Category Archives: FUN!!!

EAVP 2016 at Haarlem’s Teylers Museum (2)

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Heinrich Mallison

In the first post of this series I gave a short introduction to the town of Haarlem (NL), because although it is not very dinosaurian or otherwise palaeontological, and thus should not get a post of its own, it does … Continue reading →

Posted in FUN!!!, historical buildings etc., history of science, Mammalia, non-palaeo, raves, Travels | 3 Comments

Giraffatitan in all its 3D digital glory (was Digitizing entire dinosaurs 2 (digiS 2016))

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Heinrich Mallison

Quite a while ago I mentioned that for fiscal year 2016 I again received funding from the Berlin digiS program. Whereas 2015 saw Bone Cellar material digitized, the linked post shows one of the the first results of the 2016 … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, digiS, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, FUN!!!, Giraffatitan, MfN Berlin, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Tendaguru | 9 Comments

Making Mike Taylor gloriously green-eyed

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Heinrich Mallison

It has become a bit of a tradition that I use this blog to make Mike Taylor of SV-POW! (and much other) fame a tiny bit jealous. By posting photos of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin dinosaurs, for example a … Continue reading →

Posted in digiS, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, FUN!!!, Giraffatitan, MfN Berlin, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Tendaguru | 1 Comment

a selfie (digiS2016)

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Heinrich Mallison

I rarely take selfies. Mostly because I hate being photographed, but also because I do not see the need to show everyone in the world everything I do. Here’s one, though, that I just had to take, mostly in order … Continue reading →

Posted in digiS, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, FUN!!!, Giraffatitan, Mammal pic, Mammalia, MfN Berlin, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Tendaguru | 5 Comments

Digitizing entire dinosaurs 1 (digiS 2016)

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Heinrich Mallison

Last year I received funding to digitize a lot of big bones of the Tendaguru collection from the Museum für Naturkunde’s Bone Cellar. This year, I was lucky to again secure funding from the digiS programme. This time, it’s for … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Berlin, Dicraeosaurus, digiS, Digitizing, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, Elaphrosaurus, FUN!!!, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Tendaguru, Theropoda | 3 Comments

Absurd Addendum to Gut Check

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Yesterday, I posted some pictures that I took with a fisheye lens. As mentioned, one has to be hellishly careful not to get into the picture by accident. Well, I mentioned lying down on the floor……. Note the camera under … Continue reading →

Posted in FUN!!!, photography | 2 Comments

A wonderful Plateosaurus watercolor

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Last fall, on my big US round trip that ended with the SVP meeting, I spent a few days in New York, working on photogrammetrizing oviraptors (two links) at the AMNH. One evening I spent with the incomparable Gary Vecchiarelli … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", Dinopics, Dinosauria, FUN!!!, Palaeoart, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha | 2 Comments

funniest science article ever?

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. Browsing the German palaeo-blogs (yes, there are a few really good ones) I just came across an entry at Gunnar Ries’ Mente et Malleo that deals with a paper published in the Journal of Geology. A … Continue reading →

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What’s your favorite dinosaur cartoon?

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

My current favorite; stumbled across it via Jersey Boys Hunt Dinosaurs.

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Let’s have a party!

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Somehow, I’m currently almost incapable of coming up with post titles that are not lines from famous songs. Sigh! Oh well, there’s worse things. Thus, let’s have a party – a dinosaur party! How about one of these for the … Continue reading →

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