Joining the HD revolution

I just purchased an amazing video camera capable of shooting some pretty impressive HD footage. It’s the Panasonic HVX200 and it’s a pretty gnarly camera. Among other things, it can shoot variable frame rates which means great timelapse and slo-mo capabilities. I’m also really impressed by Panasonic’s P2 solid-state card system, the workflow is great with the P2CMS program.

The Panasonic HVX200.

Now that Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS3 can handle the P2 system, and Flash can display h.264 footage, it seemed like a perfect time to up my cinematography game and get a decent camera to document, among other things, my ski-bum season in Whistler B.C.
I’ll be posting some footage as soon as I get to grips with the camera, but you can already check out some beautiful HVX shots in Lakai’s Fully Flared (John Nack recently posted about this) and even feature films like Cloverfield use the HVX extensively.
Watch this space… 

Ground Kontrol classic gaming

Into classic gaming? Beer? Arcades? I suspected so much so here’s a neat tip if you’re ever in the Portland, Oregon area. Go check out Ground Kontrol; it’s a bar-slash-arcade filled to the brim with classic arcade machines. They also have a pinball section upstairs if you’re into that.

I played my first ever game of Missile Command and loved it to bits. It just goes to show that fancy graphics and cinematographic story-lines don’t make games great. Among the gems found at Ground Kontrol are such classics as Asteroids, Star Wars (1983 Atari Version),  Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, TMNT, Track & Field, Gauntlet II, Ghouls & Ghosts, Tron, Discs of Tron, Frogger, Battlezone, Mario Bros., 720 skateboarding and of course Missile Command. Here’s a list of all their arcades. By the way, Tuesday is Rock Band night, which could be quite interesting too… 

Flash, the highest village in England…

Some random yet slighty relevant trivia for you:

Did you know that Flash is the highest village in England?

Well you do now!

Flash on Google Maps

Paper Jam: Silence the screams!

Greenprint was founded by James Kellerman and helps people print greener by highlighting and removing blank pages from your print jobs. It’s a great and relatively simple way to help stop unnecessary paper waste in your company.

Anyway, James’ brother Ben just pointed me to a great viral video they released a couple of days ago, so watch it right here, it’s damn nice! (I’m having some troubles embedding youTube vids on my blog, so you’ll have to click on the link)

Their story has also been picked up by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC no less. If you want to make a real difference real quick, go and check out their product. Im pretty sure you’ll like it.

As the greenprint site states: “A Fortune 500 company using GreenPrint would save over $2 million, 4000 trees and prevent 7,833 tons of CO2 emissions each year”. Thats pretty neat if you ask me.

Fight Club

A couple of the guys in my office have been getting into the whole mobile clubbing thing… so when Dan sent me this I knew I’d have to go…. and what’s a party without loads of other people? So come on down and be prepared to get a mouthfull of someone elses pillow!
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DEAR LONDONERS

FEATHERS ARE GONNA FLY

IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR THE

LONDON PILLOW FIGHT CLUB

FRIDAY 15th DECEMBER

CENTRAL LONDON LOCATION - EARLY EVENING

(EXACT TIME AND LOCATION WILL BE

POSTED ONLINE JUST BEFORE THE EVENT)

SIGN UP TO MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT WHEN & WHERE:

www.mobile-clubbing.com

www.myspace.com/mobileclubbing

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Boo-Ya, back from Holland

So I just got back from a nice relaxing week in Holland. I lived in Holland for 13 years, so it was cool to see some old friends and make some new ones. I got to see my old buddy Raymond, who now goes by the name Dr. Ing. Raymond Sladek. His research project on plasma applied to dentistry was recently slashdotted, and he threw quite a party to celebrate the completion of his hard work.

I also managed to sneak in a session at the new Area 51 skatepark in Eindhoven; and my god does it rock. Well, at least the bowls do. The street course is suffering from some knee-jolting kinks leading up to most of the obstacles, which is a shame as it all looks pretty solidly built.

It’s that rather special day again….

Yes indeedy, that’s right; the most important day after payday is here once again. It’s international talk like a pirate day.

If you’re crap at talking like a pirate, or haven’t used your quite sophisticated pirate skills since last year, you can find some helpful pointers on the official website.

p.s. It’s “talk like a pirate day”, not “rape murder and pillage like a pirate day” or “booze like a pirate day.”

Its Go Skateboarding Day!

Today, June 21st, is International Go Skateboarding Day.

Hopefully I’ll be skating the Meanwhile Bowl down at Westbourne Park a little later today. I think I’ll have to leave a little post-it on my monitor with some random excuse.

SWF looking for a good time?

I found this nestled in my spam folder today.

Maybe I should give her a go?

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Damian, my twin brother, seems a bit agitated today…… hope he feels better tomorrow.