Google Street View Hyperlapse | Labs | Teehan+Lax

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April 15, 2013
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This looks like a fun tool that might be quite useful… :)

Google Street View Hyperlapse | Labs | Teehan+Lax.

Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest – has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requiresprecision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.

MoVI: A ‘Game Changing’ Stabilizer Rig for Silky-Smooth Hand-Held Video

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April 8, 2013
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“Over the last several days, one particular piece of new gear has been getting a lot of attention as a potential “game changer” for the videographers among us. A new hand-held stabilization rig, the MoVI is a three-axis, gyroscopic, completely silent system that’s looking to revolutionize the professional stabilization market.”

via MoVI: A ‘Game Changing’ Stabilizer Rig for Silky-Smooth Hand-Held Video.

A soldiers eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam

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April 2, 2013
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“Charlie Haughey shot nearly 2,000 images between March 1968 and May 1969 before taking the negatives home. And there they sat, out of sight, but not out of mind, for 45 years, until a chance meeting brought them out of dormancy and into a digital scanner. At first, it was very difficult for Haughey to view the images and talk about them, especially not knowing the fates of many of the subjects of his photos. When the digitization hit 1,700 negative scans, Haughey put them on a slideshow and viewed them all at once, and didn’t sleep for three days after. He’s slowly getting better at dealing with the emotional impact of seeing the images for the first time in decades.”

A soldiers eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam – The Big Picture – Boston.com.