The people behind Revision3.com’s new look took a step into the limelight for the latest episode of the Revision3 Gazette.
Stephanie Chu, Mark Rebec and Ron Richards are the dedicated web team at Revision3 who have been laboring for months to bring the new Revision3.com to life and took some time out of their busy schedules to share with the Revision3 audience the answers to many burning questions.
They didn’t answer any of my burning questions as the three sat in front of a greenscreen with the new website scrolling in the background. If you agree with me that the new look is bland you will probably think the same thing about the 3-person team explaining the going-ons behind the browser.
Saving Private Ryan is a popular flick with a memorable scene depicting the invasion of Normandy, France. Here it is to jog your memory.
In 1998, when this film was released, the average filmmaker didn’t have the technology available to them to produce a scene at this scale. But as technology has trickled down to the masses, more and more ideas become reasonable to execute. With the state of compositing and CG graphics where they are today there is really no limit with what can be done yet still believable to the average eye.
Take these four guys who managed to recreate a D-Day invasion over a weekend with one camera and off the shelf desktop tools. They documented the whole process so you can see how everything came together. While their mini-scene is not as extensive as the big Hollywood film, the fact that they could even pull this off with such a micro crew is awe-inspiring.
Here we have a video mashup using the iPhone guided tour video found on Apple’s website with an original song. Plus the thing is catchy, hence I posted it below:
Firefox has a noble goal of changing the world, one web surfer at a time. Makers of the popular open source web browser, responsible for giving the dominant Internet Explorer a swift kick in the butt, are at it again with a new viral marketing effort. The video below features a plethora of Internet stars singing a song to Fight The Boredom. They’re mocking those over-dramatic public service infomercials asking for money to stop world hunger, adopt a child, or save the birds. The video is fairly amusing and there was a website to go along with it at FightAgainstBoredom.org which now redirects to the Firefox download page.
The facts that scroll against the bottom are as follows:
Compared to Internet Explorer users, Firefox users are
21% less likely to be a sales representative or agent at their current place of business.
45% more likely to have gone on vacation in San Francisco within the last 2 years.
33% less likely to live with others suffering from high cholesterol.
6% less likely to have eaten any meal at Chick-fil-A within the last 7 days.
24% less likely to live with others suffering from heart disease.
66% more likely to have viewed or listened to audio or video about politics or public affairs news within the last 30 day.
89% more likely to have purchased database software for work in the last year.
38% less likely to live with others suffering from breast cancer.
If you want to raise a kid that can’t become a functioning member of society then follow these simple steps:
Wait on them all the time
Never say no to them
Keep a Christmas tree up year ’round because you need to give them gifts every day
Do their homework and shelter them from any kind of work
Now those points might sound absolutely ridiculous to normal people like you and me, but these two parents in the clip below actual follow these guidelines.
Engadget is reporting on a digital camera with super slow motion capabilities from Casio. The EX-F1, which was announced at the annual Consumer Electronics Show today, is a typical 6 megapixel still camera but with some serious frame-burst technology. The video modes on the camera offer three settings for slow motion: 300 frames per second (fps) at 512 × 384 resolution, 600fps at 432 × 192, and 1200fps at 336 × 96. To put things into perspective, 1200fps is about 40 times more frames than real time which is 30 fps. The more frames that need to be played back the longer the clip duration will be resulting in slow motion. It’s a drag the frame size drops to a web video size for the slowest of slow motion, but at least it is there. Before this camera, the closest thing to getting slow motion footage of this caliber would require an investment of at least 5 figures. Now this specialized camera can be yours for just over 3 digits at $1,000!
Not to say that the video is only good for slow motion, the Casio EX-F1 can also shoot 1080i HD video as well as 60 fps at the full 6 megapixel resolution in still mode. First hand reports claim this thing sounds like a machine gun when you release the shutter like InfoSyncWorld.com who said “The shutter release sounds more like a machine gun or a whirring fan than a camera shutter.”
Engadget posted some sample video from the press conference:
This camera has some power to drool over, especially for those specifically interested in slow motion video. I always wanted to explore slow motion video but I never had access to any cameras that could do it. I am always weary about camera that try to do both video and still photos in the same device because they usually end up suffering in both areas. But each year we keep seeing the two mediums come closer together with acceptable results. If I were in highschool right now I would be saving up to get a camera like this especially with social networking and YouTube being so big. I wish I had all of this stuff when I was a kid when I had the time to play around with it.
You can see the full specs of this beast over at DPreview.com but oyu won’t be able to get your grubby little hands on one until March.
U.S.News & World Report does an annual feature on 50 Ways To Improve Your Life. This year the multimedia team tackled a video project recruiting everyone in the office to say a few lines about each of the 50 resolutions. Here is the final product which shows many of the faces behind the weekly magazine. Watch out for me, I talk about reducing corn in your diet. Fun!
“The Amazon.com Kindle is basically a big ugly iPod that allows you to carry 200 books with you at all times. Which raises the important question: who the hell reads that much? This fake ad introduces you to the terrifying target audience.”
