Photo Memory Dump #1
Posted on July 25, 2008
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My little Casio point and shoot has a pretty decent LCD screen and viewing pictures is fun when you hold down the ‘next’ button… it’s fast and it rips through the entire contents of the memory card stop-motion style. Kind of mesmerizing, your life flashing before your eyes all quick-like.
I wanted a way to view pictures like that after they are off the SD card. So, as an experiment, I decided to import the contents of a full card into After Effects and make an HD movie out of the image sequence. Possibly a bit seizure inducing and maybe random if you aren’t close to the subject matter… but a quick way to share several hundred photos. If you are a Vimeo (free and killer video site) member, you can download the source .mp4 file and go through frame by frame using Quicktime.
Photo Memory Dump #1 from Jonathan Ratcliff on Vimeo.
Race Day
Posted on July 21, 2008
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We raced Meteor (a 38 foot classic wooden sloop) this weekend. Lots of wind and beer. Good times… special thanks to capt. Bill Lee. Meteor and crew won a silver plate, we finished 2nd in our class. That’s us out in front in the photo.
Thank you, Bertha
Posted on July 19, 2008
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Hurricane Bertha (later to become tropical storm) sent a solid week’s worth of swell our way in the Northeast. The peak in our neck of the woods in New England was on Thursday evening and Friday morning. Solid chest to shoulder high waves with maybe some plus peaks, and super clean. Unheard of for this time of year around here! A rare gift indeed.
As far as this painting goes, I snapped it at a gallery in Soho last winter at some point; I’ve forgotten who the artist is. I believe it’s a young Japanese transplant though.
iPhone…
Posted on July 17, 2008
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But who wants a white one? I pretty much refuse to wait in line, (well, unless maybe it was a *short* line.) And I guess that means I won’t be getting one anytime soon. Maybe I’ll try some AT&T stores.