Posted on Jun 14th 2010 by ryan.
A photo of mine from the Heidelburg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.
As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p
Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
My original photo from Heidelburg Castle
The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:
My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.
Posted on Mar 29th 2009 by ryan.
Vicki Argyle and I experienced this awesome sunset while in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Posted on Mar 27th 2009 by ryan.
Victoria Argyle and I visited Suzanna and Cory Black in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Victoria Argyle and Suzanna Black
Posted on Mar 26th 2009 by ryan.
Vicki and I used Amsterdam as our base for moving around Europe. They have lots of canals … lots of canals.
Posted on Mar 25th 2009 by ryan.
Apparently this is what people resort to when stuck in Europe with me for a whole month!
Smoking from a huka.
I tried it too but I don't recommend it. It's kinda icky. Caffeine is still my drug of choice.
Insanity kicks in after a while and they start believing anything they're told. Frederick convinced Vicki that kissing the arse of the solider brought good luck.
Two bad photos in a row, so I thought I'd better include a nice one 
Posted on Mar 22nd 2009 by ryan.
Here are some photos I forgot to add from my trip around sooty, icky London.
Big Ben in London.
The Globe Theatre. Apparently this is where William Shakespeares' original plays were performed, albeit this is obviously not the original building.
Posted on Mar 21st 2009 by ryan.
After traversing the Rhine, Vicky, Vikas and I headed north to Cologne. We didn’t spend much time there, but the huge Cathedral in the middle of the city sure is an impressive site. Construction started in 1248 and didn’t finish until 1880! It was the tallest man-made structure in the world until 1884.
The Cologne Cathedral
3D image of the inside of the Cologne Cathedral
Another 3D image of the inside of the Cologne Cathedral
Cologne was decimated after 262 air raids by the Western Allies during World War II. By the end of the war essentially all of Cologne’s pre-war Jewish population of 20,000 had been deported or killed. The photo below shows the devastation of the city.
Cologne in 1945. To see the full devastation in detail, view the high resolution version. Thanks to Wikipedia for the photo (which I obviously did not take!).
Posted on Mar 19th 2009 by ryan.
Vikas took Vicki and I up the scenic Rhine river. There are Castles everywhere along the banks of the river.
Posted on Mar 17th 2009 by ryan.
Vickas took Vicki and I to the Hockenheimring in Germany, the home of the German grandprix. There were no cars racing that day, just testing. But it was nice to see (in person) the track I’ve driven around in so many video games.
Random car circling around the Hockeheim grandprix track. Any ideas what kinda car this is?
Posted on Mar 15th 2009 by ryan.
Ya know how in the movies the cows in Germany have bells on them? Well apparently those crazy Germans actually do attach bells to the poor cows! I have no idea why they do this. Imagine how insane you would go if some dork attached a bell around your neck! Every time you moved you would hear an irritating bell sound.
I took the photos in the Black Forest in south western Germany.
