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  • Andrew Keen And The Scarcity of Choice

    Andrew Keen And The Scarcity of Choice

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently noticed that I had Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur book as an audiobook on Apple Books. I have had the book for at least a decade but have only got around to reading it recently. Over the last week I have listened to him speak about the closing…

  • YouTube And Sensationalism

    YouTube And Sensationalism

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI love the medium of video and I have love having a choice of thousands, or even millions of videos to choose from. In effect my love of the medium of video should mean that I love YouTube. I don’t, because of sensationalism and clickbait.  I have paid for YouTube prime twice…

  • Repotted Orchids

    Repotted Orchids

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I repotted Orchids and now they seem to be doing fine. I see evidence of new buds and suspect that they have continued to grow despite my intervention. For months I considered repotting them but I was afraid that it would kill them. I waited until they were between blooms but…

  • Video Editing And Social Media

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the past if you wanted to be a video editor you also needed to be a camera operator, and to be a camera operator you needed to be a video editor. By knowing both skills you shot good material because you knew how hard bad material was to use. As a…

  • Day 41 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Reverse Journey

    Day 41 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Reverse Journey

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I ran and then walked a reverse journey of what I did yesterday. I wanted to take a picture of the corkscrew tree. It would have required for me to wait for two slow walkers and their dog to pass and because they insisted on walking two abreast it made more…

  • Walking And Finding Old Trees

    Walking And Finding Old Trees

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and finding old trees is still possible if you look around. If you’re attentive you can find trees that are hundreds of years old. They are massive compared to younger trees. Their trunk is broad and their branches are complex. If you walk around the Mediterranean you will find thousand-year-old olive…

  • A continued Interest in 360 Videos

    A continued Interest in 360 Videos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago I was at the Geneva International Film Festival in Geneva as a volunteer so I got to play and experience new 360 experiences and some of these were interested because we could move around in space whilst others were interesting because of their length. A few years…

  • A Drone flying over Hong Kong at night.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI ate lunch as I watched the footage of a drone flying over Hong Kong at night and at first I was confused as to whether the images were real or not. As you watch more of the video you see that everything is real. The depth of field is good…

  • A Timelapse from La Barillette

    A Timelapse from La Barillette

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is not rare for me to do a timelapse from La Barillette. Several years ago I tried a timelapse with a 360 camera where you saw clouds forming overhead and in a spherical video. I also filmed a timelapse of the Paléo parkings filling up. This time I went up the…

  • Dziga Vertov and Social Media

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesA century ago Dennis Arkadievitch Kaufmann, more commonly known as Dziga Vertov, the spinning top, came up with the concept of the All-Seeing Eye. The Kinoki. The Cinema Eye. His idea was that with time life unawares could be documented and daily life would be captured by cameras for everyone to see.…