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Flower TimeLapses using iPad
I’ve noticed a number of the flowers here in Namibia open and close daily. Especially some of the succulents and cacti. What that means is that if I want to do timelapse videography I can try and record every day until I get it right. Unfortunately some of the succulents flower only one day, which
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Coming soon: a “War Correspondent Sim”
They’ve got video games for folks who like just about everything: golf, team sports, fishing, hunting, horseys, shooting bad guys, flinging birds from giant slingshots… Now there’s a game for folks who like editing videos. Instead of actually editing videos, you can play a video game where you edit pretend videos. Seriously, the game Warco
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Visualizing Kiva’s Microfinancing
What happens when you depict a microloan as a tiny speck of light on a world map, going from one country to another? And then you multiply that by 620,000 lenders and 615,000 borrowers who were microfinanced via the innovative organization Kiva (kiva.org)? Check out this creation by Kiva on Vimeo which depicts five+ years
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African Water Scorpion?
Today we came across the largest “digging scorpion” I’ve seen so far – about 3.5 inches or so from “nose” to tail. They burrow down in our garden, and this one apparently decided to burrow down into our pool. Apparently 1.5 meters of chlorinated water is no big deal for a scorpion, as he was
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Sandboarding. Swakopmund. Sony Vegas
For years, I’ve been editing with versions of Adobe Premiere and Premiere Elements, and the one complaint I’ve always had is its tendency to lock up on most computers. The exception has been my old desktop running XP with 512 MB memory – but even there, I’ve got to restart the computer after I finish