A while back, I made a stop-motion video with the Olympus PEN E-PL1. It was a video of the Monopoly Car driving around the game board. Olympus asked me to write a guide to making stop motion video.
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Intelligent Twitter Avatar
Wondering how my live twitter avatar works? Follow the tutorial at http://t.co/enoyItUN
— Matthew Knight (@thinkplaymake) August 7, 2012
A very clever man, Matthew Knight (@webponce), has written a brilliant article about how he has dynamically connected his Gmail and Twitter avatar so that the picture changes to match the number of emails in his inbox.
The code he’s put together is actually quite simple. Definitely innovative. I’m planning on replicating this mechanic, but instead of counting unread emails, I’m going to attempt to match my photo to the time of day.