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A Night at the Coliseum (My first Flip Mino HD footage)

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I've been quite impressed with this tiny little device. It works great with outdoor footage, and is best when anchored via mini-tripod to a fixed object. This 2 minute clip is pretty dry, straight out of the camera, unedited.

I find it almost unusable when not anchored down -- the 720p HD signal really shows every last miniscule twitch of my hand.

Aside from that issue, this really does have potential for use on some cool low budget video projects. It is cheaper than ever to tell a story.

Now on to learn and refine what it takes to create those stories...

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Posted 7 months ago

Muji kicks ass


Just wanted to write a quick note about how in love I am with my Muji carry-on bag. It's extremely lightweight, durable, and pretty huge. I upgraded to this in London from an American Tourister Walmart special... and it's remarkable because it's carries as much but weighs 50% less and looks svelte as heck.

Oh Muji, I love you!

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Posted 7 months ago

All it takes is a camera, a tripod, some photoshop magic... oh, and true artistry too.

Amazing work by Peter Funch.







See a whole lot more really great stuff at the artist's site at v1gallery.com.

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Posted 7 months ago

Will Rogers State Park is coool

great view

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Posted 7 months ago

Vic and Eric are driving the van

Ready for a great weekend in LA!!

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Posted 7 months ago

Virgin America wants to charge us $-2 to check in

What the...

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Posted 7 months ago

Washington DC needs to give Silicon Valley a break already. VC's are systemic risk? Oh hell no.

First, Sarbanes-Oxley mandated byzantine corporate bureaucracy to 'protect' investors. Then, the SEC damaged the Silicon Valley economy by forcing companies to count stock options twice, both as dilution and as expense. As a result, Silicon Valley, for decades the bright spot of the American economy, produced only one [initial public offering] in all of 2008. Now, Geithner wants to regulate venture capital firms to protect us some more. It's like watching children deface an economic work of art.

--TJ Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semi via online.wsj.com

OK, lets get this straight.

Enron and Worldcom destroy trust in corporations and line their pockets along the way, and tech pays the price. Sarbanes-Oxley took cash directly out of the pockets of almost every tech entrepreneur out there, burned most of it, and gave the rest to accounting firm and auditors.

High flying masters of the universe on Wall Street use their quant models to yet again fleece the American public, and now tech is going to suffer yet more heavy handed regulation when DC puts a choke-hold on access to life-giving venture capital?

I was never a libertarian, but I'm certainly coming around.

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Posted 7 months ago

Surprising side-by-side documentary footage by a $169 Flip Mino vs. $3500 Canon XH-A1

via kirkmastin.blogspot.com

Wow, Kirk Mastin taped a Flip video camera to a $3,500 Canon XH-A1 + pro mic, and filmed a mini-short with both of them filming identical footage. He then runs through it one after another, and you can barely tell the difference. The main difference actually is the sound quality, and even that isn't significant at all.

This is apparently the video blog entry that caused the NYTimes to pick up the Flip camera. Anyway, Kirk Mastin, your blog rocks.

And also I just finally ordered a Flip Mino HD myself. I'm absolutely inspired by the storytelling possibilities.

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Posted 7 months ago

Edward Tufte meets Brothers Grimm: Using info graphics aesthetic to tell a story

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Inspired by Röyksopp's Remind Me music video.

Really strong work.

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Posted 7 months ago

Paperculture.com is bringing modern design to stationary and invitations.

No more Hallmark for me... I now know where to get cool cards and invitations printed.

Posterous super-blogger Patrick Au-Yeung's wife just started the company Paperculture (I love the name, love the brand), and as you can see they're creating some impressive, ground-breaking modern designs that are customizable. They describe themselves as being inspired by brands like Kate Spade, Design Within Reach, Mini, Marc Jacobs and Apple. That's a damn fine list.

           
Click here to download:
Paperculture.com_is_bringing_m.zip (238 KB)

I guess I'm just a sucker for modern, vector-based designs and great typography. And for designer-owned-and-operated businesses too.

Check it out: http://paperculture.com  -- they just launched in "Preview" mode and are giving away 25% discounts.

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Posted 7 months ago