mesto design

August 4, 2009
In Just Cruising
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Sand animation

Just another interesting find.

August 1, 2009
In Just Cruising, Simply Different, Tekknology
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Another spectacular piece made on 5D MK2

Created and directed by Robin Risser

I love the small subtleties in this video such as the clash between the pure, clean and perfect aesthetic of the character’s suit mixed with elements of old and cracked furniture, broken umbrella and dust in the air. The story (or my twisted interpretation of it) makes me feel quite nostalgic. Don’t ask why. Just watch!

July 26, 2009
In Just Cruising
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Time lapse experiment

One Saturday morning I wanted to tidy up the back of my house a bit and film myself working and create a time lapse . Instead of shooting video I wanted to take a sequence of photos over a course of couple of hours in equal intervals. I run a simple app through my 5D Mk2, put it together and this is the result.

Notes:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 28-105mm
DSLR Remote Pro (Windows only) allows you to fully control your camera from a PC over USB cable
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Video Compressor: H.264
Frame rate: 24fps
F number: 4
ISO was set to 200 and no auto light setting. And since the weather was quite tricky that day you can see how dynamic the light was.
Next time I would set up aspect ratio of the stills to mach some video size convention as they ended up being 1680×1080. I didn’t want to crop anything afterward as I was quite happy with the composition based on three even horizontal stripes.
The script triggered the shutter every 1.8 seconds, took 4000 photos in 120 minutes.
Image setting: JPEG small/fine.
My 5D2 has a battery grip with 2 LP-E6’s fully charged. At the end of the process the battery level was at 75% – not bad. However, I had preview set to OFF and nothing showing in the display (hit INFO. button twice on your camera). Images can be saved to both PC Hard Drive or/and the camera memory card. In my case I was not able to set it to camera only application error.

Music: Kusanagi – Electro Dori.

July 16, 2009
In Big Brother Watch, Industry Gossip
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Contextual targeting on YouTube sucks

I mean come on! My selection of videos watched, rating and favorites clearly indicate that I would be the last person on this planet to have anything to do with the Church of S. And so I’m watching this Al Jazeera video on Gaza and what do I get? “Embrace Tom ‘A.D.D.’ Cruise and his Hollywood lobby” ad. Disgusting. Right now I wonder whether to feel happy about failure of advertising or cry because I work in it.