I’ve researched the tools for small grassroots nonprofits who are working virtually without an office, and I’ve been unhappy that there hasn’t been some kind of ‘NGO for Dummies’ out there.. Well while researching Activist resources today, I came across this: NGO-in-a-box
Pretty cool!
Another panorama (ok, not quite, it’s just 3 photos stitched together) from a hike up Mount Hood using the open source Hugin for OS X.
Check out recent photos from the Cooper Spur hike on Mt. Hood..
hmmm. I’m fascinated by putting geotags on photos ever since I planned a hike using flickr/map. You can zoom in and click on areas that you’d like to explore and see photos marked with that location. Soon the whole world will be charted via gps/flickr/google earth/sms text and god forbid, myspace. A distopian future or utopian? who knows…
so, anyway here’s a link how to geotag photos.
I’ve always loved to take panorama shots, just stitching them together myself in Photoshop - and letting the distortion and overlapping be rough (wabi-sabi style). Here’s a recent one I did from shots taken on a hill in Nagasaki last month:
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But this always takes time, and this old Powerbook just ain’t got the uumph that it had 5 years ago, especially with photoshop. I’ve been on the lookout for good panorama stitching software to do this automatically. So much of it is very expensive, complicated, or is very promising but only runs only on Windows computer at the moment, or is in development. I found a great Mac OS X piece of inexpensive software called DoubleTake. It ran through the 5 photos of a rainy day mountain landscape in Kyoto, Japan and stitched them no problem automatically (the watermark on this is from the trial version of DoubleTake):
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Another piece of stitching software to check out for OS X is Calico by Keikus Software.
Yet more: I’ve been checking out Zoomify applictaion which lets me drag and drop large images and wind up with a folder of files to be used with their flash plug-in. Pretty cool as a way to display large panoramic images - it lets you scroll across an image much like google maps. Here are some panorama images I made using Zoomify:
Ahh, It’s June 1rst..
That means my birthday is right around the corner, a better than average chance for sunny warm weather in the northwest, roadtrips, camping, cycling.. yay.
So with that I’m doing a bunch of consulting gigs which are very interesting:
– implementing an eBase contact/donor database for a socially progressive non-profit.- implementing ‘best practices’ workflow for digital asset management using Extensis Portfolio 8 for the media marketing team of a big local manufacturing company.
- redoing the website for MFSO Oregon, once I get the OK to start
So, hopefully I’ll have some time between these gigs to enjoy the summer.
Otherwise if you are looking for someone to consult with you on issues regarding Macintosh based creative studios (or nonprofits), check out my resume and give me a call!
Hello and welcome to this blog. Check back for more blog posts related to Macintosh computers, art, portland, politics and the web.. In the meantime there will be all the really interesting stuff pertaining to me. Like:
my resume
Currently I am freelancing for creative offices, advocacy non-profits and individuals that need Macintosh technology consulting, websites and digital art production.
I’ve just moved to Portland, Oregon and looking to network with folks in the fields of creative media or technology for non-profits. I’m working on getting a full-time job here with an interesting company.
I have other ecclectic stuff on yopyop.com - like a couple of audio/visual experiments, a political blog called Citizens of Upright Moral Character, etc… I decided that there should be a seperation between the crazy stuff there and the resume/portfolio related to myself, so now there are 2 sites - this one has the resume/portfolio and other ‘professional’ stuff, the other has that weird stuff I’m not sure I want grandma to see. One for good barry, one for evil barry.
FYI, this site runs on the wonderful WordPress open source blogging/cms software.
