Canopus Thermonuclear Test Photos
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007There is something strangely beautiful in this and utterly saddening photo set of the Canopus thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.
There is something strangely beautiful in this and utterly saddening photo set of the Canopus thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.
Images are a big part of my life. There’s work for sure. At home I don’t craft as much, but I take a fair number of photos. As a result there are two major things one does with photos, view them and modify them.
Let’s start with the latter first. Recently Gus Mueller of Flying Meat1 released a new image editing app, Acorn. Acorn is fast, lightweight, and uncluttered. Sure, there will probably be times when the big grand-daddy of image editing will be needed, but as it stands I’m going to stick with Acorn whenever I can because it does most everything I want. I need to learn how to write plug-ins for Acorn and then I think it will be what I use almost exclusively.
As for the former, viewing images, OS X comes with a nice built-in tool in Preview. Possibly Quick Look in Leopard will be better, but I’m not there yet so I can’t say. For now I prefer all of my images to be previewed and opened with Xee. Xee is fast, lightweight, free, and supports more image formats than you can shake a stick at.2
While the icon for Xee is inspired a designer named Adam Betts has developed a replacement icon set for Xee that is quite beautiful. I’ve switched my home install of Xee over to it and I’ll hit my work install next week.
Footnotes:A spider nestled in a leaf house. Taken in a garden in Marin.

Joe sits by the fire while Polly watches from the couch (she’s in the
reflection, but on some monitors it might be too dark to see clearly. try
this image if so).
The LucasFilm holiday party last night was fun. Enjoy them all.




Ryan’s Second Birthday Party

Yeah, so I finally got off my butt and worked out how I wanted to put
galleries of pictures up. I had an older method, but it was more complicated.
The newer method is better all around. So for now you can enjoy the first two
of many that I have to do.




Even the cherries…