The Future of Movies?

Check this out and tell me you're not amazed.

Okay, in case you didn't get it, pause the video and then click inside it to grab it, move the camera around, look behind you. Unpause it and watch the jump backwards. Or grab the video while its playing and move the camera dynamically.

Okay, now do you think its cool?

I thought so.

There's more over here at Immersive Media

Take Two on Mountain Biking Video

Wish me luck, we're heading out to the trail again this morning. I tried to mount up my DV cam but it bounces around waaaay too much, even on smooth concrete in the driveway. I don't think that will work unless I want to make people motion sick.

Anyway, I've changed some camera settings and should hopefully capture some better video this time around. I've also doubled my actors so we'll have two dogs and two bikes this time. That should help too. The only downside is that I've got a mere eight and a half minutes of video memory to fill and that goes quickly.

See you in a few hours.

Writer's Dam

It isn't so much that I have nothing to write about these days. I have plenty of topics and news things that are on mind and would make adequate blog posts. So I don't have writer's block, I've got writer's dam. They probably come from the same roots but I keep starting posts, stopping, coming back to them later and then just adding them to my drafts. Where they will wither away until eventual deletion during a clean up.

I guess I don't really care to share the dreary frustration of hunting for a job. You've all done it, it blows donkey chunks, let's move on.

One thing I am rather looking forward to trying out today is my newly built bike camera mount. I've had the instructions and most of the parts for many months now, I was just missing the main mounting body. And there was an old bike lamp mount on Paula's bike. I took it, drilled it out, inserted the bolts and tightened up my washers and then tested it out. It should very, very cool on some of the descents. I just hope I don't eat it and destroy the camera, or that the mount doesn't disintegrate under bouncing stress and destroy the camera. But if it does, I really hope I've got the camera rolling at the time!

My other worry is that the camera will shake too much during the ride to produce any usable video, which is why helmet mounted systems are so nice. But we'll see what happens. At the very least it would make a great system for using on the cruiser while out on West Cliff.