Every once in a while an idea comes along that simply floors me.  Tossing a camera is one of those wild and funny ideas that make perfect sense precisely because they don’t make any sense.

Why would you want to throw a camera around while it’s doing the exposure? Because it can be fun, the  results can be amazing and you’ve got nothing better to do at the time.

 Kinetic Photography might be a safer alternative if you’re not feeling brave enough.

Of course someone came up with the idea to make  a camera dedicated to the cause – satuGO

And yes, I’ve tried it. No, you won’t see the results. The problem being that I can’t download photos to a computer at the moment.

I was watching Click on BBC earlier and in among the gadget reports from  CES was a problem many people in the TV/video industry will have to deal with in the near future.

I haven’t really thought about it much before but it really is something to work around somehow, The problem, or rather a creative limitation, is that many people are and will be watching news and various videos on portable devices such as mobile phones, PSPs, PDAs etc. where screen real estate doesn’t really offer much in terms of detail resolution. So people shooting a video and especially news footage have too avoid wide angle shots, details that are somehow important to the story have to appear larger, graphics have to be larger, shots have to be cropped tight etc. Everything has to appear larger to become visible on a small screen.

To me personally it is a step in the wrong direction in a way. I’m aware that creativity is a direct result of necessity but I can’t help but love it when things are actually big with lots of little detail to keep your eyes wandering around the screen.

Obviously the arguement would be that news footage isn’t really as much a creative piece as it is informative but forgetting about either one of those ingredients eventually leads into a downward spiral.

Oh well, since convenience always won over quality I (we) will have to adjust sooner or later.

…or both?

What to do when you’re forced to wake up at 5:45 in the morning? Go skiing of course!

The fact I was 40min early only meant I was about 20th in line to go up. Yes, there are crazier people around (what else are they supposed to do when they retire?!)
Unlike them I didn’t really have a choice. I had to be in Kranj at 6:50 and didn’t feel like driving around for an hour to waste time. So I waited in line…

Overall a nice powder day despite whiteout conditions with fog (clouds really) rolling in constantly, at times making it impossible to see where/what you’re skiing. It ended all too early though.

On the photo above are  Mare (who I met yesterday at blogmeet) and Dule.
Watch out for their  51times.tv, coming soon apparently.