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Cake and software and multimedia and random thoughts
There should be a software application called “Cake” and then you’re slogan could be “and you can eat it to”… and you can make T-Shirts that say “eat it!” And the program would be for letting us create Hollywood style special effects in our multimedia pieces. (Hey I said the thoughts were random, I just...
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A hard day’s iPhone
I think there’s some rule today that anyone with a blog has to write something about the iPhone. I think it’s the 28th Amendments: Congress shall make no law that allows for leniency on blogs that do not gush and exude fuel for the iPhone hype machine. (Our economy depends on your disposable income after...
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Multimedia isn’t making the world fall apart, photojournalism is just evolving
I have a lot of random thoughts throughout the day, today I had one that I just had to write down. It was supposed to be only one sentence and part of a new series I was toying around with, but as it so often happens I got on top of the soapbox and looking...
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Sitting on the advice of giants… or knowledge bombs from people who are better than me
From time to time I get to talk to people who I genuinely admire and turn to for advice and debate the latest news with. Up till now, I’ve always said I’d post some of these talks to SLR, and they’ve always given me permission to, but I’ve just never gotten around to it. That...
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A serendipitous end at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
My time at the Santa Cruz Sentinel has come to an end, last Wednesday was my last. I worked Mondays, and it was kinda weird waking up and not having to drive for an hour over over the hill today. Everything has to come to an end sometime. For my last day there wasn’t much...
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We’ll always have Paris…oy…if you want to or not
When I got up this morning to run an errand, the radio was talking about Paris Hilton… when I logged on to check my e-mail the top news blurb on Yahoo was of Paris Hilton… When I turned on the noon news on TV, the top news spot was about Paris Hilton. We are a...
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I won…. a very honorable scholarship
Last Saturday the Peninsula Press Club held an awards banquet… they announced to those in attendance that I had been awarded this year’s Herb Caen Student Scholarship… named for the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist… whose style I am mimicking here… (poorly)… I was not able to attend but I heard it was quite a...
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Ever have that feeling…
Ever have that feeling that you just have to blog about something? I’m looking at SLR and thinking, man it’s been dry around here for a while, it’s about time I write about something. So you start thinking… gee, what to write about. Columnist can do it many times a week, why shouldn’t/can’t I? So...
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The return of the light table
Microsoft came out with this new do-hickey (that’s a technical term BTW, don’t hurt yourself trying to say it) that’s a table top touch screen PC today and that got me thinking (don’t worry, it didn’t hurt much), why not use them as light tables? I remember the old days of taking a loop and...
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Portfolio always in flux
The last couple months I’ve been living and dying with my portfolio as I look through it over and over, change it up constantly and formulate game plans for future stories. I’ve been thinking of what works and what doesn’t. What editors will want to see and what they couldn’t care less about. What will...
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Asian Representations in American Cinema Developed for a Teenage Audience or Why Doesn’t Anyone Look Like Me?
In another life I spent more than a few years writing film reviews and essays of new and old, classic and infamous, good and bad films for various websites and any press outlets that would have me. Recently I had the chance to revisit my old passion when it came time to produce a research...
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What a crazy day I’m having
Sometimes you just have to sit back and say… wow… just wow. I came in today to the internship and shot six assignments and produced a multimedia piece, so all in all, not bad. But just looking it over, in the end it was one crazy day. A crazy racist lady wanted to know where...
