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These are all done in Pencil.
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ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, HealingBrush, veo and 257 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Nia
I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic!
- Kristian Salonen
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with Rah
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
want proof
- Jérôme Flipo
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real.
- Joe Breen
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- tomit
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
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Furthest Point From McDonald's | Dagoosh! - http://blog.dagoosh.com/post...
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"the furthest point you can get away from a McDonald's in the contiguous US is in South Dakota, where you can be 107 miles away from the wonderment that is the McGriddle."
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
Mmmmm, McGriddle...
- Brian Chang
This is pathetic. I have three within 5 miles of my house.
- Will Sloan
I think I have 2 within 5 miles. One is within walking distance and the other is the next city over. I'm sure there are others I've managed to ignore, since I don't eat there.
- Admiral Anika
I think McDonald's on Manhattan island are like Starbucks there - you can see the next one from the front entrance of the one you're at.
- Brian Chang
I remember once reading that McD's objective was that no American be more than 10 minutes away from an outlet.
- Piaw Na
just thinking of McD's makes me want to puke... (sorry about the implied image there)
- Harold
Alright. Now do this with Starbucks.
- Louis Gray
Just a sec ... ok ... got sunglass on now ... proceed with Starbucks version ...
- Tom Horn
That is so cool.
- Brian Johns
According to aggdata.com, there's 12,275 McD's, but only 10,995 Starbucks. The clear winner in number of shops is Subway sandwiches, with a whopping 22,944 locations. If you consider all types of businesses instead of just foodservice, FedEx wins with 52,065 locations.
- Otto
How are there that many Subways, yet we just got one within 3 miles of me earlier this year.
- Admiral Anika
That's only in the USA, mind you, although Subway will soon pass McD's at most locations worldwide: http://www.yumsugar.com/5162960
- Otto
My first photo from @chasejarvis' iPhone app: http://bestc.am/7hJ appropriately enough of little Ryan waking us up this morning. Hungry!
metalerik, gfurry, Victor Panlilio and 3 other people liked this
Edvard Munch would be envious.
- Jeff Guin
Hey, a belated congrats!
- Michelle
Great photo... and a belated congrats from me too! That app looks pretty cool by the way.
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
I think the Google Chrome browser logo is a rip off copy of the 1970's "Simon" electronic game. What do you think?
Marcos, Ben Chatelain, Arijit Das and 87 other people liked this
its pretty close.
- Alfredo
You should send this totallylookslike.com
- Mike Nayyar
guitar hero is a heavy rip off of simon says too, pretty inspirational game
- Yunus Tunak
Mike - I might just do that!
- Susan Beebe
The device name is not "Simon Says"...just Simon. "Simon Says" was on of the modes of play on Simon. </ComicBookGuy>
- Josh Haley
Yep.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That's why it looked familiar
- M F
(in germany it was called "senso", and the colours were even more like the chrome logo.)
- esther ♥ ♫
@Josh Haley - Thanks! I just corrected it... much appreciated
- Susan Beebe
i remember that game. god, how i hated it.
- Nathan Rein
in the other news ... http://www.youtube.com/watch... ;)
- A.T.
and little more chrome 80s styled http://www.youtube.com/watch... :)
- A.T.
I bet kids today have never seen the "Simon" electronic toy... makes me feel old!
- Susan Beebe
I saw my name mentioned a few times, things ok over here?
- Simon Wicks
Pft, it's obviously a pokeball
- Daniel Bruce
I loved that game!
- JA Castillo
hahaha!
- Susan Beebe
omg, totally!!
- Sarah Perez
I knew it reminded me of something!
- Mary DeSive
since you put it that way, yeah ;)
- Doug Schumacher
Lots of folks saying the Google Chrome logo "makes them want to play Simon" - LOL
- Susan Beebe
to me it looks like how a non-computer-using artist type would design a trackball -- either that or they are trying to get a HAL vibe without creeping everyone out
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Uh-oh, Google, you've been caught with your hand in the electronics bin!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I got my son a travel version of Simon, so there's at least one kid who's seen it. (He needs hand-eye coordination practice.) This does seem very, very similar.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
I get the Simon apps for my phones. WinMo and iPhone.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I can see where you may have a point there susan :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Not sure why I didn't mention that I still have my old Simon.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
exactly! awesome idea :) congrats!
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
:) @Doğuş lol This is more than same :D
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
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my last shot with the Canon Xti before it's relegated to 2nd Body. Stay proud, you went out with a bang. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Did you get your wish - Are you now sporting a new Canon 5D MKII?
- Clifford Kennedy
iPhone OS running on a Mac Pro - http://www.geekbrief.tv/iphone-...
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Pictured: The largest animal ever to have lived - tragically run down by a passing ship
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"Floating belly up in the Pacific, this is the unbelievable sight of the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth - killed by a passing ship. The body of the giant blue whale was found by researchers from Oregon State University in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California. They came across the carcass while out in their small research vessel, the Pacific Storm, operated by the university's Marine Mammal Institute. Researchers believe the whale may have been hit by a cargo ship in the busy shipping lanes coming out of the city of Los Angeles. Staff at the university have not yet been reached for comment. The picture first appeared on National Geographic's website. Water is churned up around the body of the whale as the research vessel fights to get closer to it, while seagulls perch on its upturned belly. The Pacific Storm is 84 feet, or just over 25 metres long - meaning this whale must be roughly 22 metres long. The image is so astonishing it almost looks unreal. The...
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- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
:(
- Parth Awasthi
I'm clicking, and all I can think is that we could do with finding a better word that "Like". This is tragic.
- Andy Bold
:-( i've always dreamed of seeing a blue whale in person
- Cardeen Martinez
A sad story but a great pair of pics of such wonderful animals
- Kevin J Hatton
:*(
- Yuvi
Since when has accuracy ever stopped them publishing a headline?
- David Wright
from twhirl
Tabloid
- امیر؟
I know that shipping lane well, used to boat out to channel islands to surf and cross that lane on the process - big cargo ships were to be avoided - did see whales and dolphins often
- mike "glemak" dunn
Terrible to hear... *sigh*
- Neurario
Complete tragedy
- Najeeb Mirza
:(
- felix
how awful. it probably happens often, but that's bad news
- Cee Bee
:( What a sad picture
- Amy
I am now depressed. Not the best way to start the day.
- Fleagle
:'(
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
"Like" not being very appropriate here ... :-(
- Peter van Teeseling
Oh so sad ;(
- Sally Church
amazing. (it's size i mean)
- Zee.
sad.
- Scott
RIP :(
- imabonehead
RIP mighty one
- Mo Kargas
Ahab wins.
- Jonathan Torres
you lose
- Cee Bee
Upon dissection, you might want to keep an eye out for an old, white haired Italian guy hanging out with a wooden puppet.
- Jonathan Torres
When will they change "Like" to something else like "Interesting."
- Dane Deasy
Sad - blue whales are so majestic.
- Rick Cogley
Very sad :(
- Joe Dawson
Be careful when pulling it out of the sea. Stretch it's neck bones to much and it may burst.
- Richard A.
Killed by intruders while crossing its own open field (not road) http://is.gd/YRbH
- George Frink
This is really sad.
- Leslie Poston
Something BLUE - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
© D/\\/IIID ℠ ®, Kol Tregaskes, Mary and 92 other people liked this
ممنون
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike
- pepella
Wonderful!
- martha
go blue!
- Thomas Hawk
go blue buy think green :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
درود! توی این شلم شوربای انتخابات و خشونت سیاسی ، این تصاویر آمپول آرامش را به جان من تزریق کرده
- Ebrahim Safari
خواهش میکنم آقا ابراهیم خوش امدی
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
آخی:) گل های ریز:) ممنون
- وارش
خیلی خیلی زیباست مرسی
- afrodit
عجببببببببب قشنگ تنک یووووووووووو
- جزر و مد
چه آرام بخشه :)
- Ramin Tavazo
Blue is color of love :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
اين عكسا بيش از هزارتا لايك مي خاد
- Moghamer
Nice trip dic, great colour and subtle yet vivid.
- Kevin J Hatton
Air France Flight 447 went down because on-board computers received conflicting information from sensors. http://www.informationweek.com/blog...
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This is a nonsense article. The author claims it's been well established that the flight went down due to computer failure when it hasn't been established at all. Without the FDR and only a handful of ACARS messages and a tail fin it's very hard to tell. Additionally at all times an Airbus pilot has the option to go in to direct law where he has full manual control over the AC, cutting the computer out of the loop.
- Gersham Meharg
More likely a symtom than a cause.
- Peter Warnock
Scratch that. THIS one is cooler than the last one. Architectural iPhone snap... http://twitpic.com/659fy
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Today is the 11th anniversary of the launch of TechTV. R.I.P.
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I still miss it. :(
- Eva
I really miss TechTV, It was a great channel!
- Chuck Drake
I miss it too, Leo. TWiT on, dude.
- Steve Smyth
I miss it as well. In specific Screensavers. Never missed it.
- Juan Hernandez
My favs were Call for Help, Screensavers & Fresh Gear...
- Bwana ☠
Good to see Sumi Das on Fine living doing the gadget thing still
- Bwana ☠
I miss old school TechTV. Call For Help and Screensavers were great!
- John Burke
Man, I miss ZDTV/TechTV so much. I learned so much watching the original Call for Help and Screensavers shows.
- Matt Thompson
Wow 11 years? I was 13... time flies
- Shawnee
The only problem with TechTV was that there was your show then about 11 hours of bull shit.
- Logan Hall
I learned so much from Call for Help and the Screensavers. TWiT is the best.
- Nestor
I don't miss the FilterFresh coffee, the Cafe Moda prices, or the unccoperative building security. But that's about it.
- Tom Merritt
I miss the old screen savers!! It was the reason I got the extra channels from comcast.
- Shawn Taylor
Now we have Leo TV. Can there be too much of a good thing? No.
- Daniel Buckley
I had the pleasure of working with some of the talent from the shows during the TechTV Digital Digs tour a few years back. Good Times!
- Mark Gifford
i have a picture with you and Patrick from one of the events. and also a TechTV laptop bag. :)
- John Wang
Daniel if you can't stop watching you could be addicted to the life of leo :P
- FW
today as in May 11 or May 12?
- David Damore
Friends of mine, who I didn't know at the time, and I still talk about watching the Screensavers in early high school, and how it turned us to a life of geek.
- Nick Ciervo
My husband and I still miss it. Please bring it back (or convince CNET to do so. *sniff*
- Helen Sventitsky
from twhirl
TechTV > g4tv
- JT
Screen Savers should be on NBC at 8PM!
- William
Ah yeah, the good ol' days. I still miss the screensavers and x-play (yes, I know it's still on, but it's been f'd over by G4 to the point of being unwatchable) So many great memories of screen savers when it was live... I still laugh at patrick + hammer + IBM glass substrate disk drive = kaboom. :))
- Chris Abbey
Dang, I'm still mourning the loss of "The Site."
- Sue Radd
I still wait for the resurrection!!!
- Scott Graham
I found Tech TV on Dish Network in the Fall of 1998. I loved Tech TV. Then G4 killed it. But Leo and Revision 3 recreated it.
- George Brickner
I miss Tech TV. Best television for its day.
- Ken Barrango
Shawn: Same here. Also got extra channels so I could watch Tech TV.
- Sue Radd
Ahh, good times, good times.
- Gordon Alley
Foxtel had it in Oz for about 8 months before it was canned by G4. Was certainly a staple.
- clearcut
According to that, I must have been 8 when it launched and didn't get it until 2001 I believe. I truly thank you guys for helping me go forward with my tech interest. Thanks Leo and the TechTV'ers! TSS and Call for Help forever! :D
- Chris
dang! i was 6, 11 years ago! that's when it all started for me! becoming and developing into the tech nerd i am today! has it really been that fast?!
- Kevin
Why, in this day of MTV8, Food2, and Military History Channel, can we not have something the even resembles TechTV. I got the "expanded digital" package from Comcast way back in the day just for TechTV. Wasn't Chris Pirillo and you working to get something similar onto the interwebs?
- Antonio Yon
Still Leo, I think the TechTV crowd has truly moved on to many good things though, between TWiT, Revision3, and others.
- Chris
Those were the day I reminisce. Screen Savers was the best.
- William Doom
sad, but i enjoy the content the ex-tech tvers are putting out more than anything they could release on a cable network
- TenderLovePony
R.I.P indeed. It encouraged and helped to shape my geekyness into what it is today. :(
- Crystal Tillman
Dev Null, Dont worry, Tech tv had babies and one which we love is Twit Tv!
- Josef
Well we know the last day of ZDTV when was the First?
- Heath J.
I miss TechTV. It was on channel 64 here and when we got YES network (which I love) TechTV got dropped from the lineup. Then Comcast bought them and killed it...ugh it's good to see the stars from there made their own sites and continue the tech talk online.
- Michael Coogan
I miss it every day... and have the sticker to show my love: http://twitpic.com/50tdo
- grungyparadigm
Wow, that is a long time ago now. I never got to see many of those shows, but what I saw I remember well.
- Micah Wittman
Loved TechTV. Screensavers ruled.
- Jerry Longbine
I miss TechTV. :'(
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Used to watch all the time. RIP indeed.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
::tear::
- Amber, Random Time Lord
and nothing can ever replace it
- Joseph Akbrud
I miss Tech TV so much. I miss the Screen Savers, Call for Help, and other shows that aired on Tech TV.
- Sreyeesh
While I like the old TechTV/ZDNet shows, I like what's replaced it just fine. Long live the TWiT Network!
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
You know, up until recently I'd actually forgotten about it. Thank goodness my Dad had DirectTV back then, I was able to watch it even in Westhope ND, of all places..
- J L Ford
But what would I listen to in the car if Tech TV hadn't died?
- Matt Agnello
TechTV was great, especially The Screen Savers. And the TSS Holiday marathons!!!!
- MuscleNerd
TechTV was all I watched in high school. I was so sad when G4 shredded it to pieces... Well at least now I have TWiT and revision3
- Brian Lamb
i really miss Unscrewed and all the shorter shows though i did watch TSS and C4H all the time as well, hey Leo you should let martin bring back Unscrewed and have the Swisher be his cohost, that'd be EPIC
- Will
TechTV.. It was good " Television "
- johnny
been that long?
- Daniel CerVentus
Going to drop G4tv. I barely watch it. It's just never been the same.
- Eva
I miss Screensavers and Fresh Gear, but I also love Attack of the Show. X-Play is a problem child... the talent is outstanding, but the format has been jacked with so much that it's hard to watch.
- Roger Benningfield
For a brief moment, the television taught us about it's replacement, before awakening to the reality of it's own doom. (The Screensavers was terrific!)
- Chris Cox
ZDNet/TechTv on DirectTV. Was the best, too bad they couldn't fill up 24 hours a day with programming. The Thing about the Screensavers is that it was hugely entertaining in addition to informative. Right now, TwiT is informative but doesn't have the polished feel that broadcast tv or some of the Revision3 shows have. This isn't bad, just different.
- Steve Helder
loved screen saver & call for help, we used to get it in Abu Dhabi. Was so glad when I got an ipod a few years ago that you started TWiT.
- Iain Clydesdale
Join the chorus of those who miss. Leo, from another old guy liberal arts major who worked in radio and became a self-taught techie to another, thanks for blazing the trail.
- Greg Wilson
I discovered TechTV in early 2003 when I was home recovering from some minor surgery. Got hooked on Call for Help, The ScreenSavers and Fresh Gear. I was just "learning" to make my way around the PC and these shows were incredibly helpful. I really miss those programs! Thanks to Leo for carrying on with TWiT.
- Grace Adams
I very much miss TechTV.
- Sean Brady
I was 8 at the time- it's been a while. And we should def put TSS on NBC at 9:00- better ratings than they have right now!
- Jake Bechtold
I certainly do miss a channel with the kind of programming ZDNet/TechTV carried....especially the shows you were involved with Leo. Now TWiT is the place to be!
- Chad Specht
Best. Channel. Ever.
- Chris Luckhardt
Tech TV was like porn for geeks.
- Bryan Warman
Damn you G4!
- Alex Scrivener
It was ahead of its time.
- Bill Hertzing
would be great if the old show were put on-line somewhere best dam tech tv ever!
- Alan Abentrod
I really liked the old TechTV. I watched Screen Savers regularly.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
I still remember the day I learned of the beginning of the end... all I could think was, "Poop!", and, "That Morgan Webb chick will never make it as a show host". Keep the TWiT going, Leo!
- Mike Patterson
I still to this day feel a void at 7PM my time when The Screen Savers used to come on, but I make up for it by tuning into twitlive.tv and everything feels a little better. Besides, TV was so 1999 anyways!
- Mike Lewis
I miss The Screensavers soooooooo much!
- Howard Tyson
I miss TechTv also but With it gone we are getting better content and more of it than ever. Also it is from the best. Like Leo, Patrick, Kevin, And Alex I think It was for the best
- Josh Wagner
Yeh, I miss it too but the projects coming out of that (TWIT) are terrific!!!!!!!!
- MarK
So sad, I also miss Computer Chronicles. Oops, I just aged myself!
- Brad Stolba
miss TechTV. remember coming home to watch it everyday.
- (jeff)isageek
Eventually Leo is going to make Comcast regret what they did to TechTV ... plain and simple
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Are you including the ZDTV time too? I remember watching that on C-Band satellite.
- Chuck Adams
Yeah but G4 is so much better /sarcasm
- Andrew Johnson
I would miss it, but I like TWIT and Revision3 better :).
- Mikey Rollins
Leo Laporte = Cool, Kate Botello = Hot, those were the days!
- Dan H.
I like techtv since the 1st day i got it 1-1-2000 , i miss it , if it was not for techtv (zdtv) i would have never gotten a computer
- shaun owens
We all miss the good shows that we had on TechTV
- Milford C. Hutsell III
you interviewed my daughter Kristen about a driver training software product. This guy named Ed kept warning her to check her mirrors. So now she always checks her mirrors. Ed meant well.
- bill
I still have Silicon Spin mug. Treasured.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Le *sigh*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Never understood why G4 fired everyone at TSS, changed the name and revamped the whole show. Why not just keep TSS and start a new show?
- dthree
you all were the best.
- Nathan Brown
I so miss TSS and CFH. I also miss Silicon Spin (but Cranky Geeks makes up for it), Fresh Gear (Oh, that Jim Louderback was sooo easy on the eyes!) but seriously, I think I really miss CFH but thank G-d for TWiT.
- Anita Pesola
Whatever happened to Stewart Chiefet?
- Kenneth F Jones
I miss TechTV also Leo!
- Luke
Techtv was what got me into computers, it will always be remembered and missed.
- Hardeep
I miss Paul Block a fantastic producer for the show I knew, introduced me to everyone b4 they were "net famous".
- adolfo foronda
what great times those were...
- Scott A. Swiecki
I still miss coming home, turning on The Screen Savers and finding out the latest on Tech. Watch Fresh Gear and Call For Help... sigh... Thank God for TWiT.tv Hey leo, when will you have Cat Schwartz on TWiT?
- Arnold
g4 sucks. oh techtv i want u back.
- cliper53
My my how time flies
- John Blake
Behind the Scenes: 100 Days of Obama - http://blog.flickr.net/en...
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Angus Burton, Simon Hamer, Lasse Johnsen and 11 other people liked this
Rockin' the L-series EF lens...someone has $$$! Oh it's not his camera....
- John Graham
Rare photos of SF's 1906 Earthquake - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
Beau Liening, Bluesun 2600, Mrsth and 27 other people liked this
"Rare photos of S.F.'s 1906 disaster Crowds at Alamo Square watched as huge fires destroyed downtown San Francisco on April 18. The row of Victorians on the left are the famous "Painted Ladies" that grace Alamo Square to this day. (John Henry Mentz / SFMTA)"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Cool pics. Tomorrow at 5:10am is the anniversary of the quake. Are there any events going on?
- Jeremy Brooks
I am driving across the San Andreas today twice. Hope it stays quiet. :-)
- Robert Scoble
San Andreas is all talk and no action lately. :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
Scenes from the zoo - The Big Picture - Boston.com - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
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Dobromir Hadzhiev, nate beaty, Ismael Bejarano and 23 other people liked this
According to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), over 600 million visitors pass through the gates of over 1,300 zoological parks, reserves and aquariums worldwide every year. Springtime brings many new animals to these parks as well, as newborns. Collected here are some photographs from zoos and aquariums around the world from the past couple of months. Don't forget that 2009 has been designated as the "year of the gorilla" by the United Nations. (37 photos total)
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
The Francois Langur in the 1st photo may look sweet, but they are pretty ugly once they grow up. http://i.pbase.com/o4...
- Davis Freeberg
When are you getting your monkey?
- Thomas Hawk
Prbly in Dec or Jan if things go as planned. First thing first though, I need someplace to keep a monkey.
- Davis Freeberg
Amazing images .. will get back to Toronto Zoo soon ,, now that the weather is walkable ,, thanks Th
- johnpiercy
Let's Stop Speaking Like Machines and Start Speaking Like People - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Loic Le Meur, Dimitar Vesselinov, fbrunel and 50 other people liked this
"Are you a big fan of hash tags? Or are you wild about boolean searches? Do you find yourself reverting back to "Run DOS Run" instead of just typing and talking like a human being often online? Despite billions of dollars of investment and a plethora of companies trying to develop natural language (especially in search), we still have a long way to go."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
Word!
- Nils Hitze
from twhirl
This is mainly a UI issue I think. You can find almost anything if you use all the filters available (AND,OR,+,-,filter:,""), it's just that they're annoying to type and remember for most. If the app developer put a UI in front of the typical search box and *not* called it 'Advanced Search', it would help guide the user to a more successful search.
- Mohamed J
Internets are 30 years old, WWW is getting older than our school children. We got the world plastered in tags for six years now (thanks to Flickr and Delicious). And Web Marketers along with "Social Media Experts" don't get what "metadata" is. Still. Makes us all sad.
- Urbansheep
http://staynalive.com/article... and http://staynalive.com/article... - hashtags and @'s are hacks for a broken system
- Jesse Stay
Who says the human language is the most expressive one? While I believe that natural language recognition *will* improve I also bet that we'll adapt to "machine languages", too.
- Fabian Neumann
Humans don't generally speak in 140 character bursts, to be fair.
- David Young
And your alternative for indexing groups, movements, thoughts, behaviors in 140 characters would be?
- Gregg Scott
Machines are some of the nicest people I know. Don't be a hater :-)
- Todd Hoff
Hashtags are underrated and over-maligned here. Machines should not be expected with <140 chars to classify a half-baked thought into a meaningful meme that fits into a hierarchical structure. Hashtags may not always be necessary but they can be useful for top-down content organization.
- Ryan Miller
Used judiciously, hashtags can be very useful indeed as I found myself when I got encouraged to live tweet 2 Pharma meetings many of my friends wanted to follow easily but couldn't attend.
- Sally Church
Why not talk the native language? If I'm in France, what should I speak? I do a lot of (non-union) light work for theatres. If I tell the director that a lamp has blown, they fear they lost a piece of equipment that costs several hundreds of dollars. I constantly have to remind myself to use "non-technical" theatre terms in a theatre environment. (lamp==light bulb for most people.) Ever talk to a musician? Won't go into anything else. What you define as language can also be as slang or technical language...
- Todd Zaba
When machines understand human language, they'll decide we're primitive and kill us all. Fact. :P
- Bwana ☠
When people evolve to the point that they can aggregate masses of information and recall it at will, I'll take Jeremiah's request more seriously. Until then, I will continue to follow his primitive tweets.
- jcunwired
ZORIAH - A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLOG: Guest Photographer/Photojournalist: G.M.B. Akash — Child Labor - http://www.zoriah.net/blog...
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Mike Reynolds, Jeremy Hall, Nia and 40 other people liked this
"To abolish child labour you have to make it visible. For the last four years I have been working on child labor in Bangladesh. Child labor has been forbidden in Bangladesh since 1992. In December 2005 I visited a garment factory in Narayanganj, which is the center of the garment industry in Bangladesh. I took a picture of the owner beating a 12-year-old boy because he had been too slow sewing t-shirts. According to the U.N. Children’s Fund report, more than 6.3 million children under 14 are working in Bangladesh. Many of them work under very poor conditions; some of them even risk their life. Factory owners pay them about 400 to 700 taka (10 USD) a month, while an adult worker earns up to 5,000 taka per month. It is widely known, yet for a long time nobody seemed to mind. With my work I want to confront the people with the problem of child labor and motivate the people who begin to think about it — in Bangladesh where children are employed and in the rich countries of the Western world where products "
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
sad.
- Thomas Hawk
Another reason to Buy American
- Robert Hafer
I did some work for the ILO in Geneva a few years ago. Had to sit through so many plenary sessions.
- Richard A.
The power of photographs. Thanks for sharing this!
- Karthick R
This is one that clicking the like link just doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Powerful stuff.
- gfurry
Thanks Thomas.
- Robert Scoble
I don't even know what to say, but I feel compelled to say something. Thanks for sharing this.
- joey
Just like slavery was ended because it was morally unacceptable, it takes raising the standards of what is acceptable ..... Informed consumers can raise these standards, someone is consuming these goods somewhere, bring the pictures Thomas, we will socialize them. If anyone knows of companies that benefit from this disaster, share them here, I will instantly boycott them.
- Tweet Feeds
Makes a person glad to be living in the United States and not the standards many 3rd World countries deal with daily just to eat one meal filled w/ maggots and drink parasite infested water and breathe. So many American's don't even realize how easy we have it even though Unemployment is still so high. Great captures, but so sad in the same name of War. @Joey Slavery really never ended it just ended with the African American race, we are all slaves if you think of it! Just some are worse off then others.
- aerobroken
Many governments do not have the transparency of the US, Europe, etc. finding out the truth is difficult when those governments want it hidden
- Robert Hafer
yeah, this is bad, horrible. I think this photo essay is very important because I think in many cases of social injustice photographs can be far more powerful than words or statistics or even video. I love finding instances where photography can be used as a tool for social justice.
- Thomas Hawk
There is Only One Feed Reader - Google | CloudAve - http://www.cloudave.com/link...
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"Let’s face it, Game Over, nothing stands up to Google Reader. Last time I checked Feed Reader stats on my personal blog, I could observe Bloglines decline, but it still had significant market share, almost equal to up-and-coming Google..."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
BTW, there is a Google Reader group on FF here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/google-...
- Kol Tregaskes
Lil Jon Featuring Stephanie (NSFW) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Dobromir Hadzhiev, Fossil Huntress, sean percival and 13 other people liked this
oh my goodness
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Oldy but a goody
- Mike Nayyar
Is this Lazytown?
- Kevin J Hatton
what the - omg - wtf - totally insane and I think i'm totally offeneded but in shock so am not sure!
- Monique
You have to have kids that watch this to truly appreciate this.
- Matt
@Kevin I can't believe no one has said this yet, but..."THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAA!"
- Mike Nayyar
I love LazyTown... :D
- Johnny Worthington
............ WUT?............. O-KAY!
- Johnny Worthington
wow
- sean percival
NYPD Issues “Photography is Not a Crime” Reminder Order to Cops - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Carlos M. Gomes, Bill Sodeman, Gary Thom and 54 other people liked this
“Faced with complaints from photographers and tourists alike, the NYPD has issued a department order reminding cops that the right to take pictures in the Big Apple is as American as apple pie. “Photography and the videotaping of public places, buildings and structures are common activities within New York City . . . and is rarely unlawful,” the NYPD operations order begins. It acknowledges that the city is a terrorist target, but since it’s a prominent “tourist destination, practically all such photography will have no connection to terrorism or unlawful conduct.”
- Thomas Hawk
eventually....but they also need to pass the order down to the security guys who take care of these old buildings... remember the MOSS situtation in CA ?
- Peter Dawson
They need to get this message across to the over-officious bunch over this side of the pond too.
- Mark H
The security guards will soon get the message when they try to 'call the cops' to back them up on their bullying tactics and get told it is not a crime... or am I just looking through rosey glasses ;)
- Travis Koger
yeah, my own experience has mostly been that the security guards are generally speaking a lot worse than the cops. Hopefully the security guard problem can be addressed in time as well.
- Thomas Hawk
I wish more cities would issue this sort of reminder! Good for NY - hopefully this will eventually trickle down to other cities and security personnel.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Amazing! Great.
- Evan Travers
It's amazing when protest and complaints actually work. Great news!
- Blake Caldwell
I've been accosted in the Washington DC Metro for taking photos. Curiously, I was only asked to leave...never to delete what I had taken.
- Ryan Kaisoglus
We Didn't Start the Flame War - http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
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New Documentary Out on Eddie Adams - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
gfurry and Jérôme Flipo liked this
In February 1968 Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Eddie Adams photographed police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, on a Saigon street. It was arguably the most important photograph taken documenting the Vietnam War. In 1969 Adams earned the Pulitzer Prize for this famous photograph. The trailer above is from a new documentary out on Adam’s life. Keifer Sutherland narrates the new documentary. The documentary is playing in New York City now with releases later this year in other cities.
- Thomas Hawk
wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons
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Gavin, Kol Tregaskes, Jesper Lind and 149 other people liked this
Wow this is amazing
- Chris Saad
This took my breath away - amazing voice
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to.
- CAJ, somewhere else
When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut?
- Alex Scoble
I love these things. Worth watching.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times
- Mark Philpot
this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :)
- Tatty Gibson
OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp>
- Admiral Anika
Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice!
- Rafael
Alan, me too. Out of this world.
- Meryn Stol
Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta...
- Sprague D
That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising.
- Jonathan Coffman
i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift.
- Laura Zickus
Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year
- Jesse Stay
She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them.
- Mark H
That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins.
- Kevin Fox
While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It says "embedding disabled by request."
- Dawn
You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Awesome
- Rodfather
Wow.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do.
- Dawn
Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dawn
Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either
- Jesse Stay
Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent.
- Dawn
"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame.
- Kevin Fox
"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool!
- Louis Gray
I actually felt a lump form in my throat. Good for her.
- cecily
As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic..
- Ozan Kilic
I loved this-she is sublime!
- Susan Dennis
What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong.
- Patrick Ward
Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing.
- Henry Burger
awesome
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Wow!
- Phil Maxwell
WOW! brought a few tears to my eye.
- Jasmin Smith
incredi-wow.
- Micah Wittman
Beautiful.
- Uncle CW™
Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already.
- Nir Ben Yona
Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people.
- Steve Mactaggart
from twhirl
Incredible stuff.
- Russ Jackson
Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent.
- david beckwith
This was a surprise--and lovely, thx
- susan mernit
and I love this song
- Erin @queenofspain
Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though.
- Alex Scoble
Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned.
- Iain Baker
He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though.
- Alex Scoble
Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras.
- Ian May
Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts...
- Jorg Jansen
Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail
- Zach Lytwyn
The best thing about this thread is that there is really only one cynical jaded comment out of all of them.
- cecily
Britains Got Talent FTW!
- Nicholas James
I cried...
- mjc
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
- josh neff, geek at large
I was completely amazed...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it.
- Great Scott!
ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft.
- MikeAmundsen
That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over.
- Jochen Lillich
Don't judge a book by its cover!
- TheHenry
That's absolutely awesome
- C.K. Johnson
'Embedding disabled by request'! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol you can still follow the link to Youtube ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Sometimes a blurry photo captures Milan's joy the best: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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gfurry, Bill Romanos, Ruchira S. Datta and 24 other people liked this
We are at a birthday party and Milan is running around clapping and cheering everyone on. Pure joy.
- Robert Scoble
Translation: the camera in the iPhone sucks.
- Robert Scoble
I find I like photos of kids in action and a little blur is true capture of the moment. It goes by in the blink of an eye!
- Nakeva Corothers
same with my niece :)
- Krikit Media
:-) wow is he big now.
- Roebot
Crappy iPhone pics are such a blessing. They bring so much joy to friends and family every day.
- Christian Burns
in motion and motoring. nice pic robert.
- Rodney Rumford
ambient light is always worth the blur
- Brian Hendrickson
I try not to post all our blurry Sarah and Matthew photos. But they are the norm rather than the exception at this point. :)
- Louis Gray
This is "real time" Milan :) hahaaa!
- Susan Beebe
Nicely put Susan :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
My kids keep me going - it's one of the reasons I love being an entrepreneur. I get to hear the pitter-patter of their feet above me all day long, and can go up any time I want to play.
- Jesse Stay
That is interesting name. What's the origin?
- petar vucetin
Cute!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
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