sidehack_smith, originally uploaded by smoovebert.
I thought they were joking when Impakt Sidehacks impresarios Greyboy and Truly Odd said they wanted to try to do a smith grind on a picnic table on the sidehack. Minutes later, we were around the block at a local school. Unfortunately, all I had was my point-and-shoot.
These guys are nuts.
Corey Martinez behind the lens and pro skater Chris Cole on some smith grind action. If I was a skater, i would probably be irritated by bmx’ers calling this a smith grind. Actually, I was a skater back when this bmx grind came into being and I was ecstatic.
Kids are stupid.
I finally got my encinema 35 dof adapter in the mail yesterday. I say “finally” like it took a long time, but I basically ordered it Monday and received it on Wednesday, so it wasn’t that long. It seemed like an eternity however, as I was so excited to get it and start toying around with it.
What is an “encinema 35 dof adapter”, you may ask? Well, in general, a “dof adapter” allows you to mount photographic lenses onto a video camera (in my case, a consumer-model Canon Vixia HF11), allowing the camera to capture images that look less like they came out of a video camera and more like they came out of a film camera.
Essentially, the adapter threads onto the front of the camera, then I attached a Canon 35mm prime lens (f/2.0) onto the front. The Canon lens projects an image onto a piece of ground glass, then the camcorder basically focuses onto the piece of glass, and records that image, which ends up being a little softer, and with a more pronounced depth-of-field that the photographic lens provides. Essentially, the camcorder is recording a projected image, sort of telecine-like.
This is the second test, kind of noisy racking, but it looks cool. Also, there’s no post-processing here, (vignetting, etc.)all straight out of the camera. More to come!
NSM|09 #01 Filet o’ Riplets, originally uploaded by ★keaggy.com.
Olde-tyme bmx’er, erstwhile zine-maker, and author Bill Keaggy is once again celebrating National Sandwich Month by eating sandwiches every day and obsessively documenting them on his flickr feed. From the world’s largest BLT to delicious tomato and feta concoctions, if you’re anything like me, you’ll be drooling yourself silly checking out this flickr stream. BOOM.
july4003, originally uploaded by smoovebert.
i’m sorry. i was away in the catskills eating and drinking and shooting polaroids.
