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During a recent trip to Victoria with my wife Lea I thought I might experiment and make an impromptu video of our Horse Draw Cart mini-tour through Melbourne. Click through to view the video in High Definition.

I love my lomo kompakt automat LC-A; it’s as addictive as it is expensive. For many years the camera has been an extension of my everyday life, rolling off snaps whenever I remember that the camera is in my bag or if something unique catches my eye. View some of my lomographic collection here…

During the 4.5 years I have spent with MassMedia Studios I have seen the business grow from humble beginnings, successfully expand into global markets and become part of an innovative global digital agency (in Blue Freeway). The exponential growth is the result of a team of very talented designers, developers, producers and managers of which I feel privileged to have worked closely with in various capacities. It’s important that I acknowledge the many people that I have worked with during my tenures as this is as much their portfolio as it is mine.

Before YouTube and Vimeo there was Plastic Forks: an online video repository for the worlds video off-cuts and half-arsed video projects. It was never intended to compete with the short-film sites such as iFilm or Atom Films. Instead, the idea was for the video stream to be rich with potential, random ideas, rough sketches and video experiments. The result would be streaming video wallpaper and a chaotic video noise wrapped up under a single brand.

Anaglyph is the name that describes the three dimensional images and film that come to life by wearing glasses with Red and Blue lenses. Popularised in the 1950’s, the technology is now much refined with less intrusive glasses that either flicker at high speed or use subtle chroma tinting to retain the full colour in an image.

But I really enjoy trying to replicate the 3D stereoscopic effect with off the shelf tools and video equipment. The best results have been when using 3D animation tools (such as Strata Studio Pro) whereby the render process automatically outputs a stereoscopic image and the only post processing is adjusting the Red and Blue hues.