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karafuto, to Iceland
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Photos from a road trip we took last October.
That day Iceland was very misty and mysterious.

#iceland #photography #blackandwhite #landscape

Dark grey mountains with fog in-between them. Fog covers tops of the mountains, you can barely see their edges
Fluffy fog covering the mountain

karafuto, to Iceland
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A couple of weeks ago I finished a beast of a project.

The interactive installation (titled InStability) is an artistic endeavor to demonstrate how seismic stations in Iceland detect earthquakes.

Visitors are invited to touch the map, triggering "earthquakes", and observe how LEDs, representing seismic and GPS stations, light up as the seismic waves propagate across Reykjanes peninsula.

#iceland #seismology #maps #art #mastoart #electronics #installation #dataviz #earthquake #gps #design

The same map is displayed. More white topographic outlines are visible, along with some red lines and shapes representing roads and other infrastructure. Some LEDs are also lit.
Same map, different perspective (from the top). A man's hand gently touches the map, causing the LEDs to light up. There are about a dozen of them on the map, some of which are under the man's hand. Bright light shines through his fingers.
Close up of the map and LEDs. You can see the texture of the fabric and the details of the design. Each LED (attached to the map) has a printed text under or above it. The texts we can see on the photo: BLAL, HS02, THNA, THOB, MELH. These are names of GPS stations that are used to measure earthquakes in Iceland.

karafuto,
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The map itself and a close up of the area around Grindavik

Close up of the same map. Can see Grindavik, mountains and volcanoes around it, as well as names of stations

karafuto,
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For the soundscape I used a modified recording from Earthtunes. The audio is made from actual seismic data, recorded in Grindavik last year on the 10th of November (when the town was evacuated). Here's a video so you can hear and see the installation in action:

video of the installation. people walking around, touching the fabric, LEDs light up under their fingers

karafuto,
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For the soundscape I used a modified recording from Earthtunes. The audio is made from actual seismic data, recorded in Grindavik last year on the 10th of November (when the town was evacuated). Here's a video so you can hear and see the installation in action:

A video with people walking around the installation and interacting with it, gently touching the map and causing LEDs to light up

karafuto, to Iceland
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#Iceland is doing her pretty thing again

Another icelandic landscape. Light blue sky with some clouds, and snowy hills (snow is not very deep, you can see rocks here and there). The bottom part of the hill barely has any snow, and instead of bright white they are colored in light brownish orange - thanks to old dry grass. Couple of small houses are at the base of the hill
#Blessed. The sun is positioned right behind a mountain, with gentle rays of sunshine protruding along the edges

karafuto, to GraphicDesign
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What a bargain

karafuto, to affinity
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#canva #affinity #graphicdesign #capitalism

karafuto, to random
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There are a lot of stories that could be told about Galina Balashova, the first and only architect of the Soviet space program:
how she designed the interiors of Soviet spacecrafts on weekends after working her main job;
how her architectural decisions influenced the design of the ISS;
how she was stripped of her rights and monetary rewards for the Soyuz-Appolo emblem that she designed…

But for me, the most stunning fact about her work is the one seemingly most insignificant:

karafuto,
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To make the habitation sections of Soyuz spacecrafts extra homely, she attached her watercolor paintings to the walls.

The landscapes of forests, rivers and gardens burned to ashes with every habitation module as it deorbited, turning into unintentional performative art. These little pieces of the artist’s soul were so warm and so humane, burning brightly in stark contrast with cold war politics that were as freezing as outer space, where those pictures were admired for the last time.

karafuto, to photography
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Finished editing photos from #37c3

Let's begin with the ✨MOOD✨

Lots of blinkenlights, thousands of them

#photography #ccc

Semi-dark room with pinkish lights brightening up a desk with some...stuff on it. Unclear what the stuff is, some PCs maybe, and repurposed club mate boxes. What is clear on the picture is the spaceship-shaped neon-style lamp
octahedron frame, maybe 70cm wide. colorful LED strip attached to the entire frame and it's very shiny
disco ball and a bunch of green and blue lines going in all directions from a central point next to the ball

karafuto,
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Some random stuff from Assemblies/Hall H

A submarine and some magnificent burgundy sails

and works by Franziska Schneider ("The Digital Infinity Machine" and "But does it run Linux?")

#37c3 #photography #ccc

a row of connected microcontrollers
microcontrollers from another side. work by Franziska Schneider https://franziskaschneider.jimdofree.com/portfolio/the-digital-infinity-machine/
weird (and not very large) structure made of wires and metal. kind of resembles a compact rube goldberg machine. Link with a description of what it does https://franziskaschneider.jimdofree.com/portfolio/but-does-it-run-linux/

karafuto,
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very cyberpunky vibes around @cbase assembly

#37c3 #ccc #photography

it seems like some load-bearing metal structure, but also it's very cyberpunky and has cables, weird techy elements and blue lights on it
lots, lots of green shiny LEDs on the background (basically forming a screen). Empty bottles on the barrel in front of it. Bottles look green because of the intense light shining from the LEDs
the same metal structure, but with even more shiny techy stuff on it (photo of a middle part of it).

karafuto,
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loved the zen marble installation -- does anybody know the author? It was somewhere around the Cold North cluster at #37c3

#ccc #photography #fedihelp

another photo of a ball in the sand, sand box is filled with abstract geometric patterns that the ball left from rolling around
The same installation with the ball in the center of the photo

karafuto,
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people, catfolk and furries at #37c3 were naturally (and very understandably) nervous when they saw me pointing a chonky camera in their general direction.

Unfortunately, I couldn't explain and reassure everyone that I'm aware of all privacy concerns and, at events like these, I do not take pictures with humans in them, unless somebody asks me personally.

But, here are some more photos from the conference. 4 days were definitely not enough to explore and absorb all. of. this.

#photography

closeup of a magnifying glass in the hardware hacking area
very dark room, spots of lights here and there. in the center of the photo is a cardboard cutout of a cartoon mouse
"infinite mirror", an optical effect that one can create with a strip of LED and some glass. and there's also a cute cat lamp on top of it!

karafuto,
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Beautiful and poetic (and shiny, I love shiny!) installation by @faab_e

https://fabianschwarze.de/strombluete/

#ccc #37c3 #photography

closeup of one of the flowers
closeup on the open petals with a shiny center
another photo with the flowers

rysiek, (edited ) to Iceland
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We have an eruption! I repeat, we have an eruption! 🌋
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcP4kVVOnk

Scroll the live feed back to around 22:16UTC to catch the first moment of it.

Confirmed by the local media:
https://www.visir.is/g/20232505181d/eld-gos-hafid

The eruption of a new volcano near Grindavík, #Iceland has finally started.

Just to make this very clear: everyone, and most house pets, had been evacuated from Grindavík weeks ago. It is not clear how close to the actual town this is, but at least rest assured nobody is in danger.

karafuto,
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@rysiek
nice lava lamp you've got there :blobcatpeek2:

karafuto, to Neuroscience
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This year I finished one of the most fascinating projects I ever worked on.

Together with a team of researchers from the molecular neurodegeneration department at Amsterdam UMC we came up with a visual and interactive way to present their latest paper on tau protein aggregation and its effect on astrocytes.

🧵

karafuto, to random
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@villewilson introduced me to yu-mex and I just couldn't resist

Spotify wrapped with the map of the world. Text: Nikšić, Yugoslavia. People there are far more likely to be fans of Nikola Karović, Milić Ljubomir and Slavko Perović

karafuto, to Astro
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Our Christmas tree this year

#Astrodon #astronomy #christmas

ronanmcd, to random
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I'm in Spain and oh my god Russian Salad is repulsive. Cold mashed potato and carrot topped with mayonnaise and a cold fish or a prawn. That's not dinner. That's a punishment. Two days in a row that's been dinner. Two days. Two. Days.

karafuto,
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@ronanmcd sounds awful! never heard of a russian salad with fish and especially with prawns, might be some weird Spanish version of it. At the very least, I hope you're enjoying some sun and warmth out there

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I cannot get good results out of #StableDiffusion.

“A fox crossing a residential street. The fox has a human face. There are autumn leaves on the ground, terraced houses in the the background, and a slight mist.”

It's just ignoring most of my prompt (as well as really struggling with what foxes look like). I've tried many iterations and variations, they're all like this.

A street in a autumnal park. There isn’t even a fox in this one, and no houses.
A three legged fox with no torso standing on a road in an autumnal park. It hasn’t got a human face and there are no houses in the background.
Some sort of shrunken fox-adjacent thing on a road in an autumnal park. No human face, no houses in the background.

karafuto,
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@john ok that's actually a fun challenge

A person with a fox head walking his pet fox
this needs a trigger warning. a very creepy creature, semi fox semi human, with blue eyes and fox ears

karafuto, to random
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Just finished working on a new cover for a second season of @SolarpunkPrompts

🌞 Shout out to @alxd and @tomasino for creating a wonderful, inspiring and hopeful podcast 🌞

karafuto, to Iceland
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Daytripping in #Iceland

Reykjavik - Hveragerði - Selfoss - Eyrarbakki - Þorlákshöfn

view from a front seat in a car. on the road in front of it there are a few other cars driving the same and in the opposite directions. road divides the image in two parts - the bottom part has the cold asphalt road, the top one - gorgeous mountains. they look very warm, colored in soft brown hues, and kissed by the late autumn sun
Icelandic landscape. similar to the first photo - just a gigantic lava field with moss and lichen covering all available surfaces. a volcano far in the background. photo taken from a car driving at a high speed, so the bottom part of it is a bit blurred.

karafuto, to random
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How does this street light manage to be simultaneously from 1860 and 1960?

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