you know ..the web and that..isnt it?

from the site: The images exhibited were captured with equipment, including Nikon D3S digital-SLR cameras, NIKKOR lenses, Speedlights and other accessories, kept aboard the ISS. To date, NASA has captured more than 700,000 images with Nikon equipment carried into space. Among these many images, those rare and precious photos that can only be captured from space, as well as those captured under the extremely low-light conditions of space that exhibit the superior image quality of D3S noise suppression features are introduced.

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mainly uk now.. but rolling it out across the world from end of this year .

dropbox look out ??? who knows.. time may tell which is best for your cloud storage needs..

this could be a harry hill moment.. but this link is enough for now. a  drop vs sugar article

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sugarsync-vs-dropbox-the-battle-of-the-cloud-storage-titans/

http://blog.artofakira.com/

even though the funds fell well short of the $8000 needed to kickstart the show ,the akira exhibit is still on and running so if your near

The ToonSeum 945 Liberty Avenue, in Pittsburgh, PA 15222 its happening right now .. if I where near I would even donate my cells (for the duration) for all to see including the frame where tetsuo is being shot by kaneda with the laser gun and hes on the concrete floor kneeling tryign to get back up, thanks the manga company the free cells were a genius idea back in the late eighties early nineties?..that aint gonna happen ever again!no matter how many dvds I buy of duckman!

http://www.toonseum.org/

heres a nice render from way back of what kaneda’s bike could  have looked like if it had the cgi refresh

akira

some fine quick animation rolls..

After Effects CS5: The Roto Brush | Motionworks.

…having some trouble cleaning up the top of the mage’s head is that you weren’t working outward from the base frame. Corrective strokes only influence the frames that are away (not toward) the base frame. Think of it as “working the bubbles out a frame at a time”.

very cool photos of earth hour in action recently.. boston.com site always has the most amazing photos from around the world..

sometimes all you want to do is find out what a picture and a given focal lengh/camerabody/ lens size will look like in a given scenario and see the image close up in at 1-1 lets say as it should be ; you know maybe you want that 50mm sigma `1.4 you’ve seen in online at a nice price but want to see it being used by people and not just read some techno-babble review which is not always required ,some real world photos using the lens etc etc ..well… check out this site..

Pixel-Peeper is a service that allows you to pixel-peep (even at 100% of the original size for given camera) at thousands of full-size photos in our database, therefore allowing you to check a lens, digital SLR camera, or a digicam before buying one.