Decades before the late Billy Mays started his pitchman career, Ron Popeil was pioneering the “As Seen on TV” product market. Popeil, born in New York City in 1935, was the son of inventor Samuel Popeil, who created the Chop-O-Matic and it’s ultimately more famous relative, the Veg-O-Matic. Ron started out...
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THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo. In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later,...
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West of the Moon from Brent Bonacorso on Vimeo. Written, Directed, & Animated by Brent Bonacorso www.brentbonacorso.com Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, 'West of the Moon' is the story of one man's lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along...
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"Babe's Lair" - Walt & Vervain from Joseph on Vimeo. A few years back, music videos were one of the primary promotional media used to introduce emerging musical artists to the general public. At that time, MTV was one of the primary distribution media. MTV launched many new...
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Canon 1D-C: High ISO Noise Tests from Tyler Stableford on Vimeo. The Canon 1D-C is considered to be the the first Cinema DSLR camera. With the ability to shoot 1D-X caliber stills and shoot video using Canon’s Canon-Log picture style, this camera seems like a perfect...
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[caption id="attachment_3407" align="aligncenter" width="598"] The Fiilex P360 LED Light[/caption] One of the harshest mixed lighting environments to shoot in is the lighting department of a professional camera dealer. It is always at least a couple of stops brighter than anyplace else I've ever shot indoors. The...
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Bag World from Stephen Alvarez on Vimeo. Wednesday, March 20th was the first official day of spring this year. Here in the Los Angeles area, it was not a particularly memorable day. I wasn't motivated to go out and shoot, and the weather was unusually cold...
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About a year ago I started working again with video in a serious way. With cameras and a fluid video head purchased, the next thing up was lighting. In my particular case, I had shot a mix of strobe and fluorescent continual lighting for my...
About a year ago I started...
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Cameras today are so smart, why should a photographer need to know how to use a camera in manual mode? Good question, and one with a several part answer. First, to use technology to its fullest you have to know what is going on behind the...
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Sources from several Web hosting services this week raised an all-out alert: WordPress was under attack with at least 90,000 IP addresses involved to brute-force crack credentials of WordPress sites. The attacks, they said, are worrying in that they are on an unusually large scale,...
Sources from several Web hosti...
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(Click Photo Above To Play Video) Guangdong, China, headquartered DJI Innovations is one of the global leaders in developing and manufacturing high performance, reliable, and easy-to-use small unmanned aerial systems (UAS as they call them, Drones as the rest of the world know them), for commercial and...
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MōVI BTS from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo. One of these days, you will own one of these devices in one form or another. Many of you may wonder just what this "MōV" thing is, what it is for, and why should you take any of your...
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Anthony Jacobs, the founder and chief pilot for Perspective Aerials (perspectiveaerials.com), became the first person I know of to fly a Canon 1DC with a drone rig. The 1DC is a camera I have some very mixed feelings about, as I have already stated in other...
Anthony Jacobs, th...
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It must be Eran Amir appreciation day here at TheCameraForum.Com. Here is Amir back once again with another fantastic time lapse movie idea, this time more than 300 random people on the streets of Israel, each repeating one single note, creating together one harmonious melody.Amir is quick...
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In the spirit of our continuing coverage of interesting time lapse photography projects, here is one with a very different and quite creative twist. Eran Amir, the project creator, originally uploaded "500 People In 100 Seconds" to YouTube on Aug 23, 2011. Including my own, to...
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