Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Hand-cranked wheelchairs from P.E.T. – Personal Energy Transportation

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

It took the NYC based internet culture program Rocketboom to point out the big-time, non-profit headquartered in my backyard of Columbia, Missouri. Personal Energy Transportation (or P.E.T.) makes hand-cranked wheelchairs for people have lost the use oftheir legs due to polio, landmine injury, etc. Even though most of their volunteers here work out of ...

Masked, meat-slapping Walmart dance

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Actually funnier than I'm about to describe it: Masked dude in spandex, slapping frozen meat and dancing in Walmart. [2 minutes, 29 seconds]

Livestream.com (embed test)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Watch live streaming video from youserved at livestream.com Here's a Livestream I'm sort of be helping out with. Hopefully streaming will be done live on this channel, not this weekend but next. This embed is also to test the stream on a different blog and on Macs because it skips and ...

HDMI cable truth

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

This post is for those who don't already know expensive HDMI cables are a complete rip-off, or for the visual learners among us.  Buy HDMI cables from newegg.com or monoprice.com for the love of all that is good and decent.  [via MintLive Blog via @gadgetboy via Gizmodo via LifeHacker via ...

5 Second Films Dot Com

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The Changeling from 5secondfilms.com There is nothing deceptive about http://5secondfilms.com. The site offers exactly what its URL says: films running five seconds long. There's a new one each weekday.  Many of the micro-shorts at 5secondfilms.com provide quite the chuckle.

Digital artifact from ‘The Eclipse’ trailer

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Captured while viewing "The Eclipse" trailer at 720p.  Extra creepy.

Brian Alfred

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Pleasant, thoughtful mix of stop-motion like type stuff, "live action" and animation from visual artist Brian Alfred with a soundtrack heavy on sound design including Columbia, Missouri's own Jon Sheffield. So why no HD version?

Man-Gifts at ‘What to get Guys.com’

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

A shout to Rob Stretch and his man gift site What to Get Guys.  Rob cherry-picks products for you, so when buying for males, go there first -- it saves time and prevents frustration while delighting all involved in the resulting consumption. He pointed me there to check the Digital Harinezumi Video Camera ...

Fire up your Webcam to help finish crowdsourced music video

Monday, January 11th, 2010

So some musical "outfit" -- C-Mon & Kypski perhaps? -- are soliciting the help of anyone with a webcam to help "finish" their new music video. It seems fairly straightforward: visit oneframeoffame.com; a frame from the video is provided; YOU copy it -- mimic what you see, and, ahem, strike a pose -- ...

The Third & The Seventh

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Slow moving but breathtakingly gorgeous.  HD, fullscreen it. Full CG architecture and nature never looked more, um, (vibrantly) natural; although while gradually seeping into the surreal. To delve into this further, visit The Third & The Seventh site and view the shorter Compositing ...