Archive for 'make'

the famous $14 ’steady cam’

November 6th, 2007 – 12:15 am
Tagged as: make

pretty amazing what people can shoot with a just a bit of inertial damping and a balanced grip. pipes & bolts:

this certainly takes care of the hand-held shakes – the rest is technique. here is an example of a first stab, without practicing. almost looks like something:
steady-style mk1 from razielpanic [...]

sticks

May 16th, 2007 – 9:51 pm
Tagged as: dwell, make

if you’re following progress, you’ll glad to read that we’re now building the partitions in the loft. framing is done. electrical inspector signed off today. i’m going to go pull some UTP & coax (while neglecting music entirely.) balance what?
by the way, these beat the hell out of a reel of steel fish tape.

you shriek: spies on zero zero island

April 1st, 2007 – 2:34 am
Tagged as: elsewhere, make

this video podcast i’ve been making now has a few episodes & seems to be a feasible - and thus ongoing - project. you can subscribe in iTunes to get the videos delivered directly.
i shoot with a Canon ELPH still camera in video mode, sending its composite output into an analog-to-FireWire converter on my PowerBook. [...]

3d Studio (min)

November 21st, 2006 – 12:22 am
Tagged as: dwell, make

Famous studio designer Michael Blackmer just came by to measure the space that will be my new recording studio. He’s serious…

to the point that I’m not sure I deserve a the kind of room he’s about to make. That AutoCAD file he left for me results in this rendering I made in C4D, via Sketchup [...]

concurrently, rackmounting.

February 15th, 2006 – 10:35 pm
Tagged as: make

i opened up the simmons sds 8 and 9 to make sure there was actually enough clearance in the boxes to accommodate some screws in the side panels. lara made some nice measurements and drawings for the mounting hardware, and we’ll probably take them over to the friendly machine shop in south boston once my [...]