High Speed Photography

Here are some of the works of Harold Edgerton for his pioneering work in high speed photography, multi flash and microsecond imagery. Some of his works and of others are as below.

Milk-Drop Coronet


This gives an indication on how fast the film moves.

Bullet cutting through King of Diamonds.


Bullet cutting through Queen of Hearts-Ouch.


Bullet piercing through a banana


Bullet piercing through an apple


Water from faucet


Swirls around spinning fan blades


A few more images are available here, here and here. This one with liquid sculptures here is also very impressive.

Acknowledgment
The images are linked from the following websites
1. http://www.middlebury.edu/
2. http://www.cottonexpressions.com/
3. http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/
4. http://web.mit.edu/museum/
5. http://mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/edgerton/www/

Ronaldinho's Sister

Apparently Ronaldinho's Sister performing soccer tricks. Interesting clip. The background music sounds similar to Fur Elise with beats. Sound track from - I know I can.

Random Numbers

A cartoon on random numbers here.

Alizee

Alizee singing la is la bonita

First of April

I haven't played any big pranks (April fool) on anyone for many years. This time it was different. My unsuspecting victim was my own uncle who works as an accountant in Dubai, has come home to India on vacation. He has an 18 year old daughter and a 12 year old son.

I haven't talked to him for some time and I was sure he wouldn't recognize my voice. I ring him up from my mobile phone.

Me: Hello?
Uncle: Hello.

Me: I want to talk to _daughters_name_
Uncle: Who are you?

Me: I am her boy friend.
Uncle: What!?

Me: Boy friend.
Uncle(visibly angry): I am her father.

Me: Nice to talk to you, can I speak to your daughter?
Uncle: Who are you?

Me: I am _fictitious_name_
Uncle: Where from?

Me: I am from _some_other_place_

Uncle: Where exactly?
Me: Take a left turn from the central junction

Uncle: There are many junctions, which one?
Uncle: What do you do?

Me: Why do you care, I need to speak to your daughter.
Uncle: This is not her house, this is _someone_elses_house

Me: Whose house?
Uncle: This is some_other_girls_house

Me: Can I talk to her?
Uncle: I have 5 daughters and I know how to deal with you.

Me: 5 daughters! What are their names?
Uncle(rude sounding): I have also come after your age, I know what the 'disease' is with you boys.I am a psychologist.

Me: Really? What medicine do you have?
Uncle: I have a caller ID installed. I will find you and get you.

Me: Try your best, we will see.
Uncle: Okay, I am done talking with you.

Me: Wait!
Uncle (pauses):

Me: I want to talk to your daughter

Uncle(bangs the phone) and terminates the call.

I call him up exactly two minutes later. He looks the number on his caller id.

Uncle: You again? What do you want.
Me: Uncle, this is Sarad.

Uncle: What, which Sarad.
Me: Your brother's son.

Uncle: It was you, you stupid ^&@#$#! (I deserved that).
Uncle: You scared the hell out of me. I had summon'ed my daughter and was questioning her. She was telling that if it was her boy friend, he would have called her on her mobile phone. Why call on the common phone?

We exchanged some pleasantries and hung up.