"Flawed System of Prediction" was shot only using a Canon 60D still camera. Frost used over 40,000 photos to create this film; no graphics or CGI employed.
WOW.
http://jeff-frost.com/
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Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Sunday, November 11, 2012
"Flawed System of Prediction"
From artist/ muralist/ videographer/ photographer Jeff Frost.
"Flawed System of Prediction" was shot only using a Canon 60D still camera. Frost used over 40,000 photos to create this film; no graphics or CGI employed.
WOW.
http://jeff-frost.com/
"Flawed System of Prediction" was shot only using a Canon 60D still camera. Frost used over 40,000 photos to create this film; no graphics or CGI employed.
WOW.
http://jeff-frost.com/
Monday, October 8, 2012
San Francisco: The Best Place To Live!
San Francisco occupies the top spot on the 50 Best Places To Live list just released. The list is a collaboration between Bloomberg Rankings and Businessweek.com. Here's how they figured it out (from their website):
"With assistance from Bloomberg Rankings, Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on leisure attributes (the number of restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, professional sports teams, and park acres by population); educational attributes (public school performance, the number of colleges, and graduate degree holders), economic factors (2011 income and June and July 2012 unemployment), crime, and air quality. Major professional league and minor league teams, as well as U.S.-based teams belonging to international leagues in that city were included. The greatest weighting was placed on leisure amenities, followed by educational metrics and economic metrics, and then crime and air quality. The data come from Onboard Informatics, except for park acreage, which comes from the Trust for Public Land."
"The City by the Bay, this year's winner, provides residents with the best blend of entertainment, education, safety, clear air, and a prosperous economic base. As the heart of the Bay Area, San Francisco draws on the prosperity of Silicon Valley and possesses its own diverse history well represented at cultural centers such as the de Young Museum. Residents care fiercely about their cafés and causes; night life flourishes in the Mission and the Castro, while tech companies code away in SoMa.
Bars: 394
Restaurants: 3,430
Museums: 70
Libraries: 52
Pro sports teams: 2
Park acres per 1,000 residents: 7
Colleges: 17
Percent with graduate degree: 16
Median household income: $90,640
Percent unemployed: 7.8
As long as chilly weather, walking uphill, and really expensive real estate don’t turn you off, San Francisco has no shortage of positive qualities. Though numbering fewer than a million people, this coastal city packs in so much—from world-class restaurants and museums to community fairs and music festivals, a large educated class, and an improving economy—that many proud San Franciscans will tell you that its finish at the top of Businessweek.com’s 2012 best cities ranking is well-earned."
I personally cannot--and don't want to--live anywhere else but Northern California.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-26/san-francisco-is-americas-best-city-in-2012
http://www.sfgov.org/index.asp
http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/
"With assistance from Bloomberg Rankings, Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on leisure attributes (the number of restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, professional sports teams, and park acres by population); educational attributes (public school performance, the number of colleges, and graduate degree holders), economic factors (2011 income and June and July 2012 unemployment), crime, and air quality. Major professional league and minor league teams, as well as U.S.-based teams belonging to international leagues in that city were included. The greatest weighting was placed on leisure amenities, followed by educational metrics and economic metrics, and then crime and air quality. The data come from Onboard Informatics, except for park acreage, which comes from the Trust for Public Land."
"The City by the Bay, this year's winner, provides residents with the best blend of entertainment, education, safety, clear air, and a prosperous economic base. As the heart of the Bay Area, San Francisco draws on the prosperity of Silicon Valley and possesses its own diverse history well represented at cultural centers such as the de Young Museum. Residents care fiercely about their cafés and causes; night life flourishes in the Mission and the Castro, while tech companies code away in SoMa.
Bars: 394
Restaurants: 3,430
Museums: 70
Libraries: 52
Pro sports teams: 2
Park acres per 1,000 residents: 7
Colleges: 17
Percent with graduate degree: 16
Median household income: $90,640
Percent unemployed: 7.8
As long as chilly weather, walking uphill, and really expensive real estate don’t turn you off, San Francisco has no shortage of positive qualities. Though numbering fewer than a million people, this coastal city packs in so much—from world-class restaurants and museums to community fairs and music festivals, a large educated class, and an improving economy—that many proud San Franciscans will tell you that its finish at the top of Businessweek.com’s 2012 best cities ranking is well-earned."
I personally cannot--and don't want to--live anywhere else but Northern California.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-26/san-francisco-is-americas-best-city-in-2012
http://www.sfgov.org/index.asp
http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
BEAUTY: Architecture--Wayfarers Chapel
Designed by Lloyd Wright, son of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built in 1951, The Wayfarers Chapel located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, is a miracle of engineering. Comprised of precious few redwood beams and a tremendous amount of glass, Lloyd Wright called his design a "tree chapel."
When construction was complete, it was just a building on a dusty hill, surrounded by saplings. But Lloyd Wright said, “When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment.” Now, the chapel does indeed blend in with the grove of redwoods that surrounds it. It is a stunning sight, and an important part of the lineage of the history of architecture.
On a personal note, I had a dream some time in 1981, where I walked into a church that looked almost identical to the Wayfarers Chapel to see my grandfather who had died nearly a decade earlier. At the time of this dream, I had never seen the structure and did not know of its existence. I can still see it clearly in my memory of the dream, and it was astonishingly beautiful, even ethereal, because of the part of the church that was not there--the walls--as well as for the seamless link to the surrounding trees and sky.
http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/
When construction was complete, it was just a building on a dusty hill, surrounded by saplings. But Lloyd Wright said, “When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment.” Now, the chapel does indeed blend in with the grove of redwoods that surrounds it. It is a stunning sight, and an important part of the lineage of the history of architecture.
Above: Frank Lloyd Wright, left, with his son Lloyd and grandson.
On a personal note, I had a dream some time in 1981, where I walked into a church that looked almost identical to the Wayfarers Chapel to see my grandfather who had died nearly a decade earlier. At the time of this dream, I had never seen the structure and did not know of its existence. I can still see it clearly in my memory of the dream, and it was astonishingly beautiful, even ethereal, because of the part of the church that was not there--the walls--as well as for the seamless link to the surrounding trees and sky.
http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/
BEAUTY: Photography--Sara Ferguson
Sara Ferguson has made some lovely portraits of California landscapes and scenery. I am sure that when people who do not know the state very well think of California, these are not the images that spring to mind. However, these scenes and landscapes are very familiar to me, and this is part of the diverse, back-roads California that I love.
Top to bottom: Northern California; Bodega Bay, California; Hwy 58, California; Point Reyes, California; near Kernville, California; San Diego, California; reflection near Port Costa, California
http://saraferguson.carbonmade.com/
Top to bottom: Northern California; Bodega Bay, California; Hwy 58, California; Point Reyes, California; near Kernville, California; San Diego, California; reflection near Port Costa, California
http://saraferguson.carbonmade.com/
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