Have you ever visited the Flickr website? The great photographs site? Then you may know or not know that at their home page they showcase the most beautiful pictures, and they have added an amazing, almost hypnotic effect to them. I could not figure out what it was, looked at the page code, asked my website developer, still had no clue. The only thing I knew was I WANT THAT TOO!

While fooling around with one of the Mac apps on my macbook (front row), I saw that the automatically generated slide show of the pictures on my hard drive had the same effect. Ahah. So by digging into the slide show creation techniques, I found out that this “making still picture move”, is called the “Ken Burns” effect and that everybody worth their salt (how about great culinary expressions, right?) knows about it. I didn’t, but now I do. So I will be fooling around with it and create some animated food pics. I guess I should not make the comparison to Food Porn again…

For you also link to one of the resources describing this wonderful technique.

Making Custom Ken Burns Effects in iMovie 09 « iMovie.

Things are not always what they seem…

Originally uploaded by Jayne Harrison

Here a too funny Flickr pic. This is another great Curious Food Lover´s perspective on reality and some centuries ago the ultimate way to present food at royal banquets; playing “dress-up” with food.

Interesting travel website, could not really figure out the angle: apparently companies can promote the tours they offer (including several kinds of culinary tours), you can make “guides” – lists with recommended activities and you can browse through information about countries. Mainly looks like an original display window for what companies have to offer.

A Taste of Northern Italy – tour by ColletteVacations – Ruba.com.

Funny coincidence: I had never thought one moment about the phenomenon “giant vegetable shows” until a few moments ago. I am doing a bit of work, with the tv turned on in as “living wallpaper”. Right now there I am sort of watching one of my favourite cartoons: Wallace & Grommit. The current movie is called ” Wallace and Grommit is n the curse of the were-rabbit”. It inspired me to have to do a quick search for picture from the movie. Those I did not find, I did find real life giant vegetable shows though!

Autumn Show.

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