Charles Strebor (Rantz)
Too many ~ists, too many ~isms and nowhere near enough ~liciousnesses.
Occupation: Bit of this, bit of that.
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory
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Cream of the Crop: 01/06/2013
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2013-06-19 21:18:49 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)
Cleaning Up the Sky (Still)
More sky... more clouds...
And it's now time to move the body in the direction of the bus - may your day be full of beauty and your night full of bliss
#Sky #CloudClub #CloudScape #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-19 20:23:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Thursday.
#Antejentacular #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-19 10:14:23 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 28 +1s)
Darker and Not
There's one more image from Sunday evening to be processed - maybe two.
This image, like yesterday's, used the fisheye lens - no curve this time, though - twas on the level.
I'm looking forward to a moonless night down the track away from any ambient light. And maybe a water tank or two for the setting. That would rock, methinks.
#StarShooting #Stars #NightSky #Derek #Photography #DSLR
2013-06-19 09:01:51 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 20 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 19/06/2013
I'm sure that's a bird getting ready to alight on the power pole just as the world flips over but decides, instead, to keep flying and to look for more carrion.
Original images: Cables at East Arm (Darwin) and Sky with aeroplane wing (somewhere over Victoria).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original layered image. I will then complete the image by adding a vintage frame - just to mix the faux-old with the new.
#ControlledExperiments #A... more »
2013-06-18 21:00:32 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)
That Sunrise
This sunrise - or That Sunrsise - is a wee bit like That Branch and That Window - it's one of those things that must be shot. Often: but only in the mornings, of course.
The time has come to move the body in the direction of the bus: here's to hoping for another beautiful dry season day.
#ThatSunrise #Cableicous #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
+Cableicous
2013-06-18 20:07:30 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 25 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Wednesday.
#Antejentacular #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-18 11:27:36 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)
Cleaning up the 23s
More cleaning of the archives now complete.
G'night - may your day be full.
#23s #TwentyThrees #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-18 10:08:20 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 25 +1s)
Bunker at Night (with Stars)
I'm chuffed, thus far, with the images I managed to create from the night out with +Owen Gale and Ms 9 - I'm certainly looking forward to making more images at night. Next time will be on a night without such a bright, bright moon.
#StarShooting #Stars #NightSky #Derek #Photography #DSLR
2013-06-18 08:58:45 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 29 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 18/06/2013
The portal has opened. It's closing again soon - better hop through if you want to join in the adventure. There won't be another opening for some time.
Original images: Painted wall (Larrakeyah, Darwin) and #Cableicous with flags (Brunswick, Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original layered image. I will then complete the image by adding a vintage frame - just to mix the faux-old with the new.
#ControlledExperiments #AMon... more »
2013-06-17 20:58:25 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 35 +1s)
An Orb at a Beach
An Orb. A Beach. A Memory.
It's Tuesday: it must be time to get the body moving toward the bus.
#Orbaliciousness #Orb #Orbs #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-17 20:00:01 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Tuesday.
#Antejentacular #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-17 10:13:35 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 17/06/2013
Last week, +Jacob Dix commented about the lack of (or need for?) an elephant in my #ControlledExperiments - at which time I responded that there was indeed an elephant in my album for this project and it would be a part of the experiment for Monday.
Well - it's Monday - and here's the #ephelant !
Original images: Landscape over the golf course (Larrakeyah, Darwin) and Mali the Elephant Sculpture (Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the... more »
2013-06-17 09:41:27 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)
Southern Cross for Lady Fran of Kingsdale, Sanday, Scotland
Yesterday was the birthday of +Lady Fran W and I didn't know that until today when she posted a birthday treat from a colleague: this one's for you, Fran - may there be many more birthdays and many more treats.
This image was shot last evening at Lee Point, Darwin: it was a five second exposure at ISO 3200 at f/4.5 using a fisheye lens. I've decreased the noise and increased the contrast. The blue to the top right and the golden glow towards the middle right is due to the moon being just out of frame on the right.
Best viewed at full-size, I reckon, to get the full impact of the myriad stars.
#StarShooting #Stars #NightSky #Derek #Photography #DSLR
2013-06-16 20:26:32 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)
Very cool strand of DNA made from humans to recognize the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA!
Watson and Crick Submitted the structure to Nature, published April 2, 1953.
Learned this was an image from 2011...http://www.flickr.com/photos/genentech/5685123662/
+Genentech
2013-06-16 19:59:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Monday.
#Antejentacular #Brisbane #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-16 12:15:55 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
I've just returned home from shooting stars at Lee Point: will upload on the morrow. A bunker from WW II may indeed feature.
2013-06-16 07:16:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home-studio in Melbourne, Australia - on Wurundjeri Land.
2013-06-16 05:47:43 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)
Pondaliciousness
The pond's camera isn't working. No - that's not right. The computer running the pond's camera needs to have a cable replaced. Dollars will need to be saved for that. Until then... until then... there's #autoawesome .
And my usual after lunch nap is way late... heading in that direction now.
#ThePond #Pond #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-16 02:14:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Chutney and +Google+ comments
I'm making another bit of one of my two (2) favourite chutneys: my flat should be smelling divine within an hour or two. There's also a pea and ham soup brewing away in the slow cooker. I might even make a sweet cheesecake, should the time not run out.
As well as cooking, I've also now enable G+ comments on my WordPress blog. Whilst the plugin I'm using now takes the place of the old comment system, I'me keeping the old comments in place should I find a system that works to have both old (WordPress) and new (G+) comments available at the same time. Whilst there is a system that does that now, that requires a newer version of PHP than what my hosting provider has implemented. Some day, perhaps?
In the meantime, I'd appreciate if you'd have a gander at the post and leave a comment (if the mood strikes you, ... more »
2013-06-16 00:19:05 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)
Cleaning up the Sky
I'm awaiting the first rising of the bread such that I can then punch it down and head to the markets - a perfect time for cleaning out the archives.
#CloudClub #Cloudscape #Sky #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-15 23:45:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
+Charles Strebor has just crossed the mid point of his goal before purpling his beard
I have just passed the quarter mark to shaving my head.
If you have any spare change please consider donating it so that no more people have to be told "your brain tumour is inoperable and incurable"
Please share
2013-06-15 23:43:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 16/06/2013
Possibly the least interesting combination of images for this month's project: it's all about the colours. Apparently.
Original images: A This Line sign pointing towards a point (Darwin) and a +23 from a letter box (Brunswick, Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original layered image. I will then complete the image by adding a vintage frame - just to mix the faux-old with the new.
#ControlledExperiments #AMonthofGlitch #Gli... more »
2013-06-15 23:02:03 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)
Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in Space
"Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming!"
- Valentina on takeoff
50 years ago today, also a Sunday, Valentina was in orbit around our shared Earth - becoming the first woman in space. Valentina has been recently involved in a study regarding going to Mars, of which she has to say: "We know the human limits. And for us this remains a dream. Most likely the first flight will be one way. But I am ready."
Congratulations, Valentina, on your first flight: and may your dream of going to Mars become a reality.
As well as the link from Discovery, you can also find more information here:
On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
On Starchild: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/tereshkova.html
On N... more »
2013-06-15 22:16:41 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Jalapeño Cheese Bread with Bacon and Maple-Chipotle-Butter
Who doesn't love cheese and Jalapeños ? This is pure comfort food, simple, easy and the combination of hot Jalapeños combined with smoky bacon and wonderfully gooey cheese topped with a small dash of sweet-smoky cold butter, will blow your mind and tickle your tastebuds.
This is a different take on the bread I made last year, foregoing the mediterranean flavours. Again, this can be easily adapted to your preferences, even as a vegetarian dish by leaving out the bacon. I had a similar butter in a restaurant I was a while ago but they did not tell me exactly what was in their version. So I made my own.
Ingredients:
Bread
500 g white bread flour (type 550)
300 ml / 1.5 cups lukewarm water
1,5 packages of instant dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon sea sal... more »
2013-06-15 21:20:24 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Sunday.
Three images shot through a now open doorway of a building that has been abandoned for about 10 years: the lines and colours remind me of an image by +Jacob Dix though of an entirely different environment.
http://goo.gl/pklKm <<--- Jacob's image
#Antejentacular #Glitch #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-15 09:08:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)
Casuarina Coastal Reserve
WIth all this nature and particularly nature with orbs, I'm in real need of a cable fix... I might have to go cable hunting on the morrow.
#Orbaliciousness #Orb #Orbs #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-15 08:50:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Pulp fiction - M C Pease
This is another author that I've found difficult to find any biographical information about - so this post will just be links to a few of the writings available on Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31680 <<--- Generals Help Themselves
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29354 <<--- This One Problem
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37572 <<--- The Way of Decisions
Of the above, The Way of Decisions is the one I enjoyed the most. I've also noticed that there are dearly priced copies of chapbooks of these available. I'm sure you can find those yourself - no point in advertising (from my perspective) for books freely available on Gutenberg.
The Back Story ->>>
Over the past few years I've been reading hundreds of pulp fiction stories from the early to mid 1900s. T... more »
2013-06-15 08:37:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
This is the event for the Darwin, Australia Google+ 2nd Year Anniversary Photowalk.
Where: Darwin - starting at George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens and ending at Bullocky Point for sunset and then fire spinning after the sun says goodbye.
Please park in the Geranium Street car park: this car park does get locked but as long as you're there at the starting time you'll be able to get in - the car park will be unlocked such that you can exit at the end of the walk.
Please be sure to bring a torch (such that you can see to get back through the gardens after the walk has finished) and your favourite variety of mosquito repellant (bugs - lots of them, everywhere) as well as your cameras and tripods.
Who: You! Photographers of all skills, levels and genres. What if you only have a phone camera? YES! you too!
Why: To celebrate the two ... more »
2013-06-15 01:23:32 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 15/06/2013
It's not that light makes that dark disappear - it's that light is a dark vacuum. See what you get when you read science-fiction in the morning and then have a nap before heading out to do the weekly huntering and gatherering?
Original images: #ThatBranch (Tiwi, Darwin) and #Orbaliciousness with #Cableicous (Glen Iris, Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original layered image. I will then complete the image by adding a vintage frame - jus... more »
2013-06-14 22:53:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Curiosity Rover Report (June 13, 2013): Curiosity's Cameras
Curiosity is at Point Lake on Mars and will snap pictures to send home. Find out more about the rover's 17 cameras, including why some shoot in color and others others take black-and-white images.
2013-06-14 20:54:51 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Saturday.
#Orbaliciousness #Orb #Orbs #Antejentacular #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-14 10:16:25 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 38 +1s)
Pairs: Implants
#iPhoneography #Roger #Pairs #Photography #MobilePhotography#Mobilography #Creative366Project #Implants #SelfPortrait #Selfy
The right eye now has its implant to go with the one in the left eye from a fortnight back. By the time I left the surgery and was in the roof-top car park I could see amazingly clearly - far more so than after just having the first surgery.
I'm amazed at technologies - what grand things they are.
+Creative 366 Project
2013-06-14 10:03:47 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
What Would You Do?
A social experiment is conducted in a park. Three people try to steal a bike out in the open. First, a white teenager. Then, a black one. Finally, a young blond tries her luck. Does anyone try to stop them?
2013-06-14 09:05:11 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
UPDATE: 11-Year-Old National Anthem Singer Responds To Racist Tweets - and he does it with style, too.
The Public Shaming Tumblr: http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/52763976629/racist-basketball-fans-pissed-a-mexican-american-boy
2013-06-14 08:41:04 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)
decim8d Rantz
Thanks to +Suzanne Beard for this idea: it's me, decim8d.
#decim8 #decim8thyself #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-14 08:36:17 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 14/06/2013
One of the things that I much enjoy about choosing a random set of glitches with decim8 is that one never knows what might show up when the processing is complete: this is one of those times that I'm rather chuffed with not being able to clearly identify the original images. Go decim8!
Original images: #Orbaliciousness with tree at Casuarina Coastal Reserve (Darwin) and I'm a little teapot (Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original la... more »
2013-06-14 08:09:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
People have asked for more videos by me so... try this one on for size ;)
One of the ways toilet paper makes me think about life
Are there other questions people would like answered? Or would anyone like me to share any stories from past adventures etc? I'm open to suggestions.
Once I have a camera person, and a crew of co-rambling adventurers, the production value might go up for my Collaborative Roadtrips.. but for now..
It goes a little something like this.
2013-06-14 08:06:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
From Reddit's homepage. Chilling... I'm reposting this user's comment here because every person who I'm friends with on here should see it.
I live in a country generally assumed to be a dictatorship. One of the Arab spring countries. I have lived through curfews and have seen the outcomes of the sort of surveillance now being revealed in the US.
People here talking about curfews aren't realizing what that actually FEELS like. It isn't about having to go inside, and the practicality of that. It's about creating the feeling that everyone, everything is watching.
A few points:
1) the purpose of this surveillance from the governments point of view is to control enemies of the state. Not terrorists. People who are coalescing around ideas that would destabilize the status quo. These could be religious ideas. These could be groups l... more »
2013-06-14 07:33:02 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Let's Interact
This circle consists of 23 people that have recently circled me that I have circled back - or the other way around.
In this group of 23, there is interest to be found: a few artists and photographers, a heap of nerds and myriad lovers of Science Fiction but, generally, just lots of #GoodPeople.
Investigate what you find here - you might find a few new people for your G+ experience.
This particular circle contains a few people where I thought "but surely they are already in my circles - we regularly interact?" Sorted. ;-)
#letsinteract #circleshare #GoodPeople
2013-06-13 21:03:16 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 28 +1s)
Antejentacular Ponderings
The coffee is ready so I'll ponder this image whilst I consider breakfast: good morning, welcome to my Friday.
#Antejentacular #Roger #Photography #MobilePhotography #Mobilography #MobilographyPAD2013 #罗杰
2013-06-13 20:51:35 (2 comments, 9 reshares, 11 +1s)
Bohemian Rhapsody - ASL Music Video
This rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was produced at Madonna University as a project in a Sign Language Studies course. Students learning American Sign Language worked with students learning film and video production.
2013-06-13 20:18:41 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)
Chlodwig - Autoawesomed
A bit of awesomed Chlodwig - shot whilst visiting +Cathy Samuels at the beginning of May in Brisbane.
#Chlodwig #AutoAwesome #Derek #Photography #DSLR
+Cableicous
A different interpretation: Chlodwig
2013-06-13 10:53:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
I'm chuffed to have been an inspiration, +Paul Pavlinovich - may there be much, much more #Orbaliciousness in your life.
2013-06-13 08:20:53 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)
Controlled Experiments: A Month of Glitch - 13/06/2013
I was chewing over the colourations for today's #glitchaliciousness - I thought, perhaps, a more-faded-than-usual approach might work.
Original images: Gumballs in a gumball machine (Darwin) and Jewell Station (Brunswick, Melbourne).
The Back Story -->>>
I have pseudo-randomly selected 60 images shot with Roger over the past three months and created an album for them. Each day, I will select the first and last of the images in the album (deleting each as they are used) and layer them together. I will then glitch them with a randomly selected set of glitches from decim8 and then layer the glitch with the original layered image. I will then complete the image by adding a vintage frame - just to mix the faux-old with the new.
#ControlledExperiments #AMonthofGlitch #Glitch #dec... more »
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