Location Scout + Location Manager R. Richard Hobbs
R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us | New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video / tv and events.
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“ArchNewsNow.com delivers the most comprehensive coverage of international news, projects, products, and events in the world of architecture and design.
The ArchNewsNow (ANN) newsletter, launched in February 2002, is delivered daily to subscribers – free of charge – via e-mail. It hyperlinks directly to the latest news and commentary gleaned from sources around the world.”
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Arcspace - Architecture Online | About Arcspace
“Arcspace is an architecture and design magazine that features today’s most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past. We work closely with major architects around the world and keep our readers informed with weekly updates.
Besides features and news items we review Books and Exhibitions and show selections of work by architecture photographers in The Camera, and sketches by architects in The Architect’s Studio.
In our Travel section we feature interesting hotels with a guide to architecture in the area.
Larger images of several arcspace projects are available for downloading in The Image Library.”
New Weekly arcspace Feature.
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MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer - Technology, Media and Entertainment News and Opinions
Bio:
“Shelly Palmer is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry leading technology, media and entertainment consulting firm. From developing advanced television services to implementing new Internet technologies, Palmer’s pioneering efforts have made him the successful creator, producer, composer and television Renaissance man he is today.
Palmer is the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). He is the Vice-Chairman of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences and chairman of the Advanced Media Technology Emmy® Awards.”
MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer - The Blog
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“R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv.”
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Update 4/29/2008 | Joe’s move to Chicago | map | Joe writes:
“As you know (?) I’ve bought a home in Deerfield, Illinois and I’m moving soon. I’ll be in Illinois for a few days beginning April 30th and returning to Maplewood (NJ) to complete the move on May 6th. The movers haul it all away on Friday the 9th and then….. My new contact info is as follows:”
(personal information edited out) - if you need to contact Joe, the best thing to do is visit his:
Website: http://pobereskin.com Blog: Eat At Joe’s “My e-mail address, web site, blog and cell phone will all remain the same. Cell phone seems to be the most reliable contact for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully all will go as planned and we’ll be able to stay in-touch seamlessly.
If you’re going to be in the Chicago area, please let me know.
Best,
Joe”
Original post| January 25, 2008 at 12:05 |
My friend, photographer Joe Pobereskin has a blog, Eat At Joe’s.
I cant think of a person the blog platform would be more perfect for… I have known Joe for a number of years and have always known him to be very active in photography-related online discussion groups and the photography community in general. (Joe is currently president of ASMP NJ if that tells you anything!
Joe Pobereskin loves to write and has aspirations for doing so professionally- he has said as much to me in conversation. If you read Eat at Joe’s, Joe’s prose is succinct and clear and yet allows his gregarious personality to shine through.
Good work, Joe - keep it up!
*Also* Joe tells me he just bought himself a Leica D-Lux3 
Mentor and long-time associate Tom Contrino (NYC) has uploaded his commercial director’s reel - Nice work, Tom! chk it out!
I did quite a bit of overall production / location management on most of these spots and was involved in some way or another in all of them.
Update 4/27/2008:
“You’ve been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:
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:: Schmap East Coast Second Edition: Photo InclusionI am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released second edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide:
Brooklyn Bridge:
http://www.schmap.com/eastcoast/attractions/p=5442/i=5442.jpgIf you like the guide and have a website, blog or personal page, then please also check out the customizable widgetized versions of our Schmap East Coast Guide, complete with your published photo:
http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=21598829N00/c=SG33061032Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - please enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides”
From:
Emma J. Williams
Subject:
Schmap: East Coast Photo Short-list
Hi Richard,
“I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the second edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide, to be published at the end of this month.
www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=21598829N00/c=SG33061566
Clicking this link will take you to a page where you can:
i) See which of your photos has been short-listed.ii) Submit or withdraw your photo from our final selection phase.
iii) Learn how we credit photos in our Schmap Guides.
iv) Browse the first edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide.While we offer no payment for publication, many photographers are pleased to submit their photos, as Schmap Guides give their work recognition and wide exposure, and are free of charge to readers. Photos are published at a maximum width of 150 pixels, are clearly attributed, and link to high-resolution originals at Flickr.
Our submission deadline is Sunday, April 13. If you happen to be reading this message after this date, please still click on the link above (our Schmap Guides are updated frequently - photos submitted after this deadline will be considered for later releases).
Best regards,
Emma Williams, Managing Editor, Schmap Guides”
I let em have it…
WTF… it is a photo from location scouting for Helmut Lotti’s Crooners - it’s not finished “art” like I shot it for an ad job for big bux - heck, I stuck it up on Flickr for the PR value - you know what? - paid off.
Ok, well, I don’t know about *paid* off - no money changed hands, but it was very little investment of extra time and effort on my part
…Brooklyn Bridge elsewhere on this website…
updated 4/27/2008 | April 6, 2008 at 10:04 pm | original timestamp: April 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio | Newhall, CA
“Since 1915, when the studio was first opened for business, an endless string of hard riding shoot-em-ups have been produced at this location. Monogram Studios made 750 “B” westerns before selling the ranch to singing cowboy Gene Autry in 1952. Legendary cowboy actors, including William S. Hart, Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, and John Wayne filmed their westerns here until 1962 when a fire swept through Placerita Canyon destroying the main western street.”
The website for this piece of entertainment history has lots of photos of areas available for filming. The ranch is most famous to many people as belonging to Gene Autry, “The Singing Cowboy”. Currently, Melody Ranch is part of Veluzat Motion Picture Studios, owned by Andre Veluzat and Renaud Veluzat.
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Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive | About:
“Problem:
The Hollywood photograph is part of our cultural history, documenting as it does, the development and growth of a uniquely American industry. Some are significant works of art in their own right. Thoughtless of the future, some film studios and periodicals, even Photographers themselves, discarded old negatives and prints, or stored them haphazardly. We have already lost too many through deterioration and disposal. If these fragile and irreplaceable images are allowed to disappear, they can never be recaptured.Solution:
Fortunately, we have come to realize that these fast disappearing works substantially shaped and influenced the lives of most twentieth century Americans, and will provide an invaluable visual resource for present and future generations. However, as in the case of other endangered species, it is crucial to act now.The aim of MPTV is to provide a permanent photography center with a special emphasis on the Hollywood photograph and the creative achievements of the Photographers.”
This organization, founded by late Hollywood celebrity photographer legend Sid Avery, has an amazing collection of entertainment industry photographs online available for browsing (…and of course, buying! 
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Takes the Guess Work out of Searching
A controlled vocabulary makes a database easier to search. Since we have many different ways of describing concepts, drawing all of these terms together under
This page is designed to assist you in your search for other specialized companies to facilitate all of your needs. Just go directly to the sites below for further information. GOO
Established in 1933, SAG has a rich history in the American labor movement, from standing up to studios to break long-term engagement contracts in the 1940s to fight
…via locationtalk… Hudson Valley Blog Party |
Entertaining ideas about all things pop culture
‘Human Footprint’ in the Hudson Valley | Posted by germain - 11 Apr 2008 9:21 am
“Last night at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, the Hudson Valley Film Commission presented a screening of the National Geographic special called “Human Footprint”.”
I did some location scouting for Human Footprint last year.
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AFTRA Leaves SAG in the Spotlight - E! Online | 12:35 PM PDT | by Natalie Finn
“AFTRA is willing to play second fiddle, for now. The American Federation of TV and Radio Artists said Wednesday it would put off studio contract negotiations, scheduled to begin April 28, until May 5 to give the Screen Actors Guild more time to hammer out a new deal.”
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From Trigger Street - About Us:
“Trigger Street Productions, Inc., was formed in 1997 by Kevin Spacey to develop and produce entertainment in a variety of mediums. Realizing that the path to his own success would have been much rockier without the support and encouragement of many outstanding mentors, Spacey has sought out a way to inspire, nurture, and help bring exposure to new and undiscovered talent.” (…read the rest…)
Trigger Street is a media production industry community portal of considerable size. (I hope there are some other location scouts onboard - I havent had time to really dig and look around…) It seems similar to Wheresspot, but perhaps more for people just starting out in filmmaking and production…
I discovered Trigger Street on Digg - Trigger TV’s podcast, The Reality of Professional Oscar Predictions: not so good. had been dugg. I enjoyed the show, so I checked out Trigger Street further and eventually registered a user account.
Here is my Trigger Street Profile
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update 4/22/2008 | added map | original timestamp: February 28, 2008 at 12:32
Today is Earth Day.
Do something GREEN today!
…well, I changed my website header to a spring theme and made this Earth Day post…
Earth Day Network
Washington, D.C., USA
1616 P Street NW, Suite 340
Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
Tel: +1 202.518.0044
Fax: +1 202.518.8794
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Yes, folks, it seems “Spring has sprung” in the lower Hudson Valley of New York State and New Jersey - the trees are budding, many trees / plants have leaves and / or blooms at this point - heck, the Forsythia flowers are going to start getting old and dropping off soon!
Harriman State Park is a local wilderness gem for outdoors-loving urbanites and suburbanites as well as filmmakers and photographers (…and of course, location scouts!
From Wikipedia:
“At 46,613 acres (186.4 km²), Harriman State Park is one of the largest state parks in New York. Located in Rockland and Orange counties 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City, it is a haven for hikers with over 200 miles (320 km) of hiking trails. The park is also known for its 31 lakes, multiple streams, public camping area, and great vistas. The park’s hiking trails are currently maintained by volunteers from the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference. On its northeastern edge, Harriman State Park borders the smaller Bear Mountain State Park.”
The center of Harriman State Park is, “41.5 mi – about 1 hour 2 mins - up to 1 hour 30 mins in traffic” (per Google Maps) - which is, indeed, outside the 25 mile New York City film zone, but for some just-slightly less travel-distance-minded shoots - it may well be a moot point anyway?
Film / photo permit applications are obtained from the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) at the Bear Mountain Ranger Station in Bear Mountain State Park, which borders Harriman State Park’s northeast corner. You should contact PIPC with details of your shoot and they will determine applicable permit fees, which may include fees to have park staff supervise your shoot. I have always found the Harriman State Park photo/ film permit fees to be very reasonable and affordable and PIPC and park staff very knowledgeable and helpful. Depending on the scope of your production, you’ll have to work with PIPC to make sure they will be able to accommodate you with regard to their ability to schedule their limited staff for possible additional duty. Time must also be allowed for processing your permit application. I have always been amazed at PIPC’s efficiency and expedience processing my permit applications, but as much lead time as possible should be allowed for PIPC to do their jobs to process your permit application.
Filming is generally restricted to areas accessible to the general public and careful consideration should be given toward not only vigilantly protecting the park’s natural environment but also the impact your production may have on the enjoyment of the park’s resources by the general public. That said, there may also be restrictions on shoot times and dates, particularly with regard to weekends, major holidays and possible existing scheduled public events.
The absolute *best* course of action would be to hire a professional location scout / location manager to take care of all the details for you!
Since the park is close to New York City and adjacent to thriving business areas outside the city itself, there are plentiful options for overnight accommodations if needed, including a hotel at Bear Mountain. This hotel I am talking about at Bear Mountain State Park is nothing fancy from what I remember but there are definitely “corporate level” hotel chains represented in the area too.
Bear Mountain is also home to the historic Bear Mountain Inn, which, however, is currently closed for renovations. Contact the park office at the Bear Mountain Ranger Station for further details.
A little further north, the Thayer Hotel at West Point, NY (home of the United States Military Academy) is distinctive and elegant.
For more accommodations ideas go Googling or “let your fingers do the walking“.
The small towns along the banks of the Hudson River near Harriman State Park and other small towns that dot the rest of the perimeter of the park represent a diverse demographic range, so there are catering and dining options available to suit many culinary or budgetary parameters.
General shopping is available in the area locally along main thoroughfares and there are two major shopping malls in the area, Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY and the Woodbury Common shopping area off New York Thruway Exit 16. If you take Route 17 into New Jersey to the Paramus area, the Paramus, NJ shopping corridor, one of the largest shopping districts in the nation, is available about 30 minutes away. There is shopping all along Route 17 down to Paramus to its major crossroad at Route 4. Route 4 east or west of Route 17 is a major thoroughfare and Route 17 continues south to its terminus in Lyndhurst, NJ.
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@tangerinetoad sez, “It appears that NJ Transit has WiFi on board? Tweeting off something called “NJTransit WiFi“. Go figure. Commute improved 100% about 2 hours ago from twhirl”
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Panoramio | About the Panoramio Team:
“Panoramio’s creators are Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar. We are friends since secondary school and we come from two small towns in the South East of Spain. Panoramio was acquired by Google on July 2007″
Yahoo! Search: Panoramio
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Aemkei at Sumaato Blog writes:
Localize Bookmarklet - Map Your Flickr Photos! | Overview
“I just spent some time to create a slim bookmarklet that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page. It works with all common browsers without the need for any extension.”
This bookmarklet worked great for me, you save it to your Bookmarks (Firefox) or Favorites (Internet Explorer), log in to your Flickr page and a photo you would like to geotag. Click the bookmark and let the magic begin!
The bookmarklet adds the code to your Flickr page to create a url at Google Maps and a link on your Flickr page to the map.
Here is a photo set I tagged using the bookmarklet. Very kewl!
Helpful for a location scout using Flickr to assemble an album of location photos and there is a need to indicate the geographic location of the photos.
Sumaato also created loc.alize.us, a Google Maps mashup.
Above is a loc.alize.us page for me.
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update 4/21/2008 | added maps | original timestamp: December 22, 2006 at 9:23
…as abstract an observation on the subject of location scouting as I personally have come across yet…
Taylor Brady: Production Notes For Occupation: Location Scouting (pdf)
Page One Excerpt:
“that’s all setup fire cover-up forest in revolt the haircut unseen we open here
backstory attached obscene invisible voice over perhaps these are the events
thanks to this oblivion alone that we can from time to time recover the person that we were,
place ourselves in relation to things as he was placed, suffer anew because we are no longer
ourselves but he, and because he loved what now leaves us indifferent parts all parts all
pieces the camera blind unable to carry on work of analysis all parts departure
smoke from wood rubble now sand scattered solid as it’s small can’t be smaller
atomic we shoot ruin at night softly luminous”
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update 4/21/2008 | general cleanup / added map | original timestamp: February 10, 2006 at 9:03
location scouting resources and a del.icio.us social bookmarking primer
“Location scouts, location managers and interested parties in the film, tv, video and photo production industries are encouraged to check out and perhaps participate in and contribute to the online film production community via some of the following websites and forums (in no particular order):
zimbio- location scouting (I started this group)
ma.gnolia/locationscout (I started this group)
locationscout linkit (I started this group)
wheresspot- website (Paid-subscription service)
The preceding is an excerpt from a post I made on another location scouting blog.”
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The jury is (and may always be) out on the best solutions for digital file archiving and backup. What follows are some thoughts about same and some solutions I have been exposed to:
Pogue’s Pages
TechCrunch
ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites
“From sending one document to backing up an entire business, data storage is the key to everything nowadays. Due to popular demand, we’ve put together a list of more than 80 of the leading file hosting services, many of which are completely free.” (…read the rest…)
Mashable!
Here’s the scenario- as a location scout, I deal with A LOT of photos- individually they are not unusually large files, but between scouting jobs and photos that people send me of their property, I look at and have to deal with organizing a heapo’ pictures on just about a daily basis! Not only that, in the location scouting biz, information is money so there have to be ways to access this visual information quickly(as well as the contact info and notes about each- but more on that later…).
The first place any photos go when I aquire them is a remote 160 GB Firewire (or IEEE 1394) hard drive pretty much dedicated to archiving location photos, shortly after which, especially if the photos were made for an in-progress location scouting job, they get uploaded to my Locamundo account for immediate use in an online location album and archived for permanent reference.
Call me paranoid but what if:
I have many of my files backed up locally on yet another local harddrive partition, but all these files on the same machine take up a lot of hardrive space. The cost is not such a problem in and of itself, harddrives get cheaper every day; however, all these files lying around in partitions on the same local harddrive(s) do nothing to help speed along more mundane tasks such as searching for files, whether they be related to location scouting scouting or not and really increase the time it takes for my anti-virus program to do its daily scan of my system. I defragment my hardrives regularly to help keep them speedy and healthy and lots of files make that go much slower as well.
Purchasing additional removable drives might be the way to go.
In “the real world”, the fact is, once my files are uploaded and keyworded on Locamundo, I may not ever need to touch them again, or if I do it is likely to be a long time before I do, but the fact remains that I cant just delete them.
Enter online storage solutions.
Right now I am trying out MediaMax Streamload. Streamload is the name of a Windows program ditributed by MediaMax which runs locally(on my computer) as a service and provides a secure network link to my private file storage account on MediaMax’s server. At this writing, MediaMax provides a free 25GB account, upgradable to provide more storage space. Then next upgrade level is 100GB for $4.95 per month, which is very affordable and which I might move up to as soon as I figure out why Streamload is hanging when I try to access the local folders where my files are located. I like the online solutions, they do backups on their end as well.
But…like I said, I gotta lotta files, it could be a matter of organizing them differently so the Streamload application doesnt cease to respond. Compared to local drives, an internet connection, from dialup all the way up to heavy-duty broadband connections are pretty lightweight. You can cram just so much info in a data pipe at time. It’s always something…
Update: After opening a free Media Max account and downloading and running the Streamload Beta, when I used it to find my files to upload, the program hung and had to be forced closed. Kinda defeated the purpose of using proprietary software whose stated purpose was to facilitate uploading large numbers of files simply and quickly. When I needed to do a restart my entire system hung. I rebooted to safe mode and to try and uninstall Streamload that way but its uninstaller would not work in safe mode. I had noticed that Streamload was running as a Windows Service so I disabled it there, rebooted normally and uninstalled Streamload. Summarily, it didnt seem to play well with my system, your mileage may vary.
Hmm, maybe there are some Bittorrent solutions out there? In addition to bittorrents typically taking a LONG time (this is my experience- again, your mileage may vary), they rely on a pool of people sharing a file to pass the pieces to each other and the Bittorrent app takes up recources while it is working- I dont wanna share my files with others and sometime I have to have a lot of programs open on my computer that I need to be running full steam- I sure dont need bog-downs and crashes trying to make a deadline! Still, gotta look into that a little more
CD’s/DVD’s you say? Been there, done that. Takes forever, ties up computer resources and the media (the cd’s/ dvd’s) data deteriorates over time. I have two crates of cd’s that I have used to back up files over the years and everytime I put one in the cd drive, if it is more than a year or two old, there is a good chance it is unreadable- corrupted. I have cd’s going on ten years old, I probably have a lot of files I may never again have access to. File recovery is VERY time consuming or VERY expensive. Remember Zip Disks and floppies? What a laugh!
IDE, Firewire and USB Harddrives have become very affordable so, as I mentioned above, this is a road I have followed as recently as the past year or so. Traditional IDE hardrives of very good quality can be bought very cheaply and the prices seem to continue to drop. Cases and USB/Firewire interfaces amke these drives removable and portable. These drives are fast. May be time to buy some new hardware.
I welcome feedback about all this so, for now, I am going to leave comments open for this post, something I rarely do, as I just dont have time (you see me trying to buy just a little time doing backups here don’cha?) to put into housecleaning blog spam. Akismet, do your thing! We’ll see how it goes…
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