Damn this is a good video. It makes my skin crawl but I can't stop looking. Couple a simple video effect with the likes of Grace Jones and you have something that is reminiscent of H.R. Giger's Alien.
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Happy Christmas Everyone
Click for a larger view of our tree. Have a safe and joyous holiday season everyone!
Video: Benny Benassi “Satisfaction”
I love this Benny Benassi song “Satisfaction”, the saw-tooth bass and obvio-synthetic vocals stick in your head. Anyway, found two videos for it. The “dirty” one (below) is a RIOT! May be NSFW if girls in bikinis are frowned upon. It's sorta like the Snap-On calendar girls turned up to 11.
UPDATE: The video to “Satisfaction” was taken down but I relinked the embeded player above to another site.
Passive iPod Speaker
File under “the lights went out,” this Phonofone II will passively amplify your iPod earbuds into sound that is audible in a room. It claims to do so at 55db which is pretty good but won't rock the house. $500 even and it too can be yours when the economy collapses and the coal runs out. Good luck charging your iPod, though.
Link. Thanks, Jeff!
The Winter Sky: A Time Lapse Composite Picture
Man is it cold outside. Here's a picture that is a composite of 9 consecutive shots stacked and blended together in Photoshop. The total length of time was 18 minutes, 2 minutes each, f5.0 @ ISO 100. The star trails are evident as are the storm clouds rolling in from the southwest. Click for a larger view. Enjoy.
Blog Roll: Fast Food Critic
It's not all bad. Somebody has to find the good stuff.
Well, he's right. The blog Fast Food Critic takes the unenviable task of the taster for the common folk. Sometimes it's horrible, sometimes it's passable. I'll pass!
The picture of the above is Wawa's Hot Turkey and Stuffing bowl (get it, for Thanksgiving?) but it looks more like a bloody mess to me.
Wee Planets: A Fresh Look at Panoramas
The nice thing about Flickr is that you can follow a path that will undoubtedly take you to pictures that you've never seen before. This Flickr set by user boltron- shares with us some spectacular reinterpretations of panoramas.
Link to Flickr set for user boltron-.
Update: Here's a nice tutorial on the process using Photoshop or The Gimp.
Thanksgiving Oldie: The Onion’s Hand Turkey
Monster Truck Show Video Tilt Shifted, Stop Motion
This is a very clever video of a monster truck rally that was shot as a “stop motion” animation and tilt shifted (most likely in post). Anyway, the effect is amazing because of the scale of the trucks to begin with and the relative size of people. The eye does funny things when focus is shifted like this. Amazing.
Canon EF-S 10-22mm USM lens
I recently purchased a new lens from Canon. The EF-S 10-22mm USM lens has earned a permanent place in my camera bag. Below are some sample pictures. Zoomed to 10mm you do get some distortion of the images at the edges like you'd expect, but that can lend some nice effects to your images if you compose well.
Since it's an EF-S lens mount, it will only work with the recent Canon digital SLR line up.
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