Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Monday, June 10, 2013

Time-lapse video: “Horizons”, by Randy Halverson.

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Time-lapse video: “Horizons”, by Randy Halverson
Regular readers may know the work, if not the name, of Randy Halverson. I’ve featured his night-sky photography and time-lapse videos so often on the blog I’ve lost count (but look to the bottom of this post to see links to a few). He has an excellent eye for composition, motion, and detail.
He’s created a new video, called “Horizons”, and, as usual for him, it’s visually stunning. He has a full-length 31-minute version he’s selling from his website DakotaLapse, and he’s created a teaser trailer to give you a taste of it:
The music for the full-length video is by Simon Wilkinson, but the teaser here has music by none other than Bear McCreary (along with Brendan McCreary and his band Young Beautiful in a Hurry), who wrote the soundtracks for The Walking Dead, Eureka, Defiance,The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which is excellent), and also Europa Report, a movie coming out this summer.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

This Clever Camera Array Will Bullet-Time Everything

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This Clever Camera Array Will Bullet-Time Everything



Friday, May 31, 2013

Photoshop Illustration Painting Tutorial

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Photoshop Painting Tutorial: Using the "Nudge" tool (arrow keys), move the selection back to its original position. Click on the tone ("Internal Parts TONE") layer to re-activate it, then click on the "Paintbrush" tool. Use the key command Ctrl-H (Windows) or Command-H (Mac OS) to hide the selection "Marching Ants." Using pure white from the Swatches palette, slowly paint the highlight in.
Painting Tutorial - Adding Highlights 1
In the last sample of our ghosted illustration (below) you see our chrome tubing incorporated into the finished piece. There are many different approaches to accomplish the same ends, but through countless hours of trial and error, these techniques are what I have found to be the fastest and most consistent, using Adobe Photoshop as a drawing program.
Final Artwork Bike Fork

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013

Stabilizing Footage with the Warp Stabilizer in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 >

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Stabilizing Footage with the Warp Stabilizer in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6


A common issue that occurs with footage recorded on handheld cameras is that it can be shaky and uneven, making it difficult to watch.  The Warp Stabilizer, introduced in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 and now available in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, is an incredibly advanced stabilization tool that can make this type of footage look as if it was recorded with a sophisticated camera rig.
What makes the Warp Stabilizer so unique is that you generally don’t need to change any of the default settings to get a good result.  The advanced image analysis, which takes place behind the scenes in Premiere Pro does all the heavy lifting for you.
Stabilize a shot
1      In the Project panel, select the Warp Stabilizer bin.
2      Double-click the Warp Stabilizer sequence to open it in the Timeline panel.
3      Play the sequence.
Notice that about halfway through the clip there is a considerable amount of camera shake, which would ordinarily make this shot unusable.
4      Press Shift+7 to make the Effects panel active.
5      Type warp in the Rapid Find box to quickly locate...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Cassini Solstice Mission: Cassini Gets Close-up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

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Cassini Solstice Mission: Cassini Gets Close-up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

Cassini Gets Close-up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
Storm at Saturn north pole
Narrated video about a hurricane-like storm seen at Saturn's north pole by Cassini.
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph (150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.
"We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth," said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn's hydrogen atmosphere."
Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn's atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

1967 HEMI BARRACUDA

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BARRACUDA:

BR162 Hemi-Cuda version of the 1967 Barracuda and 1968 Barracuda hood. (BR167 hood with SC102 scoop)
Ease of installation is a major feature of all Unlimited's fiberglass parts.



BR162 Hemi-Cuda version of the 1967 Barracuda and 1968 Barracuda hood. (BR167 hood with SC102 scoop)


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Free Universal Construction Kit | F.A.T.

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The Free Universal Construction Kit | F.A.T

THE FREE UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION KIT

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Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys.
The Free Universal Construction Kit adapter collection
Fig. 1. The Free Universal Construction Kit.

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Video by Riley Harmonfor F.A.T. Lab + Sy-Lab.
F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab are pleased to present the Free Universal Construction Kit: a matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten* popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems—enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs, and ultimately, more creative opportunities for kids. As with other grassroots interoperability remedies, the Free Universal Construction Kitimplements proprietary protocols in order to provide a public service unmet—or unmeetable—by corporate interests.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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