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.
False-color shadowgram of gunshot from a .357 magnum by Gary Settles at Penn State university. The New York Times has an awesome slideshow of shadowgrams and Schlieren photographs, created by engineering professor Gary Settles, which accompany a 2008 article about his work at Penn State’s Gas Dynamics Lab. The method, which can produce fantastic visualizations […]
io9 features some cool shots of sculptures by designer and photographer Andrew Chase, who makes articulated metal animal sculptures. Here’s a stop-motion video he made by posing his “cheetah:” Via Neatorama.
I really like the inexpensive gimbal support developed by William over at YB2nornal for his $15 steadicam project. I may bogart it for a forthcoming Make: Project. Via Hack a day. From the pages of MAKE: Johnny Lee showed us how to build a $14 Video Camera Stabilizer way back in MAKE 01.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member six million dollar dan made clever use of a spring clamp for his garden timelapse camera – clamp is standard spring clamp. it actually has a hole in it already that fits a #1/4-20 screw. #1/4-20 is standard size for camera mounts (in the USA at least). I […]
Learn to make and use a pinhole camera! Find out where to get supplies and how to develop the images here: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/craft_video_pinhole_camera.html
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Ed Troxell, photo intern When I landed my internship here at MAKE it was my real break into the magazine industry. I remember telling myself that if I […]
Interesting urban design pops up in Toronto. A really creative approach to guerrilla gardening. The planter is made from layers of old advertising flyers!
