Webcam Music Video Montage
This is one of those music videos that makes you smile at the ingenuity of humans. As an editor, I cannot begin to imagine the headache this must be, from organising project files to the choreography and manipulation of over 50 concurrent video streams. Shot completely on MacBook Pro webcams, Japanese band Sour shot Hibi …View Full Post
Cooliris. FullScreen. 3D.
Cooliris, formerly known as Piclens, transforms your browser into an interactive, full-screen “cinematic” experience for web media. Install the IE, Safari and Firefox compatible plugin and you can view photos and videos in a non-linear 3D X/Y/Z configuration. You can fly through 3D walls of multimedia content at the touch of your arrow keys. As …View Full Post
Redbull 360° Interactive Video
Redbull’s new surfing site features an impressive application of interactive video technology. The video lets you click and scroll within the video, giving you 360-degree control of video footage, placing you atop a surfboard on the waves of Tahiti’s notorious Teahupoo surf break.
Wildlife Photographer of the year
The South African Museum, known as ‘Iziko’, situated in 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town is the oldest and largest museum on the sub-continent. From their website: ‘Iziko’ is an isiXhosa word, meaning “a hearth”. Since the hearth of a typical African hut usually occupies the central space, Iziko symbolises both a hub of cultural …View Full Post
Tumblr – The multimedia twitter?
I’m not much of a fan of twitter. Quite honestly I don’t see the point. But it seems some of the bloggers I’ve been following use it regularly and find it effective. I remember thinking that a full scale multimedia microblogging platform might eclipse twitter, as the logical extension would be to open up multiple …View Full Post
Synthasite Beta Launch
I’ve been following Vinny Lingham’s blog for a while now. He is arguably one of the top internet entrepreneurs in South Africa and posts relevant and sensible content on his blog. His latest venture, Synthasite, a web-based publishing tool recently launched out of Alpha into an impressive Beta. Rafiq has covered the launch here and …View Full Post
