Sep 29, 2009
Sep 28, 2009
Causecast booth at Abbot Kinney fest 2009
The more I look through my photos of events, the less I realize I take. But this excuse was I was bouncing between shooting video (especially of the actual flashmob itself) and pitching to everyone Causecast and ASSK.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Sep 26, 2009
Redbull Soapbox Derby Los Angeles 2009
About 120,000 people came to downtown Los Angeles to watch the Redbull Soapbox Derby. I couldn't take many pictures because it was so dense with people, and we ended up sneaking into the hospitality tent for free booze.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
It took over 2 hours to put these photos together, which is just all the more reason I need a new computer. CLICK THE ADS!!!
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
It took over 2 hours to put these photos together, which is just all the more reason I need a new computer. CLICK THE ADS!!!
Sep 25, 2009
causecast, one year later
(Reposted from the Causecast blog, which can't embed the flickr slideshow)
Causecast celebrated its one-year anniversary two weeks ago (Sept 12 2008 was the day of launch), but today I'm celebrating my one-year anniversary of working at Causecast.
It's hard to condense down a full year into one blog post, and I've never been a sentimental person by any stretch of the term, but I do love taking pictures. And I've been fortunate enough to tag along when Causecast has gone to different parts of the country: Washington DC during Obama's inauguration, Austin Tx for SXSW, San Francisco for the NTEN conference just to name a few. It's been amazing. And if I ever had a moment to spare I'd take some pictures and post them on our Flickr page.
Here are just a few, which I'll be expanding over time when I have a moment to go through the collection.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Lately I've been using the camera to shoot timelapses (here's the CC crew having lunch).
Where will we be going in the next year? God only knows. It's pretty amazing how far we've gone now. But you can be sure I'll be taking pictures all the way.
Causecast celebrated its one-year anniversary two weeks ago (Sept 12 2008 was the day of launch), but today I'm celebrating my one-year anniversary of working at Causecast.
It's hard to condense down a full year into one blog post, and I've never been a sentimental person by any stretch of the term, but I do love taking pictures. And I've been fortunate enough to tag along when Causecast has gone to different parts of the country: Washington DC during Obama's inauguration, Austin Tx for SXSW, San Francisco for the NTEN conference just to name a few. It's been amazing. And if I ever had a moment to spare I'd take some pictures and post them on our Flickr page.
Here are just a few, which I'll be expanding over time when I have a moment to go through the collection.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Lately I've been using the camera to shoot timelapses (here's the CC crew having lunch).
Where will we be going in the next year? God only knows. It's pretty amazing how far we've gone now. But you can be sure I'll be taking pictures all the way.
Sep 20, 2009
history notes
The answers provided from Sherpeeba, the legendary albino lakeland terrier of Armenia, were once again amiss on his audience of Mrs. and Ms. Drury, who had failed the Weekend Lotto for eighth time this season.
Mr. Pickett found engineering to be far more advantageous and affordable to use children as models for his updated livestock slaughter designs.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck prepare Sunday night's supper, as much in love as they've ever been.
(all photos from Shorpy Photoblog)
Sep 15, 2009
hype to habit
After months and months and months, we're still working out the final bugs with the video player, but this is 90% there.
fish eating fish
Adobe's acquisition of Omniture could represent a lot, but I think it's a good indication of one thing: Adobe has finally concluded that there's money to be had on them internets.
Adobe can make absolutely incredible client software. "Can," not "always." Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects are arguably monopolies in their respective fields. They're fantastic at making creative works, but for a long time the transition to online was a little rough. So about five years ago, Adobe acquired Macromedia to help them with that transition: how you actually get that work online with Dreamweaver and Flash.
These programs are still awesome, but time has told that the vast majority of people don't use specialty software to power their sites: they use social network platforms like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube because they get 90% or more of the job done for free.
And client-based software is a one-time purchase. There's no monthly fee, there's no subscription, you either buy it or you don't. And though Adobe's fought this with upgrades every 18 months, the economic market has artists and companies questioning whether it was really worth the additional hundreds more. And Adobe's played with online applications like Kuler and Photoshop online. But just like their Air platform, there's not much to be gained by Adobe for providing them.
Web analytics is a hugely lucrative field, because there's so many different things to track and so few know how to do it effectively. Google Analytics, obviously, is making incredible waves by giving away so much data for free. But they can only track page views, they can't track Rich Internet Application use like Flash (at least in Analytics). They track it in YouTube, but of course that just encourages people to be using YouTube as their video source over making their own. And there's a lot of other private trackers that give analytics for video (TubeMogul InPlay comes to mind), but they're incredibly expensive.
If, however, you as a client were able to implement analytics into your Flash media from the beginning, that would be extraordinarily valuable because it would be more secure, less cumbersome and potentially cheaper than employing a 3rd-party client. The site Watching Websites describes how this is probably Adobe withholding the data for a fee, which I definitely see the case: scalable data for a monthly fee that's optional for the user. This would be phenomenal because trackers now really only analyze regular video, not so much more complicated flash-based ads or mobile apps.
As Watching Websites puts it, "everyone making money tracking things - from bit.ly, to Doubleclick, to other analytics firms - is going to be watching this really closely."
Adobe can make absolutely incredible client software. "Can," not "always." Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects are arguably monopolies in their respective fields. They're fantastic at making creative works, but for a long time the transition to online was a little rough. So about five years ago, Adobe acquired Macromedia to help them with that transition: how you actually get that work online with Dreamweaver and Flash.
These programs are still awesome, but time has told that the vast majority of people don't use specialty software to power their sites: they use social network platforms like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube because they get 90% or more of the job done for free.
And client-based software is a one-time purchase. There's no monthly fee, there's no subscription, you either buy it or you don't. And though Adobe's fought this with upgrades every 18 months, the economic market has artists and companies questioning whether it was really worth the additional hundreds more. And Adobe's played with online applications like Kuler and Photoshop online. But just like their Air platform, there's not much to be gained by Adobe for providing them.
Web analytics is a hugely lucrative field, because there's so many different things to track and so few know how to do it effectively. Google Analytics, obviously, is making incredible waves by giving away so much data for free. But they can only track page views, they can't track Rich Internet Application use like Flash (at least in Analytics). They track it in YouTube, but of course that just encourages people to be using YouTube as their video source over making their own. And there's a lot of other private trackers that give analytics for video (TubeMogul InPlay comes to mind), but they're incredibly expensive.
If, however, you as a client were able to implement analytics into your Flash media from the beginning, that would be extraordinarily valuable because it would be more secure, less cumbersome and potentially cheaper than employing a 3rd-party client. The site Watching Websites describes how this is probably Adobe withholding the data for a fee, which I definitely see the case: scalable data for a monthly fee that's optional for the user. This would be phenomenal because trackers now really only analyze regular video, not so much more complicated flash-based ads or mobile apps.
As Watching Websites puts it, "everyone making money tracking things - from bit.ly, to Doubleclick, to other analytics firms - is going to be watching this really closely."
Sep 13, 2009
Oh, Reverie
OH, REVERIE - A 1/3 MUSICAL from Sean Leonard on Vimeo.
I was going through some of my liked videos on Vimeo and came across this one from a few months back. It's an entire short film from SCAD that a lot of my friends had a part in (I swear, this'll be the last SCAD-post for a while). I hadn't seen it since it premiered, and it's really, really beautiful.
Sep 11, 2009
Sep 9, 2009
Sep 7, 2009
More lapses.
I wanted to fix a few things with the final one: use a polarizing filter to get rid of the reflection on the windshield, and lengthen the exposure to be as close to the intervals as possible. I didn't have any ND filters so I tried getting two polarizing filters at the right position to darken the lens enough to have an 8sec exposure and shoot every 9 seconds.
The battery ran out halfway. I like watching the light on the passenger seat.
Sep 6, 2009
First Timelapse - Santa Monica to Santa Barbara
Of course I hit the worst traffic I've ever come across when going home for the weekend.
Also the intervals were every 5 seconds, which is pretty jerky, so the I need the exposures to be longer. And I need to dust off my polarizing filter so the dashboard doesn't reflect in the window.
But these'll get better.
Sep 4, 2009
Sep 3, 2009
things change
Was going through Archive.org in search of background music tracks for video, and somehow stumbled upon this amazing gem:
Sep 1, 2009
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