Penguin May 19th, 2008
Great little trick to get some nice looking “dolly” shots. The trick is to retract the front leg of the tripod, forming a bipod. You can then pull and push the camera for a subtle dolly effect.
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Related postsPenguin May 2nd, 2008
Man, what a frustrating day. I went to the USPS to ship off First Kiss to Ireland and was told that shipping would be $20 USD. Which really surprised me because Sweden was $9 USD. The clerk told me it was because my tube was longer than 24 inches. I left, trying to think of some solutions.
As a lark, I stopped by UPS to see how much it would be. They wanted to charge me $80 USD. My eyes almost fell out of my face! The $20 started sounding really reasonable.
I got home, called up Fedex Kinkos to see if they had any shipping tubes that were 24 inches. They said they had. But when I got there, they were the same size as our current tubes. They did have a smaller tube that measured 18 inches, but it had an internal length of 16 inches. Considering First Kiss is 18×24, there was no way it was going to fit. Ninja was kind enough to call two different Staples, but none of them carried tubes of the appropriate size.
As I was sitting around, I realized that I DID have 24 inch tubes. All I had to do was cut off 2 inches of the current tube. I pulled out my trusty Dremel and hacked off 2 and a half inches, just to be sure.
After an hour or so of running around and racking my brains, the print is packaged and ready to ship to its new home in Ireland.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin April 13th, 2008
If you haven’t seen Johnny Lee’s hacks to the Wii remote, this is a great summary of what he’s accomplished. Johnny Lee is a PhD grad student at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s also the one who came up with the poorman’s steady cam. He’s around 30 and he’s already presented at TED. How cool is that?
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