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A little reminder of Capucine's first five years, (includes a special tribute to Amelie Poulain).

Time lapse photography is quite difficult to do. It's exactly like taking a photograph and having to wait 6 hours for the shutter to go click. Obviously a tripod is used. And a video camera which takes high definition resolution pictures at a fixed interval. And you need to be near a plug socket because the camera's battery will die after a few hours. So once you've set everything up and you think the camera is pointed in the right direction, you can forget about it for a while.

Video usually uses a frame rate of 25 frames per second. But it doesn't have to. 15 fps is quite fast enough and saves bandwidth. So I've got 508 images taken 1 second apart. At 15 frames per second I get about half a minute of time lapsed shot. I could batch edit those images in photoShop to tweak colours and cropping etc, but 500 high res images take a while to crunch.

This time lapse was shot with 1 minute intervals (the quickest my SONY HDR-HC1E will do). and then played pack at 15fps.

It points out of my office window from about lunchtime until it gets dark. It stars Tia the cat as usual, but also some of the neighbors too.

Jamie Dubs investigates the origins & evolution of the "Yo Dawg" image macro

More info & images on the Internet Meme Database: knowyourmeme.com/memes/48-xzibit-yo-dawg

Buildings are falling down like cards all over Brooklyn. This was Myrtle street disaster I fell upon cutting through Pratt yesterday, but the French translator sent me a synch version of Polyethylene Bag. Still the modus operendi seems homeless… what do they call it again in France? I cant remember. Watch the vid again.

http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/archives/2009/06/je-ne-sais-plu...

http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/archives/2009/06/paris-bends.html

Yep, Alex is one of the people whom we follow on vimeo. He is a fil maker of repute, and I really can't think of a film of his that I've watched that I didn't like. So watch this one in full. Tirn down the sound if you like and put some music on. I could recommend anything by Basement Jaxx.

That train of musical thought seems to gel well with Alex's films.

We like to go diving occaisionally and the South coast of France's mediteranean coast by Antibes and Saint Raphael is one of our favourite spots to go in July.

Diving With Diamond Diving in Antibes, South of France from Listingslab Productions on Vimeo.

The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, which will have its world premiere in London on March 15th 2009 and then be released in UK cinemas on March 20th 2009, followed by other countries.

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

The Age of Stupid: final trailer Feb 2009 from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.