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Some months ago, Dr. Mark Changizi, Theoretical Neurobiologist and Director of Human Cognition at 2AI Labs, sat down and explained to me the idea that lead to the invention of O2Amp Eyewear. Changizi is the author of Vision Revolution, which lead to his joining forces with Dr. Tim Barber, Director of Machine Cognition at 2AI Labs, to create the O2Amp.
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Went for a walk at the Fort Tryon Park a couple of days ago. And since I had my iPhone with me…
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A video inspired by this RadioLab piece, Desperately Seeking Symmetry:
Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo.
Made by Everynone
in collaboration with WNYC | Radiolab
http://www.everynone.com
http://www.radiolab.org
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Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
Experience Human Flight with the Melbourne Skydive Centre.
http://www.melbourneskydivecentre.com.au/
Shot on a GoPro
Produced: Betty Wants In
Music: “She is” – Salieri Music Inc
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This interview was conducted shortly after The Dark Crystal and while Henson was in production for Fraggle Rock. He talks about hi-res video being used for features and being able to watch movies wide-screen at home.
Wish he’d live to see what he’d envisioned would be the future of video and cable.
Tip: Keep listening after the interview is over.
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Sometimes a simple shot framed just right is more arresting than any other option. A series of videos by NYC photographer Richard Mosse is a great example. I’ve picked two from that series to show you. Wide shots are beautiful. Wide shots can tell more than you think they can. But I’m guessing you probably knew that. :-)
Theatre of War from Richard Mosse on Vimeo.
Leviathan from Richard Mosse on Vimeo.
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Was updating my Movies section and thought I’d share some of my favorite videos from the many videos I produced for Guitarkadia.
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You probably know by now that Amazon and Zappos are sitting in a tree. Not surprising however that both companies share a common philosophy, and a short list of rules that took them to where they are today. Jeff Bezos has always fascinated me; the man’s kept his shit together despite the wave of tsunami, esp. criticism, he’s had splash over him for 15 years (remember when most thought Kindle would fail?).
Anyway, here he is, instead of simply announcing a dry announcement and sound bytes of Amazon partnering with Zappos, he goes through a list of things that he’s followed from the beginning. And you understand how the two companies were bound to come together some day. Of course, I know that just liking a companies philosophy means shit if partnering with it won’t bring you tons of money, and that Zappos’s warehouse location in Kentucky is a major factor.
But, let’s look past that because reasons behind merging will not make you and I a better shoe shopper. The video I wanted to share because Bezos mentions the very basic principles he’s followed over the years and they are pretty ordinary. While you’re here, check out the TED video with him from 2 years ago.
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Let all video history be preserved on YouTube! National Archives has launched its own YouTube channel. Right now there are 17 videos but I’m sure this will not be the case as weeks pass. Waiting on that Flickr stream now.
This is a video bio of John Glenn with an intro by John F. Kennedy.
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Ah the things that you get to be part of when you live in the Apple. Decided to take my 5D MKII out to anything this past Saturday and just shoot! I had been shooting videos with it more and was thinking of taking pics only. Like that worked out. Just before 5pm I wondered where to go. Five minutes later, I found this. One of three pics I kind of liked was that of the poet’s. But this video – I really like how it turned out.
Now to some nerdistry. Shot with Canon 5D Mark II. Used the always reliable $100 Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. Audio is recorded with built-in mic. I spent most of last night trying to encode video to something that doesn’t look shitty online and Ed McNichol’s tutorial was the answer. When the opening title looked smooth I knew this setting was it.
Anyway…let the battle begin. [click here for iPhone]
p.s. please give the full-screen option a try & let me know what you think? thanks!
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Found this on Twitter today and had to share. Filmmaker Evelien Lohbeck‘s graduation project.
Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.
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Had two missions: do some random evening shots practicing the manual focus, and find a way to output smaller and smoother video for web. I mean what good is it to have HD video if our crappy Internet connection can’t help us enjoy it?
This time I imported the raw files from the camera, exported as one file with MPEG Streamclip (HD 720p). Then output to a .MOV, and finally used MPEG Streamclip to create a smaller file with the following:
- h.264
-100%
-1280X720
- and limit to 1 mb/s
- deinterlace
Not sure if deinterlace was necessary though. The 48 second video file came out to 6.6 mb. Not bad. Vimeo has not converted the file since yesterday so I decided to put it on Flickr. I’m still trying to figure out a lot of things so it’s all a work in progress.
However, and this may take a little while to finish, but was very, very happy with the footage I shot of the NYC band Jones Street Station this past Saturday. You know you debate and debate about buying an L lens…and then you look at something you shot with it and it pays you back right then and there.
However, the $90 lens I shot this with ain’t too shabby.
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I went ahead and bought mine. This is my first ‘car.’ It feels that way. I have a long way to go in photography and video, but this is like practicing on a Gibson Les Paul. All those months of saving up, noodles, not buying what I don’t absolutely need, not going out, eating out, not wasting on shit was for this. And I have to tell you, feels damn good!
Didn’t have a lot of time to play with it much but here’s a video I shot with it. I go into details about the setting etc on the YouTube page, so won’t get into it much here. I don’t know if the music does it for you because it’s not so much for me anymore. Too late.
Now to photos. Bought the Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens. Mm mm…this is a sweet sweet lens and I took some nice shots earlier. However, I did exactly what I did when I bought my XTi and managed to trash all the photos. The following are taken with the $90 Canon 50mm f/1.8 because it was on.
Wish I had the nice ones to show you but…oh well. Bring you some cool ones soon.
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These are for me to marvel at, so I don’t backpedal. You’ll know what I mean, soon.
Had somehow missed this when it came out. Beautifully shot stuff with various Canon lenses.
Guaridan’s Dan Chung in China.
A short by Marty Martin.
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Let’s say you’re at 33:50:06 of your tape while logging & capturing and want to jump to 23:50:06, for example. You could manually rewind, or simply type in 23 and hit ‘Return’. FCP will tell your obedient deck/camera will rewind and stop at that exact same spot. Sweet!
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