Documentary Filmmaking Workshop at Esalen Institute – July 1-3

I got word today that I’ll be helping teach a workshop on documentary filmmaking at the Esalen Institute. It’ll be happening the weekend of July 1-3rd. From the site: Join photographer Patrice Ward and documentary filmmaker Bella Shing for an intensive documentary filmmaking and photography workshop. Bella and Patrice will guide participants in a hands-on [...]

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Magic Lantern, Light the Way!

With all prosumer electronic devices, we always tend to run across those limitations that makes us wonder “why not just unlock that feature for your loyal users?” In the case of my Canon 550D (T2i), there is a nasty setting that causes the audio recording levels to fluctuate automatically based on how loud the camera’s [...]

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Crowd-Accelerated Innovation, Video-Powered.

This TED talk has had me intrigued ever since it was shown to me weeks ago, so I felt it more than worthy of sharing – if nothing else just to entertain a cool model for how to produce progress in the social metaweb. Video is a powerful tool, no? This also reminds me that [...]

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Chocophone or Vanillaphone?

AT&T has finally decided to support the Android operating system (Google phone). Being newly immersed in the mobile world of constantly-updated reminders, messages, comments, posts, videos, tweets, and shout-outs calls gives me this previously unknown insight into the importance of platform in people’s decision-making process- for many buyers software makes or breaks the deal, quite [...]

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Sound, 2.0

We now live in an era saturated with Web 2.0 applications, where it seems nothing simply resides on our lonely little hard drives at home sitting in dusty towers. If you haven’t checked it out, Soundcloud is an amazing way to solve the music/mix sharing conundrum. Before its launch, people have had few attractive options [...]

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Digital Storytelling – The Media Grab

We no longer live in a time and place where media is innocent. (wait…have we ever?) When you press record and that red light begins to blink, you objectify the moment- and immediately create friends- and enemies! Where you aim a camera or a microphone is a decision, an opinion- and many a person will [...]

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