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  • Canon EOS 6D: Findings and Experiences

    When your abilities as an artist evolve, your tools of the trade tend to evolve with it. For two solid years, I operated a prosumer Canon EOS Rebel T2i. It had its perks. It was cheap and well-rounded. But, it also had its downfalls. The crop sensor and limited depth and quality were beginning to Read more

  • Some of That ‘New Year, New You’…Stuff.

    “What makes an excellent screenplay? Is it the size of the bridges that are blown up or the number of cars that crash in the first ten minutes of the film? Or is it the characters and what they say and feel?” Take a moment and let that sink in. “We all know the answer Read more

  • "5 Minutes to What?!"

    So, I worked on a film this summer. It was a bloody mess. Just an absolute bloody mess. It was absolutely horrifying…oh, let me clarify. I’m talking about film CONTENT, not the film itself, nor the production. The shoot was fantastic. The cast and crew were fantastic. The overall experience was fan-freakin’-tastic! What started out Read more

  • Climbin’ in Our Windows, Snatchin’ Our I.D.s Up

    Adobe’s Response, “Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife…Oh, and Change Your Password.” I received a rather alarming email from Adobe on October 4th. It was a statement detailing an attack on Adobe’s network. It seems somebody was able to hack into their system, however it doesn’t seem as though it was anything major. The email Read more

  • How To: Hard Drive Recovery/Repair

    Recently, I experienced some technical difficulties with my Samsung 320GB hard drive, which I was using to transport video files from my laptop to my desktop PC. It seemed as though something had corrupted the hard drive in the transfer process, resulting in this wonderful message: The system was unable to read the drive, believing Read more

  • GoPro Studio 2.0 Now Available

    Though not a personal update per say, I do own a GoPro Hero 3, so to hear the announcement that GoPro had just released an update for their studio software, I was rather giddy. I haven’t had a chance to test the software myself, but from what I’ve read, it is exponentially better than the Read more