Photography & Video

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.

OK Go Plays a Thousand Instruments with a Car

OK Go Plays a Thousand Instruments with a Car

OK Go’s new video for the song Needing/Getting has the band playing a thousand instruments… with a car. Yep, they rigged up a Chevy Sonic hatchback with retractable pneumatic arms, then drove a course with specially tuned instruments at specific intervals while extending the arms to hit each in time with the song. This allowed them to capture both the video itself along with audio elements, which they mixed into the the final track. Elements of which were aired during the Superbowl as an ad.

DIY DSLR Wrist Strap

DIY DSLR Wrist Strap

A slick alternative to winding your shoulder strap around your wrist when using your DSLR is this nifty wrist strap from Being Geek Chic’s Elizabeth Giorgi. Her simple design allows you to turn almost any piece of fabric into a handy wrist strap suitable for tethering cameras that are a little larger than your average point and shoot.