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Not your ordinary cat pictures
At the risk of revealing myself as a crazy cat lady, I would like to share two alternatives to traditional cat photography.
Stuff On My Cat is a site where you can submit pictures of... well... stuff on your cat. To demonstrate, I took a picture of Stewie, uploaded it to my Kodak Picture Viewer, then put it on Stewie and took another picture.
If that is not enough "cat picture within a cat picture" content for you, check out Infinite Cat.
The idea is to take a picture of your cat looking at the site on a computer screen and then submiting the picture for another cat to gaze at and have it's picture taken... and so on, and so forth... forever and ever... infinitely.
There is also My Cat Hates You, a collection of "sour faced, indignant felines"... but I don't have any pictures of Stewie illustrating it because Stewie loves EVERYONE.
I have now posted twice about pictures of my cat.
I am sure my dog is going to be ticked about this.
He is probably at home chewing up my favorite shoes right this very minute.
Video Prints and Flipbooks
I love taking fun pictures and I also love doing stuff with those pictures. So I am really excited about this blog. Here is the kind of thing you can expect from me.
A friend of mine uses the same Kodak V550 that I do. I was browsing through her vacation pictures on the camera display when I started to notice some of the pictures were little 9-up shots in one screen. She explained that she set her preferences so that whenever she shot video the camera created these still frames. How could I miss that feature?! My mind swirled with possibilites.
The first idea was to create a flipbook (or "kineograph" if you're feeling fancy). When you thumb through the pages of a flipbook, the pictures on the pages animate. These video stills are perfect for this!
To start, I made sure I had my "video print" setting on and then I took some videos of my cat spinning in circles.
I printed two video capture stills out on an inkjet printer, cut them out and stapled them together. It worked! I think if I printed on heavier paper it would have worked better because the paper tended to stick together.
Everyone is getting a flipbook for the holidays this year!