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More on Greenscreen

Barton Damer has a great post over at Collides site on a cheap greenscreen.  What he didn’t do was go into detail on how important the lighting aspect is.  

Check out this quick video on lighting for a greenscreen.

Church Online on your iPhone or Touch

Lifechurch.tv has done it again!  You can check out all the details here.  

A Big Thanks To Collide.

Back in April I received an email from Daniel Darnell asking if we (Reality Church) were interested in a Church Spotlight in Collide Magazine.  After paramedics were rushed to check on me I gathered my thoughts and wrote back “sure sounds great” (aka ‘ARE YOU KIDDING ME, HECK YES!!)  Why am I freaking out like a 3 yr. old??  Simple, when you look at past articles the majority of the churches are big churches.  Reality, well were pushing 300 people, and you want to interview us?!?!

Anyway,  it’s awesome to see God honored in what were doing at Reality and it’s our prayer that everyone sees what Reality is doing for God, not what Reality is doing.

The magazine should ship soon, but the article is already online.

Technology and History merge.

Follow the Apollo 11 mission in realtime + 40 years.

Were you around for the launch of Apollo 11 back in 1969? Did you huddle around the TV for a glimpse of what was happening? Don’t you wish it could have been covered using all the media tools that are available today?

Starting today, WeChoosetheMoon.org is live, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the July 16th launch of Apollo 11 from Cape Canaveral. John F. Kennedy would be proud — the website name comes from his famous 1962 quote regarding the space program. With a 40-year time delay, the site will follow the flight from the Earth to the lunar landing, in real time. It will have animation throughout the four-day mission, photos, video, and the real radio transmissions from the capsule and NASA available as Twitter feeds. Need to follow it on the go? You can set up email alerts for when the lunar module touches down.

If you weren’t around the first time, this celebratory re-creation sounds like a must-bookmark event. Sea of Tranquility, here we come!

This is Anti-Green. (just a heads up)

Love the creativity here!

A couple of students from Kingston University in London heeded a call from Hewlett Packard to create a commercial using the computer behemoth’s products.

Matthew Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth, the auteurs behind the ad, take a bow. HP, you are a very, very lucky corporation to have these two turning one of your mundane tech necessities into something so spanky. The background track is Music Hold Me Back by the Round Table Knights.

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

The Gear!

Well there it all is.  Let’s go through it!

My Macbook Pro

The Audio: Sennheiser ew 100

Block The Light: Hoodman

Capture it all Cam: Flip Mino HD

Pocket Sticks: Tripod

Mega Glass:  Tokina 100mm 2.8

DSLR Goodness: Nikon D90

The Level Cam

Go Wider: W/A Lens

The Film Look: GT 35 Pro

Need More Light: LitePanels Micro

The iPhone

Say Cheese: SB 600

So there you have it. Now let’s see if I make it back with everything!!

What to Bring?

I am headed to LA next Monday to turn around and drive 3000 miles back home. Sound insane?? Hear me out.  A good friend of ours is moving to Va. Beach and I am going to make the trek with him.  He does production work full time  and has been helping write and even star in some of our videos at Reality.

All that said, we put together a plan to kick off the fall with a big non-believer focused series titled “Destinations”.  If you haven’t figured out yet we will be filming our trip cross country back and building the series around the videos.

It should be exciting, hectic, exhausting and loooong!  I thought you guys might be interested in the behind the scenes part of everything.  So over the next few posts I will start by cataloging what I will need equipment wise but staying as compact as possible because we will have a truck full of everything my friend owns.

Stay Tuned!

A different approach to the iPhone 3G (S)

This device is simply a game changer.  Forget that it’s a phone, that hardly matters.  The addition of the video camera truly sets it apart.  Alex Lindsay has an over the top, but unique approach to how the new iPhone will change things.  Watch this video.

Then there is the flip.  I love my Mino.  Small form factor, 720p video and easy to use.  I wonder though if it’s now irrelevant.  I nkow the iPhone only shoots 640x480 video,but that’s now, what about down the road?  Being able to shoot, edit and push to YouTube right from a wifi enabled device.  In Flip’s defense, they were bought this year by Cisco.  So the odds are they will be building a next gen. device with built in wifi.  The problem is, it’s another device.  Who wants to carry around two devices?

The Flip still costs less than the iPhone, and the transition will be gradual. But most everyone carries a phone anyway. And within a couple of years video will be as ubiquitous on those phones as photos are today.  Now they need to put it in the iPod Touch.

Inspiration

Things like this really get my creative juices flowing.  

Turning Post It Notes into Pixels.