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!]
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.
Pomplamoose’s “VideoSongs”
One of my new faves is YouTube phenoms Pomplamoose, a musical duo composed of Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte. On their YouTube channel, they post what they call “VideoSongs,” quick and dirty (tho still quite professional) videos of them performing songs in their home studio. VideoSongs have two rules: 1. What you see is what […]
Brickfilms: Lego stop-motion
This month on Make: Online we’re talking about DIY moviemaking. One important subset is the brickfilm: a stop-motion movie using Lego bricks to create the animations. For inspiration, here are some of the most awesome films that have been done: Generally considered to be the first brickfilm, The Magic Portal was shot on film in […]
MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Papercraft rhombidodecadodecahedron [top left] Web-controlled car launcher launches car at toddler [top right] DIY audio test box [bottom left] Lovely solargraphy photos [bottom right]
Your favorite maker scenes/MacGyver moments
Back in January, when we were kicking around ideas for monthly themes, and the movie making theme, Statff Editor Arwen O’Reilly Griffith sent out the following email about a great “maker scene” in a film. This got me thinking. There are probably a lot of such moments in films, some in movies otherwise best forgotten, […]
OK Go Rube Goldberg video: meet the makers!
It took a huge amount of design, engineering, and coordination to create this spectacular Rube Goldberg machine in this internet-sensation OK Go video. We’d like to introduce you to four of the designers! Dan Busby – Bottom Floor I was one of the guys who helped build the machine. While we had a few core […]
Weekend Project: Making the Weekend Projects
Take a look “behind the scenes” as Kipkay shares what goes into shooting the Weekend Project videos and shares some tips to help you be a better movie maker. To download the Making The Weekend Projects video click here