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HTC RE – Time Lapse Test

This was my first attempt at time lapse video. I shot the video from my Manhattan office window and used the new HTC RE camera that I got for Christmas. It is a nice little low profile handheld point and shoot camera that captures HD video and 16 megapixel still photos. The camera also has a built in Time lapse feature and a built in wide angle lens for capturing everything you put in front of it.

The camera is also waterproof up to one meter (3.3 feet) for up to 30 minutes without an additional housing. The HTC Re is a periscope-shaped heir to the Flip and pistol-grip Sanyo Xacti pocket cameras while offering some of the durability of cameras like the GoPro. I have a Contour Roam camera that I regularly use when riding my bike and the RE stacks up very favorably to the action camera in terms of features and image quality.

I love it because the HTC camera is pure simplicity. In fact, there are only two buttons one the entire unit. The first is a Continue reading “HTC RE – Time Lapse Test”

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Makin’ it Wayne!

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Santa was very good to me this Christmas! I got a leather Batman jacket that I had wanted for a few years. The wife a kids had heard me talk about this jacket and decided it was time to hook a brother up. And yes, I realize that a Batman jacket might seem a bit nerdy. But I don’t care. I intend to rock this jacket for as long as the weather permits.

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Christmas 2014

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We got up early on Christmas morning to open gifts and celebrate another year together as a family. This year was overall very good for the Richardson clan. We are all pretty much happy and healthy. We traveled to many interesting places and learned a great deal about ourselves. I am grateful for the wonderful family that I have been given.

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New York Cine Radio: Sony and the Star Wars trailer

Last night I schlepped over to Mama’s Place Studio in Astoria, Queens and guest hosted the weekly New York Cine Podcast. My co-hosts, Tom Seymour and Dave Leute, discussed the recent hacking at Sony Pictures, the new Star Wars and Terminator series trailers, and a whole bunch of other media and culture issues. I even introduced them to the Continue reading “New York Cine Radio: Sony and the Star Wars trailer”

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This one was on film

The word just came down that the officer, it should be officers, involved in the death of Eric Garner will not have to face justice. I would like to say that I am surprised by this ruling, but I am not. This story has been played out too many times. The recent decision in Ferguson not to indict Officer Wilson, the death of 12 year old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, the murder of Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn stairwell while coming home with his family is a clear indication that police in the United States are out of control. It is also an indication that large sections of the public does not care about these injustices if it does not impact their own communities.

President Obama has called for police throughout the nation to wear body cameras in the hopes of restoring public trust. I am not Continue reading “This one was on film”

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Super Power Beat Down: Batman vs Darth Vader

I am probably the world’s biggest Batman fan so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I didn’t agree with the outcome of the most recent Super Power Beat Down fan film pitting the Dark Knight against the Dark Lord of the Sith.  However one of the things that really ticked me off was how good the production was for the film. I was visually stunning. It was probably the best fan-film I have seen since Batman: Deadend.

One of the problems that I had with the video is that Bats had plans to the Death Star and the location of a lightsaber, but didn’t come up with a contingency plan on how to disrupt Vader’s force abilities. Keep in mind that this is a man so paranoid that during the JLA: Tower of Babel (or Justice League: Doom movie) storyline Batman developed contingency for neutralizing his closest allies in the Justice League. In the Vader scenario, Continue reading “Super Power Beat Down: Batman vs Darth Vader”

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Webinar: Leveraging Social Media

This past Monday I conducted my first webinar on how individuals can leverage social media to achieve their personal and professional goals. In truth, I was more than a little nervous about the event since this was going to be my first live streamed lecture. The fact that we had a few hundred attendees sign up for the live stream also added to my anxiety. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried about it as much as I did, because so far the responses and feedback that I received Continue reading “Webinar: Leveraging Social Media”

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No Justice, No Peace

This song is over twenty years old, and sadly in light of grand jury decision in Ferguson, it is even more relevant today. The way Michael Brown was killed is one thing, but the way the entire case has been handled from the beginning is like having the system stick a gigantic thumb in the eye of the black community:

1. Police and paramedics let Michael Brown’s body lay in the street for hours.
2. Officer Darren Wilson was not arrested, or even forced to give a public statement on the incident.
3. The prosecutor Continue reading “No Justice, No Peace”