Chris Barr

Eclectic 2.0

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Eclectic 2.0 is an incredible time-lapse movie all shot with DSLR cameras.  Ross Ching went to some amazingly beautiful locations and set up his camera with a special slow moving tripod and the camera set to take photos at a certain interval.  Watch and be amazed.  Read more about this project on Ross Ching’s site.

Download it here: (Quicktime required)
480p (17.6 MB)
720p (182.9 MB)
1080p (359.6 MB)

After watching this, I’ve gotten really interested in making these types of movies.  Unfortunatly for me, my camera doesn’t support taking photos at an interval without a special intervalometer I’d have to purchase.

Netflix is Nifty

Friday, January 11, 2008

I feel like I’m one of the last people to sign up for Netflix, but I finally did it back in November, and so far it’s been great.  There’s no video rental place close to me, and there’s a lot of old movies I somehow missed seeing in my lifetime - Netflix seems to solve both of these problems for me very easily.  I’m still amazed that I’ve never seen Pulp Fiction or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but don’t worry, they’re in my queue and I’ll get to them eventually.

I made a small change to this site, now I’ve got a page dedicated to displaying my Netflix Queue and recently viewed movies which you can view right here (or in the footer at the bottom).  Basically I just used the Magpie RSS/Atom Parser plugin that comes with Expression Engine just parses the RSS feed from Netflix.  It was a lot simpler than I imagined, and it even works better than a plugin someone wrote specifically to work with Netflix.