So you know the camera that I used to film that Thanksgiving movie, the one that shoots 720p HD video, the one I said I’d post more on later? Yeah, that one. Well, that camera is actually not a video camera.
:-O
It’s a still camera, the Samsung NV24 HD to be specific. It’s a step above my old point-and-shoot Canon Powershot, although not nearly as good quality-wise as an SLR or anything, but it gives you full control over all the essential options plus an awesome video mode that can shoot in HD. And guess how much it was!
Cool Features:
10.2 megapixels (doesn’t mean anything, though)
Wide-angle lens
Shoots 720p HD video
“SmartTouch” interface (which is actually intuitive)
Some fancy new screen that supposedly looks good in outdoor light
No, seriously, guess. I want to know what you think this would cost.
Did you guess just under $200? Well you were right if you did. If you didn’t then you were wrong. But yeah. Its awesome. I mean, no, you’re not going to get the same quality video as a real video camera, but the video looks great for the type of things I would be using it for. The only problem I really have with it is that when it zooms in or out the audio cuts out. However, this can be fixed within editing software by copying and pasting bits of sound. Here are some links:
I present to you the Thanksgiving 2008 movie, brought to you in true HD quality via VimeoYouTube!!! (or not HD if your computer is slow) YouTube HD is below.
I also uploaded the small amount of photos that I took from Thanksgiving to a Flickr photoset, but there are very few photos as I mostly took videos.
I took the videos and pictures using my new, obviously totally awesome, digital camera! It’s a great still camera but also takes 720p HD videos, which are the videos which consist of the movie above (which unfortunately is super-compressed.) I’ll post more on the camera later.
After numerous rounds of ‘We don’t even know if Osama bin Laden is still alive’, Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own hand writing to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:
370H-SSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, and then to MI6. Eventually they asked the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) for help. Within a minute the Mossad emailed the White House with this reply:
‘Tell the President he’s holding the note upside down.
I think this short documentary taken backstage from SNL’s last episode shows a more “real” John McCain than the one we’ve been seeing during this election:
Of course, then there’s also the opening sketch with John McCain and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin plus McCain on Weekend Update.
2 weeks. That’s how long it’s been since I last posted. Yeah, uh, about that…
So posting on a blog, I think, comes in waves. You go through a couple of weeks where you’re super-crazy about posting and can barely constrain yourself from posting only one article per day. Then there are the times when you just don’t feel like posting, you’re just not that excited about it. Maybe you just need to recharge.
In regard to the wave analogy, maybe it’s like a sine and cosine wave. (Can you tell I’m learning about this at school?) So, the equation of my posting habits would look something like a cosine wave (starting with lots of posting.) I would probably look something like y=4cos(pi/2)x+3, with the x-axis representing the number of posts I would make per week. Sometimes it goes as high as 7 (4 is the max of the wave, plus a vertical shift of 3) or as low as -1, meaning I don’t post for at all for a week. Or maybe it’s for two weeks. I don’t know. And then the pi/2 means that this wave happens every four weeks.
The point is somehow it’s mathematical and I’m smart and I just did my math homework and I feel like I’m ready to start posting again. Maybe. Don’t hold your breath. I mean, this post doesn’t even count, it’s just me saying that I want to post more and making a “mathematical” equation out of it.
Hmmm… someone should figure out how many posts on personal blogs talk about that fact that the blog in question isn’t being updated very often. I think it would be interestingly high. But I will post again. Probably this weekend. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully on Monday. Definitely on/after election day. Speaking of which, can you believe we’re only 3 days away? Wow.
Austen Saltz is a 16-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents and is interested in filmmaking and technology.
Netsua is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also writes for the mac application blog MacApper.
