Lost Knowledge: Magic Lanterns
A look at the 17th century precursor to the slide, and then movie, projector, magic lanterns.
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Intern’s Corner: How to photograph your DIY project
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. Part 1. Setting up a background for your project. By Ed Troxell, photo intern As a DIYer, you share your projects to show off your expertise and to help […]
Stop-motion music video
Stewart McCullough sent us this stop-motion music video he did for some friends, The Bran Flakes. He used (and recommends) Dragon Stop Motion software. He says it’s “very well done… stable, with a good user interface, and lots of good features specifically for doing any kind of stop-motion animation.” It costs $275. The Bran Flakes […]
Introducing: the Hickshaw
In response to our DIY Movie Making theme, Derek “Deek” Diedricksen sent us this first episode of Tiny Yellow Houses, a series he’s doing on backyard shackitecture, this one featuring his “Hickshaw,” a movable small structure designed to be used as a backyard hang-out space/tiny office or festival sleeping space. Derek also has a self-published, […]
The city at night is made of light
Tokyo/Glow is a short film, written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon, about the little glowing guy from a cross-walk sign who jumps down from the sign, at night, and wanders around Tokyo gawking at all the lights. I don’t think there are any CG effects. The film’s amazing look was achieved by combining a real actor in a custom glow-suit with a bunch of photographic hi-jinks: stop-motion, time-lapse, long exposure…did I miss anything?
Time-lapse teen-built trebuchet
In honor of both DIY Movie Making Month and our ongoing love affair with simple machines that hurl stuff, Jeff DelPapa, founder of NERDS (The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society), sent us a link to this time-lapse video of a group of teens building a trebuchet. Jeff describes the video as “stone-simple…120x real-time, using a […]
DIY iPhone steadicam
The project description for this iPhone stabilizer is in Japanese but as usual you can rely on Google Translate’s garbled assistance. The site’s great diagrams and photos, however, need no translation! [thanks, recombu!]
