Freak snow storm with the biggest flakes I ever seen in my life!

response to Janice's latest YT cell phone vid

Uh, I am testing, uh, Safeway's Wifi from their parking lot, uh, corner of Rainier Road (i.e. College), and, uh, Yelm Highway. Also, uh, I have a question for Janice Maddy. Thanks, Uh, Roger Maddy

Janice and I spent last night with mom, having a delayed birthday and Valentine's scratch-off. Thanks for watching, Roger and Janice Maddy

Ready to go to town! Am I dressed okay? Everybody doing okay out there? Thanks, Roger Maddy

I really messed up. I need serious help. Please help me figure out what in the Hell to do next... Thanks. Love, Roger Maddy

An introduction... I'm going to make 2 image splitters for 3D... watch the video for the whole story. -- Thanks, Roger Maddy Casting Broads

New feature on our blog and live broadcasts... We are going to ask _you_ questions via videos. 'nuff said... Watch the video. -- Thanks, Roger and Janice Maddy Casting Broads

I’m in downtown Olympia, Washington. My lights went out at my house in Rainier half way through last night's live UstreamTV broadcast! Listen to this video for more details. Thanks, Roger Maddy Casting Broads in 3D.

How is is going today, Janice Maddy? I'm in the frickin' Twilight Zone today, i.e. I cannot find that second microphone cord that we used in the public school assemblies tour in 1980. I just *know* it is here somewhere... Thanks, Roger Maddy

I've always wanted to go look at the graves in this pioneer cemetery in Lacey, Washington. Although it was too cold and rainy for Janice, I was not disappointed. Some interesting people are buried in this place! Wow! Unedited i.e. point and shoot... what happens happens... more interesting that way! by Roger Maddy

Come on in the Starbucks with Roger and Janice Maddy and watch Roger break a tea bag :)

Driving on Rainier Road and College in Lacey, Washington. Unedited... it's more fun that way... just point the camcorder and shoot, and whatever happens happens :)

Janice Maddy, I went into your room and tried to get online with your iMac, so I could hook up your iSight camera and stream live. Give me a break. I hate Macs. I'm a PC hacker... Thanks, Roger Maddy Casting Broads in 3D

I love you, Lucee. I hope you'll come and sit with me in my pickup along the side of the road. Love, Charlee Brownee

No audio for some reason... next time I'll upload an MOV. We will be going 3D soon… Via a poll, we the Puppets were told to increase the height of the 4 inch heels to 4.5 inches, so now we have Nashville heels… taller than Dolly Parton, Rhonda Vincent or Hannah Montana heels, we hope. Prolly still shorter than Britney Spears heels, though :) Thanks, Roger Maddy (and Janice)

Don't worry... it didn't stick. :-) Video by Roger and Janice Maddy

This movie is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye. Check out my new quad-line kite flying rig. Created with Google SketchUp.

This is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye. I finally managed to climb out of the balsa glider and get new strings on my mandolin. Check out my new ride. Yes, I really do all my own stunts.

The very last part of this animation is in 3D (when you see Janice and I acting suspicious in the glider cockpit). To see that last part in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye during that segment. Here’s how I try to get an “optimum” amount of stereoscopic 3D depth in every image. Watch the animation a few times, and hopefully you will understand the simple concept. Compose the shot by visualizing the final frame of the image, and the far left and right edges of that frame. Locate the nearest and farthest visible points in that stereoscopic frame. This includes _any_ point that is visible, anywhere, i.e. on the ground close to the camera, in the sky, far, far away, etc. Anything that is visible has to be included… _anything_. Imagine the frame (that same final frame of the image) being located at the same exact depth as the _nearest_ point. That frame is divided into 30 equal, horizontal segments. The left and right camera viewpoints are horizontally displaced (shifted) exactly one of those equal segments (1/30th of the frame width) apart… end of story. It can’t get much simpler than that… but… This is actually “reverse engineering”, but don’t worry… it is easier to do than it sounds. You can set this up any way you want… by changing the stereo base (the distance between the left and right lenses) of the stereoscopic camera… or by moving closer or farther from the near point… or by changing the focal length and the field of view… or by excluding the most distance object, etc… however you get the job done will work… Visualizing what is going on before you shoot the scene is the tricky part, but keep practicing, and you will eventually be able to do this very quickly. If you can come up with a visual aide or two, that helps, e.g. I have a piece of paper with a vertical black bar down the center that shows me what “1/30th of the frame width” looks like… BTW, that final frame (the “stereo window”) can be shifted, later, forward or back in the depth of the scene, but that initial frame is what defines the total amount of depth (”stereoscopic deviation”), i.e. the distance from the nearest visible point to the farthest visible point in the entire scene. Created with Google SketchUp. Composited with Adobe After Effects. Video by Roger Maddy.