HOme for the Holidays, by nate_marsh.

Recently I was propositioned at a party to help produce a special holiday card for a few of my friends. These talented fellows had wisely procured a collection of matching holiday garb and needed someone with the photo chops and the ability to not feel extremely uncomfortable with them prancing around, tempting everything in sight. I was perfect for the job.

The result is something that still brings a small tear to my eye, view the complete set for more treats!

Credits: Original concept by Asher/Tracy/Ahmed. Photography by N.Marsh and graphic design by E.Roosey

SeasonsGreeting2007, by nate_marsh.

Not much to write here except that Santa’s sleigh is going to pulling a bit to the right this year, based on my calculations and the chart below pulled from Wikipedia (boys on the left, girls on the right):

Kinda sad – how is Vixen going to take care of the babies by herself? Not my problem!

Dead Mobile, by nate_marsh.

I unfortunately lost the original French version of the poem – it was amazing!… but a friend of mine was kind enough to re-translate it for me. I include a picture of N75 in somewhat happier & surlier time… crack open a bottle of vino and take a read -

Complainte pour un portable défunt
(Les derniers moments)

(traduit de français par N. Marsh, retraduit de l’anglais en français par C. Boyer)

1.7€ pour laver et sécher
Combien coûte-t-il, de pleurer ?

Ô N75 — bien que tu n’étais pas toujours soigné
sache que je n’ai pas fait exprès

de te nettoyer négligemment
entre mes chemises et mes sous-vêtements

Certes, tu me rendais facile à joindre,
Hélas, l’eau de javel t’a rendu moindre.

Avec toi, j’envoyais sans cesse des textos
Est-ce que tu captes toujours là-haut ?

Par ma faute, tu étais condamné à expirer
Tu ne communiques plus qu’avec les anges, finalement séché…

His Last Moments…, by nate_marsh.

$2.50 to wash & dry
How much does it cost to cry?

Oh N75 – you were not always clean
but I hope you know I did not mean
To launder you without a care
Amongst my shirts, pants & underwear

You certainly made me easy to reach
Sadly, you could not survive Tide with Bleach
You let me check my gMail 24/7
How many bars can you get in heaven?

I made a mistake, I left you to die
You’re texting with the angels now, finally dry…

;(

Translated from French by N.Marsh

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Gordion Panorama, by nate_marsh.

I have recently been interested in different ways of viewing panoramas on the web. Flickr doesn’t do so well as you can see with the image above, it is hard to get a sense of the whole scene without having to flip between multiple views.

I’ve tried using some Quicktime stuff and other 3d viewers but I very rarely take 360 panos and normal ones look kinda dumpy.

So, I was pretty interested to use this tool – a little plugin called Zoomify that comes with Photoshop CS3. Here’s an example of the above photo in this browser.

It does all the image slicing & HTML work for you which makes it rather speedy and flexible. This particular one is optimized for a large screen and still does not let you zoom all the way out but I think it is a pretty good compromise!