Home Improvement

So, doing a LOT of cleaning lately.

Vids for inspiration!

More Yoga

So.. yoga is kinda awesome.

I'm trying to do it daily. YouTube yoga, that is.

Here's one Shelly and I did together just the other day:

String Theory with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku

This may be the coolest video I've seen EVER. Statements like that easily seem like hyperbole, but in rare cases such as this, they can still be 100% true.

Michio Kaku
"The Universe in a Nutshell"
by The Floating University

Photography!

So, I suppose this blog will be my repository of collected links that fill my [Safari] reading list. I always want to hang on to links, in case I want to go back and read it through more carefully. I cannot say that I've been going back to review these links, but perhaps if I collected them all in one spot, maybe I can get more organized with my workflow of finding and assimilating new information (via the internet).

In this post: Photography!

I am going to just list all photography links I have sitting idle in my Reading List folder.

- The Ultimate Guide to Long Exposure Photography
- A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography
- Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR Announced
- Ask a Scientist: Optical Low Pass Filter
- Sensor-Film: Low Pass Filter - this is that link that has the teardown/visualization of the sensor/filter array
- Low-Pass Filters: Filters - Electronics Textbook
- Sensor-Film: Coatings - filter coatings
- Canon U.S.A. : Image Quality - EOS Advantage: CHECK THIS OUT FURTHER
- Canon EOS 600D Announced - 2/7/11
- Another: Canon EOS 600D Review at time of announcement - 2/7/11
- The Great Camera Shootout 2010
- How to Define Megapixels
- About 14-bit A/D Conversion in DIGIC 4 Cameras (Canon)


I may have to do this in little pieces. All for now.

History of EOS

So the DSLR camera that I own is the Canon EOS Rebel T3i.

Here was a cool ~11 minute video about the history of Canon EOS (produced by Canon).

Yoga in the Morning

Got off shift today, and I was just hurting everywhere. I got into yoga a while back, but it didn't last long. I met a yoga instructor at Black Swan Yoga, and contemplated that for a while. It's really cool, there are multiple locations, multiple schedules, and even online classes that you can do. I never did attend a class or take my curiosity further, but what I did do was YouTube a few yoga vids! I searched along the lines of "beginner yoga," and found great "routines," or whatever they're called. I even purchased a book about yoga (in iBooks): The Science of Yoga by William J. Broad. I am interested in what I perceived as a superficial obsession that society had with yoga, and... although I didn't yet finish the book, it was exactly what I was looking for in demystifying what to me seemed much much deeper than it seemed to me that society held yoga to be. (I recognize that perhaps that's unfair to say, and perhaps I am wrong.)

Anyways, I got off work hurting all over, and I was somehow reminded to try yoga! A simple YouTube search for: "morning beginner yoga" gave me this:

Feels amazing. Yoga feels amazing. And I'm just going to say this: watching yoga videos (on YouTube, in my limited experience) feels weirdly voyeuristic. It's weird sometimes. Well, the format of following along exercise on TV (or computer) feels weird and kind of unnatural. For example, a while back I was into (and purchased) Insanity with Shaun T: DIG DEEP! There was always something very... off-putting... about the experience. I get the benefit, it's why I invested time and money into it. It's just, I can't quite put a finger on exactly what about it... just feels weird. Perhaps, wrong.

Point is: yoga is amazing.