But once I got underwater and watched many of the divers struggling with their rigs, catching protuberances on errant kelp fronds, I felt a little better about wielding this simple Canon setup. As a point-and-shoot (and shoot and shoot) piece of equipment, the whole rig is simple, capable, durable, and—especially compared to similar underwater gear of just a couple years back—cheap enough that it won’t be a tragedy when it gets lost at sea. The street price of the HF20 (an AVCHD camcorder with 32GB of flash memory) is $800; the WP-V1 can be found for around $400.
I called District 9 a movie “made by gamers and for gamers,” a statement made with the knowledge that director Neill Blomkamp had been tapped previously to make the movie version of Halo. Still, when N’Gai said he “didn’t see it,” it stuck in my craw. To me, District 9 shows how heavily games and [...]
Road & Track dedicated nearly its whole September issue to Porsche past and present. John Lamm’s look back at two of the German automaker’s most technologically advanced models, the 959 and the Carrera GT, was especially illustrative of how far advanced some of Porsche’s thinking has been; the 959 in particular was a supercar decades [...]
I reviewed the H2O Audio iDive 300 Deep Dive Waterproof Case for Gizmodo: I affected an air of what I hoped would be perceived the other divers as seasoning before I jumped in with the iDive 300. “Seems like a pain in the ass to me,” I groused. “Just one more thing to break.” The [...]
Jefferson Robbins has produced an excellent short video showing the parallels between Mad Men‘s retro visual styles and some of its great influences—specifically A. Hitchcock. Viva la dolly! [via Jason Kottke]
Uncorrected, fresh from the Canon HF20 oven. There will be lots of pretty stuff to come post-edit, but I wanted to get this shot up as soon as I could. It was a lucky bit of peripheral vision that found this octopus out in the open.
The lesson from this video is that in our modern inter-age a man dressed a teen anime girl while playing the bass no longer gives one pause—it’s the chugging of five glasses of milk that disturbs.
The iPhone remains one of my favorite cameras to use. “QuadCamera” by Takayuki Fukatsu combines the high saturation and low resolution of cheap plastic cameras with the fast snaps of a modern camera. For portraits it is a special treat, capturing up to eight frames over a variable time period; waving around the iPhone in [...]
Marketing continues to get ever more strange. An email I just received in what appears to be an email blast from a public relations company: from Emily Held to Tim Munroe date Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM mailed-by pancomm.com Hey Tim- Heads up, your office is smelling like fish…I had to shut your [...]
