» Archive for December, 2009
I unpacked my brand new Canon 5d Mark II a few months ago and excitedly clambered onto my Manhattan rooftop to put it through some tests. Within minutes I discovered the nasty aliasing artifact seen above, wherein the uniformly brown brick building down the block seemed to have a pattern of gray concentric circles overlaid across its surface. I knew about, and expected, the DSLR aliasing problems, and even wrote that I had some ideas about how to defeat them (on the rooftop that day, I tested several contrast and softening filters in an attempt to defeat the oversharpened look, to little avail). But I knew what I was getting into, and for the price, I’ve learned to (more than) love the one I’m with. More »
The second episode of RADAR that I directed and DP’d with Zack is live today. Check out the episode below, and stay tuned to RADAR for future episodes on cutting-edge arts and culture. More »
I started this site in 2005 as a personal blog, mostly focused on chronicling my own efforts to get myself from North Carolina to New York City and start a film career there. Those goals have either been achieved or unfulfilled, depending on your definition of “career” and the particular point in time we’re talking about (I had my own place in Manhattan for three years; now, I’m out on my own, couch-surfing and looking to move to Brooklyn). Whatever the four-year evaluation (am I “graduating?”), I’m definitely much more “in” the industry now, and it’s time to turn this site into something useful for others instead of a navel-gazing, public journal. More »
Ty: Like you stated though, all you need is a PC that runs iTunes (for now) With the new Apple TV, Apple Decides the Living Room Can Wait
Ty: Ah. Good point. Ever since switching over to Apple I've kind of taken fo… With the new Apple TV, Apple Decides the Living Room Can Wait
William: What I want to see is a device that will bury the cable companies. Time Wa… With the new Apple TV, Apple Decides the Living Room Can Wait
Koo: That's a good point -- all you need is another piece of Apple hardware tha… With the new Apple TV, Apple Decides the Living Room Can Wait