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My Photos & Video from The Rally For Sanity
Below are a bunch of selected photos that I took today during The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear which took place on the National Mall from 12:00 - 3:00. At the bottom is a slideshow of all the images I took.
You may also want to check out a few photos my wife took from a different vantage point during the rally.
Before I get to the photos though, here are two short videos I shot during the event:
During the pre-show portion of The Rally For Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington DC on October 30, 2010. The Mythbusters appeared on stage and conducted several experiments using the crowd to help. I recorded the first and third experiment, The Wave and The Jump.
Update: Comedy Central now has the entire video of the Mythbusters posted if you care to see it from the vantage point of the stage:
This movie is comprised of three short clips. The first is a 360 degree pan of the crowd before the rally got started, just to show the size of the crowd. The second is a bit of Jon Stewart at the beginning of the show (didn't think to start filming until after he came out - sorry about that) and the 3rd clip is just after Stephen Colbert started coming out of the stage in his faux Chilean miner rescue capsule.
Update: Comedy Central now has video posted of the hilarious duet Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert sang, entitled "I'm More American Than You":
And finally, Jon Stewarts moving speach at the end of the rally:
10 Barrel Gatling T-Shirt Cannon Can Shoot 200 T-Shirts 150 Yards
Team 254 Robotics of Bellarmine College Prepatory in San Jose, CA, with the help from NASA Ames Robotics, built an amazing 10 Barrel Gatling T-Shirt Cannon that can shoot 200 t-shirts up to 150 yards at a rate of 3 t-shirts per second.
In Summer 2010, Team 254 decided to build a T-Shirt Shooting Robot to be used for promotional events. After two months of hard work, our robot debuted at a spirit rally at our school, Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. The robot was received very well and was loved by the students at the rally.
Team 254 plans to use its T-Shirt Cannon Robot to promote the team and its sponsors. We will be bringing the cannon to team and school events as well as sponsor events.
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language
From Matthew Rogers:
Using the wonderful words of acclaimed writer, actor and allround know it all (I mean that in the best of ways) Stephen Fry I have created this kinetic typography animation. If you like what you hear you can download the rest of the audio file from Mr. Fry's website. stephenfry.com and then go to the audio and video section at the top of the page and look for the file entitled language. You can also find the file on iTunes by searching the name 'Stephen Fry's Podgrams'.
I loved this particular essay on language and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make my first kinetic typography. I hope you like it and even if you dont I would like to heard what you think in the comments section. Also I know that at points the audio does not match the text so you do not have to write that. It is because I copied the transcript off of Stephen's website and it was not 100% exactly what he said and i did not notice until I was well underway. However these cases are few and far between.
Just incase you were wondering the programs I used to make this were all by adobe. Mostly after effects but also flash and illustrator. Flash for the changing background colour transitions and illustrator for putting the words in to the shape of 'language' before loading it into after effects to animate.
Enjoy
Boba Fett's Invoice to Jabba the Hutt
Brock Davis envisions what Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba The Hutt might have looked like for his work tracking and capturing Han Solo and then delivering him encased in carbonite.
