This hacked version of a Bush press conference is very, very funny.
(Found via Dvorak Uncensored)
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Friday’s Link: Botswana WildCam
Here’s a really cool combination of technology and the great outdoors. National Geographic has a live webcam at a watering hole in Botswana. Unlike 99.99% of the webcams in the world, this one actually works.
It pans around the watering hole and seems to zoom in when the computer detects movement.
I’ve seen quite a few animals over the past few days- wildebeests, some sort of an antelope looking animal and a bunch of birds. And that’s after only about 15 minutes of total watching time. There is a long list of animals that have been spotted at the watering hole.
Very cool deal!
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Cheraw Video
Here’s a short video I made of some photos I took on my trip. My old street and house, my parents’ headstones, my old church and some great people. When the video starts, you can right click and zoom to full screen, if you want. The video is hosted by Castpost.
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Katrina Video
If the horror and sadness of Katrina is beginning to fade, watch this.
It’s a politcal statement, yes, but nevertheless very powerful. We have to help these people. Note the link in upper right hand corner of this page.
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Old Scrapbook, New Video
I’ve been in the (slow) process of scanning old photographs and adding them to our more recent digital ones. Otherwise the prints will be rarely seen and eventually lost. As part of this process, I came across some of my deceased parents’ old scrapbooks.
In order to preserve the layout and intent of the scrapbooks, I scanned them a page at a time, except for my dad’s World War II scrapbook which was too big to fit on my scanner. So I scanned that one a half page at a time and then created individual jpegs of each photo and the corresponding description (where there was one). This took approximately forever, so I decided I should go the extra step and make a short video out of the results.
As I worked on this project I again came to realize how hard it is for someone of my generation to appreciate how heroic these guys were. They were farm boys and college kids who left the easiest time of their lives (college) to go to the most difficult (flying fighter planes off of the U.S.S. Intrepid). A lot of these photos look like movie stills, but they are the real thing, taken directly from the scrapbook.
As I have mentioned previously, dad was a highly decorated fighter pilot, receiving 2 air medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Not bad for a country boy in his early twenties.
Here’s the film, served from Castpost. You can right click and zoom to full screen once it starts if you like.
Castpost & a Very Old Video
Castpost is a new service that hosts audio and video files for use with blogs and other web sites. It is in alpha testing now, and is free during testing. Better yet, alpha testers get a free one year subscription once the site goes live. Run, don’t walk, over there and sign up for a free (for now) account.
I just signed up tonight and am beginning to put the site through its paces. I uploaded some very old video I renamed 3 Short Films from the Vault. It’s comprised of two test films I made when preparing to make Bride of Gibster, my first more or less full length film, and the beginning of another film that never got made. The first test film is some animation I was practicing in preparation for a scene in Bride. The animation in the later film was much more detailed and included dialog (I’ll try to post that scene later). It’s amazing (at least to me) what we got done back in 1991, without the use of a computer. The second test film is a bunch of random photos I shot to learn how to film still photos. I was shooting these photos on a TV Tray with the JVC video camera on a tripod pointing straight down. I used this exercise to figure out the lighting, timing and distances. You can easily do something much better and more complex in minutes using Photo Story or any of a hundred other programs today on a computer, but it was a lot harder in 1991. A lot harder.
The last film runs about a minute, but it is my favorite, only because it features my mom and you can hear my sister laughing in the background while I filmed her. My initial plan was to film mom sleeping for an hour or so and then superimpose some silly photos and music that would approximate imaginary dreams she was having, but she woke up. When she figured out that we were trying to film her, she was very careful not to sleep in plain sight anymore.
Here’s that old video from the early 90s, served by Castpost.
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