Rocking the Time Lapse Shooting time lapse video has been made a piece of cake thanks to the DSLR. Here is a quick how-to on how to shoot time lapse video with your DSLR. 1. Setup Setting up for the timelapse is a surprisingly complicated affair. No – it’s not difficult in the intellectual sense, [...]
So – with my recent (ok, lifelong but only recently realized) interest in Astronomy, astrophotography, and video of course, I’ve come to find that there are a few limitations to my ‘getting long in the tooth’ EOS Rebel XTi. I’ve had a few things that really bug me about the camera. Limited ISO Coming from [...]
This has been a hell of a year. We started on a crappy foot, with little and big ones starting to get sick around January 5th. It’s now March, and we’ve collectively not been healthy yet. We are however on the mend, and looking toward March, April, and Spring just around the bend. Which brings [...]
I’m just a consumer. I’m a consumer of radio, television, media, internet, hard goods, and mindshare. I believe in paying for product that I choose to use, and I don’t wish to pay for product that I don’t want or choose to support. The CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) has been appointed by the [...]
Happy Holidays Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’ As Christmas morning dawns, I’m thankful for the people that we’ve shared the last year with. My family, and close friends – the new friends I’ve made online, and those souls that have made an impact on my family or myself this year. Any moment, a four year old [...]
Below is the text of an open letter to Dups, (@dups) and CC’d to a few folks from my empire family. Recent changes to the site removed the ability to pay for upgrades to your account, and eliminated the need to pay for stock releases. These changes dramatically alter the game-scape. 5 days ago – [...]
So – I’ve had a running dilemma for the last 18 months. I bought an iPhone 3G from a contact on Twitter (thanks @paulney!) and have been running it jailbroken as an iPod (with speakers/mic) ever since. For the last 4 years I’ve carried a Blackberry through my office. I’ve learned a few things being [...]
But based on this post – it does mean that the wordpress app for iPhone sucks donkey nuts. :sadface:
I just watched the tail end of James Cameron’s press conference. I appreciate his concern for the environment, and I appreciate and respect his desire to improve this planet. What I question however is the grandstanding of a hollywood movie mogul in my backyard, while his backyard produces more carbon, and burns more fossil fuel [...]
IMG_5816 Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’ It would appear that this vendor has the same opinion. The season is almost over. An early September visit showed a few less vendors than we are used to. While the die-hards were out, this weeks downtown famers market was missing the FMF’s that we’ve come to expect – the [...]