October 2008
10 posts
Watch“My Day, Yesterday”
I’ve been really enjoying the videos from Garrett Murray’s Flickr group My Day, Yesterday, so I decided to make my own. Given that this is the first time I’ve ever shot video with my camera and the first time I’ve ever made a movie of any kind, I think it turned out OK.
After all was said and done, I’d shot more video than I...
FriendDA →
Whimsical, and clever. Articles like this one are why I read Rands:
I want Phil to know that what I want to chat about is more than our average conversation. I want slightly more than a smidge of ceremony before I spill the beans about my bright idea and I call this ceremony the FriendDA.
Lomography Documentary →
Thanks in large part to CameraBag, I have found myself myself ever-so-slightly obsessed with the atmosphere produced by CameraBag’s fake lomo filter, “Lolo”. After a few “rolls” of these fake lomo photographs, I remembered seeing this documentary on YouTube on the history of lomography.
Due to YouTube’s length restrictions, the documentary has been broken into...
CameraBag →
I found this iPhone app through Dave Shea, and I couldn’t be happier that I did. A relatively simple app, CameraBag uses the iPhone’s camera to take pictures in the style of a few famous lo-fi cameras, a famous photographer, or some generic film styles. In short, this app turns the iPhone’s crappy camera into something you might actually want to use.
“Unmediated content is stuff. It does not create the same value and cannot offer...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
“Democracy doesn’t require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it...”
– Matt Taibbi
WatchUntil today, I’d heard of tilt-shift photography before, but never tilt-shift video.
None of the technique’s effectiveness is lost in translation, and I’m having a difficult time convincing myself that I’m not looking at miniatures… (via yewknee)