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Seminars@38 Timelapse Video

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Following on from the impromptu timelapse video I created at the Top Left Design offices, a client of ours, ‘Seminars at 38′ requested a similar video at one of their events in January.

I filmed for around 3 hours in 4 different locations at the venue, to generate a short 1080P HD video showing the buzz of activity on the night.

To create the video, I used an iPhone 4S, with a timelapse app, GorillaPod stand, Olloclip Fisheye Lens, and Glif+ tripod mount – you don’t need to spend thousands to make professional videos – just a couple of hundred, and add a dash of creativity!

Ever wanted to spend 1 hour at Top Left Design, but really only had 2.5 minutes?

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Today, Michael put up his iPhone 4S with Olloclip fisheye lens up on our office door using a Gorrillapod and Glif+ mount to hold it in place.

Then he took a timelapse movie of us working away like the busy bees that we are. We also wanted to send a special mention to Amy who works in our Cape Town Office and hasn’t physically been in our new London office yet.

We did have time to wave at all you lovely folk. It’s good to be famous! Check out the video. it’s truly awesome!

And here is a picture of the kit!

Fisheye lens

The last time I used a CD was to scrape ice off my car windscreen

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

“At one point, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it.”

AOL CD Bird Scarer

CD's are now used to scare away birds

Ahhh those were the days… Remember when an AOL CD came free with everything from a newspaper to a loaf of bread? You wouldn’t be able to get out of your house in the morning due to the pile of pointless shiny discs underneath your letterbox. On occasion, you had to take days off school or work whilst digging your way out. Our postman would feed us Mars bars through the letterbox. Digital snow days were such a nuisance in the 90s.

I think everyone knows what I’m talking about. It cost over $300 million to produce these CDs, and to what end? There were the obvious “green” issues, which are hard to ignore when you’re wasting that amount of plastic (and card packaging). I can honestly say that I never once actually used an AOL CD for it’s intended purpose – and I wasn’t alone – gaze upon the AOL Throne, or these alternate 61 uses for the spam CDs.

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Which browser do you use? (Poll)

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Here at Top Left Design, we need to keep on top of many different browsers – websites can look different depending on which one you use!

While the less tech-savvy Windows users amongst you may still be using Internet Explorer (*ahem*), most of you will have no doubt experimented with different browsers.

Many many browsers

With so many available, which one do you prefer to use?

Which browser do YOU use?

  • Google Chrome (75%, 3 Votes)
  • Firefox (25%, 1 Votes)
  • Internet Explorer (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Opera (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Safari (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Other (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 4

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The strangeness of blog comments.

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Many of the commments we get on our blog are sadly the work of folk who want “back links” to their sites – it’s a search engine trick.
While going through some of the latest, I thought I just HAD to share some of the odd and irrelevant comments we have gotten. I have divided this into 3 main topics so far!

The strangeness of blog comments.

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Google have done it again

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Google's new browser - Chrome

Google have now released a browser with faster yet simpler browsing. They say that it’s a new age browser derived from a combination of other browsers but only using the useful stuff to handle modern day websites. Features include multithreaded tabs and a built in search engine making tasks easier and quicker.

Google Chrome is open source so others can learn from its coding and can improve on it. It seems to have received good responses since its beta release on Tuesday the 2nd of September 2008. There is a comic showing what Google set out to do and how they went about it. It’s taking browsing to the next level and you should check it out.

Link to the comic:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html

Link to download Google Chrome:

http://www.google.com/chrome

Vimeo.com

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Just found this great website for sharing video files – one of the videos is below – enjoy!


Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.