Archive for October 2006

Opponent process

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

The title of this post refers to a color theory about how retinas process antagonizing information from three cones; in short, differences in the three are perceived first. When green and red are on top of each other, some users may not be able to distinguish between the two colors; plenty of whitespace for heavy [...]

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Xanthrophylls and carotenes

Monday, October 30th, 2006

kthread is pleased and proud to announce the addition of a photography section to the portfolio.
As much as I do like flickring, it feels right to include some of my recent photos on kthread.

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Return of the Macro

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Visiting my sister Kassandra to watch her newest dance performed a few weekends ago, I decided to use the scenery on the road and in Pittsburgh to improve my photography skills.

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Pink for October

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I almost never wear pink; the color doesn’t really suit. kthread, though, will be wearing a little pink on the top left arrow for the rest of October in support of the “Pink for October” campaign to raise awareness for breast cancer. The new pink arrow is subtle, much like cancer cells that infect one [...]

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October Morn

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Most All of my friends are disconcerted by my enduring love for geezer bands like Chicago and artists like Barry Manilow and Barbra Streisand. So when I want to belt Neil Diamond’s “September Morn”, which I often do in the fall, I find myself driving around Charlottesville in the early morning (even my wonderful roommate [...]

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the disconnect

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Last weekend I explored rural Pennsylvania (wandering, not lost) on my way to Pittsburgh for the last dance in the Friday night show of Point Park University’s Student Choreography Project. My sister Kassandra’s dance, now titled (dis)connect, closed the show. Her piece last year was chosen from the same concert and went on from the [...]

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Vermeil cargo, crenellated fans

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Most band sites are a gratuitious mash of Flash menus, pop-up windows, and vacuous html splash pages. So it was with trepidation that I approached a new project, a band site, this summer. When my friend Andrew Ewell and I began talking about a new site for American Dumpster, though, he impressed upon me that [...]

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