The Vida e Caffe viral videos circa 2000
Rui Esteves, co-founder of CSG Portugal and Vida e Caffe, put these classic videos together way back in 2000. Read more about them here and here and watch the embedded videos below. ‘Thank you and goodnight!’ Lesson one: How to greet your barista: Lesson two: How to be ordering for your espresso:
Useful Firefox Add-ons
In keeping with spreading the Firefox love, I’ve taken a screenshot of a list of Firefox Add-ons l find useful and workable. The reason I’m writing this is because I recently found and installed two excellent add-ons that have made my web and multimedia development a joy: Firebug for web development and Fireshot for screenshots. …View Full Post
Quality Wildlife Videos within 24 hours of filming
Last week I wrote about the Earth-Touch.com video channel on MyVideo’s blog. For those that don’t know, Earth-Touch.com ‘aims to film quality wildlife footage in High Definition from the most spectacular locations around the world, and to bring it to you, our users, within a few days or less of it being filmed. Our footage …View Full Post
Stop-frame animations: Creative Genius
Stop-frame animation involves shooting an entire video using only a still photograph camera, and then painstakingly selecting a sequence of stills (a few thousand for a few minutes of footage) and ‘playing’ them in quick succession so the end result looks like a twitchy video. Stop-frame animations can be used as an effective viral marketing …View Full Post
My Interview with Ideate
I was recently interviewed by Fred Roed who is ‘the marketing guy in the Ideate crew. Fred runs a web marketing company called World Wide Creative and loves writing about people out there doing marketing right’. Amongst other entrepreneurial gems, Fred writes about ‘superheros’ in a unique 1 minute interview series for Ideate. My sincere …View Full Post
Hiking, Flyfishing video montage
A couple of weeks ago, I managed to escape the affluent bubble of Cape Town and spend four inspiring days in Mountains just outside of Worcester. To get to the river, once has to duck off a highway and cross over a meandering stream before adjusting backpacks, shoe laces and equipment to embark up the …View Full Post
