20121231 New Year Eve Steamboat

First attempt to make a stop motion video :)



Done using Adobe After Effects:

• CC Time Blend Fx
• Posterize Time

Referenced from http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-a-simple-stop-motion-style-for-your-video-clips/

:)

[Video] Look at this Instragram

This video actually sums up the features of Instagram and what most people use it for.

CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos

p/s: I think the song is actually not bad :)

Jessen Extraordinary Studio

Saw this video shared by a friend in Facebook. Quite nice.

Love Story - Stop Motion

This is awesome.

Double stop motion.

A very cool idea for videos, wedding videos. :)

10 couples, 3 question

上海美女教你吃大闸蟹

Labistory - by "Group of 1987"

Part 1

Part 2

Not bad for a video from "Group of 1987" and "Centre of Picture Creation S/B".

Can tell that they went through a lot of detailed planning, before actually start video shooting. And the director/videographers quite experienced also, taken a lot of nice angles during the 2-days shoot.

Saw in the blog that they (Jayz, the producer) actually just started learning video-editing with Premier Pro when editing, quite impressive.

Not bad for '87 "youngsters. Haha. At least they've found their interest, direction. Not easy.

Thumbs up to Jayz and team.

Taken from labist0ry.blogspot.com.

Reminds me of the Big3 Productions, a small Sg startup video production company, founded by a group of friends, but actually gotten a lot of big deal, even from Sentosa.

How tough is HTC HD2 - You be the judge

The video is about a HTC HD2 owner dropped his phone on the middle of road for half an hour.

How sturdy is HD2, watch the video and decide :)

鹿児島実業高校 新体操 ２０１０

When comes to creativity, Japanese never fails to top the list. This gymnastic performance by Kagoshima Commercial High School (鹿児島実業高校) is professionally entertaining.

目中无猫~胆大包天！

The duck steal the cat's food in front of the cat... and even steal the bowl in the end...

Fail cat... so lazy...

Usavich 監獄兔 HD 1-39

Youtube playlist for Usavich 監獄兔 Episode 1-39.

Click here for the ringtones.

smart way to encourage recycling - Bottle Bank Arcade

Smart smart... I like the whole concept of Fun Theory.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

Transcript of Steve Jobs' address:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news...

Stanford University channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Very inspiring and meaningful talk. Some of the quotes I find em very true and totally make sense.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

and

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The whole text of Steve Jobs for Stanford Commencement 2005 can be found at http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html.

Daniel Powter - Free Loop Official Video Clip (High Quality)

Like this :]

Aiba Masaki's Blood Type Experiment (English Subs)

Aiba-kun from Arashi does an experiment to test the reactions of kindergartners according to their blood types.

Blood type A: The worriers
Blood type B: don't-care-type
Blood type O: don't-forgive-type
Blood type AB: UNPREDICTABLE

Haha, interesting and funny at the same time.

Leave Me Alone Box - Cat version

This is so cute~~~

Reminds me of the "Leave Me Alone Box" that I want to build last time.

Effects of Global Warming

Just watched a Chinese video sent by jiawei about Global warming. Feel like sharing with everyone else out there.

Title: 正負2度C紀錄片

Link to the rest of the videos http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B9480FBD9BB44AE4


GPGP

Have you ever wondered where all the garbage that we throw into the sea went to?
This is where all of them 'gathered' - Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Its not too late to save the world. There are a lot of efforts going on out there by various country.

1. Lesotho - the poorest country, is proportionally the one that invest most in its people's education.
2. Qatar - one of the richest states has opened up the best universities.
3. Bangladesh - founded a bank that lends only to the poor. In 30 years, it has changed the lives of 150 million people.
4. Antarctica - no country can claim - a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
5. Governments - have acted to protect nearly 2% of territorial waters (not much, but 2 times more than 10 years ago).
6. South Korea - national reforestation program restored the forest destroyed during war.
7. Costa Rice - disarmed military, resources devoted on land conservation, education, ecotourism and protection of primary forest.
8. Gabon - enforces selective logging - not more than 1 tree every hectare.
9. Germany (Freiburg) - 5000 people live in first eco-friendly district (with solar houses). 
10. Mumbai - joined the eco-friendly concept.
11. NZ, Iceland, Austria, Sweden - has made renewable resources their top priority.
12. Denmark - prototype of coal-fired plant that release carbon into the soil.
13. Iceland - Electricity plant powered by Earth's heat - Geothermal.
14. Denmark - Wind power plant off coast - produces 20% of the country's electricity.
15. USA, China, India, Germany, Spain - biggest investors in renewable energy.
16. USA - Solar power plant at Mojave Desert 

Another environmental video on that. Just skip to 1:21:20 if you want to find out more about the efforts carried out so far.

http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject#p/u/4/jqxENMKaeCU

more on renewable energy development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sustainable_development

Its not too late to be a pessimist.

What if you know the day you apart from your family

Power Rangers Parody

Haha, not bad for a comedy. And the video editing not bad also. Japanese people, just can't beat them in this kind of crazy idea. Enjoy! Old time favourite - Power Ranger!

New ways for CHI

Computer-human iteraction