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Location Scouting Management News Map Google+Yahoo+MSN

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I just made a static page with an embedded news map of excerpts of location scouting and location management-related news stories from around the world, aggregated from Google News, Yahoo News and MSN News.

The excerpts are in placed in conversation balloons which are placed geographically on the map, via geospatial data contained in the excerpts.

Additionally, the page contains a Post Map of geotagged content from nyc.locationscout.us.

  • View Location Scouting Management News Map Google+Yahoo+MSN
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    Dipity: Where Am I? What Am I Doing?

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  • Dipity | nyc.locationscout.us | Map

  • Dipity | nyc.locationscout.us | Timeline

  • Dipity | nyc.locationscout.us | List

  • Dipity | nyc.locationscout.us | FlipBook

    • Dipity could be good for chronicling (in several very aesthetically attractive ways, as shown above…) location scouting activities and later, actual shooting activities for a film, photo or video production.

    Didpity works with RSS Feeds you can generate from a number of sources including most blogs / microblogs (i.e. WordPress, Twitter) and is geographically aware, so if you if you geotag your posts, they will be placed on Dipity’s map. Dipity and FireEagle also talk to each other, making updating a physical location a rather painless chore, whether by mobile phone, laptop or desktop computer.

    CrunchBase | Dipity Company Profile

    “Dipity is a consumer site that organizes articles, blog posts, pictures, videos and other content from around the web into interactive views showing anything from a user’s life to the Iraq War.”

    …read more…

    feed Dipity Blog
    • Advertising Age On Data Visualization | Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:58 pm
        Advertising Age just published an article on how the next frontier doesn’t seem to be better search, but better synthesis. Given that there are. […]
    • Dipity Kiosk at SJMA | Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 7:52 pm
      I took a field trip today to talk with our newest customer, San Jose Museum of Art . The museum is using Dipity on their web site, and they had let us. […]
    • New: Share Events on Facebook | Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 1:25 am
      Today we released new sharing features focused on events, with an emphasis on Facebook integration. Now when you are looking at an event you can share. […]
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    • Dipity |
      Dipity lets you create timelines that you can share with the world. … Dipity. Sign Up | Feedback | Log In. Read About the … History of Just one mo. […]
    • Internet Memes |
      Internet meme timeline running from 1986 to present. … Dipity. Sign Up | Feedback | Log In. Join Now! Internet Memes / 2198708 Views. About this Top. […]
    • Dipity Blog |
      Dipity.com Dipity Blog. Advertising Age On Data Visualization … All Content Copyright and Trademark Dipity and Underlying, Inc. Proudly powered by W. […]

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    Plazes: Where am I?

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  • Plazes | R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us

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    CrunchBase | Plazes Company Profile

    “Plazes allows you to find out what others are up to and see what’s happening at different locations. Users share where they currently are, what they’re doing and post future plans. Posting this information can be done on Plazes.com or by mobile phone (via text messaging). Users can also join groups to stay connected with their favorite people and Plazes.”

    …read more…

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      We would like to thank you for your patience: the mobile site http://m.plazes.com is now working again and you could enjoy Plazes on the go, even if y. […]
    • Plazer for iPhone and iPod touch launched | Monday, 25 May 2009, 3:31 am
      The Plazes iPhone and iPod touch application has finally arrived! After month of development our friend Thomas Kollbach recently released on iTunes st. […]
    • Plazes goes mobile! | Thursday, 6 November 2008, 5:20 am
      You have been waiting for a Plazes mobile site since long time already and now your patience has been rewarded: m.plazes.com just launched and it work. […]
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    • Plazes - Right Plaze, Right Time |
      The Plazer is your autopilot for Plazes It conveniently checks you in and keeps … You don’t need a fancy phone to use Plazes on your mobile. …
    • Plazes |
      Startup and Technology News … Berlin, Germany based Plazes, a location based social network (and one of the … wrote about Plazes new iPhone applic. […]
    • Jaiku | Jaikus from plazes |
      Create your own microblog and connect with your friends. … Hi everybody and thanks for having joined Plazes either recently or long time ago. …
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    nyc.locationscout.us Google Search

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    nyc.locationscout.us Google Search

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    New York City Film Zone Map Online

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    Something I have wanted to do for years, as a location scout and location manager, is to have an easily-web-accessible film zone map to use for reference.

    Maybe I need to back up a little?

    Q: What is the Film Zone?

    A: The “Film Zone(s) “are the boundaries set by several NYC based worker’s unions, guilds, and organizations chapters defining the area(s) in which they will work locally. The radius varies a few miles by organization from a 25 to 30 mile radius generally emanating from Columbus Circle in New York City, NY; for the sake of simplicity I have used the 25 mile zone; if you are inside this zone, presumably, you are safe inside the 30 mile zone as well.

    Thanks to the Google Maps API and GPVisualizer it was pretty easy to create a map with a circle overlay and tweak the html just a little so it would display on my website.


    This page may not display correctly in some browsers. If this page does not display correctly, use the following link to the static page:
    New York City area 25-mile local film zone map centered at Columbus Circle, Manhattan
    Google Map of New York, NY (NYC)

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    Location Scouting Using Your BlackBerry / IPhone / SmartPhone

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    I recently purchased a BlackBerry Pearl 8130 (”Pearl” would seem to denote the small pearl-like trackball located on the face of the device used for navigation) (photos).

    Regarding the purchase of the BlackBerry itself, it’s not like I needed to throw more moolah at yet another gadget for my kit, but the offer was too good to refuse:

  • As a long-time Verizon Wireless customer, I was due for a phone upgrade, consisting of a $100 credit (…and 2 year renewal of my contract…)
  • There were also two separate $50 rebates available on this particular phone at the time
  • The list price of the phone was $249 = minus $100 credit minus $100 in rebates = a $50 BlackBerry - how could I refuse?

    • What initially inspired me to consider going with a BlackBerry or other smartphone was an experience I had last winter location scouting with the producer I was working with at the time, we were driving around Brooklyn and Queens, visiting some location candidates we had both already researched in our offices but still needing other options; this particular producer was the proud owner of an Apple IPhone, so, as we drove, carefully concentrating on vehicular traffic as is reccommended in conditions likely to be encountered somewhere like New York City, she was able to use a combination of features included in her IPhone i.e. GPS, high-speed internet access / Google Search / Google Maps and of course, the phone itself to make appointment requests or other calls as needed.

    As I drove, she would search on Google and Google Maps for the business category listings (we happenned to be looking for auto parts stores and flower shops at the time…) and local business listings which would typically include the business name / address / phone number; then, using that info and Google Maps we could drive directly there. If we got lost or turned around - GPS to the rescue! :-)

    I estimate location scouting this way saved us at least a day in research *not* driving around “aimlessly” as might have been required using “old-school” location research and location scouting methods. Yellow Pages? what are Yellow Pages? ;-)

    Oh, yeah - the IPhone also contained an IPod which we were able to play thru my truck’s stereo, which was nice - I have my own IPod but it was on the blink at the time - subsequently it was replaced by Apple (for free :-) as it turned out it was defective…

    In any case, it was at that point I decided to start looking at acquiring a smartphone - the IPhone was really nice, with its large display screen, Apple ingenuity and features - but it also cost about $500 at the time plus + / - $100 for the service each month, so I would have been looking at the (arguably steep) *cost of the IPhone at that time and the additional cost of the additional service to my existing Verizon cellphone service of about the same amount (the IPhone service is only available thru AT&T Wireless or cancelling Verizon contract (which would include a stiff penalty of several hundred dollars…), so… I started looking at the BlackBerry - which has a splendid reputation of its own and in fact was “the” pioneer in smartphone technology.

    *In case you have been living in a cave lately, Apple recently announced the IPhone G3 at a much reduced cost for the equipment. Reportedly, the service is more expensive, so over time you end up paying more? …but then again maybe that’s easier for people to whom it matters - spreading out the expense of maybe a little more each month but over a long period and without having had to plop down a lot to get onboard …and inconsequential for still others?

    I am very pleased with my BlackBerry! There are LOTS of mobile applications available due to BlackBerry’s popularity, including many…

  • Google applications for mobile, i.e. Gmail (including Mail / Google Apps), Google Maps (which includes ** My Location), Search, Calendar, GOOG-411 (voice-technology 411 service) and other useful FREE applications.
  • Yahoo has its own mobile application that bundles a number of similar features and is in fact very elelgant, but I have had intermittent problems with it crashing my phone (requiring a soft reset fix by removing the phone battery and turning the phone back on…)
  • Of course, there are many BlackBerry native applications included in the phone from the time you first turn the thing on…
  • You can search for other BlackBerry Apps

    • **My Location is NOT GPS - its positioning technology relies on cell towers to determine your position - generally, for the purpose of getting “un-lost” I find it quite adequate - and it is FREE - GPS service thru Verizon is a separate, paid service ($9.99 / month I think…), but I have my own separate GPS unit I can use if I need to provide exact coordinates of a location.

    Verizon’s unlimited personal Blackberry email / web data service that I subscribe to is $29.99 in addition to my regular voice plan, (its corporate plan, which is required if you work for a company that uses BlackBerry’s Enterprise Server is $44.99 / month. The extra $30 / month is a little stiff to a penny-pincher like me, but it is unlimited internet / email and several factors make it a wash. What follows are considerations you may want to make for yourself:

  • A while back I ditched my landline phone and ported the number to my Verizon Wireless service. The additional line costs me $9.99 per month as opposed to the $40-$50 / month I was paying for the landline - hey, the new line even included a free cel phone :-)
    Note: the possible down-sides to relying solely on cellular telephony are:

  • limited 911 emergency service capabilities
  • no landline for receiving faxes - but I use an electronic fax service - which costs $16.95 / month - working on eliminating this expense…
  • no landline for processing credit card merchant transactions using a merchant terminal - I solved this by using PayPal’s online payment processing; fees are competitive with my old conventional merchant account and no additional equipment (i.e. terminal, printer) to own / clutter my desk / wear out…
  • your mileage may vary depending on your business model / personal needs…
  • The BlackBerry does SO many things well, it will be a while (if ever) that I upgrade my laptop computer - I basically don’t need the laptop for mobile internet / email anymore… The laptop is currently needed for tasks particular to location scouting and other business chores for applications such as PhotoShop / Word / Excel, etc and a large, fast hard drive for working with images and other data is needed, but the laptop I currently own should be good for all this for a while.

    • Umm, oh, yeah, the BlackBerry is also a camera phone, but I personally have never been crazy about the image quality of camera phone photos - I much prefer my trusty, rusty Leica D-Lux3 ;-)

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    links for 2008-05-29

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    links for 2008-05-15

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    NJ Film Production Services Directory

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    New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Production Services Directory
    “The Production Services Directory is your comprehensive guide to production related personnel, goods and services available in New Jersey. Search the category index…” …read the rest…

    NJ Film Logo

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    links for 2008-05-01

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    links for 2008-04-22

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    Harriman State Park NY Spring

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    Springtime in Harriman State Park, NY

    Click the photo for a better view :-)

    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.”

    Harriman State Park, NY - Wikimedia Commons
    Harriman State Park, NY - from Wikimedia Commons

    Click the photo for a better view :-)

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    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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    Panoramio

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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″

    …read more…

  • What an amazing tool with potential for use for location scouting!
  • Press
  • Enter your city to see all the photos found for that area.
  • Sort of like the Flickr Map


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      See the world in photos with this combination of travel photo galleries and Google Earth.
    • Panoramio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
      Panoramio was started in the summer of 2005 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo … Panoramio asks users to organize images using tags (a form of met. […]
    • Panoramio - Sign in |
      Photo-sharing community. Discover the world … Store up to 2 Gb of photos for free. Keep photos quality in original size … Show photos and travel .. […]

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    Flickr Geotagging Bookmarklet / loc.alize.us

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  • Flickr Geotagging Bookmarklet / loc.alize.us | Get the bookmarklet here.

    • 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.”

    …read more…

    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.


    localize.us

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    links for 2008-04-19

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    My Post Map(s)

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    Thanks in no small part to Andrew Turner of Mapufacture and GeoPress, here is a map of all the geotagged posts on nyc.locationscout.us.

    feed nyc.locationscout.us :: Mapufacture
  • There is also a postmap for rrhobbs.us, my work blog.

    • Thanks, Andrew!

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    links for 2008-04-12

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    High Dynamic Range Images - A Blog

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    High Dynamic Range Images | About

    “Welcome to the High Dynamic Range Images Blog.

    I first noticed an HDR image early this year and became fascinated with this style instantly. I started experimenting with Photomatix and have been having a ball ever since.

    The idea is to promote this method of making images and showcase some beautiful HDR artwork.

    My images can be found here and I have arranged my HDR’s into this set.”

    …read more…

  • Found on High Dynamic Range Images: Play Ball!, originally uploaded by sunsurfr

    • Play Ball!
    click photo for larger view

    “Panorama hdr shot from extreme right field in the grass seating area at Biscuits Stadium in Montgomery, AL. The shot was taken just before the start of the the season opener.”

    Best Viewed Large - Click Here

    View more baseball pictures here

    **Made it to 1 on Explore**

    BTW… I used to live in Montgomery, AL (some time ago, at this point…) but dang if I remember Biscuits Stadium… of course, it’s entirely possible, in fact likely, that it was built and / or renamed - several times since I was there…. Looks as if a minor league baseball team, the Montgomery Biscuits, are the current tenants. Kewl name, huh? ;-) Look on their homepage - I like their logo and mascot - that couldn’t have been any small feat making a biscuit a believable mascot! On that note, have you ever been to Lambert’s Cafe - Home of the Throwed Rolls, in Foley, AL? I kid you not they throw bread at you. …but maybe you have to be a southerner to find the humor in any of this?

    …and I digress…

    If you didnt know, HDRi is an abbreviation for high dynamic range imaging.

    I am part of a Belgian corporation called Q-spheres that is in the business of producing HDRi imaging for reproduction and broadcast level publication.

    We’re good - AND fast! - check us out!

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    Please note: Neither Q-Spheres, HDRi Blog or sunsurfr are professionally affiliated.

  • HDRi Groups @ Flickr
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    • An unusual rock formation | Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:46 am
      An unusual rock formation, originally uploaded by gms.
    • Smeaheia HDR Time Lapse | Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 1:56 pm
      Smeaheia HDR Time Lapse Originally uploaded by sqbbe This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in ages. HDR movie. I command thee to check it out!

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    The New York Neo-Futurists

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    The New York Neo-Futurists: The Ensemble

    “May 29, 2006 … Here’s Justin and Jen scouting for locations in the urban wasteland … That’s right you New York … - that prime piece of real estate…”

    …read more…

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    Links for April 8th

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    These are my del.icio.us links for April 8th:


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    Sam Rohn’s NYLocations Photos at Flickr

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    Sam Rohn’s NYLocations Photos at Flickr

    Nice job, Sam!

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    • Chelsea Hotel :: New York City | Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 10:42 pm
      The twelve-story red-brick building that now houses the Hotel Chelsea was built in 1883, and opened in 1884 as one of the city’s first private apar. […]
    • Brooklyn Basement :: New York City | Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:57 pm
      Is it an ancient temple below the streets of New York City, or an abandoned undersea subway station ? most likely just an old boiler room…
    • Audubon Terrace :: NYC | Saturday, 29 November 2008, 3:40 pm
      Named for naturalist and artist John James Audubon, on whose former land the complex sits, and who is buried across the street, Audubon Terrace was c. […]

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    Passaic County Film Commission

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    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.

    As a side note, Deborah’s office works closely with the New Jersey Film Commission. The New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission is located in Newark, NJ. The State of New Jersey currently offers attractive tax incentives for film production in New Jersey, which, of course, includes Passaic County.

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    Links for April 6th

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


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


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


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    Heads up- Long Island Intl Film Expo 2007 + and Moon Cake!

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    In case you didnt know, the Long Island International Film Expo is coming up this weekend… I received an email from director Marty Stano, whose short film Moon Cake I reviewed in an earlier post alerting me that his film had been chosen for inclusion in the Expo. Atta boy, Marty, go get ‘em!

    The Long Island International Film Expo | July 11 - 19, 2007

  • Schedule
  • Moon Cake Sunday, July 15, 2007 - 7:00PM
    Bellmore Movies 222 Pettit Ave, Bellmore, NY 11710 MAP

    • Links

  • Long Island International Film Expo
  • Nassau County, NY Film Commission
  • Suffolk County, NY Film Film Office
  • New York State Film Office

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  • Update 3/29/2003 - Be sure and participate in and attend the 2008 Long Island International Film Expo.
  • update 3/29/08 fixed some broken links / Bellmore Movies map / general cleanup / 2008 notice - RH | original timestamp: July 12, 2007 @ 17:55

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    Geotagging And Neogeography

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    Update 3/26/08 - This is a general cleanup of an article I originally posted timestamped December 04, 2006 @ 09:07. At the time I wrote the original post, geotagged map solutions which could include photos were really just starting to come of their own (from what I could find myself and / or was able to wrap my head around at the time ;-) …

    I am normally approaching investigation of new technologies from a point of view as a location scout or location manager with regard to how same might be applied usefully toward doing a better job as a location scout or location manager, more efficiently.

    That said, it has become pretty easy as of late to build a simple, general purpose location map, i.e. placemarks of all the locations to be used in a production - with the address / other contact info / thumbnail(s) of the location(s) included), on a Google Map:

  • you need a free Google Maps account and you need to be signed in
  • use the “My Maps” tab - create a new map
  • the map can be marked “private”. go there. find it.
  • figure the rest out yourself

    • Still, every shoot is different, with different problems for the location department to solve and the solutions below are still very much alive at this writing, so scroll on thru on check em out… -RH

    …via WheresSpot Blog…via New York Times. (requires free registration)

  • “We’d make all our location scouts do this!“
  • …another WheresSpot Blog Post: Map Mashups and Location Scouting: What’s Happening?

    • NY Times: Pictures, With Map and Pushpin Included | By IAN AUSTEN | Published: November 2, 2006

    “KATHLEEN BENNETT recently bought a device that keeps track of her location with help from the satellites of the Global Positioning System. But unlike many other people in Seattle, Ms. Bennett is not, by her own description, “an outdoor person” and will not be using it to find her way through the wilderness.”

    …read the rest…

  • …all about geotagging… | Geotagging - Wikipedia

    • “Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images and is a form of geospatial metadata.” …read the rest…

    …which, broadly speaking, is the practice of embedding geographic data in media of one type or another (i.e. “geotag” a …blog post …photo).

    There are MANY uses for geotagging, i.e creating a waypoint in a map or perhaps embedding data in a photo to let that photo be associated with a waypoint on a map… then posting that photo online and linking it and the embedded geographic data to a map, showing just where in the world the shutter was pressed.

    There are file formats (i.e. GeoRSS, GPX and KML) that “speak” in geographic terms. Much of this type of data is intended to be primarily machine readable, altho, ultimately, the end purpose is usually toward output which is “human readable”, or comprehensible and presumably, of some use to a person.

    Geotagging and online mapping are parts of a field coming to be known as neogeography, or “new geography”.

    Outside.in

    “Tracking news, views, and conversations in 11,860* towns and neighborhoods” * …and counting…

    From Outside.in’s FAQ:

    “Q: What is outside.in?

    A: Outside.in is the best way to discover the people, places and conversations in your community. Enter your city, neighborhood, or zip code in the field below the map (on the home page), and start exploring your community. We’ve designed outside.in to be the best resource online for:

  • Keeping up with news and opinions in your neighborhood
  • Finding out the inside scoop on local places or events: schools, new real estate developments, playgrounds, bars
  • Meeting interesting new neighbors, and sharing your local knowledge with them

    • Here are ways to geotag blog posts so that Outside.in can index them. Note: - you need to register your blog with Outside.in as it may be appropriate for inclusion on outside.in.

    Map Examples:

    The first map below utilizes geotagging, Google Maps and Flickr. It is a Widget published by Mapsack.

    Next is another Mapsack mashup - it does not integrate the photos from Flickr, however, it does display a nice hybrid map and location of my office location in NJ <- ...this is a link to a Google Map...

    note: the map above uses an iframe tag … in case you were curious what that might be… ;-)

    This my Frappr Map (or “friend” map) - you can see an example of it embedded in a blog post here. It is interactive - you can add yourself to it- be my guest.

    Finally, below is a map created using GeoPress, a WordPress plugin, which shows where I am located in Clifton, NJ.

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  • ck out Mapufacture and Mapstraction, too
  • …geotagging elsewhere on this site…

    • updated 3/26/08 | original timestamp: December 04, 2006 @ 09:07


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    WheresSpot

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    WheresSpot

    “WheresSpot.com is The Internet Community for Prisoners of Advertising. Using email and the Web, it connects an enormous gang of talented people to one another.”

    …read more…

    In addition to its website presence, WhereSpot used to be a free Yahoo Group discussion list*, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 members at one time. Sometime around May 2007, Wheresspot moved its discussions off Yahoo Groups on-site to its self-hosted website, having added many other features to the self-hosted site such as a member map, resource directories, classifieds and blog and became a paid-subscription portal. (visit WhereSpot if you are interested in joining as a paid member)

    WheresSpot Website Menu (you must be a paid subscriber and logged in to access all features)

  • Home
  • Messages
  • Classifieds
  • RepDB
  • WS Members
  • Resources
  • Links
  • Community Blog
  • Post an entry

    • *(IF you were a member of the old Yahoo Group, at this writing, archives prior to Thu May 3, 2007 2:14 pm can be accessed at the old Yahoo url but new posting is not allowed)

    In a number of posts on the old list, as well as continuing on the new list, the moderators explained (in as many words) that in order to move the discussion list and add the other features to a self-hosted site as well as create self-motivation to continue putting the effort into maintaining an active community as diverse as WhereSpot, they needed to change to a paid-subscription model. At one point I remember reading that they felt the community had actually grown a little too big and the content of discussions had become all too redundant at times - I can personally remember receiving somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 posts (or more) over the period of a day and feeling annoyed at a lot of what was asked and discussed as the content often involved subject matter that had been visited multiple times before or seeming like people were simply too lazy to use a search engine (i.e Google or Yahoo) to find the answers to their questions; the moderators further defended the changes (in as many words) saying the community was smaller, yet comprised *only* of serious professionals, which I take to mean the people willing to pony up the subscription fee were really serious about wanting to be there.

    WheresSpot is relevant for location professionals (i.e. location scouts, location managers) as the diverse scope WheresSpot’s community and discussions covers pre-production and locations with a focus on tv commercials and productions as might be used in other areas of advertising such as print ads, trade videos, marketing events and other types of media production.

  • WheresSpot elsewhere on this website
    • feed Yahoo! Search: Wheresspot

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    Location Scouting in Hoboken, NJ

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    Recently, I was hired to location scout in Hoboken, NJ for an upcoming UK tv program and it was an opportunity for me to explore an interesting city I have lived within 20 minutes or so of for about 15 years but never really spent much time in, other than to pass thru on the NJ Transit train to get to the PATH train, (which runs under the Hudson River) to travel into New York City.

    Besides being chock full of local NYC area history and home and birthplace to many interesting people (including Frank Sinatra), Hoboken has somewhat recently morphed from a gritty harbor town into an elegant urban enclave- but with enough of the gritty edges left over to maintain a contrast of lifestyles and visual texture.

    A few interesting facts about Hoboken (with a little help and thanks to The Hoboken Museum, Wikipedia, IMDB and other resources):

    The name Hoboken is derived from the Dutch word, “Hoebuck,” meaning “high bluff.”

    Hoboken is known as the “Mile Square Town”; if you look at a map of the town you will see that it is laid out pretty much in a neat square shape. BTW, here’s another map of Hoboken.

    Hoboken’s institute of higher learning, Stevens Institute of Technology, is named after patriot Colonel John Stevens, Colonial Treasurer of New Jersey and later innovative inventor. The college is located on the bluff which rises sharply up from the Hudson River’s edge, and is one of the many bluffs in the area from which the town name was derived.

    The Academy Award-winning movie, “On The Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan and which premiered in 1954, was filmed in Hoboken.

    American baseball was “born” in Hoboken! this from the Hoboken Baseball website:

    “On 19 June 1846, the first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.”

    ~ . ~


    View a Flickr slideshow of Hoboken

    Castle Point, Hoboken, NJ

    (above) On Sinatra Drive near the Castle Point Pier on the Hoboken Hudson River waterfront. The Verrazano Bridge, connecting Brooklyn, NY and Staten Island, NY can be seen in the background, some 10 miles SE downriver.

    Location scouting photographs of Hoboken at Flickr

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    Recently, I was hired to location scout in Hoboken, NJ for an upcoming UK tv program and it was an opportunity for me to extensively explore an interesting city I have lived within 15 or 20 minutes of for about 15 years but had never really spent much time prior to my location scouting expedition. …read more - tinyurl.com/2j87xb

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    1 Sinatra Drive Hoboken, NJ, which runs north and south along the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ is nowadays lined with genteel condos, bistros and shops, a contrast to the area’s history in that at, one time, it was a bustling, rough, rugged shipping wharf.

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    15 Monroe St in Hoboken, NJ, birthplace of Frank Sinatra, circa Summer, 2006. The building where Frank Sinatra was born burned down some years ago and there is now a vacant lot there. Next door is an homage museum to Sinatra, named "From Here to Eternity", but it is closed, I was told the owner of the museum had recently passed away.

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    3 Hoboken Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River with the NYC skyline in the background.

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    IMG_4522 Hoboken near Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River, The Verrazano Bridge can be seen further downriver in the south end of New York Harbor.

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    Mapufacture

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    What is Mapufacture?

    “Mapufacture provides up-to-date, personalized geographically relevant information. Find interesting feeds from blogs, photos, weather, friends, and activities. Build maps of the places you care about. Share these maps and use them on the go. Search for interesting things around the world.”

    What’s going on here?

    “Welcome to the Mapufacture help center. Where do you want to go today? No, really, do you want to go to New York, or perhaps Abu Dhabi, or even Wellington. Wherever you live, or want to go, Mapufacture can help you find out what’s interesting.”

    So you register for a Mapufacture account and start adding RSS feeds (preferably, specifically and ideally, geotagged feeds - voila! there they are on the map!

    What does any of this have to with location scouting you might ask? - well, you could use Mapufacture to manage a location scouting project, such as perhaps setting up a Wordpress site or a site using another CMS to manage your list(s) of locations (make a post for each location(?) to generate the feed - you should geotag each post (GeoPress Plugin could work well for this) or simply add the longitude / latitude or the GPS data for each location - btw Flickr photos can be be geotagged.

    Once you have created your map, you can embed it on your site OR (this is fun) use the KML file url Mapufacture generates for your map and plug it into a Google Maps search. If you have a Google Maps account you can also get weather and traffic reports as well as use many other valuable Google Maps tools.

    So now you have a relatively easy way to present a map with placemarks containing all the locations and data you want to share with the rest of the production team and / or clients about each location and all the locations as a group, perhaps with regard to where each is located in relation to each other (logistics)… Many calendar resources provide feeds as well so could be utilized for scheduling too :-).

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