This is video from Myung Chun teaching a portable lighting class using small strobes at Sports Shooter Academy IV, held April 2007 in Southern California. Chun is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times.
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Category: Video & Multimedia
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SportsShooter.com – Lighting In A Bag with Myung Chun at Sports Shooter Academy IV (video)
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iPhone line-waiter strikes back at jackass TV reporter – Boing Boing
An obnoxious TV reporter went to Burbank to ask stupid questions to people waiting in line for the new iPhone. I was delighted to see that my pal Jeff, or his identical twin brother (he really has one) told the reporter he was a jackass.
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Ira Glass on Working Through the Suck | 43 Folders
Video featuring terrific advice from This American Life’s Ira Glass on having the tenacity to get better at the creative work you’re passionate about — even through the times when you know what you’re making isn’t as good as you’d like.
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A Small-Town 4th on Vimeo
This is a short film depicting the normal goings-on of a small town 4th of July celebration.
A time-lapse compilation of a parade and a small neighborhood setting off fireworks.
Music by John Phillips Sousa and Branford Marsailis.
Photographed with a Nikon D2x on July 3-4, 2008
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State of the Art: Best Photographic Story Ever?
Rick Smolan, the photographer and book packager behind the “Day in the Life of” series, has one of the great photo stories of all time to tell. I use the word “tell,” because the story is best heard and not just seen. And now you can hear him tell.
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John Moore – The Digital Journalist
View the “Pakistan” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Iraq” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Pan-American Highway” Feature Gallery by John MooreView the “Afghanistan ‘Frontline Helmand’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Iraq ‘Camp Cropper’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Zimbabwe – Photographer’s Journal” Movie by John MooreCheck it out here.
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The Apple – BIM (video)
Among serious contenders for the title of Worst Movie of All Time, the winner in the Sci-Fi Musical genre is without any doubt Menahem Golan’s masterpiece The Apple.
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Track Super Stars – APhotoADay News
four Oregonian staff photographers reflect on their coverage of the men’s 100 meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
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Brazen Rescue in Colombia Captured on Video – washingtonpost.com
A video shot by a commando posing as a journalist recorded the rescue of 15 hostages in a daring operation that was celebrated Friday from Colombia to as far away as Paris, where French leaders welcomed the best known of the hostages, Ingrid Betancourt.
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Where the Hell is Matt: a silly dance in 42 countries that will make you grin like a fool – Boing Boing
Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.
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MSNBC Reporter Monica Morales Hit In The Head By Light Stand (VIDEO) – Media on The Huffington Post
MSNBC reporter Monica Morales is seeing stars after a light stand came crashing down on her head during a live report. Morales valiantly tried to press on but was clearly too fazed to do anything other than throw it back to anchor Mika Brzezinski, who commiserated: “Oh my goodness, I love it when the wind blows down the light thing.”
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Tim Hussin: lodo
This is a piece on the atmosphere of the lower downtown Denver club scene following a fatal shooting last weekend
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Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins – Boing Boing
Watch the London community support officers (they’re not real cops, but deputied volunteers who fancy themselves real ones) as they confront a videographer who has the temerity to take footage of a public street.
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Interviews With Photographers- Pixchannel – A Photo Editor
I stumbled upon this treasure trove of photographer interviews that Randi Lynn Beach produced and I can’t believe I’d never heard of it before.
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Cranford Rose Garden tilt-shift timelapse – Boing Boing
Dave Allen shot this nifty timelapse video of three days at the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Each still frame of the video was treated with a tilt-shift lens effect in Photoshop.
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Ed Kashi's Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
Ed Kashi has recently released his latest project- Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.
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Sao Paulo: Art Protest – Josh Spear
During the show, the group went on a rampage using spray paint as artillery, bombing the school with their cryptic-like tags, even spraying officials in the face who tried to stop them. It was chaos and now, after the event, school administrators are thinking about pulling Rafael Augustaitiz’s financial scholarship.
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The Weakerthans: "Tournament of Hearts"
The Weakerthans have posted the new video from their acclaimed 2007 album, Reunion Tour.
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