Video editing is the process of piecing together video clips, images, and sounds to create a movie. Nowadays, this is usually done on a computer with fancy video editing programs called non-linear editors, or NLE’s. All that means is that you can…
continue reading →A new series of videos and tutorials creates an approachable and positive learning environment for students taking their initial steps in computer science. Using puppets and animations, The Hello World Program teaches programming, web development…
continue reading →FAO Schwarz wants you to believe that their Whatnot puppets are real, genuine Muppets. After tearing mine to shreds, I’m almost certain these puppets have very little in common with the real deal. We received this particular creature as an award from…
continue reading →Learning to code can be monotonous, but it doesn’t have to be. New educational video series, Daisy’s Web Development Diary, uses puppets, stop motion, and paper craft to teach HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to kids. Join Daisy, the fiery fox and…
continue reading →The stigma that Linux is difficult to use is well deserved, but is becoming increasingly less true. I’ve been using Linux Mint exclusively for several years now, and I can say with confidence that it is much easier to use and far more powerful than…
continue reading →“Media are powerful in that they are unavoidable” (Lester 6). We are constantly bombarded by media in the form of commercials, billboards, and other advertisements blatantly telling us who we aught to be. Media as entertainment also has a subtle…
continue reading →Python is exploding. And there’s a reason for that. It’s awesome! It seems everyone is learning it, teaching it, and hacking with it. Folks are even making python puppets and writing poetry in Python. While Python is easy to learn, it’s not…
continue reading →Lightworks is an Academy and Emmy award winning professional-grade non-linear editor that, in the past 25 years, has been used to edit numerous large-scale feature films including but not limited to Pulp Fiction, Batman, and The King’s Speech…
continue reading →Computer Science Education Week (csedweek.org) is December 7-13th, 2015. To mark the occasion, the co-founders of Dototot are launching a new series of educational and entertaining videos covering the basics of computer science. The ten episodes…
continue reading →How do you cut through all the noise online and get to the really important stuff? How do you build and belong to a community of people you’ll probably never meet? When life and time are precious, how do you maximize your information gathering and…
continue reading →This is the last year of The Hello World Program (https://www.thehelloworldprogram.com/). We launched the project in January of 2012 and we intend to wrap it up on the 5 year mark, whether or not it’s finished. This is the homestretch, the beginning…
continue reading →Over the next year we’ll be writing a series on email marketing and openly discussing our efforts and the lessons learned, using The Hello World Program as our, well, Hello World program. Email Marketing: If It’s Not Worth Writing, It’s Not Worthy of…
continue reading →It’s Oscar season, and everyone is abuzz about The Best This-and-That and The Best So-and-So. But nobody is talking about The Best Blender Short Films. I work with Blender nearly every day and I realized that, outside of Blender Institute projects, I…
continue reading →With the astonishing growth of Linux and the explosion of quality free and open source software, the barrier to entry for media production has never been lower. Anyone of any age or background with any budget can make professional grade media using…
continue reading →One of the more difficult, yet more important, tasks as a creative producer is finding your audience. “Who is your audience?” Answer this question and making things people want to buy will be easy. In this post, I’ll outline the first, easy steps you…
continue reading →We grew up with a VCR and a stack of film classics on magnetic tape viewed so many times no amount of tracking would cure the noise. One of those VHS cassettes was the 1939 adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, which we used as inspiration…
continue reading →In a collaboration with Two Bit Circus, we designed, fabricated and installed a scale model, artistic interpretation of the future of Washington, DC featuring 3D printed buildings and vehicles in the newly opened LocalMotors storefront in National…
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