I got another one of my 48hr Film Project “to do’s” off my list tonight. I had to strengthen the camera jib I built a while back. See this link. When I first built this jib… Okay, okay, I’ll tell you what a jib is! It’s another camera tool I’ve […]
For those of you following my blog – remember back in March when we had a horrible water leak? We were in the middle of getting our house foundation leveled and we had to deal with a flooded house. Finally it all came to an end…or so I thought. Other […]
Remember the problem with my dolly modifications for the 48hr film project coming up? I think I might have solved my problem. When I first built my dolly I used some plans that called for the use of skateboard wheels – two on each axle. Then I would lay down […]
I’m still gearing up for the 48hr film project and I was doing some adjustments to my homemade dolly. “A dolly? What’s a dolly Beto?” you ask? Well, a dolly is basically a platform with wheels that you can mount a camera onto and get some great forward or backward […]
Check out this video I found online! OMG – this guy actually built a vortex cannon about, oh I don’t know…1000 times stronger than one of these. Yes – I have one of these Air Zookas too. It’s pretty cool how he fires this a multiple targets. But I love […]
Remember how I like to build stuff out of PVC? Well, I had me another project to complete. See, I went ahead and purchased myself a new camera. I’m going to be using it to film a lot of my son’s sports and other school activities. Since my wife said […]
This past Saturday Liz and Emmy decided to do some gardening before it got too hot. So around 10am they went up front to re-plant some of her “plants”, add some dirt and then finish off by watering our poor “hay colored” grass. I went out and was talking to […]
I was always a big fan of the original TRON movie. Never mind the cutting edge computer graphics (at the time) or the cool story line but I really (still do) enjoyed this movie. I’d been hearing there was going to be new movie coming out and they finally showed […]
I was looking online to view some pictures of the costumes people might be wearing at this year’s ComicCon and while browsing Flickr – I stumbled across this guy’s set of pictures. He obviously collects Statuettes and he took pictures of them as if they were models. He uses a […]