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On Friday I attended the Like Minds conference in Exeter, on the subject of social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc.

The overall theme was return on investment for businesses looking at social media, but some of it wasn't that finely focused. Anyway, some great speakers, and here's a few photos and panoramas.

Ian

P.S. Twitter hashtag for the conference, and there is talk of a second one in February.

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Ian

Each year a group of like-minded panoramic photography enthusiasts get together for talks, workshops and socialising at the annual PanoTools Meeting. With the help of Karol Kwiatek and the University of Plymouth, I proposed Plymouth in the UK for 2010 and it was the winning venue in the poll to decide where next year's meeting should be held.

As a result, I'm now the main organiser for the next meeting, which will take place in August 2010, from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th, with excursions on the Thursday and possibly on the Friday as well.

If you're interested in hearing more about the meeting, please join the mailing list.

Ian

I'll be giving a talk at the next Designed in Devon event at the Exeter Phoenix later this month, on the subject of timelapse panoramas and the use of robots as mark-making devices.

The timelapse section will mostly talk about the 360/24 Haytor project, while the robot is a LEGO Mindstorms NXT toy which I've used a few times to explore generative art.

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The event takes place in the Black Box, Exeter Phoenix, from 7:30pm to around 9:30pm.

Ian

A few more Haytor-related bits are now up, collected into a 'presentations test' album.

So far this includes a video version plus most of the images averaged into a single exposure. The final piece will place different versions of the panorama next to each other, approx. six-fold around the circumference of the projection space, but these are tests for more 'normal' presentation of the images.

Ian

If you were at the PanoTools Meeting in Romania in August, you will have seen my talk about a recent project - a 24 hour timelapse sequence shot on Haytor Rocks, Dartmoor. The project was inspired by a public cylindrical projection space that the University of Plymouth are organising in 2010, and will take the form of a narrative with the images being layered up in different positions over a period of about five minutes.

Shooting took place on the Summer Solstice 2009 and as you can imagine it involved a few complications - in fact, it was the third attempt - the first (during the full moon) halted due to camera damage and the second was a washout.

More to come on the failed attempts later, but for now, here are the images and text from the final run.

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Ian