Videocracy Blog

I’m familiar with CafePress.com, and for anyone who doesn’t know… it’s a marketplace where you can sell things like Mugs, and T-Shirts with your logo on it…  All you do is upload your image, and as people buy the DVD, the website (or the people working for that website) prints the logo on the T-Shirt or Mug, and packages it, and then ships it to the person who buys it…

I always wondered if there was a place to do the same for DVDs… I never really did the research, I only wondered…

Well Videomaker Magazine’s Podcast turned me on to a site that does exactly what I was just mentioning…

They actually turned me on to 2 sites, but the one I checked out is called Lulu.com… for self publishing DVDs, Books and other items… in a totally customizeable marketplace…

I watched the Demo, it is pretty interesting, and worth checking out in the future…

http://www.lulu.com/en/about/demo.php?cid=en_tab_demo

I’m a big fan of Slow Motion shots… seeing the way things work, that are normally too fast to see with the human eye.

I recently discovered a show called Time Warp, on the Discovery Channel.  For those unfamiliar with it, they use a special camera that shoots everything in slow motion, and then they scientifically analyze the clip.  In the episode I watched, I saw them analyze the way the members of Metallica play their respective instruments… It was pretty neat to see.

Now, I came across this article, talking about this camera that shoots in super slow motion, and the clip assoicated with the article showed some downright amazing shots of waves, and surfers riding through the waves, it’s almost like looking at a painting…

Worth checking out…

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/supercam/