Yesterday’s video from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website (link) is a short one produced by the National Spaced Society to remind people what’s coming very soon: the first flyby of Pluto. (The images of Pluto shown are of … Continue reading
Texas filmmaker Ryan Connolly has released another entertaining short, this one called “U.F.Oh Yeah.” It runs a bit over five minutes and is well worth your time: Link: http://youtu.be/qQB2wtKQkvM The star is Ryan’s younger brother Josh, who is in real … Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen this, below a math teacher named Matthew Weathers pranks his students on April 1 with a clever bit of mixed live action and video. Link: http://youtu.be/P2SsIYEbCio by … Continue reading
At the Mayo Clinic, a blind man with retinitis pigmentosa describes his first impressions of his new bionic eye. The vision is primitive, but he is able to see something, and his description of the experience is worth listening to. … Continue reading
As with my earlier post (link) about color subsampling, this is another essay about video technology that I expect to be of limited interest (though oddly enough that previous post is one of the more frequently viewed ones on this site). If … Continue reading
How would Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn look from the Earth’s surface if they were as far away as we are from the Moon? Link: http://youtu.be/usYC_Z36rHw For details, including a concise explanation of how it was made, click … Continue reading
In honor of tomorrow’s U.S. release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five CGI Armies, here’s a rerun of something I previously posted a few years ago. To celebrate the culmination of Peter Jackson’s six-film cycle, Gimli Gloinsson finds … Continue reading
The previous post features a video shot in a vertical orientation, so in the interest of aesthetics and all that is holy, let me point show you a couple of educational videos explaining why you shouldn’t shoot videos that way: … Continue reading
A Vimeo user named Seccovan uploaded this well-done 3D CGI animation of the world envisioned in the Futurama television series. It runs only 30 seconds, but it’s nicely done using Autodesk’s 3Ds Max, augmented by plugins and other software. Futurama … Continue reading
If you have any interest in filmmaking, this web series is definitely worth watching. Not only is it informative about equipment and techniques (lighting, special effects, etc.), it’s also often damned funny. It’s written and produced by Ryan Connolly and … Continue reading