The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun today has gone a good distance toward redeeming CanWest Global Communications for their early, tawdry sensationalizing of the disappearance and subsequent deaths of Mark Rempel and Rachel Adams. The Sun, being the least yellow of the three CanWest outlets in town (Global TV and the Vancouver Province being the other two) as somewhat redeemed itself by living up to some small vestige of the tradition of investigative journalism concerned with facts. It remains problematic, however that such a "redemption" should even be necessary and the the spurious linkage was made at all.

On the wild side, with manners
After the deaths of two of their members, Goths defend their social style

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Trying Something Different

I've got a bit of bronchitis and not up for a nightclub tonight, so I've been fooling around with pushing my stereo image experiments a little further. Ryan sent me a bunch of pictures he took at Burning Man that were taken about 2" apart for the sake of turning into stereoscopic animations. Since these were taken with a normal camera and without the benefit of stereoscopic slider, the images were not shot at exactly the same time and not at precisely the same angle. Making the animation then entails dealing with these two problems. Dealing with the alignment issue isn't so bad, although I'm seeing some distortion in the corners that wouldn't ordinarily be there. Dealing with the fact that nearly every person in the picture moved between the frames is a whole other story. I've been fiddling with this image for about an hour now and there are still some pretty glaring flaws in the animation, although from what I've learned now doing this one I might be able to pull off something better with the others or if I revisit this one again.

( Two animarions behind the cut, 426 KB total )