I’ll be on the panel entitled, “Show Me The Money! Consumers Get Paid for Video Content?” scheduled for Tuesday, March 13 from 10:00-11:00 am.
Austin Texas.
Last year was awesome. This year will be even better.
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
This Make: Video Podcast brings you another tutorial featuring hardware hacker Joe Grand. This weekend, dust off that multimeter and learn how to use it! In this video you’ll learn how to check for continuity, measure resistance and measure voltage. These measurements are really handy to have in your bag of tricks if you are messing around with electronics. Make sure to download the accompanying pdf so that you can print it out and have it next to you as you become familiar with these essential multimeter skills.
Make sure to check out the accompanying pdf too!
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Originally posted to the Make: blog. - Link
The last cult challenge was awesome. Go check out in the cult flickr pool. - Link
Until February 15th, we’ll be cult copy cats.
Your challenge is to copy photos from other cultists. You can choose from anything they’ve ever done. When you’ve done your copycatting, drop it in the cult group. Then you post a link to that picture in your comments or description which you can get to by clicking “all sizes.” Then send an email to the person you copycatted and tell them to put it in the cult pool.
The other side of this is that you’ve got to keep doing awesome new photography stunts so people will copy you. Make it fresh. Take risks. Do things that are hard. Push.
To make this easier, why not tag anything you want someone to copy with the tag copycatthis. Tag anything you copied with copycatted.
This is going to be an inspirational challenge! Copycat away!
PS. Still working on the show for March.
Susan asks, This may sound like a dumb question… but what are the rules of a “self-portrait”? I mean, do you have to be holding the camera? Can you have someone else hold it for you? What’s the, um, standards? See, it just sounds like a dumb question to even ask…
As an extreme self portraitist, I say that you can count anything as a self portrait as long as:
1. It’s you who’s deciding to take the picture and,
2. It’s you in the picture.
It’s kinda like the same as when a director gets credit for a movie even though he never touched the movie camera.
For example, Hilary and I went out self-portraiting and at one point, I passed my camera over to her to take a picture of me. I knew what I wanted and she helped me make it happen and I’m in the picture. She was my human tripod.
You can also agree to take pictures with your own camera and give them to the subject as self portraits. It’s a good idea to be explicit about who gets credit. As the artist, it’s your vision and you should be credited with the artwork. People generally feel ownership when they push the button, so it’s a good idea to explain it to people. While in the subway doing self portraits with a giant photo of me, I had Matt take a photograph of me. I told him explicitly that he would not get credit for the picture and that he was helping me take a self portrait… and then I made sure to thank him in the blog post for helping out with the project.
Got an opinion on this? Leave a note in the comments!
I’ve spent some time during my NYC visit with Hilary. We’ve done the stranger project together and we just finished rasterbating 11 Spring Street. (See the next blog entry to check that out!) Hilary has been getting lots of attention for her photography lately. She’s been getting lots of work shooting actors portraits and just got her first photo published… in the New York Times. It’s a good local paper to start out in, eh?
She’s been using a camera that’s just slightly better than a point and shoot and she needs an SLR and a lens with a red ring around it to take it to the next level. She’s using chipin.com to raise the funds. I can tell you that the camera that she gets with her friend’s support will take some amazine pictures. If you like her photography, consider giving her a few bucks towards a badass camera.
Check out her pics here. - Link
Read more about her camera fund raising adventure on her blog. Link
Hilary and I met up to meet the Cult of Self Portraitists challenge to rasterbate an image and take a portrait with it. We started by taking self portraits and then added lots of contrast and then fed them into the rasterbator. After that we printed them out on her laserjet and then each taped 64 pages together to make huge images of ourselves. We took up her entire apartment! Make sure to check out Hilary’s blog to hear her side of the story!
Then we took it to Manhattan! Here is Hilary at the 7 station. Isn’t she cute as she’s waiting for a train with her self portrait?
We ran into Matt on the train and he helped get set up. In true NYC fashion, everyone was nonpulsed and catatonic and I turned the end of the train into photo shoot.
Hilary rocked it at Astor Place by rasterbating the Alamo cube.
Then we met up with Charles Hope and had some food and he suggested we put them up at 11 Spring Street.
We popped over there and tried taping our rasterbations to the wall, but tape just doesn’t cooperate in 24 degrees farenheit and a person walking by suggested wheatpaste. After a few minutes of surfing the web on my blackberry, I walked over to the corner store and bought two pounds of wheat flour and 2 giant teas and a plastic spoon for mixing. Getting back to 11 Spring Street, I mixed a bit of wheat flour into the water until it was smooth and a bit thick like a milkshake. This makes it all gluteny and sticky and glue. Then I smeared it all over the back of the rasterbated images and the wall. After slapping it on to the wall and smoothing it all out, I added another layer to the front of the images which made it all shiny! It took two large cups of wheat paste per image to get it stuck to the wall. Then we took pictures of ourselves in front of our photos.
Here’s a photo of both of our rasterbations at 11 Spring Street. I’m not sure how long they will last, but it was so much fun and so exhilerating, that I can’t wait to do another one! If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by 11 Spring Street and take photos and shoot me an email at bre@makezine.com so I can check them out!
Here’s a link to my rasterbation photoset - Link
And Hilary’s rasterbation photoset. - Link
Hilary’s writeup at her blog. - Link
Want to do it yourself? Here’s a link to the rasterbator! - Link
Charles documented a bit of the action on his cellphone. Watch the video - Link
The cult of self portraitists - Link
In this weekend projects video, Bre Pettis and Justin Gerardy hack into a speak and spell and an omnichord.
In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit bend up some 80’s electronics!
Check out the photoset here - Link
Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone! Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos and accompanying pdf get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv or on the weekend projects page at your leisure! - Subscribe Link
Call to Cult of Risk Taking Self Portrait Photographers
It’s time again to push the envelope on self portrait photography. If you’re in the cult, then get your cameras charged up and crank up your courage to it’s maximum setting. Remember, it’s important to make the best photos that you are capable of!
I am just going to give you four to do before the weekend is over. I’m posting more challenges as soon as I finish doing them so don’t dilly dally!
1. Take a photo of yourself looking hott. (See above)
2. Make a rasterbated image of yourself at least 3 feet by 4 feet. Post it in a public place with staples or duct tape or whatever you have to do and take a picture of yourself with it. Bonus points if the image is a picture of yourself taking a picture of yourself infront of a rasterbated image. - Link
3. Do fauxtography on an unsuspecting victim, post it to the internet and pick the best frame of the movie and use the screenshot as your photo on flickr. Link to the movie from your flickr photo. - Link
4. Create a panoramic image using a stitching program. Make sure that you are in the image. Explain how you did it. (Note: I have no idea how to do this)
Note: I’m organizing a show of the photos taken by the cult in Seattle in the first week of March. Keep taking kick-ass photos and get ready to rock.
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