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Environmentalism and Traffic Lights

Jun 9, 2017

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in cycling, environmental, environmentalism, London, observation

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re driving from Nyon to the airport without traffic the journey takes about twenty minutes. If you decide to drive into the city of Geneva that journey time is doubled thanks in main part to traffic lights. It once took me over one hour when scuba diving in Hermance to drive from…

Unseen

Mar 8, 2013

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richard

in Documentary, London, London walks, observation, Video

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnseen is a documentary divided in to two parts. The first part is about five individuals who provide tours of various parts of London which they inhabited as homeless person and the second part is feedback and advice.

Richard, the Piano Tuner

Jan 21, 2013

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richard

in Documentary, London, Video

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRichard from England Your England on Vimeo. An alternative way of living and paying off debt.

On twestival

Sep 26, 2008

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richard

in London, social media, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first tweetup I went to saw a crowd of no more than sixty people. The twestival had many more. Enough to fill the Doon club. So many new faces but not many new people to follow. It’s fun to see how big the London twitter community has become. The usual…

Twitter as a way of life

Apr 14, 2008

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richard

in London, mobile streaming, observation, social media, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter is not a social network, rather it’s a way of life. The more you use Twitter the further it gets into your way of life. It allows you to follow current affairs, geek out about social media and keep in touch with friends that uses the social network. What’s more it’s…

The drive home – My 400th post

Mar 5, 2008

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richard

in London, Post-university life, travel, university, work

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night’s drive was amazing. It’s just the type of drive you want to have. It starts in the middle of the afternoon as a friend helps you load the car and you set off for a 900 kilometer drive. At the beginning you have to deal with London traffic/congestion. After this…

the tapeless workflow – Videoforum

Feb 8, 2008

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in London, Post-university life, tech related, videoforum

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tapeless workflow is a term used to describe video production without the use of tapes. That is to say that from the point the material is recorded in camera to the point it is distributed it never changes from being data. In other words television production has become a profession of…

The Tricaster – Videoforum

Feb 5, 2008

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in editing, London, videoforum

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Tricaster is a Multimedia portable switcher. In other words it’s an OB van in a box. It’s a vision mixing deck on the light. They range from having two sources to six depending on your needs. Rather than have racks and racks of expensive gear to lug around for low…

The Social Media Morning

Feb 1, 2008

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richard

in London, Post-university life, social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI went to the Social Media Coffee event this morning and met quite a few of the usual people including Deek, Sizemore, Londonfilmgeek and others. I got to know a few more twitter users a little better and that’s where I stayed for part of the morning. I’ve been networking a…

Chillout

Jan 25, 2008

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in London

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChilloutÂ® is an open source implementation of the DMP DRM software. The idea is to create a multiplatform toolkit that allows for the easy managment of rights for media files. Built with Java it has several levels of rights managment for a number of files. This includes encrytion software and more.…

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