Archive for the ‘Eclectic’ Category

Jun

2011

Beach Cruiser

I Wish it was Summer Every Day

I drive a 2002 Buick Le Sabre, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate a sweet ride.

I took this over the weekend at Silver Beach in St. Joseph, Michigan.

The tourists (a lot of them from…Illinois) have been invading St. Joseph and the onslaught is growing.

They (these….tourists) do such absurd things such as swim at our beaches, rent our summer homes, and bring money into our community. It’s no wonder we locals don’t like them.

Anyways, there is a carousel down by the beach in St. Joseph, and this car was parked outside, probably advertising some sort of event or product, I never really checked. I think it’s pretty cool; HDR really picks up a lot of the nice subtleties in automobiles.

Tags: beach, beach cruiser, free hdri, HDR, hdri, hot rod, summer, summer hot rod, surf board
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Mar

2011

Shades of Cognition

I have a good friend who works on developing artificial intelligence, specifically language acquisition. As a result, I had the chance to photograph the only iCub outside of Europe.1 The iCub is an open source robot platform, roughly to the scale of a 3.5 year old child. It’s production is a result of the embodied cognition hypothesis. It was a great opportunity to study the machine for weaknesses before it inevitably becomes self-aware and declares war on humanity.