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Archive for April 2011

Runs in the family

This is my daughter Rehtaeh. She loved playing with the Sony and learning what all the buttons did. I’m very proud of her.

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Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the Obama administration is “showing its analog roots” after print reporter, Carla Marinucci, was banished from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for pulling out a small video camera and shooting some protesters interrupting a fundraiser at

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Using online video to explain elections

Here in Canada we’ll be heading to the polls this Monday and the winner (?) will go on to run the country. Under our Parliamentary system the party with the most seats gets to form the government and the party leader takes the seat as Prime Minister. What this means

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1994 Vision of the Tablet

Knight-Ridder produced a video in 1994 demonstrating a tablet newspaper and predicting it would come to pass in ten or fifteen years.

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Tips for producing on-camera interviews

Here’s 17 tips for conducting an on-camera interview by Don Ray. Pay him a visit, there’s some insightful posts on his blog. I found over at Media Helping Media, you should pay the m a visit too. These tips will help you to enhance the quality of your recorded, on-camera

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‘Restrepo’ Director Is Killed in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya — Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated film director and conflict photographer who produced the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata on Wednesday, and three photographers working beside him were wounded. The wounds to two of the photographers — Chris Hondros and Guy Martin — were

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Timelapse of the Milky Way

This was filmed by Terje Sorgjerd between 4th and 11th April 2011 at El Teide, Spain. The location is Spain’s highest mountain (3715m) and is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars. Find out more about how it was put together here.

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101 Online Video Stats

Originally titled ‘101 Online Video Stats to Make Your Eyes Glaze Over,’ this article is a great overview of the state of online video. A few examples to ponder as you produce your next big flick: More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major U.S.

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Herald wins NPPA for Multimedia Project

Local paper does good! I’m sure it’s a very proud moment for the Chronicle Herald and photojournalist Eric Wynne. Eric is a friend of mine and I’m sure he’s pretty happy to see all that hard work pay off with recognition like this. Nova Scotia Burning: ON DEC. 1, THE

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GoPro vs Kawasaki Vulcan

Found out the hard way yesterday that a * GoPro® HD Motorsports HERO™ Camera isn’t up to being run over by a Kawasaki Vulcan. It was mounted to the windshield and then to the front tire. It was the tire mounting that did it in and the rider said he

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