A Little More Web Kipple
New toy time! Crossing the Ouse aims to be a comprehensive history of crossings of the River Ouse. I’ve only posed one entry so far – Fishergate Loop (1961) – but I have the various bits and pieces needed for several more.
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Penguins. Birmingham Sealife Centre, February 2026
Galileo’s watercolours of the various moon phases from 1609. Note how the terminator between the light and dark sides is not smooth – thus showing that the moon’s surface is also not smooth.
This is very bad. But also kinda fun.
It’s time for another exciting update from the demolition and rebuilding of the former farm at Middlecave Yard. And, if you’ve followed these posts before you’ll have noticed the big change on the site since last time – the both the structural pillars and roof have been added!
And there have been two changes since our last visit; the first – and most obvious – is the installation of the steel structure and roof. More on that later. The second change is a little more subtle – an estate agent’s sign has been installed and you can now view the Middlecave Yard listing online (Wayback Machine Archive).
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‘Cat Crossing’
Malton, January 2026.
A time lapse of Boxing Day 2025’s sunrise over Malton and the Yorkshire Wolds.
This Project Genie stuff is really rather impressive – I’m less interested in the gaming aspects (60 seconds? Pah!), but it’s going to be interesting to watch how it’s adopted for cheap stock shots and special effects.
The thing is, though, there are a couple of articles kicking around and no-one seems to have done the next logical thing – create 60 seconds of footage, grab the last frame, and then try and create more footage based on that last frame. It’s likely to degrade across generations, but how it degrades will be interesting in itself.
Having managed to get some of my snowy drone shots of Malton onto the Gazette and Herald’s website it’s now time to see them in hard copy!
I’ve managed to make both the front page…
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