This is a photo from a recent film shoot I had done this past weekend. I thought it would be something worth showing. This is surely not one of my finest and proudest moments, but it was a feat of engineering at its best!

The night prior to having to leave for the cape at 5am on a Sunday morning, I had worked a charity event and did not get back to my place till 3am. With a two hour nap, I was not my sharpest when I had to repack from one event to the next. Luckily and unfortunately at the same time, the only item of mine I forgot to pack were the two microphone blimps I had set aside from myself for the day.

Thankfully there were only a few shots outside, the wind was very light, and the microphone I had picked to use for the outside shoots had three degrees of High Pass Filter, which does a rather good job at cutting wind rumble. A knitted glove of mine that I had on me did just the job of giving the microphone that added layer I needed, and sounded just perfect for the amount of wind that I had to deal with on that day, asidee from being a good source of a laugh.

Sound Speed

Recently I lended a hand upon a film set for a short, with some colleges of mine. It was the the 20th or so time that I have "Boom Opped" in the wide world of audio, and I must say I find myself digging it quite a bit. I never really have found much an attraction to holding a stick with a wad of cotton balls up in the air for prolong periods of time rather appealing, until lately.

There is some joy in that all of your equipment is strapped on to you and that everything is right there in reach, not having to run around to trouble shoot something is a huge plus for me. Having control over every (or almost every) aspect in the audio product while being the sound guy in this particular instance is quite unique, that is holding the microphone and listening to it in a manner more attentively than I might have for a TV or studio application. The ability to react as a actor moves about, not having to reply on their microphone technique just makes doing this work so much more enjoyable. as they turn to move their head, walk and talk on a windy, (and in my case, a snowy day) jump in and out of a car, all treats, an engineer never gets to play with while in a studio.


My favorite part, recording room tone. Room tone, being what the space that you are shooting in sounds like when no one is speaking. Sound captured to be used as filler durring the editing process. When you make everyone stop everything that they are doing, breathe in a slow and steady manner, and listen. Listen ever so intensely. Doing so makes me smirk a little. To be able to hear that silence among a large group of people, even more so, being as young as me living in the city, silence, actual real silence, in the middle of everything, is a blessing.

~Chris

Truck Vs. Bicycle

In some manners I lost. However, in many, I will always win this one.


This was durring a music festival I did over the summer as a bunch of the crew was traveling in the back of a pickup... I took the means less fossil.

I bet you look good in a sweatervest

She said I make her feel glowy,... that is something surely worth perusing 

email

A Michigan father faces up to five years in prison for snooping in his then-wife's e-mailaccount in the first known domestic case for unauthorized e-mail login.

Leon Walker, 33, a computer technician from Rochester Hills, Michigan, easily logged into his then-wife's Gmail account last year when he suspected she was having an affair with her second husband (she was). The two shared a laptop at home and, according to Walker, his wife kept her passwords in anotebook next to the computer, AP reports.

According to the Detroit Free Press, Leon Walker was Clara Walker's third husband. When he discovered she was having an affair with her second husband, a man arrested for beating her up in front of her son with her first husband, Leon Walker sent the e-mails to the child's father, who immediately claimed emergency custody.

Clara Walker, who divorced Leon Walker earlier this month, promptly filed felony charges for the e-mail "theft." Her complaint was approved by Michigan DA Jessica Cooper and the jury will decide Leon Walker's fate when he goes to trial in February.

"The guy is a hacker," Oakland prosecutor Jessica Cooper said in public statements. "It was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded them and used them in a very contentious way."

Walker's defense attorney, Leon Weiss, fired back, "I have to ask: 'Don't the prosecutors have more important things to do with their time?'"

The statute Walker allegedly violated, 752.795, is the same one used to prosecute identify theft or stealing of trade secrets.

It reads in part:

A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following:

(a) Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to acquire, alter, damage, delete, or destroy property or otherwise use the service of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.

Found this, and well, kinda liked it a lot

People born in the Year of the Snake are deep. They say little and possess great wisdom. They never have to worry about money; they are financially fortunate. Snake people are often quite vain, selfish, and a bit stingy. Yet they have tremendous sympathy for others and try to help those less fortunate. Snake people tend to overdo, since they have doubts about other people's judgment and prefer to rely on themselves. They are determined in whatever they do and hate to fail. Although calm on the surface, they are intense and passionate. Snake people are usually good-looking and sometimes have marital problems because they are fickle. They are most compatible with the Ox and Rooster.

Google Chrome Print..

..Ok, so this isn't about Google Chrome Print.... but, I heard about it, and I like it, and then it got me thinking.

So on my phone, The Droid X, When I go into my photo gallery, which consists of pictures I have taken and downloaded. I select a picture, then hit the share button that pops up, which is where I go when I want to send it, upload it to the facebook ;-) and so forth and so on. There is a selection available that is "Print to Retail"... so out of curiosity, I tried it, clicked on it, and was prompted to select a photo retail location that was close to me. So i picked the CVS that was across the street from where I was, at school in Boston. Hit ok.... then got an email that my order has been recived, and then the next minute, received an email, saying my order was available for pickup, class had ended, I went to the CVS, asked for my photo, and there it was for $0.20..  amazing... amazing