Hand-drawn animation in music video
Here’s a neat, mostly animated music video with roughly 3,000 frames drawn by hand. You should check it out!
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.
Embroidered Animation
Rachel @ CRAFT posted up this embroidered animation of a running dog by Aubrey Longley-Cook.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Dead Fish Hat by JadeCat9, Trophy by Laleebu, Slinky Dog Costume by anniehp, Crochet M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine plush by Yummy Pancake, and CRAFT shirt front by Eclectic Circle.
Keychain camera takes intermittent photographs
Youtube user textualarmor created a wearable interval camera as a project for a class at Carnegie Mellon. There are so many moments in life that are not considered “photo-worthy,” but in looking back we find ourselves wishing we had pictures to commemorate them. Specifically, I think of the countless bike rides I’ve taken around New […]
Dead-simple shutter speed tester from old mouse parts
Pablo shows off his simple hack for testing the shutter speed of the old cameras he restores: A phototransistor from an old computer mouse, a battery, a flashlight, and a mono stereo plug to his computer’s microphone port. He records the pulse in a simple audio recording utility and measures the time between the peaks. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Pinhole video
Josh Grant cobbled together a pinhole lens for his DSLR, threw on a UV filter and started shooting. I took it with me to the park the next sunny afternoon, along with a tripod, expecting to take a few multi-second exposures of dandelions. I was surprised to learn that I 1/5s was all I needed […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Felt Chain Scarf by talktothewind, Sock Dragon by MandeeFranee, The Dude and Maude 1 by Mafiosagrrl, and Sugar Molecule by Girl Incognito {itsastitch}.
