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Comment on Fitz and the Tantrums Video: “Out of my league”, crazy lo-fi 3D with Kinect and RGBDToolkit by zachnfine

zachnfine — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:09:02 +0000

new blog post: In which I help shoot lo-fi 3D depth footage for a Fitz and the Tantrums music video. http://t.co/akuUbMURhK

Comment on Interesting product: IOGEAR Mobile Digital Scribe $44.99 after rebate at Amazon by zach

zach — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:42:52 +0000

I think this is the mac firmware for the IOGear Mobile Digital Scribe that I used.

Comment on Inexpensive and familiar-looking studio monitors coming to Monoprice by Marty

Marty — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:38:05 +0000

Monoprice 5-inch Powered Studio Monitor Speakers are $165.78 for a PAIR

Comment on Interesting product: IOGEAR Mobile Digital Scribe $44.99 after rebate at Amazon by diego

diego — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:52:23 +0000

Any chance you could provide the firmware update? the link is broken since pegasus was sold to another company.
thanks

Comment on Inexpensive and familiar-looking studio monitors coming to Monoprice by jmmccann

jmmccann — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:39:44 +0000

Wow. I had heard about the monitors but didn’t realize they were so closely spec’d to the M-Audio ones. I was interested in them, but felt they were too “middle” for me to spend the money. Either, go cheap or go high end. I’m very curious about how these sound. I’m also digging the mixer with USB I/O. Definitely going to grab that for under 80 bucks?!

Comment on My first blob (and some better blobs) by Jesus 3bpo

Jesus 3bpo — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:18:51 +0000

Guys, so did you tried any other 3d printer after this one, i just bought it and i m waiting for it to be shipped, what score would you give it ? i have being trying to get some samples of the best resolution we could get with a printerbot but soo far i just saw a very few.

Comment on “La La La” video, song by Snoop Lion, video directed by Eli Roth by zach

zach — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:11 +0000

Thanks Josh,

I don’t think I’m good at giving relevant advice to others as my way in was pretty far from the norm. –I started with a bunch of editorial experience on low and no budget productions, then worked as a QA engineer of editing software, then I quit and moved to China. My first gig on a larger production was when I was hired on to the editorial team of the film “The Forbidden Kingdom” as a local hire (i.e. they’d budgeted/planned for a local Chinese assistant editor) in a remote Chinese town that’s home to a bunch of film sets and soundstages.

Then again, many people I meet in editorial have had seemingly-odd career journeys. The constants seem to be that they all worked to develop skills in tasks related to filmmaking, they kept working as much as they could to gain experience, they kept the dream going without getting cynical, and they were available and ready when opportunity came along.

Word of mouth is key. It’s good to be in Hollywood working for a while and getting to know people who’ll remember you and want to work with you again or refer you to their colleagues.

-Zach

Comment on Spot the problem in Buster Keaton’s clock by zach

zach — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:14:42 +0000

Oops, right. It’s Lloyd.

That shot was made at a building in downtown LA, 530 W 7th St:
https://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&q=530+W.+7th+Street&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80c2c7b452ba72cf:0x9777c1ea887928d7,530+W+7th+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90014&gl=us&ei=1aLkUPalEqH6iwLbhYDQBg&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAA

Comment on Spot the problem in Buster Keaton’s clock by Val

Val — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:37:13 +0000

The thing that is wrong, is that this is Harold Lloyd and not Buster Keaton.

Comment on “La La La” video, song by Snoop Lion, video directed by Eli Roth by josh

josh — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:08:45 +0000

Hi Zach,
Nice job on the video! I saw Man With the Iron Fists today and saw your name in the credits. I recognized it but it escaped me until I remembered that I came across this blog a while ago, which has been informative. I’m looking to get into post-production and was wondering if you could impart any advice – it’d be awesome.

Comment on Happy Halloween Y’all. Please don’t burn any cats or people. by In LA » Blog Archive » belated happy Halloween pumpkins

In LA » Blog Archive » belated happy Halloween pumpkins — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:09:08 +0000

[...] Halloween pumpkins My pumpkin this year. Didn’t plan it out, just freestyled some. I think my pumpkin from last year was more inspired, but this one’s an original. Rachel did well though: Rachel’s pirate [...]

Comment on Spot the problem in Buster Keaton’s clock by zach

zach — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:21:34 +0000

IIII isn’t a mistake endemic to the USA, but is an odd horological convention that may have originated in ancient Rome (I’ve heard said that it’s so that the shortened version of the name of the god Jupiter wasn’t used to label that hour). It’s something that’s always struck me as odd. Perhaps in Europe they’ve started to forego the convention since few worship Jupiter these days.

Comment on What I did this weekend by zach

zach — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:46:01 +0000

Did I talk to you about these things and the reprap project years ago?

I basically decided, when I saw the kickstarter for the printrbot, that I’ve spent so much of my time researching these DIY prototyping machines that I’d save a lot of time and thus money by just getting one already. This kickstarter seemed like a good way to get a model that would instantly have a large community publishing tips and tweaks. It’s still early days for this kind of nascent hobbyist tech, but it’s been fun so far.

Comment on What I did this weekend by Timothy Ralston

Timothy Ralston — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:37:51 +0000

Awesome! I had a feeling you’d be dabbling with one of these puppies. Looking forward to seeing some of the print jobs!

Comment on Chinese Prepackaged Food Review: Chocolate Cheese Slices by Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:00:04 +0000

Hi,

Was it a refrigerated product or not?
Was each slide individually wrapped?

Was it good?
Was this product popular in China?

I am very curious about this.