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• Photography & Editing | Colin Legg
  Photography | Geoff Sims
  Original Music | Peter Nanasi

justdrew » 02 Feb 2012 01:59 wrote:

but in reality I don't think the solar systems invariant plane (roughly the plane of Jupiter's orbit) is perpendicular to the motion of the sun around the galaxy, or is it?

• I recently got a new camera, a Canon Rebel T4i [affiliate link] for the photo nerds out there. I’ve been testing it out, playing with the lighting and video modes, seeing what works best. I needed to make a short video to get a solid test of how it performs, so I figured, why not have some fun? So here’s the Wine Cork Magic Trick, performed by yours truly [a higher-res version is on YouTube as well]:
  
  
  
  Let me note: I filmed this video first, then looked for the music after I had already edited it. I like Kevin MacLeod’s Royalty Free Music, and his song “Bad Ideas” seemed to fit what I needed. When I added the audio track into the video, I couldn’t believe how well it matched the action. Seriously, the way the final couple of seconds played out wasn’t planned at all. So maybe this video really is magic after all.
  
  And knowing how much I had to practice this, I bet you’ll think it’s magic if you try it for yourself. It helps to wait a while before, um, making the wine corks available, too.
  
  Tip o’ the black top hat to Richard Saunders and Alynda Brown for showing me this trick many years ago.