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Two weeks of recreation

The next two weeks or so shall see me resting but not from media work. There’s a good chance I’ll be working on a project about a Prison in the Lebanon. It was shot a few weeks ago and the person in charge of the project needs help with the editing. It looks as though it’s going to be an interesting project. I’ve already viewed quite a bit of footage, read the voice over text and discussed the idea. I’ve started to form some ideas of how to create the story and tomorrow this should progress further with me going in to work. In around two weeks I’ll have an interesting work shift, from 5am to 1300 hours, in other words my work day will be finished when other people get their work day started. We’ll see how that goes anyway. Ciao for now

Swimming competitions and your viewing future

The media is in a time of convergence and that’s what some people find fascinating. i’m listening to a number of podcasts about technology, the media and computing in order to keep informed on developments. Today I will be working once again with footage that has been shot in another country. What makes this particularly interesting is that the footage is coming from Hungary whilst I will be in Switzerland. I will see the races take place, then I will cut the video, add some text and upload it to a website. This is similar to what you’d expect to find on a variety of websites. Once the event has been finished for a week or two I may take one or two of the edits and upload them as part of my showreel.

The future of the media

Over the next two weeks, I am working in part of what will become part of the new media landscape. I receive footage via satellite and edit short summaries to become video clips on the official site of the organisation. At the moment it’s not visible to the normal public but it is an interesting activity. As part of my dissertation, I have to understand where the documentary has come from and where it’s going. It’s an interesting way to spend time and I’m learning about new things all the time. We’ll see what the landscape will be like once I’m working full time in the media again. Paleo was really good fun. An average day consists of five hours of work, followed by at least two or three concerts, a multitude of conversations before ending with three or four hours of sleep. The conversations have ranged from the passion that certain friends have for Nutella to driving Segway around one particular stand. With one friend we went through to the moshpit of one concert and there was a good ambiance. With another friend everything was far calmer, more relaxed, taking time to unwind and relax. I have learned about long hours in the sun drinking ice tea whilst at work and enjoyed it greatly. It’s good fun because there’s a breeze, people come and go, and as they do your greeting varies. The variation in greeting is part of what makes the work so enjoyable. When people pass they do so without wanting to take time to chat sometimes but as they have a badge you can read their name. In doing so you can greet them more personally. I read so many name badges over a number of hours that it was quite a challenge to remember everyone’s name. In fact, I could probably remember none. Faces… that’s what I remember all the time, not names. On that note, I’ll stop rambling.

The end of paleo and back to normal life

For the past week I was at Paleo going from concert to concert during the first few days and gradually moving towards other activites. It’s good fun as it’s the most sociable time aorund this part of Switzerland. I took quite a few images which I have yet to upload. This should be done within the next few days anyway.

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Priya - Feb 6, 2017

Dear Richard, How are you? My name is Priya, and I came across your blog while looking up blogs about Ingress. I am pursuing my Masters in Tourism. For my dissertation, I want to research on how Location Based Games (specifically Ingress) influences tourism at a destination. Even though you mentioned last February, that you are no longer playing Ingress, I was wondering if you could spare me some time to talk about your experience in general. Please consider this as a sincere request for your valuable time for an interview. I will appreciate it very much. Looking forward to your response. Kind Regards, Priya

About

A year ago I founded Mainvision Productions SàRL to focus my attention on the production of documentaries and short films. At the moment I am in post production for a low budget film called Oxy, which was filmed a few months ago. I also work as a consultant for Eurovision, helping with network resource management. I would love to produce a documentary about Via Ferrata. I am familiar with many of those in Switzerland and France within a three hour driving radius of Geneva. I need talent to be in front of the camera. Should you be interested then please contact me. I live in Switzerland and am willing to travel. My camera equipment includes a Sony PMW-200 video camera, a Vinten tripod with Blue Vision head and a sennheiser wireless lapel kit. I have a macbook pro which I use solely for editing using Final Cut Pro X. I am a Padi Rescue diver currently working on my CMAS *** rating and Advanced Nitrox Certification.

E-mail security

Many people have e-mail accounts and enjoy writing to their friends every day, but little do they know about the dangers of hackers or people who have too much time on their hands. A few weeks ago while I was on the computers it struck me how simple it might be to enter someone’s account. I therefore wondered what methods there were of finding passwords.

Chain letters:

We all receive many forwards, chain letters and so on. Sometimes there are some which are like a form asking many harmless questions about your hobbies, favourite foods etc. and you fill these in without thinking very hard. Some of them even include questions such as “What is your dream vacation spot?” or “What would you buy if you won the lottery?” Notice anything? That’s right! They are the same questions as the ones that e-mail providers suggest for the password hint. By sending out this information, you invite people to attempt a break-in..

Increase your surfing speed

Is your internet connection slow, do pages take a long time to load, do you visit certain sites more than others? If your answer to any of these is yes then I suggest that you download Netsonic, a program I have tested which works well, since I’ve installed it my browsing is much faster.

At first it’s normal for the netsonic program to seem a little slower but once you’ve started using it and it some files are cached the surfing speed will be far greater since pages which are constantly visited load faster. There is also another function on it which allows you to pre-fetch pages which are kept in a cache file