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Year in Review
Another year gone by, we step into the future. As a videographer, I take a lot of footage throughout the year, and one perplexing question that results is: What to do with all of that video? A simple Year in Review, that’s what. Minimal editing, just a mix of shots and places and people and [...]
Glacier
I spent a week visiting Glacier National Peace Park, which extends northward from Montana up into the Canadian province of Alberta. The area received a record snowfall this past season, and the creeks, streams and rivers were high and fast. Snowpack was still melting on many of the trails, and spring just seemed to be [...]
Albertus Seba
A lesser known, but critically important Dutch naturalist. Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. Born in 1665, Seba grew up near the ocean, and at a young age was captivated by the diversity of life living in the sea. Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy [...]
Charley Harper
Artistic genius, modernist, visionary. Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a well known American artist from Cincinnati. His work is immediately captivating, exuding both a playful sense of humor and an exacting eye for form and color. In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual [...]
The Year of the Lens
Cameras, cameras everywhere. It’s absurd to think that in your queue for coffee, you and the people around you may possess 2-3 cameras apiece. 60, 70, 100 cameras in the room. Cell phones, iPods, laptops, Flip cameras, and on and on… Huh? How did we get here? Has it made life better? Are pictures any [...]
B-ROLL
Supporting footage. The beautiful shots. Cutaways. There are a lot of descriptions for what b-roll footage is. In the context of a documentary, it’s the cinematography that supports the story, and adds a visual punch. And it happens to be what I’m naturally compelled towards, and experienced with. I am in the process of establishing [...]
LED Bicycle Backpack
Via Treehugger: We have a soft spot for anything that makes cycling a little safer, and this concept design by Lee Myung Su, Park Geun Wan & Park Okhee pegs it. The backpack lights up with messages for traffic behind the cyclist, from turn signals to emergency signals, to thanking drivers for keeping their distance. [...]
2010 Clinton Global Initiative
The Clinton Global Initiative is happening now. “Building on President Clinton’s lifetime in public service, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) reflects his belief that governments need collaboration from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other global leaders to effectively confront the world’s most pressing problems. After attending thousands of meetings during his career in which [...]
Polar Bear Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeEVkhTutY&fs=1&hl=en_US] Followed up with a cool making-of feature. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUdFIjXVEEo&fs=1&hl=en_US]
Future of Screen Technology
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_mOdi3O5E&fs=1&hl=en_US] Look for it soon….