When I first got my iPad I bought it for the sole purpose of using it as a sketchbook for my ideas. I know its no photoshop, but there are some big advantages. You can do some amazing designs with the effects apps. Forge of neon is one of the best. It makes an animation into a 3D object. Every design is different as is every viewpoint and you can change the colours.
Here are a few of my favourite experiments
What if you could repeat or freeze a moment in time.
Like a small movie just a few seconds long. Life in slow motion like a Harry potter snap. Enter the animated gif. Web designs long lost animation tool before the likes of Flash. But now it’s a photographers tool of enhancement. Imagine all these photos in a darkened gallery lit up like candles. It’s just one step closer to being part of the photographers world.
Cinemagraphs.com – By Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg
So your watching the TV with the usual B movie action films, same boring predictable storyline. Boy meets girl, girl gets kidnapped, MI5 undercover cop with an unconventional style chases the clues and inevitably rescues her. Are you bored yet?
Try the following instead. These are the undiscovered Gems you may never have heard of. From brilliant acting to just plain surreal.
1. Dark City
Mystery is in the air! All the elements of a classic murder mystery in a film noir style, but there is a twist. From the director of The Crow this is a strange sort of unassuming film overshadowed by the release of the Matrix. As brilliant as the Matrix was however, this is a film to last the years.
