My 2nd driving time lapse… this one of my lovely commute to the office everyday.
Music Credits :
Checking Depths by Owen Powell
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/347633
Licensed under Creative Commons
This is another time lapse I shot this week. I rigged my tripod to the front passenger seat of my truck and drove around Allentown for about an hour. I used a shutter speed of 1 sec and a 6 second interval to shoot. Since I’m hooked up to the laptop, I’m dependent on the transfer speed of the images over the USB cable, so I’m still playing around with how short I can get the intervals.
Music Credits: “papa” by Moby. Used with permission from http://mobygratis.com
Here’s one of my first experiments with time lapse photography. I set up my camera on our back patio late this afternoon while the wind was going and was able to capture a few clouds going by. It’s just under an hour of real time, compressed into this 25 seconds. I’m using my Nikon D70 hooked up via USB cable to my laptop while running the Nikon Capture software in the time lapse mode. In this experiment I had it take a picture every 15 seconds.
Here’s a quick update on how the garden is doing this year… of note are the 5′ high tomato plants growing in the center:
I watched this over the past weekend. (I love Frontline btw – they have some really great documentaries).
http://video.pbs.org/video/1402987791/
What was most eye-opening about this piece, besides how swanky 2nd Life’s offices are, is how our various technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier and more connected with each other seem to be affecting the way our kids are learning and retain knowledge. The piece about the MIT students writing their papers one paragraph at a time for example was a bit alarming. We’ve made it so easy to get distracted by all the email, Twittering, and social networking… and these younger generations are fully engulfed by it. Even the multi-tasking that was talked about in the piece, and how all these kids claim that it’s not a problem, and that they’re more efficient. I multi task every day, at least in front of my laptop here. Quite frankly, it’s hard to do. Now maybe that’s because it’s something that I’ve had to learn over the years – unlike these kids who it’s sort of automatically engrained in, but there are things I’ve read over the past couple of years that are starting to say that people would be much better off if they focused on one thing at a time.
“My colleagues in the psychology department drew my attention to some interesting research, which proves that Buddhists and couch potatoes were right all along – the world would be a better place if everyone tried to do just one thing at a time. In a society that encourages more and more multitasking, researchers at Stanford University had assumed that people who do a lot of multitasking would be better at it. “But they’re not. They’re worse. They’re much worse,” said Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford. “They couldn’t ignore stuff that doesn’t matter. They love stuff that doesn’t matter,” he said.”
– from http://openingtime.blogspot.com/2009/09/effectiveness-of-multi-tasking.html
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html
My 3yr old daughter already knows what an iPod is… and she automatically assumes that every phone she picks up can also take pictures. I wouldn’t be surprised if my older daughter comes home from the 1st grade next year and says her class has its own social network on Ning. All these things are great… don’t get me wrong… but as a Dad, I think we just have to be more conscious of how they’re affecting the way our children learn and develop.
