I just pushed out the latest episode of MOTORZ TV, where I show how to install new brakes and rotors on a 2008 Ford Mustang GT:
Archive for the ‘videos’ Category
New MOTORZ TV: How to install a BBK Intake and SCT Tuner
May 19th, 2009
The latest episode of MOTORZ is now online everywhere, including TiVo and iTunes!
My SEMA 2008 interview with SBTV
April 28th, 2009
How to install a Viper 5900 car alarm
April 28th, 2009
chrisWHERE!?
March 24th, 2009
As you may have noticed, I have all but completely abandoned this blog in lieu of keeping friends and family updated through other social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook. From time to time I’ll hopefully update christhis.com with something useful!
If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, well it’s been family, work, and my weekend passion of hosting and producing my own TV show called MOTORZ which can be seen on TiVo, iTunes, Zune, the motorz.tv website, and 20+ other places. It’s an automotive DIY show and is doing extremely well! A new episode comes out every two weeks. I love the educational/instructional format and evidently so do others!
So please check me out at MOTORZ TV!
Tripod alternatives for image stabilization
March 24th, 2008
This is a very interesting video that explains several techniques for image stabilization on your still camera or camcorder. They are all very inexpensive and their effectiveness varies.
The water bottle technique would be best if you are on the go (walking) but if you’re doing stationary shots, the string technique would best. Enjoy!
Here is another DIY camera stabilization solution that is a bit more involved. It is a very inexpensive version of the Glidecam 2000, which is what we use for X7 Media for our videos using our Canon GL2 camcorder.
Improve YouTube video quality in FireFox
March 6th, 2008
While watching movies on the iPhone version of YouTube I always noticed videos looked better. I just thought it might be the smaller screen. With this new Add-on for FireFox, I think it confirms that there are different quality versions of videos at YouTube. In fact, according to Josh, this Add-on streams from video.l.google.com instead of youtube.com. This makes sense to me because Google videos always supported much better video quality. Perhaps the YouTube player on the iPhone does the same thing?
The Add-on for FireFox is called “Better YouTube Firefox extension” that really does improve the video quality of YouTube, depending on the video that was originally uploaded. I always upload videos in a better quality than is shown at YouTube, and I can confirm that it does work with a side-by-side comparison of two of my videos using Safari (left) Vs. FireFox (right) with the Add-on:
(Click for full size and to see the detail in the “Jason G.” logo bug)
(Click here to use this video for testing)
9mm-thin 50″ Plasma TV
January 10th, 2008
One of the more amazing new technologies to come out of CES 2008, IMHO, is this 9mm plasma screen TV from Pioneer. Watch this video:
There are some photos at Gizmodo. If you think your current LCD/plasma TV was thin, this is what the future holds…
New Knight Rider KITT car
January 9th, 2008
NBC’s new Knight Rider show, based on the popular 80’s show, premieres this February 17th. It features the Knight Industries 3000 (KITT) Shelby Ford Mustang GT500KR created in the vein of the original KITT car that Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) kicked around with his big poofy hair.
A friend of mine designed the iconic red lights on the front of KITT just below the front lip of the hood. I’m going to interview him for an exclusive story for my Muscle Car Blog site. Should be a lot of fun!
Here’s the latest 2 minute video about the show:
bum bum BWANO bum bum BWANO BWANO BWAM!
January 7th, 2008
Got a case of the Mooondays? This should pick you up.
That’s a Scrubs tribute to:
Office Space related videos
December 19th, 2007
Check these out, if you are a fan of “Office Space” (the movie) you’ll appreciate both of these.
