGZNOjyvqhTShjxG71jFLmkhSLoSDgrlhubPEo-2_E/s400/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432302569216639170" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><center><object width="512" height="328" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="ordie_player_f7a03edbd7"><param name="movie" value="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf"><param name="flashvars" value="key=f7a03edbd7"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed width="512" height="328" flashvars="key=f7a03edbd7" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" src="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" name="ordie_player_f7a03edbd7" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:512px;"><a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a03edbd7/pee-wee-gets-an-ipad" title="from Pee-wee Herman and Eric Appel">Pee-wee Gets An iPad!</a> from <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/peewee_herman">Pee-wee Herman</a></div></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-27486717681819372562010-01-28T16:19:00.000-05:002010-02-17T19:19:15.150-05:00Blogger vs iWeb vs Wordpress vs Tumblr<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhSbR7XehxaWwFDtkDF5cG1w1H3lw44Z5w1gzSO5SVWOLZUsP2RBEdz-Wc6SNqomnGBpexP63wVGQEuGh73rmf8KvXy-hv7As30_8U96blRIoPuSdWc-bxnVdMEKQBFqBUlL6/s1600-h/blogging.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 73px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhSbR7XehxaWwFDtkDF5cG1w1H3lw44Z5w1gzSO5SVWOLZUsP2RBEdz-Wc6SNqomnGBpexP63wVGQEuGh73rmf8KvXy-hv7As30_8U96blRIoPuSdWc-bxnVdMEKQBFqBUlL6/s400/blogging.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435245061891366034" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Today I'm going to share with you my pros and cons of a few popular blogging platforms. To give you a little background; I started back in 2005 with this blog hosted on the blogger platform as more of a hobby and to see what I could create with html. As new services come along, I'll usually create a free account to see how it compares with the others. I currently manage 4 different websites, each on one of the above platforms. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><a href="http://blogger.com/">Blogger</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(example: this site)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe I'm just a little biased because blogger was the first platform that I coded on, but I've always had good luck using it and customizing the templates isn't too hard. I can usually change & customize a new design in a few hours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pros:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Has been around for a while so there is a large collection of templates available</li><li>Easy customization, provided you're not intimidated by HTML</li><li>Probably one of the biggest blog platforms out there, which means tons of help if you need it</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Cons:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Html code in the templates can be a little buggy and outdated</li><li>not ment for anything other then basic blogging</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/">iWeb</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(example: </span><a href="http://ideaattic.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">IdeaAttic.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know I'm a total Mac fan, so when Apple launched iWeb a few years back, I immediately jumped on the bandwagon and started creating websites left and right. At one point I had 7 iWeb sites, each with proper domain names. I was having too much fun creating sites and could create a site with 20+ pages in an afternoon. The application is very easy to use and any design I could come up with in my head, I could easily recreate it in iWeb. One of the problems however, is with all these great looking sites, Google has a very hard time indexing them so not too many people are finding you via search engines.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pros:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Total drag/drop program</li><li>You don't need to know a single thing about HTML to make an amazing site</li><li>Great for a site that needs galleries</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Cons:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>SEO (search engine optimization) is basically non existent, even with programs like iWeb SEO Tool</li><li>If you want to add flash or some advanced HTML customization, you usually have to jump through hoops (providing you wanted to do something that the webwidgets can't handle)</li><li>Limited templates</li><li>Proprietary, unlike the other services, iWeb is an actual application that runs on newer macs and is intended to be updated with a single computer unlike web based blogging services. </li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(example: </span><a href="http://i-got-sidetracked.tumblr.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">i-got-sidetracked.tumblr.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I personally feel tumblr is more about sharing interesting images/photography then anything else. Sure it has features to "blog" or write something witty, but the main purpose is to see something cool, retumble it (repost it), and move on. Now you might be thinking, why the hell would anyone care to do this? It has majorly boosted traffic to my portfolio. How? I'll submit some of my photography to a few "best photo" type tumblrs every few days <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(</span><a href="http://fuckyeahphotography.tumblr.com/post/367135942/ohio-state-reformatory-where-the-movie-shawshank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">example</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">)</span> and hopefully they will post my image along with any contact information I provide. When other people see that image, they may retumble it and so on...so my photography spreads like wiled fire along with my contact info linking back to my portfolio, which then in turn drives new traffic to my portfolio, boosting my rankings in google. More traffic means more potential clients that might hire me to do photo shoots. (it's all about networking for $$$)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pros:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Super easy to use</li><li>Some of the best looking templates</li><li>works great on mobile devices</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Cons:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>most templates lack basic services such as comments or tag searching</li><li>can be a pain to extensively modify the templates</li><li>still too new for most people to grasp full potential</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress.org</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(example: </span><a href="http://rejectedmemories.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RejectedMemories.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was first exposed to wordpress at work when I was given the task to redo our law firms website. I figured I had a fresh start so I wanted to choose the correct platform. Our site was to have 50+ static pages that wouldn't be updated often, but in order to keep the site "fresh" the attorneys wanted to do weekly blogs. Wordpress.org mixes static and blog pages quite nicely, not to mention that it is major in helping natural SEO. Like all the other platforms, templates are plentiful, however I went with a paid version called headway which is a mix between the WYSIWYG iWeb editor & blogger. Plus the headway theme adds TONS of options for SEO way beyond the basic free templates. In two weeks after redesigning the firms site in wordpress with headway, our site traffic has more then tripled with just the basic built in SEO. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pros:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Great templates provided you pick the right one with good code</li><li>ease of use</li><li>Can mix blog with multiple site pages (about, contact, gallery, etc)</li><li>Search engines tend to find wordpress.org site easier since they aren't on a subdomain like blogger, tumblr, etc.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Cons:</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>you have to pay for your own domain/server space (godaddy makes this very easy tho with their wordpress package)</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My conclusion; all 4 of the above platforms have a special place in my heart, but if you are just starting out with a serious blog/site for a business or your main focus is on traffic then wordpress.org is hands down the way to go. If you looking for fun and not too much brain power, sign up for tumblr. Want to be totally creative and show off to your fiends, then spend an afternoon in iWeb. And if you want a totally free way that will allow you to be a little creative but reserved (provided you are 0-basic with html) then get yourself a blogger account. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> I've love to hear your opinions or experiences with blog type platforms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20197151.post-13161472940875046122010-01-16T23:35:00.006-05:002010-01-17T00:03:06.996-05:00Droste Effect<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIkUVqzNWwYBiTiiuGgXqqFqDNhq9TRLdaGauLamPmf2H_oBiuy9DoPbvrEuy3O-wSqf4PErXTlhEHf9lc-GlYJY5JiDzxJvP-aT7te7eANjg0SVwxWa7lMtYA2QRdU6Q53gW/s1600-h/blue+glass.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIkUVqzNWwYBiTiiuGgXqqFqDNhq9TRLdaGauLamPmf2H_oBiuy9DoPbvrEuy3O-wSqf4PErXTlhEHf9lc-GlYJY5JiDzxJvP-aT7te7eANjg0SVwxWa7lMtYA2QRdU6Q53gW/s400/blue+glass.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567468935392402" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The other day while surfing the net, I discovered the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Droste Effect</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> which is where an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> image depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. I've seen these types of images before but never knew what they were called or how they were created. Well, much like my months of obsessing on how to make </span><a href="http://the-bob-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Tiny%20Planets"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tiny Planets</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, I just had to figure out this Droste effect. Almost all the info I found gave instructions on how to create them on a PC, but I'm on a Mac and had to figure it out for myself. There are some free programs out there that say they work on Mac, but not the latest operating system. I finally found a free program from Adobe (yes, I used the words, "free" and "Adobe" in the same sentence) called </span><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PixelBender</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> that does an amazing job. The hard part is finding an image that will work seamlessly, but after hours of fooling around with the program, I got a few decent ones. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>[view them full screen]</b></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlhx7E9cQJ0I7lw_Jl2xI87kvCj5IlrWZ4LhIm-2tVmiy3OE2AXgWx10mzjGgjdDj0jvcMOM8HWnglKjAuRPP2dSKlvPoM9cgWobJ7Wwx8K53WP8iJ1hyphenhypheniJcKEA4Ml0hDajN-/s1600-h/Pacciso.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlhx7E9cQJ0I7lw_Jl2xI87kvCj5IlrWZ4LhIm-2tVmiy3OE2AXgWx10mzjGgjdDj0jvcMOM8HWnglKjAuRPP2dSKlvPoM9cgWobJ7Wwx8K53WP8iJ1hyphenhypheniJcKEA4Ml0hDajN-/s400/Pacciso.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567303708512018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCaj3_1wn1mLk7QTmbWZRYJKeAVbjR49hLQFzWbOocZ6ga-ZDwfOzzoywxzxXN1b0LmD7YOUTQvJCcWUx-leRUzfkyDw9EGb40Zx9psK5GHQdHR2ee2FFUJFqBO9vjWtWdv-V/s1600-h/irongate.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCaj3_1wn1mLk7QTmbWZRYJKeAVbjR49hLQFzWbOocZ6ga-ZDwfOzzoywxzxXN1b0LmD7YOUTQvJCcWUx-leRUzfkyDw9EGb40Zx9psK5GHQdHR2ee2FFUJFqBO9vjWtWdv-V/s400/irongate.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567296032086098" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavnHwga_1WA7Zzv_gaQ-sRz4FJfn7h9uFfbT1xOd5ol9xOj1_33uZDNwI2fZxW-Xr5Jvrr8nTwqlIb7jqi-vZZIlHJZxuXvwbuXhYfqOiOB_cLJK1hWDSHSWTnrnuPDRRqoPH/s1600-h/simple.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavnHwga_1WA7Zzv_gaQ-sRz4FJfn7h9uFfbT1xOd5ol9xOj1_33uZDNwI2fZxW-Xr5Jvrr8nTwqlIb7jqi-vZZIlHJZxuXvwbuXhYfqOiOB_cLJK1hWDSHSWTnrnuPDRRqoPH/s400/simple.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567292939109202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XbP66QS1u2XgJAmy_h8rSvpp-hJg3gg5YGOY99n_PnMQFAGHR9TjZLU8tIB29en6zmUGPVowT-9m2J51cwYLd4ea0icGfclIgq5AgEzZAzCidldI2nlInbfqZRSdCZk-ToS7/s1600-h/iron2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XbP66QS1u2XgJAmy_h8rSvpp-hJg3gg5YGOY99n_PnMQFAGHR9TjZLU8tIB29en6zmUGPVowT-9m2J51cwYLd4ea0icGfclIgq5AgEzZAzCidldI2nlInbfqZRSdCZk-ToS7/s400/iron2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567288287788370" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVnpX21nrFNeic-iyOH1H_MtOC3yy-RieZbLzQ35nKMjKuJd76K5Ho3oPLOfdoVFdnnRKq61PpEz1DT_dm5G93tPg34FLdJmAIAC8sa3MKTqCSb6etOEcwoYa8Pro2_X-rDofm/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 173px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVnpX21nrFNeic-iyOH1H_MtOC3yy-RieZbLzQ35nKMjKuJd76K5Ho3oPLOfdoVFdnnRKq61PpEz1DT_dm5G93tPg34FLdJmAIAC8sa3MKTqCSb6etOEcwoYa8Pro2_X-rDofm/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427567285734431106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXpZHl7eEc53bcdMM6LQ8z8KQyQ7IWNmgjWru-KP5XzDbQV9l0WABVMLabAvlLAJfLk9_w5nabGsCux5BkmpkuFWmHn0fpnbeMDLz2DIiOgmVxeslaUkz1vDooQB799D_UksG/s1600-h/glass.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXpZHl7eEc53bcdMM6LQ8z8KQyQ7IWNmgjWru-KP5XzDbQV9l0WABVMLabAvlLAJfLk9_w5nabGsCux5BkmpkuFWmHn0fpnbeMDLz2DIiOgmVxeslaUkz1vDooQB799D_UksG/s320/glass.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427568309536119378" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the starting image that the above black/white and gold images are made up of. The white areas are transparent to allow for the wormhole effect.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TheBobBlog</div>TheBobBlog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462057727815253156noreply@blogger.com0