Sure, these cameras haven’t been made in decades but that don’t mean squat if your a camera hacker! With this simple hack you can add a cable shutter lock to this classic camera (or any mechanical camera for that matter) to let you leave the shutter open as long as you want. Perfect for photos of star trails!
Author: John
Apophysis Fractal Flame Editor
Oh cool, a fractal flame editor for Windows. What’s a fractal flame? Well it’s like a regular fractal except that it the colors can be moderated by the structure and not the density and a few other things that frankly I just don’t have the maths to explain. More info can be had here if your up for some heavy equations and stuff. I just know that they look darn cool and can be animated. They can also be edited and transformed via a GUI window.
Gisele Kerozene
Years and years ago there was this TV show called Night Flight. I’ve written about the show at least once, remembering all the new and cool things that I saw on it. Well one of the things I remember the best was a short film called ‘Gisele Kerozene‘. It stood out from the other shorts that were shown that night because it was a masterful display of live action stop moion animation. Seeing all those flying broom stick riding witches racing around a city was something I had never seen before. It’s a technique that is very hard on your actors, they have to keep jumping up and down in order to keep hovering (think yogi levitation) and the camera operator needs to be quick on the shutter to catch everyone at the apex of their jumps. It’s hard, some friends and I messed around with it years ago with my super 8 film camera. If I could find the results I’d post them. I haven’t seen ‘Gisele Kerozene’ in years and when I found it on YouTube Ijust had to tell everyone.
Ninja Themed Restaurant in Japan
Now why can’t I find a place like this in Arizona? Not that I’d mind going Tokyo Japan to have dinner in a ninja themed restaurant, heck, I’d call that a good reason to go to Japan.
After you enter the restaurant, you go to the reception area and are met by a waiter dressed in ninja garbs and told to wait for your personal ninja guide to your table. When the waiter comes, you are guided through a maze of sorts. It is like a ninja castle with many trap doors and hidden passages. While in most restaurants people would be annoyed to have to bend over backwards to reach your table, at Ninja it is part of the experience. It is as if you are actually entering that ninja castle. My most enjoyable moment of the trip was when we had reached a point in our journey and were faced with a pit filled with water and no way to cross. Then suddenly the waiter clapped her hands and a draw bridge drops for you to cross. It was at that point I knew the event was going to be fun.
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Anna Nicole Smith – Dead at 39
Not exactly a tech subject but I will admit that she was fun to watch.
Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday afternoon after collapsing in a Hollywood, Fla. hotel, local police said. An autopsy will be performed Friday, and a hearing regarding Smith’s daughter’s paternity will occur in Los Angeles.
How to Create Professional HDR Images
This is a very nice little tutorial on hoe to produce those nice high dynamic range photos that people like to go on about. This one uses Adobe Photoshop CS2, so if you have a copy your in luck. This tut even covers some basic work flow techniques that help when your trying to figure out how to start making your HDR masterpiece.