Eiffel Network

February 28th, 2012

For IETF 83, being held in Paris in March, the Secretariat held a t-shirt design contest. You can see the design submissions at http://www.ietf.org/meeting/83/t-shirt-design-contest-submissions.html. Just for fun, I decided to submit a drawing of the Eiffel Tower in the style of a network diagram.

The winner was announced yesterday at http://www.ietf.org/meeting/83/t-shirt-design-contest.html. Sadly, my design didn’t win. But the winner is very attractive. In fact I would have voted for it myself, if I hadn’t submitted my own design.

My t-shirt design was submission #5. Right before the contest deadline, another design was submitted that used my “Eiffel network diagram” along with the words from submission #2. The Secretariat was thoughtful enough to ask me for permission first, which I was happy to give. In hindsight, it may have been a poor idea – it probably split the vote… no way of really knowing without the raw numbers. But it’s probably better to not know. C’est la vie.

Contest aside, please feel free to use this graphic. I offer it under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Send me an email if you want a higher-resolution version.

And if anybody ever actually builds a network like this, I’d love to hear about it. I can’t imagine why any sane person would do such a thing, but who knows. ;)

Short Video: Parallel

January 20th, 2012

“Parallel” EOS C300 Test from Raitank on Vimeo.

Beautiful 1sec Video Montage

November 30th, 2011

I just found this beautiful video via http://www.fubiz.net/2011/11/30/the-beauty-of-a-second/. It is a montage of 1 second video clips submitted to a contest being run by Montblanc, “The Beauty of a Second”.

Seconds Of Beauty – 1st round compilation from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

Are you lunch?

November 29th, 2011


Are you lunch?, originally uploaded by bensons.

Photo Used in IETF Journal

November 3rd, 2011

While we’re on the topic of being famous ;) I wanted to mention (brag, I guess) that the IETF Journal, published by the Internet Society, used a photo I took of the IAB Plenary session in Quebec at IETF-81. You can read the article at http://isoc.org/wp/ietfjournal/?p=2597.

My original photo is on Flickr for comparison. It looks like the editors added some “fill light” to the photo before publishing it. This hurt the color and contrast, obviously, but makes it feel brighter. Trust me, it was not a brightly lit room – most of the photos I took didn’t turn out because it was too dark. The only ones that survived were taken with a Canon S95, thanks to its “Hybrid Image Stabilization” feature.