Comments on: New YouTube video: “Subliminal Tuesday”

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:49:02 +0000

Very cool Andy. Thanks for posting it.

By: lcarsos

lcarsos — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:57:57 +0000

What is that third song that plays? The one with a techno vibe to it? If I could figure this out I could let my brain concentrate on more important things.

By: Ihnatko

Ihnatko — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:15:19 +0000

@OwlBoy – That would be the magnificently-fabulous Nikon D80, also known as “that thing I’ve had around my neck practically since the day I bought it.” It shoots at something less than 3 frames per second max, and like I said it can only keep that rate up for more than a couple of seconds if you’re shooting JPEG instead of RAW.

By: bloggy48

bloggy48 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:14:38 +0000

Hey, that’s pretty neat! Love the innovation of it.

I hear the Information Awareness Office is looking for photographers if your day job thingy doesn’t pan out. :-0

By: OwlBoy

OwlBoy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:34:42 +0000

What camera lets you do burst-mode for so long like that Andy?

-Owl

By: ShameyReed

ShameyReed — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:41 +0000

iStopMotion as recently offered in latest MacHeist package which was discussed on perhaps one of the most interesting MacBreak Weakly episodes (#74) in recent memory. I had great fun with iStopMotion while documenting a complex architectural conservation project in Central Park. Another great ap is Gawker for multi camera capture. Great sequence Pundito– made me think about those classic Levi commercials with the yodeling.

By: GreginChicagoland

GreginChicagoland — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:25:58 +0000

A few items. First off, love the new site! Secondly, great use of photos. This links for me nicely to a recent gift of a book made from iphoto to my folks and the issue we face in taking pictures now. We are simply rattling off a ton of pics and now faced with what to do with them. While we are still hell-bent on getting the money shot, we are finding that the in-between shots can help tell a story. My video camera is aging by the day, and I still shoot some video for youtube, it’s great to have tools like this to help tell a story.

Lastly, thanks for taking shots of the various location shots. Since most of the Mac journalists, including of course yourself, have been to these events a million times, folks like me have been to zero, and I think some lose sight of that. It’s nice to get a sense of the space and appreciate the pandamonium of it all as a Mac geek who hasn’t been to one…yet.

Out.

By: Ihnatko

Ihnatko — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:27:21 +0000

@India – Interesting, innit? Like I said, I shot JPEG out of necessity — I couldn’t use my one “big” 8 gig card so I needed to make a 4 gig card last all day — but as the day progressed it allowed me to try out a “blast ‘em” shooting style. You know…where you’re less cautious about identifying The Decisive Moment and merely hold the shutter button down for a few seconds, trusting that at least one of the 12 shots will be “right.”

@Kris – Exported the pictures from iPhoto as 640×480, then converted them to QuickTime with iStopMotion. The app’s designed for doing stop-motion animation but it lets you drag a folder of JPEGs into the app.

I happened to have a few apps on my hard drive that could convert 600 JPEGs into a QuickTime (including iPhoto itself) but only iStopMotion lets you set the frame rate. A couple of trial-and-errors resulted in the video I wanted, which was than embellished with music and titles in iMovie.

iStopMotion is a pretty neat app. I might have to do a FlickrMovie of my Alcatraz photos next. I’m usually very careful about cutting the day’s enormous pile of shots down to just a gracious 5-10% but as I said, it’s interesting to have a quick peek at “everything I felt was worth photographing that day.”

By: WTL

WTL — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:09:50 +0000

Hey Andy – thanks for saving me $3,000.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:59:59 +0000

Very cool! What did you use to put them together with music?