Sunday, January 10, 2010

Shublik Videos

Here’s are 3 shorts clips with Shublik being Shublik, that I promised to post earlier this week.

Here he’s playing with a birthday balloon. First couple of days he was terrified of it and would hide at a first sight of the balloon. He kept trying to attack the thread, the balloon would get pulled down, bounce back up and make a sound hitting the ceiling. He eventually got used to it and kept running around the apartment with a thread in his teeth. One day we found the balloon stuck under our bed. How? I don’t know.

Normal cats are usually pretty afraid of the vacuum cleaners. This one is always trying to attack ours. He doesn’t mind being vacuumed either.

And this is just Shublik running after his favorite toy — a feather, or rather what’s left of it. He finds it more fun to rip the feather out and run after a little red thing that’s left — I guess it’s more challenging that way. Feather is too big and too easy to catch.

In: Life In General Tags: balloon, cat, feather, hunting, playing, Shublik, vacuum cleaner, video
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Blu-ray Player

On Sunday we finally decided to make the next leap in the realm of home video entertainment. We were in a local BestBuy and almost bought a Blu-ray player. I’ve been thinking about getting one for a couple of weeks already and the main reason was the falling prices of Blu-ray movies.

You see, we tend to add movies that we liked to our collection from time to time. Originally, when DVDs used to cost around $15 for the movie and BD would cost $50 there was no interest. But when BD came down to $18 for the same movie I started feeling that buying a DVD was becoming silly to save $3.

Of course to make that argument work one needs to have a player that can play said BD movies. My research led me to 2 top players from LG and Samsung — BD390 and BD-P3600¹ respectively.

For some reason I was leaning towards LG, although I think Samsung is equally good. Of course thanks to my iPhone I checked the price² on Amazon. So after running around with LG box around the store, we put it back where it belongs, went home and placed an order online.

It was delivered yesterday and I was eager to hook it up. Even though our TV is over 10 years old it still supports 1080i playback, but that’s not really the most interesting thing. One of the main reasons of us getting this player is of course Netflix.

It took us only a few minutes to set it up and to get a movie from Netflix to play on our TV. I couldn’t really tell a difference between this and DVD quality-wise.

This is the moment when I had an epiphany — why would I want to buy a disk now if I can just play anything whenever I wish from Netflix? Never quite felt this as profoundly as at this moment. Of course the answer right now is that Netflix doesn’t have everything for instant watch, but for how much longer will that be the case?

Although Samsung has a higher end BD-4600 it has a really weird form factor and doesn’t really add any benefits for the added cost. [↩]
BestBuy had it for $349 + tax, Amazon had it for $285, no tax, free shipping. [↩]

In: Gadgets & Gear, Home Sweet Home Tags: Amazon, BD, BD390, BestBuy, Blu Ray, DVD, home, LG, Netflix, Samsung, video
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Yellowstone Trip Video

Here’s our trip video compilation. These short clips were taken with the use of iPhone 3GS and I’m very glad we were able to do it. Some of these things just can’t be captured fully enough with photos alone.

Be sure to click the “HQ” button to see it in high quality. There are also captions in English included. If they don’t come on automatically do turn them on.

In: Travel Tags: road trip, video, Wyoming, Yellowstone NP
Time: 13:08 Comments: 3 Comments Post a Comment

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Shublya TV

Shublya TV presents.

We have an hour worth of video of all kinds of tricks that Shublik does, but these short clips are probably the best.

The first one is Shublik trying to get to a piece of pineapple that is inside a clear box.

And this one is my favorite of the two. Towel stealing skills at work. He’s much better at this now and usually does this to every t-shirt he gets his eyes on.

In: Life In General Tags: playing, Shublik, video
Time: 17:01 Comments: 1 Comment Post a Comment

And we were wounder what trials bikes are for.

There’s some huge riding, but also some of the most technically difficult and imaginative lines you will ever see. Without a doubt, this video pushes the envelope of what is perceived as possible on a trials bike.

Just, wow, indeed! (via Justin Blanton) 0

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Weird Dude Cartoon

I was experimenting with certain things on Mac and came up with the above masterpiece.

That’s one of the things that I like about Mac — all the tools for all forms of creativity are readily available. I used a trial version of iStopMotion to tape it and iMovie to record and add sounds.

And the original inspiration came from David Pogue of New York Times. His family is much better at this cartoon stuff than I am.

In: Software Tags: cartoon, stop motion, video
Time: 14:25 Comments: 3 Comments Post a Comment

A friend just gave me a link to YouTube video of a guy playing on theremin. I’ve never heard of this instrument before, but I’d like to get my hands on one to try to control it. 2

Thursday, March 20, 2008

New Year Video

I finished editing the footage from our New Year 2008 celebration. I figured I’d post it here. I’m sure it’s going to be boring for most of our visitors, but I just want to give the link to my parents.

In: Life In General Tags: 2008, New Year, video
Time: 14:51 Comments: 1 Comment Post a Comment

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Our Wedding Ceremony

We decided to try to load the video into Youtube and post it on our blog for those who wasn’t able to make it to our wedding. Youtube rejected it because it was “too long”, but I was able to upload it to Google without any problems. Of course the quality went down, because I tried to compress it as much as possible, but it’s better then nothing.

My favorite part is the way Alena was crying throughout the whole thing.

Update: Trying to upload it to MSN made the quality much better then that of a Google. Who would’ve thought?

Update 2: MSN is no more. Uploaded the video to Vimeo.

In: Wedding Tags: ceremony, Las Vegas, video, Wedding
Time: 14:21 Comments: 7 Comments Post a Comment