Ashot explains how he shops on Amazon. It’s a pretty good method and I’ve started to do the same. Here are some of the things he actually bought through his process:
The Complete Far Side 1980-1994
Nikon D40
Griffin Headphone Adapter for iPhone
Senseo Coffee Pod System
He, saddly, does not have the Hello Kitty Toaster
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Paranoia aside Amazon is devilishly good at getting me to buy stuff by (1) holding things in my cart and (2) saving the things I looked at previously. I hate when I put things in my shopping cart, walk away for a few hours, and come back to an ‘expired session’. Usually I just give up on that site.
The video details
All the pictures are products from Amazon. I experimented with Pixelmator to compose the images used in this movie. (Some reviews if you’re interested) It’s a great application for general photo editing. In the past I’ve only used crop, resize and minor color tweaks.
While making these composites I found out that Pixelmator can’t make straight lines and the ‘glow’ feature didn’t work properly. I ended up finishing the last touches with Photoshop (Pixelmator can save as psd, which is pretty cool). For me, Pixelmator is not a Photoshop replacement, but I will continue to use Pixelmator since it loads faster than Photoshop.
