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HDSLR Inspiration

Benjamin van Houts — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:08:10 +0000

I’m obsessed with anamorphic lens been used on the 5D. Still looking for any one having done something with split diopter like in the feature films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Andromeda Strain from the 70′s.

Here are some short films I like:

LOCH SNES

Benjamin van Houts — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:26:50 +0000

Getting my Super Nintendo on with Super Metroid. Link to The Past to come.

Super Nintendo with Super Metroid

PLAYING SOFTLY

Benjamin van Houts — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:36:37 +0000

Two week ago I had an overwhelming want to own a PSP start to consume my every thought. A week latter and the urge no less then before, I decide it was best to relive this need by giving in an purchasing a PSP. The rather large out lay of crash was far more then I’d ever consider paying on any hand held gadget, I felt confident that soft modding it would be an easy and money saving justification.

Two long nights latter and I was able to “easily” and safely soft mod my PSP. It was bit of a steep learning curve as I was trying to install Dark_AleX 2.71 Custom Firmware Revision A that had only just come out that night. Most information I found was tailored to users who where still using or had downgraded to the 1.50 firmware.

My PSP had the 2.50 firmware, after trolling the internet it finely clicked that Dark_AleX Custom Firmware only installed on version 1.50. So after install the official 2.71 firmeware from Sony I then used Dark_AleX 2.71 Downgrader, in conjunction with hen C, I was able to downgrade to 1.50. After that it was a simple case of using the tools that came with Custom Firmware to “upgrade” to Dark_AleX’s 2.71 firmware.

Ones that was all done it still took me another night to finally get device hook to load ISO of the Memory Stick and via the USB.

I HATE SNAKES

Benjamin van Houts — Sun, 06 Jul 2003 09:57:00 +0000

I just upgraded my PC, I now have a p4 3 GHz with a 800mhz FSB, 1gig of RAM and a sexy new box. Now with so much more power I needed some thing to test out on it. Some may pick a classic Photoshop benchmarking session however I think a new game is what the doctor ordered. So what did I pick? Well why not more SNAKE?! That’s right I bought Metal Gear Solid 2. 7gigs of pure stealth, butt kicking, Solid Snake goodness.

New Computer

SUPER 8. MAN

Benjamin van Houts — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:27:02 +0000

just back from my dad’s, The main highlight of the night was pulling out the old super 8 projector and stack loads of footage dating back to 1982 and even some before I was born. 15mins was spent trying to get the projector working, ones it started working it then ripped a reel in half and we spent several hours more trying to find out why it had stoped working all together . By the end of the night we had only seen 3 seconds of blurred, flickery footage but we still had fun trying to get a 20 year old projector going.