Studio Missive 12: a video setup
Hi friends! It’s Thanksgiving this weekend in Canada, which means fall is here, which also means it’s time for me to ask why it’s already so freaking cold. It was 26º two days ago. Today, the low was 4º. For my American friends dealing with their woefully inferior Fahrenheit, it was 78º two days ago and 39º this morning. That’s just nuts.
The leaves on a tree across the street from my house turned yellow overnight, presumably out of shock. They were mostly green yesterday.
Fall is a gorgeous season, but it’s also the time of year that reminds me death comes for us all. (Yes, I’m very chipper about it.)
Here’s this week’s look at what’s happening at the studio.
What’s inspiring you this week?
- Ever want to make a simple website on your own? Henry’s beautiful guide will show you how.
- The Oatmeal published a great comic essay about the cringiness of AI art. His take had me nodding in agreement multiple times.
- Timezone looks like a beautiful typeface, and captures a certain nostalgia I have for early digital typefaces. (Via Naz Hamid)
- I didn’t know about relative colour schemes in CSS until today. This is fantastic stuff, and I imagine I’ll use it just about everywhere.
What I’m working on
While I was on vacation, I finally ordered all the things I needed to get a little video setup going in my studio. I already had the lights, tripods, and camera gear from my photography work, but I needed the microphone, the boom arm, mic pre-amp, Thunderbolt hub, and a ton of other boring accessories to make this work.
This picture isn’t the whole setup — the display is obscuring the other speaker, and there’s another light off to the side acting as a spotlight behind me. There are a few more odds and ends on their way before the week is through. Cable management is still a huge mess too, as you can see. But I feel like it’s overall in a decent place, more than good enough to start.
It took days to set this up. I tried multiple angles in my little space, but shooting into a corner was far and away the best option.
That means that I can hopefully record my first video next week. (I don’t know about releasing it. But at the very least I hope to record it. I suspect it will take a whole day.)
Talk to you next week. Or see you? I guess maybe you’ll see me. We’ll see!
Nathan