Timbuk2 is a favorite company of mine. (Okay, I subsidize them.) Their new cycling wallet reminds me of the BookBook case for the iPhone, except turned inside out: 803-3-2001_front Here’s the BookBook case: BookBookiPhone_Left-Hero Both shrink the wallet and, effectively, wrap its functionality around the telephone. Note that both give you the chance to carry [...]
It’s a bit staggering to think about it, but the season finale of House was shot entirely using a Canon 5D camera. The director loved the experience. The details of the shoot, as pulled from his tweets are: The episode was shot at 24fps. They used a collection of stock Canon prime lenses (all the [...]
One of the reasons why I picked up an iPhone 3GS was for its GPS functionality.1 I had been thinking about getting a separate GPS unit, and in fact had asked for one Christmas 2008, but it turns out the delay worked to my benefit. At this point in time, I don’t want turn-by-turn directions, [...]
As most people know, I have used and depended upon the large Moleskine notebooks for the past five years. I take them to work — into committee meetings, into the classroom, into my office — and I take them home. I have taken them out into the field, and I have taken them on both [...]
I may have started out life as an English (and philosophy — dual!) major, which should reveal a real preference for books over people, but what I love is fieldwork. In any given week, what gets me through other days is the knowledge that by the end of the week I will have spent a [...]
Until someone comes up with a digital asset management application for audio that works like Lightroom, I may be stuck with doing things the old-fashioned way. Dustin Cow over at CreativeCow.net offered up the following: Filenames will be in this format. Game-S[season number]E[episode number]-[Game name]-[Type of footage]-[Shot Number]-[description] Filenames should always use leading zeros. eg [...]
I guess when you’re stuck somewhere in your own process, you can’t help but wonder how others do what they do. I regularly get asked by graduate students and undergrads what I carry. I think they think that I must always have a computer with me. Or a lot of other technology or impressive gear. [...]