Time’s Person of the Year: You | In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter | By LEV GROSSMAN | Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006
“The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.”
“Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our visit to the place, please contact me. You can see our photos here:
Our best shot of Revere can be found at BlueJake.”
You really have to see their photos of the Revere Sugar Refinery to appreciate this post.
I have location scouted this place, as have many other New York City area location scouts over the years since the sugar refinery ceased refining operations. I dont know exactly when it closed for refining business, but it was definitely before my time.
One of the interesting details I remember about the sugar refinery is the sunken ship. I wonder what has/will become of the sunken ship?
I have my OWN photos of the sugar refinery “somewhere” from when I was last there in, maybe like, 1999 (?)
In 1999 most of us still did our location scouting with film cameras and color prints (we are all pretty much all digital now) and when I put my location scouting folder together, like a good location scout, I gave all my photos to the photographer I was working for. The irony is, that same photographer decided to do some spring-cleaning a year or so back and asked me if I wanted their location library (which I was delighted to get, even tho it was three giant banker boxes full of of manila folders and prints!)
…so I have the pics- “somewhere”.
I never went back to the sugar refinery because, maybe a year after the first time I was there I called to make an appointment to location scout it for another job and the cranky old security guard (what was that guy’s name?) He was there just about every day for years.
…but I digress- I called the guy and he told me he wasnt doing any more location scout tours, the location scouts “wasted all his time and never booked shoots there” (like he had somewhere else to be?)
Anyway after that I wrote off the sugar refinery as a waste of research time and never called them again although I did hear, sometime later, maybe earlier in 2006(?), that the sugar refinery was tourable and shootable.
All of which is pretty much moot; according to Jake Dobkin, “The iconic dome of Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Refinery will probably disappear sometime in the next couple of weeks.”
…which is a shame to a location scout like myself- We location scouts survive by continually being able to pull visually interesting places such as the sugar refinery out of our hats for film directors and photographers; so, a landmark such as the Revere Sugar Refinery being demolished always makes my job just a little harder.
It’s been a tough past year or so… Admittedly, my vision of the state-of-affairs-for-old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City is skewed :
This is really just a starting point for working with Google Maps, there are many more hacks and features that can be added to a map which I will report as I learn how to implement them!
Just change the address in the box to an address for which you would like to know the map location and hit the GO button.
Google Maps will give you the geocoded address (if it is in their quite massive database).
This post would probably be more appropriately titled “How NOT to embed a Flickr Map”; it has been done quick-n-dirty using the url link to my Flickr Map inside an iframe and it looks it.
I’ll post a better way to do this once I find it. For now, the MapSack Widget mentioned in this post is a much more elegant solution.
7/5/2008: Actually, it looks as if Flickr has cleaned up its code so to allow itself to be embedded in an iframe much more attractively
L1060081-AT-South-Mtn-Pass-Rd-HHSPNY | Monday, 8 June 2009, 9:27 am RRichardHobbs posted a photo: Appalachian Trail marker, South Mountain Pass Road, Hudson Highlands State Park, NY
anthonys-nose-pano-ANHHSPNY-1 | Monday, 1 June 2009, 7:56 pm RRichardHobbs posted a photo: pano at Anthony’s Nose, Hudson Highlands State Park, NY. …Mary’s back …Hudson River in background
L1060032-garter-snake-HHSPNY | Monday, 1 June 2009, 7:56 pm RRichardHobbs posted a photo: garter snake in Hudson Highlands State Park, NY
“New York City is Hollywood’s most famous front lot, and is filmed entertainment’s number one location for film on the planet. When you travel to New York City you will constantly find yourself saying, “Wait, I know this place” or, “Hey, I’ve seen that somewhere”—it’ll get to the point of déjà vu where you’ll start to wonder if you once lived here. You have. You do. By spending 5000-plus hours watching film and television growing up, chances are good you’ve already spent several weeks in New York City without even being here.”
Michael Bay’s Artistic Genius Strikes Again | Friday, 26 June 2009, 10:52 pm Former advertising man Michael Bay returns with this summer’s big hit, and possibly the most artistic movie ever filmed. Eight years ago, Metaphil. […]
Bananr uses your Flickr i.d. to create a photo album using your Flickr photos.
Here is my Bananr running on bananr.com. You can only display ALL your Flickr photos this way (hey, whatta you want? it’s free) and admittedly your Flickr photos page can do the same thing. (Here’s mine).bananr.com is very simple: Just surf to bananr.com, follow the instructions to retrieve your Flickr i.d. using idgettr and plug it in to the bananr.com form and away you go!There are more options available if you download and install Bananr to your own website.
Bananalbum itself is a skin that needs to be dropped into a local installation of JAlbum (Windows), a free photo album creation program. Bananalbum creates the neccesary files for the web photo album, which you then upload to your website. All these tasks can be completed inside a ruuning copy of JAlbum. If you are using a Mac, look on the Bananalbum website, there is Album Creator for Mac.
New Viewbook Image Manager | Friday, 29 May 2009, 7:56 am The new Image Manager is enhanced and is ready for integration of exciting new features! Make sure you check out the brandnew uploader as well! T. […]
Turning 23 | Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:00 am Not much to say today other than I’m now 23 years of age! Posting around here has been a little slow and will continue to be for a while. I caught s. […]
WordPress How To: Change Your Blog’s Permalinks | Monday, 22 June 2009, 7:16 am I recently did the unthinkable. I changed the URL structure of my blog’s URLs. Long considered a scary territory, along with moving domains, due to. […]
CLEAR Launches 4G WiMAX in Atlanta | Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 3:22 am If you live in Atlanta, you’ll be happy to hear that there’s a new ISP in town. And I’m not talking about just any type of Internet connection.. […]
Here is a way to imbed your Flickr photos on your website using the Mapsack Flickr Widget, which could be useful for a location scout wishing to present locations to a client at the same time illustrating said locations’ geographic postion(s).
You will need a Flickr account (and some photos in that account that have been geotagged).
Unless you have some experience working with Wordpress don’t bother. If you have no idea what the term “javascript” means, then don’t bother.
Use the links and info given in this post to explore for yourself and complete your project to your own end. DO NOT contact me for support and please understand that I accept no responsibility for anything you do (or undo) to your website playing around with any of these toys. Otherwise- have fun!
OpenID for comments | Friday, 15 May 2009, 9:02 pm We’re now supporting a technology called OpenID for comments. What does that mean for you? It means that you can sign-in and comment on our blog wit. […]
New SimplePie Screencasts | Saturday, 28 February 2009, 3:51 pm It would appear that this is the season for SimplePie screencasts! In the past two days, I’ve discovered a few new SimplePie-related screencasts, an. […]
Deprecating SimplePie Live! | Friday, 20 February 2009, 9:14 pm Although SimplePie Live! was a cool concept, and something that I would have liked to see be successful, I simply haven’t had the time to put into i. […]
“When it comes to castles, the Scots, not to mention the Welsh and English, usually have the edge on the Irish. But when it comes to the unsung delights of Malahide Castle, there is an outside chance that the Irish might even have managed to outshine their neighbours.
A 15 minute drive from Dublin Airport, or a short ride on the D suburban railway from O’Connell Street if you happen to be part of a stag or hen party and a hangover precludes any proximity to a steering wheel, Malahide is a castle to make a Hollywood location scout coo with delight, ticking off the turrets, battlements, gothic windows and sea views.”
Hollywood just got younger | Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 8:01 pm In Hollywood the recent news that Miley Cyrus is to star in a remake of The Bodyguard and that Zac Efron will headline a new version of Saturday Night. […]
Lately I have been investigating map sites and various map mashups that utilise Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, geotagging and various mapping api’s. Many map sites and their respective features are free and have possibilities for use by location scouts such as myself especially with regard to logistics.
Below is Mapkit by Platial. It features the ability to add multiple locations on a map and create multiple maps per account enabling, for an example, a location scout or location manager to create different maps (with multiple locations on each map, if needed) for different shoot days of a single production, or for different productions.
Update 2/5/2008 Mapkit has addded advertising on its maps since I last checked. Its looks pretty evil, but I suppose Mapkit needs sponsors to stay in business. At least the text ads appear to be travel related… RH
nyc.locationscout.us | Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 2:35 am R. Richard Hobbs New York City area Location and Production Services for Film, Photo, Video and TV web: www.rrhobbs.comMap this on Platial
nyc.locationscout.us | Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 2:18 am R. Richard Hobbs | New York City area Location and Production Services for Film, Photo, Video and TV | web: http://nyc.locationscout.us/Map this on Pl. […]
In 2007, Platial acquired Frappr! Read about Platial here.
“Frappr! Maps are like a triple mash-up of an online guest book, a hit log and a map — three services that, combined, create a fun and visually appealing environment that will keep Web site visitors coming back for more.. ” …read the rest…
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