http://www.kerpoof.com/

The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. Kerpoof will allow you to be creative online and share your creations with others, all in a safe environment that is enjoyed by children of all ages, worldwide. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:

• Make artwork (even if you aren’t good at drawing!)
• Make an animated movie (really! it’s easy!)
• Tell a story
• Earn Koins to trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
• Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Check out the What’s New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof.

In addition to being a lot of fun, Kerpoof has many educational uses - if you are a teacher, please visit the educator page.

Kerpoof Studio.

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
For more information on Sir Ken’s work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com

I created this video using just over 3000 still images taken on a Nikon D300 on an automated setting (every 5 mins at day and every 1 min at night). After a quick edit the resulting images were then renamed in to an exact sequence and stitched together using Quicktime pro. You can see the difference between the frame rates in the days and nights by how smoothly the stars move at night.

Will try to post more examples as and when I do more. If you have any question don’t hesitate to let me know!

ITFairhurst

“With modern digital cameras is it relatively easy to get decent startrail-images. Instead of taking one long exposure one can take many shorter exposures and combine them in Photoshop using layers in “lighten”-modus. The big advantage is that the background heaven will stay as dark as on the single exposures. So as you can see taking the images is easy, stacking them (usually about 200 to 300 images) in Photoshop is not too much fun….. ”

Source: http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch

There are higher quality versions available for download:

Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1

Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn

The following information is from http://www.breathingearth.net/

“Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation displaying the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

Please remember that this real time simulation is just that: a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the CO2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high.

More climate change info?

Footprint Network footprint calculator - Figure out your own ecological footprint.

www.350.org - An international campaign building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis.

Fight Climate Change with Diet Change - Find out why the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined.

Where does the data come from?

Birth and death rates: 2008 estimates, from the CIA World Factbook

Population: Data is based on July 2008 estimates from the CIA World Factbook. When Breathing Earth is started, it uses each country’s birth and death rates to calculate how populations have changed since July 2008, and adjusts its figures accordingly. It continues adjusting the various population figures as you watch it, each time a person is born or a person dies.

CO2 emission rates: 2006 figures from the United Nations Statistics Division. These are the most up-to-date figures as of May 2010. Collating CO2 emissions data for every country on Earth, representing the same time period, is undoubtedly a massive and very complex task that relies on the availability of many other sets of data. This probably explains why the most recent CO2 emissions data available is from 2006.

CO2 emission rates from four years earlier: When Breathing Earth was first built, it used 2002 figures, also from the United Nations Statistics Division. When you hover your mouse over a country, Breathing Earth compares the 2002 and 2006 figures and indicates whether that country’s CO2 emissions have increased or decreased in that time, using the red or green arrow that appears near the bottom-left.

There was an unavailability of a portion of the data for a few of the tinier countries (eg. Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Lesotho). In such cases, I made estimates based on their population, economy, and the data of their relevant neighbours. In all such cases, the figures were so low that even had my estimates been wildly inaccurate, the effect on the simulation would have been negligible.

CO2 emissions: per country or per capita?

Some people ask why Breathing Earth focuses on the CO2 emissions per country, rather than per capita. After all, wouldn’t the per capita rates give a better indication of who is being most wasteful? For example, the citizens of Australia, Kuwait and Luxembourg are among the world’s worst polluters, yet their CO2 emissions aren’t very prominent on Breathing Earth because of those countries’ relatively low populations.

The fact of the matter, however, is that what is most important is how many c02 emissions there are from the perspective of Planet Earth. Although some countries are clearly much worse polluters than others, the problem is ultimately a global one that humans of various nationalities have caused, and that humans of various nationalities must work together to solve.

One thing must surely be obvious though: The problem is largely a Western one. It is the Western countries who are leading the way in CO2 emissions, and when non-Western countries have high CO2 emission rates themselves, it’s usually because they are adopting Western habits. Since we, the West, have been a leading cause of the CO2 emissions problem, surely it is we who must step up and be the leaders in the solution.”

I shot this video a fortnight ago with a Panasonic Lumix TZ7. Edited it with iMovie ‘09 and added a song found on Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/) a creative commons free and legal audio download site. The Weedywatch Survey is part of a larger program run by the Botany Bay Watch community group http://www.botanybaywatch.com.au/