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At Home with the Plebeians: Paddy and Joe discuss geopolitics

Two children sit in front of a CRT television, showing a triumphant image of Angela Merkel. Speach bubbles emanate from both children: 'I see the Germans are at it again, trying to take over the world. Someone should play hardball with these assholes'. The other child responds: 'It's a good thing we're all speaking English and using Americanizms, to combat external imperialism and creeping hegemony'.

content originally published: 2012, June

Christina Geiger: Åre Slalom - 13th December 2015

Great to see Christina Geiger back in the winners enclosure, if only for a short while. I didn't grab a picture though 😞 #Åre #SkiAlpin
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) December 13, 2015

God bless online bootleg streams; the true preservation of history #ChristinaGeiger https://t.co/360Si9bYfR
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) December 13, 2015

Biathlon - Ruhpolding - Women's Mass Start - 10th January 2016

Two happy police officers take a picture of a couple with their baby.

Large collection of spent .22lr shell casings on wet ground.

info: http://www4.biathlonworld.com/en/press_releases.html/do/detail?presse=2689
results: http://biathlonresults.com/?RaceId=BT1516SWRLCP04SWMS&view=schedule_race

Alpine Skiing 2015/2016: Aspen

Der Führer ist nicht beeindruckt... und, ich auch nicht.

Shame I missed this race. The ending seemed like a real humdinger. Just watching the live timings was ok too though pic.twitter.com/oz42vxloIN
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) November 27, 2015

Anna Fenninger Skiing for Germany (Deutscher Skiverband) next year?

Anna Fenninger pictured in German DSV alpine skiing racesuits

Since early this year, there have been rumors that Austrian alpine skier, Anna Fenninger, will ski for Germany next year, due to ongoing disagreements with staff at the Austrian ski team (ÖSV).

For technical reasons alone, such a move is highly unlikely. Changing one's representative country involves suffering punitive FIS rules regarding ranking. It is probably no more than fanciful thoughts by sports journalists, or an idle threat to get everyone involved seeing eye to eye.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed the prospect so much, that I decided to mock up images of Fenninger in DSV livery.

(Surrogate bodies: Veronique Hronek, Viktoria Rebensburg)

more info: http://www.sport1.de/wintersport/ski-alpin/2015/05/diskussionen-um-einen-start-von-anna-fenninger-fuer-deutschland
original tweet: https://twitter.com/oioiiooixiii/status/600052671018598400

slowmoVideo - A cross platform video-frame interpolator

This is an initial quick test of Simon A. Eugster's "slowmoVideo" video processor, for the interpolation of video frames (slow motion, or in this case, frame-rate smoothing). Up until now, I have been using an Avisynth script (MSU Frame Rate Conversion Filter) extensively in Windows, but I am looking for a viable solution within a Linux based OS. This appears to be a good, if not substantially better replacement. It offers many features, including graphical manipulation of transformation areas between frames. The example here, (Michaela Wenig after completing the 2015 St. Moritz downhill) is the result of standard settings.

source: http://slowmovideo.granjow.net/index.html

Angela Merkel, gestern.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5fnpWmjAwc

Barbara Dennerlein

source: http://youtu.be/JUnG97D8c50

An experiment in creating three-dimensional space from two-dimensional information

Two [near] consecutive frames placed side-by-side. Use the "Eurosport" logo as an aid for eye alignment at comfortable distance.

Footage taken from women's 15km Individual biathlon - Ruhpolding, Germany - 2014.
Bi-athlete: Gabriela Soukalová (Czech Republic)