On Sunday, September 30th, I am participating in Base2Space 2018, a climb that supports the critical studies at Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center. I will be climbing the open-air stairwell of the Space Needle from Base to Space, traveling 832 steps up 98 flights of stairs to reach the observation deck, which stands 520 feet in the air.
Read MoreAs a recent GeekWire feature proclaims, “here’s the 4-minute video you’ve been waiting for to illustrate why a 4-mile drive in Seattle takes 45 minutes.” The film in question? A time lapse recently created by Ricardo Martin Buralla, a VR/AR engineer with Google, who assembled 3 years’ worth of images taken by a webcam that was affixed to the top of the Space Needle. In all, the video is comprised of 2,166 panoramas (about 2 photos per day) that Buralla stabilized using code to create a cohesive piece.
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