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Archive for July, 2006

Tidal Art – India Basin Park

Friday, July 28th, 2006

On one trip I found this delightful bicycle…

YouTube as a video host / repository

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

I received a note from Wayne this morning saying that he has worked out the mechanics of posting microscope movies to YouTube. YouTube is emerging as the most popular service for sharing small videos — functioning in many ways as Flickr does for still images. And, like Flickr, YouTube allows its material to be inserted [...]

ISEA Exhibit Notes

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I have started a new page under documents called ISEA Exhibit Notes. Here we can post threads of work underway for the ISEA exhibit.
For instance, I worked a bit over the weekend to mockup a panel hanging system for the panels / images we would like to float over the background map:

The system is shown [...]

Greenbrae Boardwalk outing

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

On Sunday we gathered at Greenbrae Boardwalk for a Hidden Ecologies information session and barbeque. Wayne led a contingent of neighborhood youth on a sample gathering hike along the marsh’s edge and I conducted an ever so brief demonstration of kite aerial photography under light winds.

View of our youthful scouts at pond’s edge along the [...]

Charting progress

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Hi folks,
Here is where I stand with the maps. We are working on getting a 10-foot-high version of the entire SF Bay using NOAA Navigational Charts as inspired by Peter’s wall. At first we were going to scan the physical maps and rescale them to achieve 10 feet. Peter suggested that we just find them [...]

Herons Head on a fine summer day

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I met Wayne and Marina yesterday for a bit of in situ strategizing on the project. As a bonus it was a fine day for flying the kite and collecting samples of the microlife community.

A low level aerial view of the small shell beach and the impressive floating mat. I find a serendipitous figure in [...]

Nice walk at Don Edwards

Monday, July 10th, 2006

We had a fine walk about Don Edwards in pleasant company yesterday. I kept spotting antennas on the drive home.

Comrades witnessing camera launch
I put together a quick panorama from aerial shots taken near the Dumbarton Gravel Quarry. The view includes the full extent of our walk and we are visible on the left-hand side in [...]

Exploratorium Hike to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Wildlife Reserve

Friday, July 7th, 2006

We will meet at noon on Sunday, July 9th, in the Upper Parking Lot of the Visitor Center, 9800 Thornton Avenue, Fremont, CA. Shown below is the predicted TIDE PLOT for Saturday and Sunday.

Connection making

Friday, July 7th, 2006

After our meeting yesterday I spent a fair bit of time thinking about how desirable it would be to make explicit connections between associated bits of information and insight that we have collected but not yet processed. Wayne and I spent some time at the end of the meeting inventorying our existing sites and sub-sites [...]

Whiteboard image found

Friday, July 7th, 2006

I found the whiteboard artifact from our mid-May brainstorming session.

To see this at larger scale click on the image.