Picture Kaleidoscope 1/4/12

Let's feed the eyes, shall we?

Our second falcon/hawk encounter. We were backing up out of the driveway. This time, he didn't move, just kept an eye on us, so I was able to click this off. Could he be getting used to us/suburbia in general?

As you can see, the dawns have been quite colorful of late.

Tried some magnification here to give more sky, less black/land.

Now for stuff I've run across.

Jetty Park at Cape Canaveral by Tom Baker.

From NASA - A Brewing Underwater Volcano.

From NASA - First Low Altitude Pictures of the Asteroid Vesta.

This pic was genius! A Chtulu Christmas Tree. Hee!

Liquid Rose Shot With Food Coloring by Anthony Chang. This is quite cool!

At the Behance Network - Tales and Stories by Kinuko Y Craft. Loads of other great art at this page.

Transform Smoke Photographs With A Dash of Color from Petapixel.

From NASA - Ring of Fire.

From NASA - Orange and Blue Hazes from Titan.

At Behance - Dante's Inferno - game trailer art. They've got the trailer there too. Pretty awesome looking.

See you next time! Enjoy!

Virtual Pictures - Star Wars The Old Republic

As happens in a lot of games I've played, if I find out I can take pictures, I become a virtual tourist. Here are some I've taken so far in the new MMO Star Wars The Old Republic. Heh heh heh. (No, I haven't figured out if they have a key to remove the goo while I take a picture. Need to find out...)

Gorgeous sky at the newbie planet

View out the hangar of Coruscant's sky. It has all the traffic like in the movies. Real nice job!

Inside the Senate Building on Coruscant.

Me in the social dress you can buy once you accumulate some social points for grouping. My sidekick is behind me. Hubby is on the left. (Yes, he likes to play girls. Ignore him. :P)

Me again as a Padawan in the Jedi Hall on newbie planet.

Loved this floating, ginormous holocron statue at the Jedi Hall.

Some cool architecture in the Jedi newbie planet.

The Jedi Forge. The hanging lamp was cool.

Coruscant from the hangar again.

You can see the lines of traffic on this one. So cool.

Outside of the senate.

Ah, my Imperial Spy on Hutta. Just had to have all the bling. lol. (Was quite surprised I went for this race with no hair.)

Inside the local Hutt's palace.

Outside of the local Hutt's palace.

Had a hard time getting a good picture of her. Bah!

Inside the senate building in Coruscant.

Ditto.

Bought the social dress again once the game was live and I recreated myself. :P Really liked the look from the beta.

View out my Jedi ship's bridge! Woot! (You get a ship at level 15)

Third planet we got to go to - Taris. They're in a bad way here.

The Republic Fleet.

More Taris.

Giant power plant that almost went kaboom!

Ancient Jedi statue.

It didn't occur to me on the 4 we found before, but here's a pic of the 5th Holocron we found. Finding one is not the same as actually getting to it and clicking! Argh! Located around X1046 Y452 Z210

We did find the way up to get to this 5th one. But like the 2nd one in Coruscant, we couldn't make one of the leaps. WAH! Beginning spot is at X1184 Y263 Z-120 And it is a loooong way around.

New planet we reached last night at the space port. Loved the virtual tree!

May occasionally torture you all with more of these virtual tourist pics. :P

Mind Sieve 12/26/11

Hope you guys had an awesome holiday! A brand New Year is just around the corner.

GI Joe 2: Retaliation Trailer. Booyah!  Looks like they may have fixed Snake Eye's mask. YAY!

This preview was too bizarre not to share - The Dictator.

From EW a new trailer for Rock Of Ages. This looks like it might be a hoot. Nostalgia with a twist? Heh.

Original Offering Found Inside Pyramid of the Sun (Mexico) from the History Blog.

Krampus - The God of Winter Death - blog post from T F Walsh from the Mythical Creature Series. Almost like an Evil Claus! Hope he didn't visit ya'll this past weekend. Heh heh.

From Mashable.com 20,000 Christmas Bulbs Bring Angry Birds to Life! Beyond cute. Now this is paying real homage! lol

This Week @ NASA. Cool 8 minutes NASA news recap video. Nice!

Interesting blog post by Nathan Bransford - How Art Changes With Us. Quite true!

Ooo! A Full Metal Alchemist movie to be released in theaters - The Sacred Star of Milos.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer 2 - BANE!!!! Looks good!

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer. YES!  This is going to ROCK~!

From Mary Jo Gibson - Museum Monday - Wadsworth Antheneum. Cool looking museum! Even has a Colt exhibit! Sucker below looks very steampunkish! Heh heh.

It was like MAD TRAILER WEEK!  Here's one for The Hobbit.  (I know where all my money is going next year - movies! Wheee!)

From Wired - The 20 Best Video games of 2011. Man, I am sooooo behind! Dues Ex was totally the bomb, yo!

Trailer for Prometheus (A field of Eggs??? Alien containers? OOOOO!)

My brother sent me the link for this - Jedi Ninjas. What fun!

Gene Lempp's Designing From Bones - Festival of Humanity. PARTY TIME!

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig comes 25 Ways For Writers To Help Other Writers. Hallelujah Brother! Tell it, Mr. Beard!

I Play Well With (Blog With) Others - Hosting A Guest Blogger by K S Elliot Shark. Wonderful advice and process.

21st Century Publishing Builds On A Healthy Radical Tradition by William Skidelsky. Some really out of the box thinking.

Author Blogging 101: Blog Analytics by Joel Friedlander. Nice post on Google Analytics and why you might want the info.

Tell Me About It - When Telling Is Better Than Showing by Janice Hardy. Great post!!!

Rachelle Gardner gives us the definition for The Intersection of Literary and Commercial.

Anthology Scams: Authors Beware by Carolyn Howard Johnson.

Okay, time's up! See you next time.