RamblingDyna

I'm sooooo excited! Why? Because I shot video for the Art Shots 2010, film contest which partners upcoming film makers with creative and musical artists and performers from Silicon Valley in California. Collaborators of this premier event are Artsopolis, a non-profit online arts guide and the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project. Six filmmakers are competing and are judged by online votes. Produced by David Nigel Brooks, I shot the dancing footage of contest entry, "Wednesday Night Hop" which is located at the Cheryl Burke Studio ("Dancing with the Stars" instructor ) in Mountain View, California. It was a joy to watch and interview the dance instructors. What's even more amazing is that our film crew of three met for the the first time online the weekend before when we were asked to produce the film with a one and a half week looming deadline. The previous producer had bailed on the project. With the time clock ticking away...

                                   I shot video of Lindy Hop dance instructors Audrey Kanemoto and Trevor Gattis at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, CA last month for the ArtShots film contest in partnership with Artsopolis and the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project. See previous post. But with only a running total 90 second video limit and 1.5 weeks to organize, shoot, edit and finalize with all parties involved, it's amazing we were able to rise to the occasion. Producer David Rigel Brooks went in editing overdrive to edit three videos.  His first entry is about artist Lori Krein. The Wednesday Night Lindy Hop is second. This video of Audrey and Trevor didn't make it in time for the contest deadline. But you're welcome to enjoy their fun and smooth dance moves and share your feedback. ...

Can you spare a buck fifty? Listen to my quick interview with Launch Pad Winner Adam Blum of Rhomobile. Quick because I caught Blum on his way out the Moscone door after he briefly checked out of the Rhomobile exhibitor booth. He was heading back to his Cupertino office, which is located next to Apple. The man had little time to celebrate or rest on his laurels. Rhomobile opened for business on September 2008 and is currently staffed with 12 employees. They create a cross platform for smart phone apps. They build native smart phone applications for the iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile , Symbian and Android. The Launch Pad is the talent contest for up and coming innovators of now and next year. Six finalists pitched their companies to a crowd of curious on lookers, three expert judges, and potential partners and VC’s.

Yesterday, I attended the three day long web 2.0 Expo Conference at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. With my free Expo pass, not only did I have free reign to the Sponsored Sessions, I had access to the more than 70 exhibitors which included big wig sponsors such as Adobe and Cisco to non-profits such as Give@Asia. Adobe had all day demos of their product lineup. Adobe presenter, Paul Trani showed off the Adobe Flash Builder 4 to the 60+ curious onlookers. I’m not a flasher (I just couldn’t resist) and don’t know how to write code from scratch. But given the fact that you can extract a Photoshop (and other Creative Suite tools) image from your desktop and use the software’s various custom templates and applications, the steps looked pretty straightforward. Trani transformed his static Photoshop generated image into a mobile flash game of a floating creature eating other aliens. I’ve used Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Final Cut Pro and I’ve taken a basic web desi...