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So, you want to up your status in the gym from average member to bad ass mutha fucka. It’s not easy for the average athlete to achieve Rick Ross swagger unless you: a. Are a rap star b. Are a legit gang banger c. You reign from Compton and train in…
Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us →
Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us →
Canva’s Design School has everything you need to learn design. Check out our daily design articles, interactive tutorials and awesome tips. Source: designschool.canva.com This really is a fine, beginner’s design school. It is free, it affords creative as well as ordinary use, and, as a tool, it is easy to make the emphasis on the … Continue reading Canva Design School Blog →
So recently TRU purchased a UAV or as they are more commonly known as a Drone. I am sharing responsibility of using/flying/piloting it with one other campus employee at this time. For now I have had exclusive access to it and it is amazing.
We picked the DJI Inspire 1 for ease of use and camera quality.
Here is some footage from one of the first test flights: https://barabus.tru.ca/drone/drone_may23.html
I love this machine. It is so great in design and usability. As well, the camera has exceeded my expectations in terms of resolution and stability.
My first flight ended in a disaster and I broke a couple props. Luckily DJI was smart enough to include multiples. Next flight I only lost one prop. I am now skilled/careful enough that I haven’t broken anything else.
So far I have logged 1hr and 49 minutes of flight time at 15 minutes or less of each session due to battery life. 14,808 meters of flight distance, and a total of 19 flights over 9 days. Not sure what the app considers a flight since, over the 9 days I have had full sessions of 15 minutes or less. ie I didn’t land and then take off again, but kept it in the air for as long as the battery lasted.
Initially the machine was set to beginner mode and would stay within 30m, either due to the amount of flying time or some other factor I can now fly as far as I want away, and 119meters straight up. I didn’t disengage the beginner mode as far as I know so it is interesting that I was graduated.
I am excited to use this as a camera platform and cant wait to share what I have captured. My collegue Bob and I also have thought of using it as a 360 degree panorama device similar to what we used here: https://barabus.tru.ca/watertreatment/ or here:
http://www.tru.ca/distance/vcampus/
Since the UAV is so steady and has such a wide angle of view we are hoping we can position it, snap some photos and turn it into a nice quick 360 pano in some exciting positions.
More to come!
Just finished reading Tania Sheko’s blog post about Pinterest as well as viewed her SlideShare presentation below. Go ahead and check it. I’ll wait. Pinterest presentation Mihaela Brysha and Tania Sheko (curriculum day 2015) (1) from Tania Sheko You can tell she has thought about Pinterest and its thoughtful uses for quite awhile. Sometimes you just know … Continue reading Don’t Just Derive | Engender and Thrive →
Kenyon’s Middle Path is a mile-long stretch of gravel running through the center of the college. Given time, almost everyone at Kenyon walks Middle Path; it’s not just an pedestrian artery, but arguably the heart of the campus, the place where we see each other, communicate, nurture relationships. We also joke that it’s a terrible … Continue reading Where the Light Gets In →
On the glorious “difficulty of combining the real with the decidedly un-real.” Long before poet Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911– Source: www.brainpickings.org I do believe that this “pretending life into reality” is very much what visualizing and feedforwarding is all about. For individuals it is about self-actualizing or in more spiritual terms is about re-discovering … Continue reading Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality →
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Stress… I am writing this post as much for myself as I am for everyone else who lives a life of stress. Stress affects everyone differently…so much so that you might not even know how much it’s effecting your health and your ability to function…