As tablet computers surge, will video be publishing’s next big hit? Publishers Weekly explores video companion pieces for books. The below Tribute To George Carlin is clean with interesting historical photos and the above video is simple and interesting. The other videos embedded in the article are a little too unpolished for our tastes.
What does the future hold for video in book publishing? Will video-enhanced books surge in demand, changing the nature of the publishing game? Or will video be used more for marketing and publicity, allowing thousands of authors who don’t have an HBO series or can’t be on Good Morning America to reach a wider audience through Web platforms like YouTube?
Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology provides shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount.
Will this eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field without the need for large lenses full of pieces of glass? Tiny, smartphone lens images manipulated into focal lengths of various lenses. Obsoleting iPhone accessories like Olloclip and the SLR Mount.
Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý made a video performance on the streets of Prague mounting a pico projector to the bike handlebars to display a DIY digital bike lane.
ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.
Flavorwire has desaturated and uploaded 10 films that they claim provide a better viewing experience in black and white.
The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.
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