If you want to raise a kid that can’t become a functioning member of society then follow these simple steps:
Wait on them all the time
Never say no to them
Keep a Christmas tree up year ’round because you need to give them gifts every day
Do their homework and shelter them from any kind of work
Now those points might sound absolutely ridiculous to normal people like you and me, but these two parents in the clip below actual follow these guidelines.
Engadget is reporting on a digital camera with super slow motion capabilities from Casio. The EX-F1, which was announced at the annual Consumer Electronics Show today, is a typical 6 megapixel still camera but with some serious frame-burst technology. The video modes on the camera offer three settings for slow motion: 300 frames per second (fps) at 512 × 384 resolution, 600fps at 432 × 192, and 1200fps at 336 × 96. To put things into perspective, 1200fps is about 40 times more frames than real time which is 30 fps. The more frames that need to be played back the longer the clip duration will be resulting in slow motion. It’s a drag the frame size drops to a web video size for the slowest of slow motion, but at least it is there. Before this camera, the closest thing to getting slow motion footage of this caliber would require an investment of at least 5 figures. Now this specialized camera can be yours for just over 3 digits at $1,000!
Not to say that the video is only good for slow motion, the Casio EX-F1 can also shoot 1080i HD video as well as 60 fps at the full 6 megapixel resolution in still mode. First hand reports claim this thing sounds like a machine gun when you release the shutter like InfoSyncWorld.com who said “The shutter release sounds more like a machine gun or a whirring fan than a camera shutter.”
Engadget posted some sample video from the press conference:
This camera has some power to drool over, especially for those specifically interested in slow motion video. I always wanted to explore slow motion video but I never had access to any cameras that could do it. I am always weary about camera that try to do both video and still photos in the same device because they usually end up suffering in both areas. But each year we keep seeing the two mediums come closer together with acceptable results. If I were in highschool right now I would be saving up to get a camera like this especially with social networking and YouTube being so big. I wish I had all of this stuff when I was a kid when I had the time to play around with it.
You can see the full specs of this beast over at DPreview.com but oyu won’t be able to get your grubby little hands on one until March.
U.S.News & World Report does an annual feature on 50 Ways To Improve Your Life. This year the multimedia team tackled a video project recruiting everyone in the office to say a few lines about each of the 50 resolutions. Here is the final product which shows many of the faces behind the weekly magazine. Watch out for me, I talk about reducing corn in your diet. Fun!
“The Amazon.com Kindle is basically a big ugly iPod that allows you to carry 200 books with you at all times. Which raises the important question: who the hell reads that much? This fake ad introduces you to the terrifying target audience.”
Oh those crazy Internet videos and the people behind them. Don’t you just love them? Just think about how dull your life would be without Numa Numa Kid, the Lazy Sunday Video, and Chocolate Rain.
To honor all of those vidz that have penetrated our online culture, Channel Frederator put together a montage of clips featuring the biggest viral videos that have ever passed through our pipes. To top it off, they have all been rotoscoped so it looks like one big animated short which has a catchy song to boot. How many references do you remember?
DIYLife.com has a great feature all about film rigs for scrappy independent filmmakers. DIY Film School consists of links to instructions on building tons of great film tools for a fraction of the price of buying things new. I have made some of these and of course they take a lot of time and the quality is a little low. But hey, you get what you paid for but just don’t expect Hollywood results from this stuff.
The list of things you can build includes:
If you’re itching for more of this kind of stuff then check out Home Built Stabilizers for tons of homemade movie-tool goodness. So much for your free time this weekend
Getting started with making videos can be a tough proposition. First, you need some equipment mainly a video camera and editing software. Second, you need other people around to help either in production or as actors. There is only so much you can do by yourself.
Brian Shaler from CrappyGraphs.com feels the same way and decided to illustrate it with a crappy graph.
