Well, it’s been another wonderfully random day. I have just spent the last couple of hours trying to get my blog to work; I think I finally figured it out. I finally had to take a Slurpee break a little while ago. It’s this newfangled WordPress … in my previous post, I had inserted a [...]
Well, it’s been another wonderfully random day. I have just spent the last couple of hours trying to get my blog to work; I think I finally figured it out. I finally had to take a Slurpee break a little while ago. It’s this newfangled WordPress … in my previous post, I had inserted a bunch of photos. I must’ve angered WordPress because it decided to add a bunch of useless code and basically prevented my blog from loading. Technology … what can you do?
Today was sort of a lazy day, doing stuff around the house and working on projects. One of the biggest projects was putting together a couple of stabilization units for our cameras.
If you remember, we had a lengthy conversation yesterday with our good friend, Matt Sconce. Well, Matt had developed a device similar to a Steadicam which produces amazingly smooth camera motion. He has called it the Matt Cam. Brian and myself actually built two Matt Cams today. It was almost like following a recipe; we walked around Home Depot with Matt’s schematic in hand, trying to find every piece of hardware necessary for the project. But because we were building two, we had to double the recipe. Having walked around the store for about an hour, we were feeling like a real men. We headed over to my grandparents’ house and successfully completed the project. After some spaghetti (I just can’t say no when I’m offered spaghetti), we came back to the homestead to try out our new creations. We actually looked like a bunch of morons; we both mounted our cameras to the Matt Cams and proceeded to run around the living room filming each other. Even though our new living room is extremely huge, we needed more room to run around. We decided to take our test outdoors. So I followed Brian around the apartment complex, occasionally running around him in circles and darting here and there…
It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
Not us running around. We actually looked like a bunch of fools. But the video we shot looked amazing. I could hear me running, the clip clop of my footsteps … and the video looked as if it were shot by a camera on a dolly. It was well worth the 20 bucks it took to put it together.
Mr. Sconce: you are pretty much the man. If your interested in reading more, check this out.
Now, I think I’m going to go to bed. Peace out, homies.
That’s incredible. I might have to talk to you about how you built this thing, at some point.