2012-08-11T07:53:45Z

Netflix Gems: Castaway On The Moon

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Movie Reviews.

Castaway On The Moon

In this romance-comedy-drama movie from South Korea, a man jumps into the river from a bridge to commit suicide, but instead of dying he washes up on the shore of a small deserted island in the middle of the water.

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2012-08-05T18:10:26Z

Netflix Gems: The Double Hour (La Doppia Ora)

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Movie Reviews.

The Double Hour

In this Italian thriller from director Giuseppe Capotondi, hotel maid Sonia meets security guard Guido at a speed dating club. The day he takes her to visit the rich man's house he guards, a band of masked assailants make an appearance to rob the many valuables kept in the house. Guido ends up dead, but Sonia survives, only to be haunted by visions of her dead boyfriend that make her question her sanity.

2012-08-02T07:29:15Z

Balancing the Rhino Steady Camera Stabilizer, Case Study: Lightweight Camcorder

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Filmmaking.

This is the forth article in my series about the Rhino Steady, a camera stabilizer made by Rhino Camera Gear.

In the first article of the series I described in detail how the Rhino Steady and other similar stabilizers work. In the second and third articles I showed a step-by-step procedure to balance two Canon DSLRs, medium and light weight respectively.

2012-08-01T06:50:31Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part VII: Unit Testing

(Great news! There is a new version of this tutorial!)

This is the seventh article in the series in which I document my experience writing web applications in Python using the Flask microframework.

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2012-07-26T07:42:13Z

Balancing the Rhino Steady Camera Stabilizer, Case Study: Lightweight DSLR

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Filmmaking.

This is the third article in my series about the Rhino Steady, a camera stabilizer made by Rhino Camera Gear.

In the first article of the series I described in detail how the Rhino Steady and other similar stabilizers work. In the second article I showed a step-by-step procedure to balance the Canon 60D DSLR. Today I will be showing how I balance a much lighter DSLR. If you haven't read the previous articles I recommend that you read them first.

2012-07-23T16:30:13Z

Balancing the Rhino Steady Camera Stabilizer, Case Study: Medium Size DSLR

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Filmmaking.

This is the second article in my series about the Rhino Steady, a camera stabilizer made by Rhino Camera Gear.

In the first article I described in detail how this and other similar stabilizers work. In this and future articles I will describe how I balance different types of cameras.

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2012-07-23T07:02:30Z

Balancing the Rhino Steady (EZ Steady) Camera Stabilizer

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Filmmaking.

Have you backed any projects on Kickstarter? I have backed just one, the EZ-Steady, later renamed to Rhino Steady.

Rhino Steady

2012-07-16T03:44:16Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part VI: Profile Page And Avatars

(Great news! There is a new version of this tutorial!)

This is the sixth article in the series in which I document my experience writing web applications in Python using the Flask microframework.

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2012-07-08T08:26:21Z

Using The Sky As A Softbox - With A Twist

Posted by Miguel Grinberg under Photography.

I did an interesting photographic experiment the other day. Below is the result, read on for details (click on the thumbnail to enlarge):

2012-06-20T08:00:38Z

Simple Project Management, Or How To Finish Your Project Before The World Comes To An End

Simple Project Management

I have started many personal projects over the years. I work on them on the side of my day job, usually at odd hours of the night or on weekends. I work on some projects for a few days or weeks and then I lose interest or get bored. For a few projects I have managed to take them from an idea to completion. For an even smaller subset I ended up with a product that some people wanted to use and even pay money for.

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