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May 09
Bangkeros of Pagsanjan
Faux HDR photos of the Bangkeros (boatmen) of Pagsanjan. They paddle and bodily lift the bancas (canoe) upstream to the Pagsanjan falls.
Trivia: Pagsanjan falls isn’t actually in Pagsanjan. It’s in Cavinti, Laguna. The locals call it Magdapio falls.
A quick search about these folks yielded some sort of pageant: Ginoong Bangkero. Yup, complete with Ginoong Internet Choice.
7
Feb 09
Daily Commute
I was thinking of getting a GPS receiver so I can track where I am going and automatically put geotags in the photos I tag. This made me wonder what my tracklog would look like for the past few days. So, I pulled up evernote and drew:
Right. To and from the office. I should have realized earlier.
Half of the daily trip is on the subway, so it wouldn’t really work. I plotted my route on Google maps instead:
Blue markers are on the subway Hibiya line. The red/orange ones (WHAT COLOR IS IT?) are the Tokyo Toyoko Stations. The green one is the last stop, Shin-yokohama on the JR Yokohama line.
(Notice the swimming icon? That’s the gym I go to.)
36 kilometers. Twice day day. 3 hours. I used to hate it.
But now I think of it as 3 hours of uninterrupted (somewhat) time. I can read, sleep, catch up on feeds, and ponder on the question to 42.
16
Jan 09
Facial Recognition In iPhoto
I posted last month about a media search tool for faces in photos posted on the Internet. I didn’t give it much thought until this morning, while listening to twip, the gang were discussing about the new iPhoto features announced at Macworld.
(Yes yes this is old news, but I don’t follow Apple stories.)
So, iPhoto now has face recognition features. This is not new technology in itself, but they demoed the ability to automatically tag photos with the Facebook profile of your friends ( you have to give the full name and address). Then, Facebook users browsing your profile can tag other people in the photo and these will be automagically synced back to iPhoto.
If this becomes more integrated with social networks and a public search for all photos is made possible, it would be a great tool for organizing personal albums, reminiscing the past and finding hidden gems in your old photos. Imagine finding out you were in the same photo ( in the background) with a close friend, only you met years later. Or finding a
However, it would be harder to pretend to be somewhere else (“I’m sick”, “I’m stuck in traffic”). You HAVE to pray no one took a photo of you and uploaded it to the internets. With almost everyone on the street carrying a camera (or a cellphone), you have to pray hard. Potentially, a camera pointed to you at all times. Street photographers will have to think twice before uploading photos of other people.
On the other hand, it will be easier to identify folks who pretend to be police officers and harass photographers.
As Coal said, ” It’s a pandoras box I tells ya!”.
1
Dec 08
image search
Had a quick breakfast at McDo this morning while waiting for a friend’s bus to arrive (6:45 am). A bite into a hot hash brown feels divine on a cold cold autumn(winter-ish) morning.
This guy will never probably know someone took a photo of him today. I’m probably in several pictures somewhere out in the internets. I wonder how long before we can have a useful media search tool.
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OK OK. I need to study and I’m just procrastinating.