Found on BoingBoing: SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag: Like video phones, which have been just one technological revolution away from mass adoption since 1964, virtual reality is so appealingly simple that its persistent failure to be a good idea, as measured by user adoption, has done little to dampen enthusiasm […]
DV Rebel’s Guide
Nifty! From Boingboing: DV Rebel’s Guide: Mark Frauenfelder: I’m looking into making some videos, and I just heard about this book: The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. It sounds great. Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for […]
Stupid Reason to Fire a Teacher
Stupid Reason to Fire a Teacher: If you did something 11 years ago that has nothing to do with your life or career now, should you be fired for it? Sex Drive Daily. What if the “something” was star in an adult movie? What if your students got their hands on that movie? Wouldn’t you […]
XL-1 table dolly
XL-1 table dolly: MAKE Flickr photo pool member Tekisui made a homemade table top dolly for a XL-1… – Link. Related: DIY rail based linear dolly – Link. From the pages of MAKE: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer. You don’t have $10,000 to spend on a Steadicam? Make this ultra-low-cost video camera stabilizer and see how […]
A new harness
Last night, I made a cat harness for my big boy, Alladin. We’ve been training Alladin, and are about to start on the leash-walking. Unfortunately, this requires a harness and leash. Doubly unfortunately, nearly every cat harness I’ve seen is too small.