Because it’s Friday: Fabulous Stop Motion

Posted on 13/01/2012 by Graham Chastney

I am repeatedly amazed by the time and energy that people will put into the production of stop-motion video. The following are two of my recent favourites:

Every child imagines what inanimate objects do when they are not being watched – The Joy of Books is a wonderful representation of that imagination.

The Joy of Books

It takes real effort and lots of time to get light drawing pictures right, so to make a stop motion movie with light drawing pictures is simply amazing, but that’s what the team at Oh Yeah Wow have done with Rippled:

Rippled from Oh Yeah Wow on Vimeo.

Because it’s Friday: Time Lapse Views from Space

Posted on 18/11/2011 by Graham Chastney

Last night I was flying back home and the skies were clear. I love to watch the street-lights snaking all over the country accompanied by the movement of vehicles. It’s great fun trying to identify some of the locations as we passed over them.

Returning to a theme from a few weeks ago here are some absolutely fabulous time-lapse videos of the earth taken from the International Space Stations.

I wonder how many places you recognise:

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS

Because it’s Friday: Voice Activated Lift in Scotland

Posted on 07/10/2011 by Graham Chastney

Voice commands were a big part of the iPhone 4S launch this week so I thought I’d pick up on the theme:

Burnistoun Lift

Because it’s Friday: Flying Solo

Posted on 30/09/2011 by Graham Chastney

I’ve always loved the thought of being able to fly solo – without a plane. Just flying.

I’m not sure I’m brave enough to do it with a jet pack or a wingsuit though, but it’s inspiring to watch people who are:

Jetman Flight at Grand Canyon West

Wingsuit Base Jumping

And I’m definitely not brave enough to fly through an arch in a mountain.

Jeb Corliss flies through a Chinese mountain

Because it’s Friday: Domino Fun

Posted on 23/09/2011 by Graham Chastney

Someone (I can’t remember who) pointed out this Google Chrome Domino cascade the other day:

Google Chrome Falls Down

It reminded me of how much fun we used to have with dominos when we were kids, but we never quite got to do anything as fun as this one from a supermarket somewhere in Finland:

Supermarket Domino

I wonder if they sold all of the boxes of (broken) breakfast cereals and biscuits afterwards.

Because it’s Friday: iPod Magician – Marco Tempest

Posted on 09/09/2011 by Graham Chastney

Some illusionary fun with a bunch of iPhones from Marco Tempest; that’s about as much as you need to know:

iPod Magician – Marco Tempest

Because it’s Friday: Try something new for 30 days

Posted on 02/09/2011 by Graham Chastney

I love the talks from TED, the wealth of these free resources is incredible.

This short talk from Matt Cutts packs a punch in just a few minutes:

What are the things that you would love to have a go at?

It reminds me of a challenge I set myself a little while ago which has lapsed a bit.

I’ve always thought it is more important to focus on the things that they are going to start doing rather than the things they are going to stop doing.