Online Observations

A little bit of OS humor

I came upon this nice and funny image below about how various OS fanboys see their OS as compared to other OSes. It is not clear who is the owner of this to me, since it appears on so many sites, so I will just give the attribution to the place where I first saw it, which is the blog of Joey Devilla. Here’s the image:

You can head over to his blog for other funny stuff (search for the funny tag), or for some techie stuff, which is also spread throughout his blog.

This will take your breath away

Every once in a while you come upon someone’s work which is so brilliant that it takes you breath away. Well, the bird book is one such piece of work. I am posting some photos from the book below, and I will let them speak for themselves. And, following the photos is the link to the website of this brilliant piece of work by Andrew Zuckerman. This book is now one of my things to buy.

You definitely need to go to the website to see these photos in much larger sizes. There are multiple photos of over 70 species.

Here are the photos:

And here’s the link to the website: http://www.birdbook.org.

Most amazing creativity and talent

I can never get over how talented a place the world is. There are so many people out there who are just geniuses of what they do. I found someone on Flickr, and her name is Alejandra Salgado. She is a painter, and she posts photographs of her work on Flickr. And all I can say is wow. The only way to explain my reaction is to share some of her work and to let you go look at the rest for yourself on Flickr.

Here are a few of her latest posts on Flickr:

If you enjoyed this, and you want to see more, here’s a link to her photo stream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salgadopintora/.

Awesome pet photography

There are many people who can take excellent photographs of their dogs or cats or other pets. They know how to put in the correct lighting, the right shutter speed, the correct angle, the good pose, the time of the day when the pets would look best, and so on. And their photographs do come out very well. Then there are people such as John Hallam. I don’t think I need to say too much about his brand of pet photography. Here are some of the photos of his two dogs: Ollie and Rufus. Judge for yourself on why he is so different from your ‘normal’ pet photographer.

With each photo, he has a caption that makes the photo complete. I have included the caption below the photo. Clicking the photo will take you to the photo’s page on Flickr.

Can we go Ollie? it says there are real animals! Hang on Rufus, it says here visit our cathouse! dad told us never to go in a cathouse, don’t know why.

You don’t scare me Rufus!

Ollie! What are you doing to Rufus?

No sign of any chickens yet Rufus. just sit on them for another couple of days. I just love chicken Ollie, are you sure this is going to work? Sure it will Rufus, remember we watched it on TV but that was a darn great eagle Ollie! 

And his photostream on Flickr is full of photos like this. He is an excellent photographer otherwise also. Have a look at some of his macro shots. To get to his photostream just click here.

The world is full of awesome people.

Amazing chalk art on sidewalks

I am not sure if I have blogged about this before, but even if I have, it deserves another go. Some people are so talented that you don’t know how to describe them – genius as a word is inadequate.

Take a look at some of the images below. These are all made only using chalk, and a sidewalk. Yup, they are purely two-dimensional even though they may look like they are sculptures rather than drawings on a sidewalk.

And if you thought that these were cool, take a look at a whole lot more here: http://gprime.net/images/sidewalkchalkguy/. Now I would love to see who this guy is and write a bit more about it. If anyone can help point me to him, I would gladly connect with him to do an interview. As I said, even genius is not a word enough for talent such as this.

Now, THIS, is photography

Anyone can click a photo, and then there are some who actually have an idea about what color is and what light is; and how to change shutter speed or aperture to get the right shot. But then there are those select few, who go beyond the basics of how to use a camera and make the subject so interesting that one can’t help but say WOW. I keep seeing such photos every now and then, and in order to appreciate art, you need to talk about it so that others can appreciate it to.

I present to you some of the work of Romain Laurent. You want to see these photos, and then you want to make sure that you visit his website to see the rest (or if you want to see these ones in a bigger size).

There are a bunch of these tilt photos. I just wonder how he did these. But I wonder the same about all his photos. Here are some more to see before you run off to his website.

Well, enjoy his immense talent.

What if the Beauty was the Beast

Ever imagine what all those pretty Disney princesses would look like if they were evil? What if Belle was as scary looking as the Beast? And what if Ariel was had deep sea monsters for pals? Well, someone imagined it, and he went along to paint his imagination. Here are some awesome illustrations from Jeffrey Thomas, a very talented artist to say the least:

 

 

These are just too good. Try spending at least a minute staring at each one and you will appreciate the detail that has gone in to each one. Do visit Jeff’s blog to see more of his work. And if you would like to get larger resolutions of these images, then just visit Jeff’s Portfolio on Deviant Art.

Of course, if evil princesses are not your thing and you would rather see the prettier side of these animated beauties, then check out Jessica Rabbit in real life by Pixeloo.