Below is a 3D video I took last weekend inside The Hot Shop at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.
You can watch glass artists at work on the Museum’s live video stream (which is narrated) and you can send questions to the narrator, online. Glass blowing is an absolutely fascinating art form and takes a team of people to produce these spectacular pieces.
The operator of 3dstreaming.it contacted me several months ago, suggesting I start posting links to my 3D videos on his web site. Unfortunately, I was really busy on other projects and did not follow up.
Until now. If you enjoy watching 3D videos, 3dstreaming.it is a repository of links to 3D videos located at other video streaming sites – and the content I looked at tonight is quite good. I am definitely enjoying 3dstreaming.it and will become a regular visitor there and encourage you to do the same if you enjoy online 3D video.
I noted that the Fujifilm 3D W3, the Lumix 3D1 and the Toshiba Z100 are showing up as discontinued or low availability.
Now, I just spied the Sony Bloggie 3D showing up at an Electronic Closeouts distributor.
We will likely see new models announced in 2 weeks at the 2013 CES. I have read that the Fujifilm W3 and the Sony Bloggie 3D sold in good quantities. On Youtube, there are a lot of Sony Bloggie 3D sample videos to choose from suggesting it has been a popular (and inexpensive) 3D camera solution.
Most consumers who shoot 3D using these cameras upload their photos or video directly and do not do any image processing. A problem with 3D cameras is that the lenses eventually (and sometimes pretty quickly) become out of alignment. This can be corrected using StereoPhoto Maker for still images or Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Magix Movie Edit Pro for videos. But hardly anyone does those corrections. And the result is a LOT of bad quality 3D video on Youtube!
Tip – essentially all 3D photos and video should be reviewed and processed on the computer before uploading!
The old URL coldstreams.com/video should automatically and transparently redirect to
The “video” name is no longer the best descriptor for this blog as the focus is now 3d still and 3d video photography.
This change was implemented in a way that should be transparent – if you still have your bookmark set to coldstreams.com/video or your RSS newsreader set to the old address, everything should continue to work through the automatic redirection.
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How to do this
Information on moving your WordPress folder contents to a new folder (what has to be done)
Then, I set up a .htaccess file in the root directory of my virtual server (for me, this is a folder named httpdocs running on Apache) to redirect from the original folder to a subdomain. I put the following in the .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^coldstreams[.]com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www[.]coldstreams[.]com$
RewriteRule ^video/?(.*)$ http://3d.coldstreams.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^coldstreams[.]com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www[.]coldstreams[.]com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.^(.*)$ http://coldstreams.com/$1
This uses the mod_write engine inside the Apache server. The first two conditions look for this website’s URL. The first RewriteRule then matches the original /video followed by anything and redirects it to the new URL followed by the anything that was part of the original URL.
If the URL did not include the /video folder name, then it continues to look for matching rules. The next set of rules matches anything else (e.g. coldstreams.com/xyz) and maps it to itself (coldstreams.com/xyz maps to coldstreams.com/xyz).
The trailing [R=301] passes back some information to the caller (such as a search engine) that the page has been moved to a new location.
I posted this techie subject on the 3D blog because many of the web site examples I ran across that described how to redirect did not actually work except in a special case.
I took the photos below on Dec 8th. In light of the events of Dec 14th, I am posting them here.
This is in the children’s section of the Greenwood Terraces cemetery. I had to leave after taking these photos because I was crying.
Red/cyan stereoscopic anaglyph images. Red/Cyan glasses required for viewing. Click on any photo to view full size (3D always looks better in higher resolution, full size images)
If you cannot read the sign, it says, “Santa stop here”.
