November 2011
“Walk right in it’s around the back. Just a half a mile from the railroad...”
– tradition, served yearly
“What right do we have to judge a cop for spraying a simple food product on the...”
– Megan Kelly, Fox News. The disconnect from reality is stunning.
The Sounds of Silence
Yesterday I was having shoulder pain and went for a massage, the Spa had a “Quiet Room” where I waited before my session. As I sat there I realized it had been so long since I had been in a state like that - completely unplugged. No music, TV, internet, phone, talking… just silence.
“I’m 31, an Iraq war veteran, a Penn State graduate, a Catholic, a native of...”
– Thomas L. Day, in a powerful piece in the Washington Post - “Penn State, my final loss of faith”. (Mentioned on UP with Chris Hayes which is fast becoming my favorite show)
“As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today people are...”
– Haskell Wexler, in an LA Times article about Wexler making a series of short documentaries at Occupy LA
Canon answers questions we did not ask
Canon stumbled into a market when they added video recording to the 5DMkII (and then the 7D and t2i). Suddenly you had people making short films with inexpensive stills cameras with great lenses and shallow depth of field. Canon chose to create this video by squeezing video into existing cameras and there were compromises (line skipping creates aliasing, heavy compression, extreme rolling shutter...
