I recently had the opportunity and pleasure recently to work with our own Passaic County Film Commission, which is an economic development arm of the Passaic County, NJ county government.

Passaic County, NJ (I live in Clifton, NJ, which is in Passaic County) is a very viable resource for location scouts, location managers and producers of film, video and photo media, given its proximity to New York City (most, if not all of the county is in the NYC film zone), population density and subsequently, diversity of potential locations and other resources of likely value to production.

The Passaic County Film Commission also sponsors the Passaic County Film Festival.

The film office is headed up by Deborah Hoffman, Director of Economic Development for the county. Deborah, if by no other virtue than her job, knows LOTS of people around the county and is well connected in the local business community. What this translates to is Deborah is the initial point person for “making things happen” if there is interest in making use of production and location resources in Passaic County. Deborah’s contact info can be found on the Passaic County website.

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PhotoShop Online (PhotoShop Express)

Posted on April 8, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

…via ProductionNow Blog…

…dugg…

“This was so cool I just had to post about it:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/

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Is This Your Name?

Posted on April 8, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

I stumbled upon this quite accidentally – in my incoming links was this link to Is This Your Name? (for “Tommy” Hobbs as I soon found out…) but I searched for my own name, it’s here:

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Bookmarks for April 7th through April 8th

Posted on April 8, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

These are my links for April 7th through April 8th:

Adobe Photoshop Express – Made You Look. –

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Links for April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

These are my del.icio.us links for April 7th:

Posted in content | Tagged aggregator, collaboration, feeds, Grazr, hoosgot, journalism, mashups, page-rank, photoblogs, photography, photos, reference, resources, socialsoftware, themes, tools, Twitter, web2.0, webservice, Wordpress | Leave a comment

Links for April 6th

Posted on April 7, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

These are my del.icio.us links for April 6th:

Website and Subdomain List of R. Richard Hobbs –

Posted in content | Tagged ads, advertisements, advertising, ajax, atom, authors, categories, Catskills, commercial, commercials, communities, community, content, countries, creative, design, DigitalNetwork, directions, dns, feedburner, feeds, film, filmlocation, filmlocations, filmproduction, films, Flickr, geocoding, geography, GeoPress, geotagging, GeoURL, Google, googlemaps, guides, homes, how-to, information, internet, latitude, links, listings, locamundo, location-scouting, location-scouts, locationmanager, locations, locationscout, locationscouting, longitude, magazines, maps, marketing, mashup, mashups, media, microsoft, music, neogeography, network, New-Zealand, news, newyorkcity, nyc, opml, photography, photos, ping, politics, post, posts, production, programming, publishing, reference, rrhobbs, RSS, schmap, search, skiing, social, statistics, stats, support, SwiftSupport, tagging, tags, tools, travel, utilities, video, web, webhosting, whois, world, worldwide, xml, Yahoo, yahoomaps | Leave a comment

New Obama Girl

Posted on April 6, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

LOL must be a “guy” thing?

“Hillary! Stop the Attacks!” Love, Obama Girl

…or maybe you haven’t seen the original Obama Girl?

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Links for April 3rd

Posted on April 3, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

These are my links for April 3rd from 13:03 to 23:44:

R. Richard H.'s Reviews | New York | Yelp –

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Links for April 2nd

Posted on April 2, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

These are my del.icio.us links for April 2nd:

Search results slideshow on Flickr –

Posted in content | Tagged abandoned, advertising, aggregator, Amazon, aviation, awards, BizBash, blog-community, blogs, bookmarking, boros, boroughs, BQE, Bridgeport, broadcast, Brooklyn, CA, California, cameras, Cgi, cinema, cinematography, Clio, community, Connecticut, conventions, CT, digg, digital, digital imaging, digital-video, dining, directories, directors, Dumbo, dv, editing, entertainment, equipment, EU, Europe, events, expos, feeds, film, filmcommunity, filmlocations, filmmaking, filmproduction, films, fl, Flickr, Florida, food, gear, guides, HDRi, Hispanic, history, horror, how-to, image-basedlighting, information, Johnny-Cash, listings, locamundo, location scout, location-exchange, location-scouting, locationmanager, locations, locationscout, locationscouting, location_scout, magazines, maps, marketing, media, Miami, miclush826, MovieMaker-Magazine, movies, music, musicvideos, neighborhoods, news, newyorkcity, nj, NY, nyc, online, photographers, photos, portal, portals, post, producers, production, profiles, queens, quotes, reference, rentals, resources, reviews, rrhobbs, RSS, Samuel-Johnson, search, Shoot-Online, shopping, socialnetworking, sports, staging, syndication, tagging, tech, technology, Technorati, television, tools, tours, trains, transit, transportation, travel, tv, tv-commercials, tv-production, UK, vendors, venues, video, video-production, videography, visitors, web2.0, weblogs, webservices, websites | Leave a comment

Chilean Mayor Crashes Bond 007 Film Set

Posted on April 2, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

…via Spout …via Twitter …via Digg

“A local politician has been arrested after driving onto the Chilean set of the latest Bond film Quantum of Solace to protest against the filming.”

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About.com: NYC Traffic Congestion Pricing Plan

Posted on April 2, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

About.com | Pamela’s Manhattan, NY Blog | Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Plan Passed by City Council | By Pamela Skillings, About.com Guide to Manhattan, NY since 2005 | Tuesday April 1, 2008

Posted in content | Tagged 60th street, central business district, congestion pricing plan, film-production, location-scouts, locations, manhattan ny, new york city council, traffic congestion | 1 Comment

Brooklyn – Queens Expressway (BQE)

Posted on April 2, 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs

The nyc.locationscout.us header photograph (also shown below) depicts part of the elevated roadway section of the Brooklyn – Queens Expressway (BQE or I-278) from ground level along northern Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn that follows underneath the route of the BQE for a distance as they both snake thru Brooklyn, NY.