Sunday
Jan152012
Fotoshop by Adobé
A very interesting parody by Jesse Rosten about Photoshop and what can be done with it.
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Nov072011
Stop-Motion Music Video by Kina Grannis
Michael Zhang at PetaPixel on a stop-motion music video shot over two years with 288,000 jelly beans:
This music video for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a background composed of jelly beans. It’s a crazy project that required 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. They could have used CGI, of course, but each frame was carefully created by hand and photographed with a still camera.
Pretty amazing.
Monday
Oct032011
Free Final Cut Pro X Tutorial
I've been playing with Final Cut Pro X and found this tutorial by Izzy Video that goes over the new interface and explains the new concepts fairly well. It's free and I found it really informative. Just thought I'd pass it on.
Saturday
Oct092010
Project 365 complete!
I did it.
Admittedly, I did cheat. But just a bit. It took me a bit over 365 days as there were a few I missed (I think around 8 days), but still. It feels great.
Over a year ago I decided to give this a-photo-a-day thing a shot. I was taking a lot of photographs with my iPhone and was loving the simplicity of it all. The apps are amazing. Well, some of them at least. I even reviewed a few back then, did a 3G vs 3Gs camera comparison, and created a new gallery specifically for photos created with the iPhone here on my site.
When I started the project, I wanted to give myself a few limitations to keep me focused. For this year's Project365, all photos had to be:
- taken with the iPhone
- edited in the iPhone using a variety of apps
- all in black & white
- uploaded directly from the iphone
- In the project's blog
- In Facebook
- In Flickr
- In Twitter
It's been a great experience. It's really cool having a visual record for every single day of your life for a full year. Some photos turned out really good. A lot are really lame taken while I was rushing from one meeting to the next, or at the end of the day with crappy light. One is just a black square! I took that one when I was already in bed. I remembered I hadn't taken the daily photo so I just grabbed the iPhone, chose the built-in Camera app, and took a photo. It was pitch dark. But it still counts.
All of the photographs are in the video above in the order they were taken. It's really a slideshow created in Aperture and exported as a movie file.
After I exported, I realised it needed music so I added (with permission) a track from Coto Normal called Negative. I recently discovered them and I'm a fan. Their music is amazing. A huge thank you to Coto Normal, the music made the video great.
You can find more about Coto Normal here:
- Coto Normal in YouTube (and listen to some tracks)
- Coto Normal in MySpace
- Coto Normal in iTunes (buys some tracks, you'll enjoy them)
Saturday
Sep262009
Tuesday
Jun302009
Thursday
Jun112009
Short Film: MORE by Mark Osborne
I love stop motion animation, and I love this short film by Mark Osborne. Definitely worth the 6 minutes or so it takes to watch it. It has an inspiring lesson and it'd be interesting to see what others take from it. Go over to happyproduct.com if you want to see it larger.
