Regular followers of this blog may remember my ranting about the ridiculousness of the Apple Terms and Conditions, more specifically that it ran to 90 pages of text that you were supposed to read and agree to. Well, surprise, surprise, with the release of iPhone 4 OS the T&Cs have been amended again and now running to a stonking 99 pages. I have to admit to being a little disappointed that Apple didn’t managed to hit the magic 100 mark. […]
This is what it was like last time I went to Glasto. I’m hoping it’s better for everyone this year… It actually got much worse the year this was taken – so bad in fact a man was sighted paddling around in a canoe. I was impressed, if somewhat baffled about that level of organisation – You have to consider the thought process when packing: “Tent, check. Sleeping bag, check. Wellies, check, Toilet Roll… Check..Now what else, oh yeah, mustn’t […]
Rickster’s post-production tips #1. For those of you not familiar with chroma keying it’s a method of removing a background and replacing it with something else using a colour as a way of selecting the bit you want to remove. The coloured background card in the example above. Notice how the shot doesn’t move? This is a prerequisite for keying easily, until you get into the world of tracking that is, but more on that later.
Something strange is afoot in Fitzrovia. Someone is distributing photos around the area showing before and after photos of the BT tower, one dated in the future with the tower missing. What’s it all about? There’s also a link to this Facebook page, which doesn’t seem to offer any more clues right now..
Occasionally you see something that makes you want to applaud. This commercial for Amnesty International is such a thing. The only question that remains is did they do it for real or is it 3D rendered? I leave that for you to decide.
I keep telling everybody about these, so I’ve gathered them all onto one page for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
rickster.co.uk went live on the 1st of March 2010 and I’ve stumbled my way up the pop charts (a.k.a. Google) and finally hit the summit. Not bad for three months work. (see how I’m doing today here) Now, where the hell did I put the flag? Of course before we all get too excited I feel I should point out that the search term “Rickster” is hardly that common – If I’d managed to get my site to be the […]
So you’re a scentist and you mess around with weather balloons for a living. Then one day you think, “I could attach a video camera to it.” This is the result. It also says a lot for the robustness of the GoPro cameras.
Maybe I should just a whole album of video “Great Train Trips” I could call it “Great Train Trippy’s of the World” or something.. Here’s the evolution of the previous idea. Covering the join between the two flipped over videos to see if we can “sell” the idea a bit more. It sort of works even in this very crude state I think. For those that missed it the original “Train Trippy” is here. The more prosaic “TrainTrip at Brookside […]
