MUSICA DI REGIME: CLUBBING IN VLADIVOSTOK

A decade that should have changed the world, but that actually didn't change anything.

Often looking at the past, these years didn't produce much new... except its brand new wars, fears and crisis. And also some good music, I gotta add!

In this post you'll find my personal ranking of the years 00's, in rigorous descending order.

I've tried to fit the best, for sure I'm leaving something outside.

• 15) Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder..., 2004
  
  
• 14) The Killers - Hot Fuss, 2004
  
  
• 13) PGR - D'anime e d'Animali, 2004
  
  
• 12) Justice - Cross (†), 2007
  
  
• 11) Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement, 2008
  
  
• 10) Vitalic - Ok Cowboy, 2005
  
  
• 9) Pendulum - Hold your colour, 2005
  
  
• 8) Postal Service - Give Up, 2003
  
  
• 7) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf, 2002
  
  
• 6) The Fratellis - Costello Music, 2006
  
  
• 5) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand, 2004
  
  
• 4) Kasabian - West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 2009
  
  
• 3) Libertines - Up the Bracket, 2002
  
  
• 2) Strokes - Is this It, 2001
  
  
• 1) Arctic Monekys - Whatever People Say That I Am, That's What I Am Not, 2006
  

And I've shot this, (the panorama is made by 8 different pictures and the aid of Hugin, an Image Processing FREE software). I've tried a lot, but I'll never get rid of these annoying reflexes artifacts on the window...

That's the view from (roughly) 135mt!

It's been a long time since my last post here, apologies.

Basically these months are the most intense of my life, I'm finishing my Master in London, I've graduated in Rome, and after 6 months of lectures,exams and dissertation, I'm finally coming (slowly) back tot he real life.

So, just wanted to introduce you to what has been taking away my social life lately...DIGITAL IMAGES.

Yes, I'm studying an MSc in Computer Science about Computer Vision & Virtual Environments, and for the last year I've been dealing with any possible kind of pixel's problem you could imagine ( and not just that)!

It's great, I mean I love it... always been into photography (now even more with my Canon 450D), but being able to make it my (hopefully) future career has been clearly the best choice of my life.

So few projects I'm dealing with lately:

1) Image classification through Support Vector Ma

chines: this was actually the Rome's final project and dissertation topic.

I won't annoy you with ll the details, but imagine this topic final goal is the one to give computer the view. It worked for me, my Mac is able now to distinguish between Leopards, Camels, Cars, Ferries and other 101 classes. it was amazing! Here the link to my page, where you'll find more details and the final dissertation if you are interested.

2) Deghosting in dynamic HDR: this is actually the final project for London's master and also its dissertation topic.

HDR images are the future of digital images: they contains a bigger and better range of real colors, resulting in a much more powerful image description and representation. In two words, they are gorgeous!

Actually it is a bit complicated to explain here in 2 lines why they are so great, so have a look at one of them to understand it:

Unfortunately, there are no commercial cameras (actually there are few expensive ones) that can take directly HDR shots, as they requires a set of different exposures of the same STILL scene to be post processed and fused. And there's where my project comes.

As said, you need a set of the exact same image at different exposures (amount of lights in the scene) to avoid ghosts in HDR and capture this wider range of colors. If you don't, that's what you'll get. So my project wants to reduce this effect of ghosting, eventually erasing it completely when capturing dynamic scene.

And then we could have HDR football pictures, or concert scenes. Amazing!

Someone already tried, this is what they got.

So that was it.

Apologies for this little excursus, really soon the normal national propaganda broadcasting will be reinstate.

Ah, a book suggestion too:

"Stalingrad - Antony Beevor"

And after that, you'll know every single little detail of that glorious battle.