Illuminating stuff as always from Stewart & Drone Film Guide:

Of course, I’m reminded that before I even bother with this stuff, I need to move myself off the absolutely shite color tools in iMovie and onto… what, exactly? As I mentioned the other day, the new Adobe Rush’s tools are really anemic; learning Premiere Pro seems like no joke; and I don’t care to pay for Final Cut. Hmm—to be continued.

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History? Check.
Photography? Check.
Aerospace? Check.

I am there for this:

Smithsonian notes:

• The distinct H-shaped yoke determined both roll and pitch. Airspeed was controlled by the number of rocket chambers—up to four—fired by the silver thumb-switch to the left of the yoke; there was no throttle.
• The Mach indicator above goes to Mach 1.5; it was most likely installed after Yeager’s first transonic flight. It’s flanked by a conventional altimeter and airspeed indicator. The fastest Glamorous Glennis ever flew was Mach 1.45.
• Yeager signed his name in the cockpit of Glamorous Glennis on many occasions over the decades. (He piloted 33 of the aircraft’s 78 career test flights, including its last, on May 12, 1950.) Can you find all his signatures?

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Just a quick bit of flying Thanksgiving weekend near Pismo Beach. A few thoughts:

• Color grading in iMovie is for the birds, but somehow it’s no better in Adobe Rush (which lacks an Auto button (!), much less key framing), and learning Premiere Pro always seems like too big a hill to climb.
• I likewise find it hard to cut on the beats—a problem compounded when I share the output to YouTube and Facebook (where, I swear to God, somehow the audio & video get differently out of sync).
• I’ve gotta learn how to avoid (or later compensate for) the gross propeller shadows that appear in a few shots here.
• No, the soundtrack doesn’t really fit (an assessment my 9-year-old Henry cheerfully volunteered 🙄), but, eh, I found the juxtaposition oddly fun. YMMV.

Haunting work from SF Drones, showing what we pray won’t become our new normal:

Unknown artist’s juxtaposition:

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I can’t wait:

Here Peter Jackson talks about the painstaking restoration process, featuring some cameos by Photoshop:

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I sure don’t need it, but it sure does look fun—especially the clever timelapse & pano features shown later in this vid:

Review:

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Short, sweet, spectacular:

PetaPixel explains,

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst… shot the photos in the timelapse by mounting a camera in the Cupola module and using an intervalometer to snap photos at regular intervals. Played back at 8 to 16 times normal speed, the timelapse above shows around 15 minutes of the rocket’s launch.

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Happy Thanksgiving, gang. If you’re bored over the holiday, try making your own gingerbread zoetrope, or just enjoy the results:

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Thanks, NASA, for these minutes of Zen:

Kottke writes,

This is easily the most awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping thing I’ve seen in months. In its low Earth orbit ~250 miles above our planet, the International Space Station takes about 90 minutes to complete one orbit of the Earth. Fewer than 600 people have ever orbited our planet, but with this realtime video by Seán Doran, you can experience what it looks like from the vantage point of the IIS for the full 90 minutes.

Happy Monday.

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