So. I have the intention of making a nice little video for the Electric Minor Project. This occupies me on that front since I’m currently in an internal pickle about whether to go down the route of sponsorship (having gone to all the bother of producing a nice brochure), or to say “it’s only $5000 for second hand leaf batteries, I could avoid sponsorship and just do it”. Just over £3k seems much more attainable than £8000.
Anyhow, whilst I’m dinking in my head, I’ve been putting my hands to adequate use. You may have noticed a flurry of fisheye, wide angle and macro lens shots in my flickr. This is because I bought a bunch of very cheap lenses on ebay; these have a magnetic mount to the iphone (via a really dreadful metal ring you stick to the phone that’s sliding about and accruing a quantity of filth). The advantage of this particular design is that it will (hopefully) fit whatever phone I get to replace the iPhone*. Anyhow, having got them I realised I needed a way to transport them. I also got a (probably knock-off) sidekic (I’m not sure if it’s original, it came with packaging that looks right, but it was cheap and doesn’t grip the phone as well as I’d expect). So having pondered small tobacco tins, I was talking to my best beloved about the problem and she offered me a mint tin. I had thought it’d be a little small but actually it’s excellent.
The ‘foam’ is hacked up bits of a torch case, supplied also by my best beloved. It’s not the neatest thing in the world, but I did knock it up just before I went on nights, which meant that after my last night I could do this:
Which was quite fun.
I also, today, knocked up a camera stabiliser (following the concepts I’d seen in a tutorial like this one). It’s really intended to be a DSLR stabiliser, but with the addition of the sidekic (and an elastic band, because the sidekic doesn’t hold my phone well enough) it should work okay for my iPhone 4.
I’m also pondering whether to add something like DollyCam. I think I’ll have a play with the free version of that tomorrow; maybe; and with my new camera stabiliser, and we’ll see how it goes. Yes.
Anyhow, that’s been my entertainment (beyond working nights).
* which appears to have decided to become as irritatingly unresponsive as possible, and has decided to intermittently not to have internet access (switching it off and on again seems to fix this, but is mightily annoying).
