Category: Video

Google Reader & Esquire

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http://www.google.com/reader/shared/17081126155022016204 is my page of shared blog entries. I read blogs all day, so that’s the stuff I deem worthy of sharing with other people. Some of it I share for the sole purpose of showing to my kids when they get home from school, but it’s mostly just cool/funny stuff. Does anyone else here have any shared blog pages? I’m always interested in new stuff to read, so post your shared page or your favorite blog links in the comments here.

For the past 2 weeks I’ve had the innards of the October 2008 Esquire e-ink display sitting on my desk, blinking at me. Yesterday I got sick enough of the blinking to just try and destroy the display. Instead of doing something sensible, like putting it up on a shelf where I can’t see it. Here are the results:

Green Screen

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green screen

I bought some fabric today and made a green screen. Payton and I did a test video and it worked really well, even without any lighting. The kids have been making nonstop videos the past week. Mostly puppets and stuff. But we got on the subject of green screens and I told them how easy it is to do, one thing leads to another, and I’m buying fabric. It’s a lot cooler than the green screen out of posterboard that Herman and I made a few years ago. Who knows what we’ll do with this though.

Here’s our test video with the green screen. It’s very spotty since the lighting in the garage is dim:

And here’s my favorite video of theirs so far (not green screened):