posted : Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.
Music by Blithe Field
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Get some images here
http://bit.ly/gyImWb

If you can’t see the video in your country, try this link
http://bit.ly/r57uv6

posted : Monday, October 3rd, 2011

My first attempt at a 3D(ish) strobing Zoetrope.

To actually see this effect on video as it actually looked in real life, I had to shoot this on a 3 CCD Sony Z1 (and then deinterlace before upload), since all other cameras I had access to these days are CMOS and therefore suffer from the dreaded “rolling shutter” issue ( http://bit.ly/nbN471 ). That means that you cannot use strobe lights with these CMOS cameras because you get harsh line glitch errors caused by the rolling shutter as the frame is recorded so slow from top to bottom that the strobe ends up only being on half the frame. Glad I still kept my CCD camera :)

So here’s Rage Guy giving a big FU to the CMOS chip makers ;-)
http://bit.ly/pNhgfP


It’s 12 styrofoam balls on toothpicks, on an old Fast Times at Ridgemont High vinyl LP that I didn’t mind destroying with blu-tack. Running it at 78 RPM gives me an effective framerate of 15.6 fps.

You can see in the 2nd half of the video (with the lights on) that I’m messing with the Strobe rate until I can get the figure to appear as still as possible and not rotating - giving us that classic zoetrope animation effect.

Btw, the bit of digital dropout is not YouTube, but rather some HDV dropout because I used an old HDV tape. Remember, always use brand new tapes when shooting HDV, fellas!

Will have to build my own motor since this USB turntable can’t go fast enough and isn’t big enough to have many frames/models…

posted : Saturday, October 1st, 2011

posted : Thursday, September 29th, 2011

posted : Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry shares a few poignant thoughts via some very Bad Lip Reading. Original video here: http://bit.ly/r5MhmY

posted : Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

posted : Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

posted : Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

posted : Monday, September 26th, 2011

posted : Sunday, September 25th, 2011

So yeah, this is what I think of when I hear dubstep. And that.

posted : Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

posted : Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Nigella reveals some racey culinary fantasies. Mmmmmm.

posted : Sunday, September 18th, 2011

***For the record, American Friendship fully supports these young men and thinks they are awesome.**

A collaboration between American Friendship &
Mr. Ray Canapini ( twitter.com/#!/redcable )

Original (unaltered) video here: http://bit.ly/qsZm2g

posted : Friday, September 16th, 2011

posted : Monday, August 8th, 2011