The Droste Effect

After reading an article about the funny things that Google does for certain search terms like for example 'let it snow',  or 'do a barrel roll' or 'recursion' which I thought was particularly clever.  I always wiki things I don't know, and wiki was very informative about recursion.

The Wikipedia page also had a image with a link to the Droste effect.  (I can spend hours clicking on random links in Wikipedia!)  So what is the Droste effect?

The Droste effect can be loosely described as 'an image with an image' where the same image is repeated within.  The term 'Droste' comes from the Dutch brand of cocoa powder that features the picture of a nurse holding a tray with a tin of the cocoa on the tray.  The Droste effect also forms the basis for fractals.

I had no idea that the whole 'image repeated within the image' thing had a name.  Amazeballs! I also really like the type they used for 'Droste.'  Especially the 's.'

image from wikipedia

Maiden Post

It's probably too late to post a 2010 retrospective or 2011 resolutions.  I don't do those sort of things anyway.  So I'm not.

I did used to have another blog but I got bored with it, so it's gone now.  Although it is cached.  It did cross my mind that maybe I should transfer everything over to here.  I decided against that too since this is a new beginning.  However I will post old photos from that ol' blog on my Tumblr.

The layout of this blog has taken me a least a month (on and off) to get it to a point where I am happy with it.  Initially I was redesigning from scratch but I couldn't get my columns to be of equal height.  Many hours of fustration later, I admitted defeat and caved and got a template.  Columns all the same height?  Yes!  I have prodded and squeezed the template to suit me (CSS/HTML noob style).  You should check out the designer in the footer - their designs are nice. 

Anywho, welcome to my half-acre on this vast piece of land known as the internet.  There may or may not be adventures but there definitely will be food.  And photos...and pictures, snippets, this and that.

PS: If you haven't seen in the news already, a large chunk of Australia has suffered from flooding.  Many people have lost everything, but it's during these hard times that we are shown the best of people, and their generosity.  It's times like these that I am grateful to be human.  Queensland (my home state) has had pretty bad flooding, you can donate to the flood relief appeal here.