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Sunday in Vegas
It’s a beautiful morning. The weather is perfect. Sun is out. And due to my East Coast clock being 3 hours off, I can’t sleep. Might as well explore the quiet streets of Vegas (at least they’re sort of quiet this time of day). The crew member from my hotel Read More →
Journalist Found Guilty of Spying in Iran
From: Gardian.co.uk “An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday by the Iranian authorities after being found guilty of spying for the United States. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has demanded that the former Miss North Dakota, who had been working in Iran Read More →
ENG Cage Designs New Camera Security in Vehicles
It’s always good to hear about street-wise photographers developing tools to help make our job easier. Who better come up with the innovations, than the folks who use it. That’s why I was impressed with the information I received from Gregg Hamilton, a shooter based in Houston, TX. FOR IMMEDIATE Read More →
b-roll.net BASH 2009
Only a week away! One of my favorite events of the year – the b-roll.net BASH is becoming an NAB must-attend party. Check out the stories from 2008. Last year’s party was amazing with over 200 people attending, and we’re doing it again. Monday, April 20 from 6-8pm at the Read More →
Zacuto Makes a Shoulder Mounted Still-Cam
The folks at Zacuto must be like Q‘s lab from 007. They come up with cool innovative products and put their own style and flair on it. They latest “spy” equipment is the DSLR Gunstock. Basically it allows you to take a motion picture capable still-camera (like the Canon EOS Read More →
Iranian-American Journalist Charged With Spying
From: NPPA.org WASHINGTON, DC (April 8, 2009) – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in Iran’s Evin prison for three months and who was thought to be facing imminent release, has instead now been charged with spying. Tehran’s deputy prosecutor of the Iranian Revolutionary Court Hassan Haddad told Read More →
b-roll.net Makes it into Print
It was like going back to school and working on a term paper, but I recently finished an article that appears in the most recent issue of Broadcast Engineering. The March 2009 issue of the industry magazine just started shipping, and you can find my article, “What’s in your bag?” Read More →