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I’m a proud and very devout Atheist which is why I give it a capital-A. You many not be and I’m totally cool with that as long as you respect my right to be an Atheist, and don’t try to tell me I wrong, because I’m certain I’m right! Anyhow today’s post isn’t to espouse my views on religion, and why an artificial construct used over many millennia to exert power by a minority over a majority and encourage prejudice on the grounds of gender, sexuality, and beliefs, all anchored on an abuse of peoples’ fear of death, difference and the unknown is a dangerous thing.

Instead this post is to recognize the power of Windows and how it is able to pwn anyone anywhere anytime.

Now of course I’m not advocating illicit music downloading mkay … but ChrisGoesRock’s blog features a remarkable diversity of rare and unusual albums often from long deleted and forgotten bands. Peace!

When I explore I taken stack loads of pictures, but also like to take video. The video is taken on my digital camera and so is frankly rather shaky and also relatively low resolution at 640×480. Here’s a remarkable bit of research that looks to combine both to improve the resulting video with remarkable results!  It’s all rather geeky but watch the video to be amazed, and also to grin at the repeated reference to the “spacetime fusion algorithm”. Doc Brown eat your heart out :-).

One of the big reasons I’ve never moved away from using a bridge camera and gone the DSLR path is because I like having a single device I can shoot pictures and video footage on when I’m exploring. DLSRs have historically be far to snooty to do video … until now! I’ve always preferred the colour balance on Nikon’s too since it matches the vivid style that my eyes (and my current Sony) see things in too.

The press like writing about Urban Explorers because we’re a cheap target. Often a local rag will use loaded inflammatory phrases like “breaking in” and “thrill seeker” to write about a site in their readerships’ locale and then ask the site owner to comment. Frequently they’ll steal pictures off our websites and use them in the article, even though the copyright theft they practice is a criminal offence, vs. the purely civil act of trespass I undertake when exploring a site.

Anyhow, the local paper in Croydon likes writing about their own local mecca of exploration … Cane Hill Hospital. This time the article was about videos of it being explored on YouTube, and of course I like making videos and putting them on YouTube. Indeed my directorial genius and clever soundtrack choice means I’m now famous ;-).

Here’s the article on the Croydon Advertiser’s site and here’s a direct link to the video in question.

I’d noticed lots of coverage but this news is truly shocking!