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Interestingness1

Here's Day 4 of my Video Blogging Week 2006 series.

This is another Flickr Tag video. It features all of the photos on Flickr tagged "interestingness1". That tag is supposed to be used for people whose photos make it to the top of the "interestingness" page on Flickr for a given day. The video is a bit nuts and may cause headaches.

My video blogging week 2006 series has been viewed over 1000 times according to the server logs already and yet only like 3 people have commented! Too many damn closet reader/viewers out there! ;)

The song in the video is called Yeah (pretentious version) by LCD Soundsystem

Enjoy. 75 MB .mov

Technorati Tags: videobloggingweek2006

Most Interesting Flickr Photos March 2006 Video

Here is the March 2006 video in the continuing series of Flickr interestingness videos. This is my contribution for Monday April 3, VideoBlogging Week 2006 (feed). The photos we're the "most interesting" as of April 2 2006. Click the "Link" button in the top right of the video to take you to that photo on Flickr. The song in the video is called Salesmen at the Day of the Parade by Rogue Waves.

Enjoy. 17 MB .mov

PERMALINK

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Most Interesting Flickr Photos Feb 2006 Video

I made another Flickr video from the "most interesting" Flickr images.  This time I did the month of February and made it play smoother.  The photos we're the "most interesting" as of March 25 2006.  Click the "Link" button in the top right of the video to take you to that photo on Flickr.  The song in the video is called I Know You Are but What am I? by Mogwai. Enjoy. 24 MB .mov

Time Lapse

My dad and I created a little time lapse the other night.  We shot stills using his new Nikon D200 and combiend with in quicktime.  If you have a very fast computer+internet connection check out the high res version (1920X1080 415MB)

Technorati Tags: photography, Time Lapse

Photos section working again

My photos section is working again.

Technorati Tags: Flickr, photography

Right Click Upload to Flickr

If you're using OSX Tiger and Flickr you might be interested in the ability to send images to Flickr by right clicking and hitting send. This is useful if you use Flickr for image hosting for your blog or you just want a really quick way to upload images to Flickr.

• Download Fraser Speirs' Flickr Automator Uploader (direct link to .zip)
  Unzip and follow the steps in the Readme
  Open Automator (in your applications folder)
  Add the Flickr Action to your workflow (you can search flickr and it should show up if you did #2 correctly)

• Use your flickr login (email@server.com) as the username and add some tags and privacy settngs.

• Click File, Save As Plug-in (name it Save to Flickr or whatever) and choose finder in the drop down menu.

• Now right click on an image(s) anywhere in the finder and choose Automator -> Save to Flickr (whatever you named it) and your images are sent off to Flickr with the tags/privacy settings you chose.

This automator action can be used in a number of interesting ways. For example I made a timelapse with it. You can combine it with other automator actions to do whatever you need. You could use Automator to crop 100 images and then upload to them all to Flickr at the end. If you want to loop your automator actions you can use this.

If you want to take some screenshots and upload them to Flickr use these shortcuts:

• ⌘-shift-3 (whole screen)
  ⌘-shift-4-drag box (whatever you select)

Images are then saved to your desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2... Now its as easy as right clicking them to upload to Flickr...

Technorati Tags: Automator, flickr

Technorati Tags: Automator, flickr

Animals - a photoset on Flickr

My friend Hugh has an awesome photoset of animals up on Flickr.

Peter Jackson's King Kong

11 weeks to go video before the release of Peter Jackson's King Kong.  This episode is about MoCap.

Photoshop clone tool for real life

This video demostrates a paintbrush that can paint whatever it touches.  The brush was created by Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti, and Hiroshi Ishii.

"I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights  nd touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their  mmediateenvironment."

"Protect Me"

Casino Royale "Protect Me" by Ago Panini.  This video has a great combination of still photography, motion graphics, time lapses, and creative transitions. [via]