Thanks to the Russian weather satellite, Elektro-L, we now have the highest resolution single image of the earth to date provide by the Russian Space Research Agency's Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring. NASA has produced beautiful "Blue Marble" images of the earth by stitching together different photographs. The Elektro-L,22,000 miles above the equator, can take a single 121 MB picture of the whole earth every 30 minutes.
Because the Elektro-L is geostationary, in a fixed position Read more [...]Earth from Russian Satellite
Thanks to the Russian weather satellite, Elektro-L, we now have the highest resolution single image of the earth to date provide by the Russian Space Research Agency's Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring. NASA has produced beautiful "Blue Marble" images of the earth by stitching together different photographs. The Elektro-L,22,000 miles above the equator, can take a single 121 MB picture of the whole earth every 30 minutes.
Because the Elektro-L is geostationary, in a fixed position Read more [...]Bucket List: 20 Must See Sights in the USA
America is a big country with many beautiful things to see. Every American has a preference for their favorite locations -- but if you met someone from a foreign country and they asked you what 20 sights are "must see" in the United States, what would be on your list? Below is my list. It also serves nicely as a 'bucket list' of USA destinations to visit in your lifetime. What did I forget? Leave me a comment and let me know.
New York City. See the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Read more [...]Aerial Exploration: LAX to SFO
Flew from LAX to SFO (almost a year ago now). Even though I was on the wrong side of the plane -- always better to be on the side opposite the sun and not staring into it -- the images came out pretty good with a little help from Photoshop.
Channel Islands of California
Google Maps Wikipedia
The Channel Islands are located just off the cost of southern California and consist of eight islands: Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rose, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina and San Read more [...]North American Wind Map
OK, I'm a sucker for visual maps and this one is fantastic. Surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database was used to animate the wind patterns across North America. The still on the right doesn't do justice to the data so you really need to click on the link below to watch the animation. When you get there, check out the gallery to view different days and different wind patterns.
http://hint.fm/wind/index.html
Having grown up in New York state and moved to Boston, we could Read more [...]Aerial Exploration: JFK to LAX
I traveled to Europe for a week but with clouds everywhere and a lot of night flying I had no aerial photos to show for the trip. If I hadn't made the mistake of connecting through New York's JFK, I wouldn't have a blog entry for this trip.
It's never good when you are traveling toward New York City and thanks to horribly overcast conditions end up in Boston to get more fuel. By the time I reached New York, my connection was long gone. Unlike Lufthansa two months earlier, America Airlines Read more [...]Nonsensical Blog Comments
When I started writing this blog, my plan was to build up some content before sharing the link with anyone. I was surprised to see comments start to roll in almost immediately. My 'instant fans' were in fact instant 'spam.' Comment spam is a common occurrence in blogs with spammers attempting to push out as many links to their products/services as possible.
WordPress, the software I chose to power my blog, has some built-in spam protection, but I wasn't taking full advantage of that protection. Read more [...]
Aerial Exploration: Zurich to SFO
Another European trip. Five countries in five days which is a little more exciting in the winter. Not the good exciting. More of a Russian roulette with weather delays serving as the bullets. SFO to Lyon, France to Munich, Germany to Budapest, Hungary to Florence, Italy. My luck ran out on the way to Dusseldorf when I got stuck in Frankfurt due to weather. Got to love Lufthansa though. It was a weather delay, but they put everyone up in hotels, paid for my taxi and gave me a food voucher. U.S.-based Read more [...]Marketing Disney Princesses to Boys
Or "Why Disney was smart to choose the name 'Tangled' instead of 'Rapunzel.'"
I love going to the movies and I couldn't wait until my sons were old enough (somewhere around the age of four) to join me. While this limited my choices to animated movies, my sons and I happily headed off to every major animated release the studios could crank out.
Bolt? Shrek the Third? Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa? Yes, please! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? Wouldn't miss it! Ratatouille? WallE? Up? Pixar Read more [...]
Emotional Seatbelt PSA
I found this public service video on a best of 2010 list. Wow. Powerful and speaks for itself.
There's probably no better way to market something than to really connect with someone's emotions. This is emotional marketing for all the right reasons and done extremely well. It was createdin the UK for the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. More information on the video can be found at www.sussexsaferroads.gov.uk/latest-campaigns/embrace-life.html. Read more [...]
Aerial Exploration: SJC to PHX
I was flying back east for work at the end of November and connected through Pheonix (the old Northwest hub) on USAirways. I hadn't remembered that it was Northwest Airlines that had bought out USAirways. A flight attendant told me that they kept the USAirways name because it already had some recognition in Europe. Anyway, I had so many interesting shots out the window on this trip -- interesting to me at least -- that I had a hard time narrowing down which ones to include.
There is something Read more [...]
