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FLASH: Plug it in baby

lazygamer — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:39:57 +0000

Sillyness from 2004 that I just found on an old backup

Life Online Exhibit

lazygamer — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:01:12 +0000

Life Online Exhibit, a set on Flickr.

New to the National Media Museum in Bradford – I was going to take more varied photos but got fixated on the meme wall

www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/Lif…

I quite liked the film

lazygamer — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:57:45 +0000

Samsung Galaxy SII HD video recording samples

lazygamer — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:06:32 +0000

Well, I put my £500 down and got me a Samsung Galaxy SII, my new mobile with more power (on paper) than my last laptop. So what does a 1.2Ghz Dual Core phone with 1Gb of RAM do when coupled with a 8 Megapixel camera that can record video 30fps at 1080p? The answer is not bad at all.

At the end of the day, a phone camera is unlikely to be better than a dedicated camera, but the SII pulls it off rather well. It’s a nice (if a little windy) day in Leeds today, so I took my phone for a walk to Temple Newsam Park.

Here’s the first 1080p sample, with me walking on an uneven grass surface:

Ignoring the audio (which sounds like a mixture of strong winds and audio leaking from my headphones), the video is not bad, the phone doing quite well considering I’m walking, bobbing up and down and so on. There’s a little hint of ‘rolling shutter’, but nothing major.

Video number 2 was taken to the side of Temple Newsam House. For comparison, there’s also a version of this video taken from my iPod Touch (recording at 720p – unfair I know but the final video is at 720p for both)

The final video was taken in the gardens, here I was trying to see how the colours would come out in both videos, but to give the iPod Touch a chance I dropped the recording quality on the Galaxy down to 720p:

One of the problems with AMOLED screens in the past has been their poor visibility in sunlight. Samsung appear to have improved this with their SuperAMOLED screen in the SII (with Auto Brightness switched on it does a good enough job). To improve things further whilst taking photos and the like, there is an ‘Outdoor Visibility’ option, which cranks the brightness up to the max, and ups the contrast of the display (the resultant photos and videos however are unaffected). The image you get on screen is of course, overly saturated and bright, but is highly visible even in direct sunlight.

IMAGE: b3ta archive #9

lazygamer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:04:05 +0000

Llama on the bongos

We love you longcat

b3ta bash at babushka

MARMOSET POWER

marmotmarmotmarmotmarmotmarmot

....woah

Matrix woo

Posho meerkat

MGM

MILK

IMAGE: b3ta archive #8

lazygamer — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:53:49 +0000

I appear to share another namesake…

lazygamer — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:54:50 +0000

As well as sharing “lazygamer” with the popular South African gaming blog lazygamer.net, it now appears we share the name with Xbox Live Indie Game ‘Lazy Gamer’: http://marketplace.xbox.com:80/en-US/Product/Lazy-Gamer/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550801 I’m going to give it a download and post a quick review of it in the next couple days. At 80 Microsoft Points, what’s to lose? (apart … Continue reading »

IMAGE: b3ta archive #7

lazygamer — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:00:49 +0000

In the immortal words of Bender from Futurama: “I’m back, Baby!”. Except I’m back posting my b3ta images. More to come over the next few weeks.

Hornbill Defence - My first b3ta Front Page!

Howard

HP - The Moon Lord (some meme)

Huh? - From Kung Pow

Welcome to Hull

Sweet Nectar

Hummus

Hypno

Iain Duncan Smith

Not real, no shark etc etc

IMAGE: Trip to Gibraltar

lazygamer — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:17:06 +0000

My brother recently moved to Gibraltar with his job, and I went on a jolly to visit him. I stayed over the border in La Línea de la Concepción as Gibraltar is ridiculously expensive for hotels.

Crossing the border involves also walking across the runway. Traffic jams are fun when a flight lands.

In the image below, that’s Africa peeking its head out on the horizon *waves*

The Rock of Gibraltar is famous for its apes, Barbary Macaques

Oh hello Spain, you look small.

Can’t have a photo album without a cat.

L-R (below): The hotel, an ape with my bro’s carrier bag, take-a-break, one of many (many) plaques

I think the parrot was hungry, or fixated with my sweaty face :/

3DS: Get a nerd on your 3DS

lazygamer — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:57:24 +0000

If you’re so inclined, use the Wii Maker app on the 3DS to scan the QR code below, and the dirty beast above (me) will appear on your 3DS. Joys.