January 26th, 2011
 
On my way into work this morning I recieved a phone call from one of my clients at Disney.  He informed me of a small fire-drill.  A fire-drill is a term they use for a project that has just come up that usually needs to be done by early morning the next day.
 
Unfortunately, the first thing I had to this morning was some organizational stuff for muppets.  Then I had to meet my buddy Tony for a lunch that we’ve been planning on doing for the past two weeks.  At about 2pm I finally got started on my fire-drill.
 
At 9pm I drove off to pick up some dinner.  I got a burger and fries from Del Taco.  About an hour later I felt completely sick.  I had gotten food poisoning from the burger!  I will never again eat Del Taco and for that matter fast food of any kind.
 
As the night went on I was feeling worse and worse.  I had to finish this cut as well as get my creative thing done.  And if I spent too much time looking at the computer screen I got seriously nauseous.
 
After numerous visits to the bathroom I came to the conclusion that I needed to lie down.  I decided I’d finish this fire drill in the morning but before that I needed to do my creative thing.
 
I decided that I would try out this tutorial.  It’s a pretty cool effect where you take a panoramic picture and turn it into a little planet.  (I found it on a blog called Applyfilter where the individual is attempting to do a photography technique-a-day for 100 days).  It’s something I’ve been thinking of doing since I found it and it seemed pretty simple, all I needed to do was shoot a panoramic picture.
 
So, I hopped in my car and drove up the street.  I stopped on the corner of Olive and Verdugo in Burbank and took out my iphone.  I used my iphone instead of my SLR because I don’t have a sufficient wide angle lens for my SLR.
 
There are a bunch of apps for the iphone that do panoramas, and in retrospect, I probably should’ve used one.  Instead, I decided to just snap a series of pictures that I’d stitch together in the computer using a software called Hugin.
 
I guess I didn’t take the pictures with enough overlap because when I got back to the office and loaded the images into Hugin, it could not stitch them together.  Instead, I got a very abstract image.  I kind of liked the way it looked even though it wasn’t a panorama and I was tired so I took a few screengrabs of it using different projection modes within Hugin, which you can see above.
 
After that, I lied down on the sofa and set my iphone to wake me at 5am.