Appalachian Trail, NJ

An elaborate wooden walking path over a marshland valley in New Jersey. I'm told the bridge was funded by a man who's son had died and was an avid hiker.

Fast Dog

Ninja goes fast in cold weather. Not really up to full speed, but he has fun.

Transportation HD

Finally. We are doing this in HD for real now.

Robot Water Canon: I want one

I don't know what I would even do with such a device, but now that I know it exists, I must have one.

Girls Kick Ass

This is how the coolest girl in town spends her Sunday afternoon. As her awesomeness, Drew Barrymore, once said in a classic McG epic: "and that's kickin' your ass."

Ladies Night At the Track

Media Barrons puts together a group of professional race car drivers who teach a group of girls how to drive race cars. What can be more awesome than that?

Tech notes:
Image quality:Still no ability to upload the actual 720p to Youtube via the phone without syncing it to a computer (which I refuse to do so far). More research continues.

iMovie Mobile: the default 'cross-fade' is extremely annoying. when you remove the cross fade, the video clip does not revert to the beginning, but instead trims the head. this is compounded byt eh faxct that iMovie will not always play a clip from the same place. that is to say, to say that is is not frame accurate is a huge understatement. If you use a clip from the very first frame of it, iMovie tends to trim the head, and just won't play the very first frames. Very annoying if the action you want is at the very head of a clip. As with everyone else using iMovie Mobile, the lack of audio editing is very noticeably missing from this software. I'm hoping Reel Director's next version will up the game for mobile editing.


720p HD iPhone Video Blog 07/07/10

Macro

testing the close-range limits of the iPhone 4's lens. I put it at about 4 inches. (10 cm). Pretty good, and as usual, the jerky 'rack focus' the lens does is amusing, but odd.


720p HD iPhone Video Blog 07/04/10

Freeway

A quick drive through downtown Los Angeles on the 10, 110, and 5 freeways during a rare break in traffic.

Glenoaks Historic Bridge

Built in 1936 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Everything looks cool at magic hour.

(Tech notes: Still have not found a way to successfully post to the blog entirely from the iPhone 4. The video is uploaded to Youtube from the phone, but when I go to Youtube (via Safari, not the Youtube App) and email the embed link to Blogger, it HTML-izes all the code marks and makes it useless - the embed code gets garbled. So I still have to get to a computer to re-paste the clean embed link.... any ideas would be welcome)

Ninja At Dusk

Just seeing how the iphone handles low light... My faithful stand-in is always ready to be my test subject. Still messing with the 'titles' in iMovie mobile, which is very limited.

iMovie mobile will change the face of the Earth

(just a note about this first piece: shot this in less than 3 minutes, slapped it together in imovie and uploaded it from the iPhone4 to see what kind of quality it would yield. Obviously, there is a huge amount of compression taking place when the phone sends it to Youtube. That's a bummer. Also, I have concluded that the '720' characteristic of this video is not actual. I believe that the video is captured as 480p (720x405) and then just blown up to 720p. When I opened the video in QT player, it looks great in 480 (720x405) but is pretty compressed and lossy in 720p. Either way, the video I can extract from the phone via iPhoto is much better than what the phone sends to Youtube, so I will be working on a slicker way to get a better quality video hosted to the blog ASAP.)

But I digress:
The ability to actually shoot edit and upload all from a 2x4 inch computer that fits in my pocket, running Apple's system and software - this is just about the coolest thing ever. Who's taking bets on when the first feature film entirely produced on an iPhone will be announced? I say before the end of the year...