Here’s helpful instructable for fitting(and building) a CCD video camera to a basic pair of binoculars – Have you ever looked through your binoculars and thought ” I wish I could get this on tape” ? Well now you can. In this Instructable I’ll show you how to build a cheap CCD eyepiece that will […]
This mod shows how to slow down the speed of the auto focus on a Meade ETX Astro Telescope. Lots of details on this mod if you have the time and space to store one of these giant scopes. Meade Electric Focuser Mod
Here’s a really cool short video, done by Star Wars fan Michael Horn, of various Star Wars vehicles participating in “Imperial Fleet Week” in San Francisco. Horn says he “shot everything on my junkie DV camera, did motion-tracking and comping in After Effects, and basic sound design in Final Cut.” MAKE pal Bonnie Burton did […]
Bennett sent us this how-to on making flipbooks from video – I canรขโฌโขt quite remember how I got the idea, but I thought it would be fun to create some flipbooks based off of video I had shot. The challenge was to be able to effeciently process the frames from a 3-5 second clip, have […]
Brittny Badgerรขโฌโขs disassembled appliances.
Joe Kelly sent me a link to his website where he has some really amazing works of art. Most of them are based on different pre-cinema technology. The image above is his Autoscope that was created a few years back for a festival in Calgary. The Autoscope is an early prefilm media device/installation (it even […]
Inspiringly beautiful video of cloud-to-ground lightning – You can see all steps of lightning. First the stepped leader (clound-t-ground), second the upward leader (from tower), third the attachment between these two leaders, 4th the RETURN STROKE (the main stroke of a discharge) and after, the subsequent strokes. The capillary-like pattern of the stepped-leader seems particularly […]
