this is a blog from a pro hollywood director of photography:

http://hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/

he’s a big proponant of using dslr’s for video.

i found a couple others too
http://www.cinema5d.com/

with detailed techinical discussions

here’s another with details about image stabilization
http://www.canon5dtips.com

Now to the point.  The HDSLR technology recycles, it is small, it requires less space, less crew, less light, less power, less fuel, and less food.  I can go on and on for a long time about how this technology produces less waste. The most important point is that with less waste also comes the power for infinite creativity.  I have coined the phrase “small footprint, big vision.”  Isn’t that what we want to teach our children and the world? Leave a small footprint, but have a big vision.

via HDSLR Cameras | Hurlbut Visuals.

A quick check shows they seem to have good data.

Today we’e added biking directions and extensive bike trail data to Google Maps for the U.S. My team has been keeping close tabs on all the public support for biking directions that’s been steadily coming in, but we knew that when we added the feature, we wanted to do it right: we wanted to include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make use of bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly routes that avoid big hills and customize the look of the map for cycling to encourage folks to hop on their bikes. So that’s exactly what we’ve done.

via Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps.

I often hear from clients who are unhappy with negative reviews or missing reviews on Yelp. More often I hear small businesses that rave about what a boon Yelp has been to their bottom line. Here’s some advice for small business owners on what to do with those pesky negative reviews:

The site removes reviews in cases where there is a conflict of interest (for instance, if the review has been written by a competitor). Other grounds for removal include hearsay, hate speech, and attacks that are unrelated to the customer experience.

via Take a Deep Breath (inc.com)

And the Times wrote about a new suit against Yelp just this week.

Wordy gets it…It’s on-demand copy-editing, and it’s ultra slick. No hassles, no clutter, no crap. I took it for a test-run on a chapter from a book another friend of mine is writing, and the experience couldn’t have been better. If for nothing else, you should check it out just to marvel at the elegance of how they’ve set up the site and how clear their process and goal is.

Particularly interesting to some of us, is that they’re working specifically on a WordPress plugin, which should make it even easier to use.

via Binary Bonsai.

Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized–with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS–they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. And, finally, as the larger fish began to disappear, boats began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier–fish never before considered fit for human consumption.

via Aquacalypse Now.

1. newsoap: brand new liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles
2. TheEndo: magnetic clip
3. Brush & Rinse Toothbrush
4. Split Ring Key Blank “Keybrid”

(today their paypal account is ‘unable to receive income’ so not sure what’ sup with that.)

Amron Experimental.

Interesting article with more innovative ways of using dropbox

1 Sync iCal calendars on two Macs

2 Sync your Address Book on two Macs

via Sync Your Life With Dropbox – Wired How-To Wiki.

It is a community for celebrating Dias de los muertos (Day of the Dead).

Overall it was a good experience for a project with a tiny budget and very fast schedule. There are lots of features on Ning but very limited ways to implement them. It’s very hard to make a Ning site not look like a Ning site so it’s best not to have that expectation.

There are a number of alternatives:

Flux, like Ning, (and more recently KickApps ), it’s a place for sites to easily create a new social network, or bolt a social network onto an existing site, and add users from other platform social networks with a single click.

via Ning Analytics » Communities and Networks Connection.

Well they say that chocolate is an aphrodisiac and well who doesn’t love chocolate? At the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas is the world’s largest chocolate fountain. World renown pastry chef Jean Philippe Maury spent a year and a half in design and planning alone to build this monstrosity. The chocolate fountain is 27 feet tall and circulates 2,100 pounds of chocolate at a rate of 120 quarts per minute. There are three types of chocolate in the fountain and while you may not be able to eat directly from the fountain Jean Philippe’s bakery offers plenty of the prized chocolate.

via 10 Weird Romantic Destinations – Weird Worm.

Access your Dropbox on the go. Download files for offline viewing. Sync photos and videos to your Dropbox. Share links to files in your Dropbox

via Dropbox – Get the Dropbox iPhone app – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy..