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Shipping a little prettier

By Ryan Skinner (email)

Here's an entertaining video of shipping seen from a unique perspective. In case you wonder, no, neither the ships nor the containers are toys. They're all real enough footage.

Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Today your everyday single-lens reflex camera can also record video. Handy, right? Even better, all of those filters, telephoto lenses and effect lenses can now be used on moving pictures, as well as still pictures. The film above was made by just such an effect (specifically, a tilt-shift lens).

Nor-Shipping Not Soft

By Ryan Skinner (email)

Nor-Shipping came, at or near the nadir of the economic downturn, and amidst the doom-saying of countless wise guys. And Nor-Shipping went, and went well, as organizers reported the largest event ever, in terms of exhibitors, visitors and events. If times are hard, it seems that smaller exhibitions suffer; bigger exhibitions triumph. Thus was the case here anyway.

I have two anecdotes, both from the opening conference.