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nyc.locationscout.us | Movie Widgets Page

I just made a Movie Widgets Page, containing several WidgetBox movie information widgets you may find useful:

Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

Movie Custom Search Engine

Rotten Tomatoes Reviews and Previews

WidgetBox Top Movie Trailers

Go Here

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nyc.locationscout.us content is tagged and categorized for the purpose of more efficient archiving and cataloging of same, which is to say the intent is for you, the reader to be able to more easily search for and find useful content on nyc.locationscout.us.

Tags are descriptive words or phrases relevant to specific content (posts or pages and the text contained therein) i.e. tag: location scout

Categories are used a bit more broadly in much the same way as tags i.e. category: Featured Posts

The 3D Tag Cloud presents our tags and categories in what we hope is a visually interesting way.

You can also view our 3D Tag / Category Cloud on the following pages:

Category Archive

Tag Archive

Archives Page

articles blogs business commercials culture directors entertainment events film film-locations film-production film commissions filmmaking film offices films Google Hollywood information location-managers location-scouting location-scouts locations maps media movies New-York-City news NY nyc people photo photographers photography photos posts producers production resources services states tech television tv video websites content (869)
featured (46)
featured locations (11)
home page images (9)
location scouting - management sydicated news (118)

WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.

Mouse over the Tag Cloud to browse
WP-Cumulus

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From time to time we feature various remarkable locations from our online location library of more than 3000 locations for film, photo, video / tv and events.

• “Featured Location” posts on nyc.locationscout.us | RSS Feed
• We have a Page with links to all our location albums of featured locations

There are pages set up with links and screenshots to many of our location albums of featured locations:

• Apartment and Lofts Locations
• Cabins and Camps Locations
• Education Locations
• Farms and Ranches Locations
• Healthcare Locations
• Houses and Mansions Locations
• Industrial Locations
• NYC Roofs and Views Locations
• Offices Locations
• Sports Locations
• Swimming Pools Locations

Many of these location albums are also featured on our companion website, locationfiles.com.

We have a large number of locations available online for searching / research:

• Search Locations
• Location Research Guide
• Location Request Questionnaire
• FAQS

All the above resources can be extremely useful for your pitches and presentations; we are always willing to help you get that job so we can work together and of course, we are at your service to provide a diverse range of fee-based location services including file pulls and location research, location scouting, tech scouting and location management for all film, video/tv, photography and event productions as well as other production services, including complete production coordination and production management for still photography production and smaller video productions.

• Contact Us Today!

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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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update 4/21/2008 | added maps | original timestamp: December 22, 2006 at 9:23

location scouting resources and a del.icio.us social bookmarking primer

By locationscout (me)

“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):

locationtalk

google groups:

alt.tv.commercials

rec.arts.movies.production

rec.video.production

flickr/locationscouting

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.”

…read the rest…

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updates
• 4/21/2006 | added map / feed
• last timestamp February 14, 2008 at 4:12 pm
• original timestamp: June 10, 2006 at 4:24 pm

EVERYBODY’s got a MySpace page, huh?

Well… guess I do too… two?

I wish there was a way to merge MySpace profiles, at some point I created two MySpace profiles, I really only need one.

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update 4/9/2008 | added map | original timestamp February 09, 2008 @ 12:20

Ask the Answer B!tch - 1/28/2006:

Are the houses used in movies and on TV rented out, or do the celebrities use their own homes? - Lynda, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey

A.B. Replies: No.

“These days, it’s more reliable to boot up Google Earth, punch in Reese Witherspoon and see what her more enterprising, uh, ‘fans’ have managed to find out about where she lives. With any luck, some drooling Legally Blonde addict has uploaded a nice high-res overlay, and you’ll be able to see whether each of Reese’s kids gets its own infinity pool.”

…read the rest…

AB Archives

Message Boards

About the Answer B!tch

“The Answer B!tch doesn’t have to tell you anything about herself, but she will anyway. Because she’s good to you like that.

Leslie Gornstein is a Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter and writer of miscellany whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader and so on and such.”

… read the rest…

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# update 3/24/08 | added map, bio, feed, other cleanup | original timestamp: February 10, 2006 @ 21:15
# 7/12//2008 | more general cleanup

Here are links to the more-often used pages on the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, Broadcast and Television website. On these pages is lots of info (as well as live forms and instructions) that you need when dealing with MOFTB and New York City film and photo permits

NYC MOFTB Permit Forms

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Guidelines for Parks Photography

! Please also read: Information Every Film Production Coming to New York City Needs

Still Photography

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Parks Permit Page

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Still Permit Instructions

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Photo Permits

NYC MOFTB Still Photo Permit- stillpermit.pdf

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Still Permit Instructions

Film and Video

NYC MOFTB Film Permit Form

NYC MOFTB Film Permit Form Instructions

NYC MOFTB Film Permit Insurance Requirements

NYC MOFTB Schedule A Sample- vtu_sample.pdf

NYC MOFTB Schedule A Sample- mult_locations.pdf

NYC MOFTB Schedule A Sample- holding_parking.pdf

NYC MOFTB Schedule A Sample- driving_shots.pdf

Schedule A

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Schedule A Instructions

NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Permits Schedule A

NYC MOFTB Schedule A Form

NYC MOFTB Drop/Add Form

! Please also read: Information Every Film Production Coming to New York City Needs

Other film offices and related content on nyc.locationscout.us

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…yet another adventure in deploying lightweight do-it-yourself (DIY) tech solutions inna location scoutin’ bidness.

The title says it all. I was looking for a way to aggregate (collect) bookmarks (…favorites…posts) on del.icio.us that are most relevant to location scouting.

Conventional wisdom would seem to dictate that a search of tags such as “location scout” would be in order.

There are several del.icio.us-specific peculiarities that make this a more complicated task than it might seem on the surface: Because of the way del.icio.us handles tags, multiple word phrases (i.e. location scout) must be joined together so there are no spaces between the words, otherwise “location” and “scout” become two different tags. Obviously there are a number of ways to accomplish this; I decided that:

1. “locationscout“
2. “location+scout“
3. “location-scout” and
4. “location_scout“

…were likely to be the most popular syntaxes.

Also the mashup I found to aggregate the bookmarks has a 4-tag limit (more about this shortly), so, given the parameters, the syntaxes above dovetailed into the plan pretty smoothly.

Tag searching using the del.icio.us website interface is limited to just one tag. I needed to find a way to search del.icio.us using multiple tags at once.

Enter Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is a recent “whatsit?” (to me, anyway …all I know is it will “do stuff” using various web2.0 features such as accessing and interfacing with various API’s, databases and such and that there has been a good deal of chatter in the tech circles lately about Pipes. It does look a little like Ning, but I haven’t had a chance to play with Pipes at all other than this little side-project. (BTW some people think I am a bit of a techy, but it’s not true; real techies are always able to see that I am just someone who knows enough to be annoying and dangerous- just ask my web host

In a nutshell, “someone” (one Derek Van Vliet, actually…) figured out how search del.icio.us using 4 tags simultaneously as well as aggregating the results. The results are effective because they consist of posts that only had to use at least *one* of the tags as opposed to a heavily filtered list including only posts having to use all the tags, the former seeming to be the default of many database searches. Yet, still, the Pipe seemed to handle filtering out “noise” results such as “boy scout” or “store location”, etc. very well.

del.icio.us Tag Masher - 4 Tags Pipe

…which I renamed slightly to reflect the manner in which I am using the pipe, which is ok because all this kind of stuff in this neck of cyberspace is pretty open-source and in fact experimentation is generally encouraged.

Once I ran the Pipe and had my results (a web page exportable as an rss xml feed, of course like any good web2.0 app should…)

I took the feed link and made a Feedburner feed. I like Feedburner because there are so many additional features available that can be used on raw rss feeds. If you have worked with Feedburner much at all, you’ll know what I am talking about.

del.icio.us :: TagMasher :: locationscout :: location+scout :: location-scout :: location_scout Feedburner Feed

While I was setting up the Feedburner feed, I set up a SpringWidget, which is the box below and which is used to display the feed here on this website.

What? of course, these are all free web services. (Altho, not provided by me)

Update I also used the tags “locationscouting“, “location+scouting“, “location-scouting” and “location_scouting” on del.icio.us Tag Masher - 4 Tags Pipe.

del.icio.us Tag Masher - 4 Tags with tags locationscouting, location+scouting, location-scouting, location_scouting (Derek van Vliet’s original)

del.icio.us Tag Masher - 4 Tags with tags locationscouting, location+scouting, location-scouting, location_scouting (my clone)

Feedburner Feed made from Derek’s Pipe w/ tags applied:

Yahoo Feed of my clone:

Cloned del.icio.us Tag Masher - 4 Tags with tags locationscouting, location+scouting, location-scouting, location_scouting Grazr Widget

Update 3/21/08 | I cloned it! I felt a lot less intimidated by THE PIPE this time out so I just went in there with a hammer and a wrench … removed (from this post) …SpringWidget, added (to this post) …original Pipe note(s), my clone / feed URL, added map | original timestamp: April 07, 2007 @ 14:29

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Preface: This post is not so much about doing actual location scouting work using the internet*, but rather finding online content that other location scouts might be posting around the internet or other published content on the subject of location scouting. So I guess it is, in way, but not really?

“Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of December 2007, Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs.^[1] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.” (Wikipedia)

Technorati has received some criticism recently surrounding some of its activities (see Technorati Wikipedia page), however, there is no arguing with an index of 112 million blogs, someone is using their services…

To find blog posts, photos and online video about a given subject, do a search on the Technorati home page using terms pertaining to the subject you are seeking information about.

Technorati relies relies heavily on the “tags” taxonomy hence when results returned from a basic Technorati search, the url will contain the following structure:

…technorati.com/tag/subject

Search results page for “location scouting” is http://technorati.com/tag/location+scouting

If you are an internet content author and wish to have your content show up in Technorati results you may wish to note Technorati uses the “+ sign” separator for multi word search term phrases.

Sam Rohn and I post a lot online on the subject of location scouting, so you are likely to find a lot of results from our websites in the Technorati index.

In addition to Google’s ongoing indexing of general web content, Google Blog Search indexes blogs specifically and is a direct competitor for Technorati’s audience.

Here is the results page for a Google Blog seach using the search phrase “location scouting”.

Google Blog Search has gained some popularity recently, an example being that the very popular blogging software, WordPress recently switched to Google Blog Search as the default source for incoming links on the administration dashboards of WordPress hosted blogs and user-hosted blogs.

I am not that familiar with Ice Rocket, altho I do know they have been around for some time and I am pretty sure Ice Rocket is one of the many default blog indexing services pinged by WordPress’s (Automattic) Pingomatic service. (If you havent noticed, I rely on WordPress quite a bit as the website platform for all my websites). The WordPress / Automattic group carries quite a bit of cred with me, so I am sort of like, “if they think it’s good, then it must be”.

…so, here is a blog search for “location scouting” using Ice Rocket…

Yahoo has a blog search engine as well, but frankly, it seems a little weak - at least one review calls Yahoo’s Blog Search “not much more than a quick add-on to Yahoo News”. In any case, here are results of a Yahoo Blog Search for “location scouting”.

A while back I made a post on rrhobbs.com about a Yahoo Pipe I found called del.icio.us Tag Masher that aggregates bookmark results using 4 different search terms which always returns some informative results. I’d like to find a mashup that delivers aggregated results from Technorati, Google Blog Search, Ice Rocket, Yahoo and del.icio.us.

* You can find other content on nyc.locationscout.us regarding useful online tools for location scouting, try clicking the following tags on the nyc.locationscout.us archives page in the tag cloud (or just use the links below)

online resources

The search box (also located on the home page) provides nyc.locationscout.us site-wide search results of content contained on the site.

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One of my other sites, my location scouting business blog, rrhobbs.us, uses a popular and attractive WordPress theme, RockingBizRed, by Nathan Price.

“Out of the box”, there is currently a problem with many implementations of the RockinBizRed theme in that the right sidebar drops below the center column in the page layout.

Look in the comments for RockinBizRed for my comment, there is a pretty easy fix.

I am getting better at this stuff!

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Q-spheres Website


(above) Quicktime output of Q-sphere of Team Q-spheres at Lake Mead, NV, December 2007 (c) 2007-2009 Q-spheres.com

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us is now a qualified provider of Q-spheres HDRi 3d digital imaging services.

In association with LocationExchange, Locamundo, and Team Q-spheres qualified associates worldwide, we aim to build on our collective traditional location scouting and location management services skills and location archive assets and resources, going forward to provide an even greater range of services to not only keep pace with, but rather lead the way in rapidly changing digital imaging technologies for the still photography, motion pictures and 3-d gaming and animation industries.

Our current digital imaging system, developed by Locamundo founder Jo VanHove (Brussels, BE), provides the fastest currently-available methods for generating the highest-quality, full-dynamic-range, 3d, image-based lighting models (lightfields) and HDRi backgrounds. Our worldwide team of expert imaging and production professionals strives to keep abreast of and implement as we might find productive, new developments and available methods - adapting our imaging technologies to provide the highest-standard services and products with regard to not only imaging quality, but with considerations toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well.

Q-spheres can be hired to provide assignment-specific imaging and also maintains an archive of rights-managed post-ready high quality backgrounds and lightfields.

Please contact us for your next imaging project and let us show you how Q-spheres can work for you!

Q-spheres Official Press Release, July 2007 (pdf)

Q-spheres Associates Worldwide (Alphabetically, by company or last name):

1. Meuleman Manu (brauhaus.be / Antwerp, BE)
   
2. Thomas Duchnicki (creativelocation.de / Berlin, DE)
3. Rickard Molin (fixmolin.se / Stockholm, SE)
4. John Cody, Dan Uneken (fotofilmvideo.com / Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
5. Francoise Huvelle (Q-spheres.com / Buenos Aires, AR)
6. Scott Clark (iwerken.com / Albuquerque, NM, USA)
7. Jo VanHove (loc8, locamundo.com, locationexchange.com / Brussels, BE)
8. Locations Portugal (locationsportugal.com / Lisbon, PT)
9. Peter Orth (planetorth.com / Los Angeles, CA, USA)
10. R. Richard Hobbs (rrhobbs.us / New York, NY, USA)
11. Francesca Carapelli, Leonardo Semplici, Stefano Tinti (scout.it / Siena, Italy)
12. Mark McMcKennon (scoutman.com / New York, NY, USA)
13. Frans VanDenBemd (vandenbemd.com / Prinsenbeek (Breda), NL)
14. Clare Beresford (worldlocations.com / Paris, FR)

In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.

(above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members

View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr

related content about Q-spheres

General information about HDRi

General Information about image based lighting

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Some material, in no specific order, I’ve found around the internet regarding the currently on-going WGA Strike:

…via Wheresspot Blog - One writer’s take on why they’ve gone on strike:

AMPTP - WGA Strike Frequently Asked Questions

Other links from the AMPTP WGA Strike Frequently Asked Questions page to other pages on the AMPTP site that represent news and presumably, AMPTP’s views:

1. Negotiation News
2. Our Proposals and Statements
3. Dollars and Sense
4. Video

Video on YouTube from the AMPTP website:

5. Google News Search Results - WGA Strike
6. Shoot Online Search Results: WGA Strike
7. Hollywood Reporter Online Search Results: WGA Strike
8. Variety Online Search Results: WGA Strike
9. Variety Online link: “Click Here For All WGA Writers Strike Coverage“
10. MSNBC Search Results: WGA Strike
11. Yahoo News Search: WGA Strike

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Human Archives Organization …sort of a “who’s who”…of everybody (…at least anyone who has an “archivist” or wants to do it them self…).

Here’s my HumanArchive page.

Wayback Machine …the Wayback machine archives websites by date - you can see what a site looked like at a given point in time in the past.

Here is what this website looked like at various times in the past - for some reason, there are no archives for 2007 but don’t know why?

Here is what Microsoft.com looked liked on October 20, 1996.

Here is what Apple.com looked like on October 22, 1996.

(if the images that were used on a site are not still available they are not shown…)

AboutUs … rrhobbs.com page on aboutus.org

I recently made other posts here, here and here about other places I can be found.

Here is my Location Library on Locamundo.

LinkedIn …business networking portal… me

Me on MySpace

I’m on Facebook (log in to Facebook and search my full name in quotes)

Me on Mashable

I can be found LOTS of places around the internet- (you could be, too with the application of less elbow grease than you might think;-)

Have fun and have a Happy New Year in 2008!

-RH

See this page!

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Videology-TV | From The Devil Himself | Viva Voce

I hit pay dirt when Jo Van Hove sent me a heads-up that a there was a really kewl vid that had used a Locamundo location on Videology-TV!

Videology-TV is not a huge site, I am only seeing twenty videos on the “videos” page. I like to think I have a pretty discerning eye; to find two out of twenty that I really like seems like a pretty good batting average!

In any case, I started surfing around Videology-tv and found From The Devil Himself by Viva Voce, directed by Moh Azima which is what this post is all about, so I guess if you read my website at all you might say I am “into” music videos lately!

I do realize I am risking diluting the “focus” of my website reviewing all these films lately, but it does, in fact, all have to do with location scouting and film production. If you work in the creative end of film production like I do I think you would know what I meant if I said, “I don’t watch films like ‘normal’ people do”, in fact, its a bus man’s holiday of sorts- I am always looking closely at the locations, lighting, camera angles used, lensing, directorial and actor’s techniques so-on and so forth, so, after I get finished being entertained picking something apart technically if I can still say I was entertained for the sake of being entertained, it was a good day!

Ok. so here you have it, retro done right From The Devil Himself by Viva Voce:

About Viva Voce | THE (EXHAUSTIVE AND UNABRIDGED) LONG & WINDING STORY THUSFAR:

“Kevin & Anita Robinson make the sounds.

The sounds (Vee-vah-VOH-chay) are Italian for “word of mouth” and prophetically prove many would neither be able to spell or prounounce the name.

Viva Voce indeed.”

…read more…

Viva Voce Website

Viva Voce @ MySpace

Director Moh Azima

Director Moh Azima Website

Director Moh Azima Flickr Photos

Director Moh Azima Google Search

About Videology-TV

“Around 1995, television started to become really boring. This had dire repercussions for the music video industry.”

…read more…

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Update 7/2/2008 | A short clip from MoonCake, a short film by Marty Stanos, is available on Youtube (below). Marty is obviously very busy these days shopping and showing the film.

The Lot “is a wrap”.

Sometimes talent and inspiration shines as this video on thelot.com does.

The short film, shot in film noir-ish black and white, is titled Moon Cake and was directed and produced by University of Michigan film student Marty Stano. The film is set to a catchy obscure pop song the title and band I have not yet been able to place other than a comment for the film that alludes to a bootleg record called Rabbit’s Moon, all of which adds to the intrigue.

The film was produced for less than $500 and it’s like a train wreck- I cant look away! I delight in replaying the video over and over! It’s this grungy avant-gard wonderful five minute, forty-five second bit of film wack and it’s just lots of fun to watch.

The Lot is a new tv joint by reality tv kingpin Mark Burnett and producer-director Steven Speilberg (who needs no introduction) whereby filmmakers submit films online for consideration for a $1 mil development deal prize with Dreamworks.

The Lot has been all the chatter recently over on the Wheresspot Board, wherein a number of participants have submitted film projects to The Lot.

Update 3/1: Music mystery solved :-)- The song is It Came in the Night by Andy Arthurs/A Raincoat from around circa 1976. This page pretty much tells it all. Also, see a reference to the music used in this video here.

Update 3/5: Up to now proving ignorance of certain aspects of film school curriculum, it has come to my attention that the music used in Moon Cake is the same score used in one release of director Kenneth Anger’s classic avant-gard short film, Rabbit’s Moon.

Anecdote: There have been several releases of Rabbit’s Moon, the most recent release, on The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One, in fact uses a number of ’50’s doo-wop titles as the score for Rabbit’s Moon.

I know all these things now because the intrigue compelled me to order the The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One DVD online to check out Rabbit’s Moon!

The Japanese folklore of the Rabbit In The Moon, (the view from Earth of the surface of the Moon is different in the far east than that visible in the western hemisphere and to many resembles a rabbit- part of the celebration of this lore is having children put out rice cakes for the rabbit;-) is present in many areas of film and music around the world including a house music trio from Tampa, FL named Rabbit In The Moon.

There are certainly similarities in the style of cinematography used in Marty Stano’s Moon Cake and Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon, in fact, now having more background about both films I daresay Moon Cake draws a heavy influence from Rabbit’s Moon, but dont feel the results have been presented in a way that could be construed as plagiarist or improper. Instead, I might suggest that Moon Cake pays tribute to Rabbit’s Moon in a very flattering way.

Now, all of a sudden I’m a film reviewer- and here I thought I was just a location scout

Moon Cake Screenshot

Rabbit’s Moon Screenshot

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Google Maps Geocoder via Aemkei at Sumaato Blog

The web-savvy location scout needing to create a means of including a searchable map with the ability to geocode locations will need a Google Maps API Key and the code contained on the Google Maps Geocoder page.

I have customized the code to center the map on Columbus Circle, New York City, NY and customized the map size. I have also embedded it in this post using an iframe (thanks Rudin). The page that has been embedded can be seen here.

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).

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Actually, this is Bananr running locally and embedded using an iframe.

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.

There is also a Picasa template available on the Bananalbum website.

With tweaks bananr.com or Bananalbum could be useful to a location scout. Your mileage may vary with your experience as a webmaster.

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I Killed Charles Bronson’s Cat | Barry Gremillion

Just finished Barry Gremillion’s I Killed Charles Bronson’s Cat in which Barry relates some his tales as a Hollywood Location Manager, working with such directors as Oliver Stone and other big-time Hollywood movie folk.

Those of us that work in niche industries like location scouting or location management naturally like to read about the adventures of other people that do what we do and Barry is a natural-born story teller. Location services is a business in which in order to be successful it helps, no, really pretty much requires, that you be a “people person” and Barry seems like just that.

The book is a short read, 175 pages, and I breezed right thru it, I couldnt put it down! I could have easily read 1,075 pages of Barry’s stories.

I found the book poking around Scott Trimble’s website, Go For Locations. Scott has an Amazon reseller account, if you wanna buy this book and let Scott make a little commission while Barry sells a book, follow this link.

…or buy it thru my Amazon Affiliate account…

Happy reading!

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Top: Business: Arts and Entertainment: Media Production: Location Services

North West Vision Funding, help and support provided to filmmakers in North West England.

Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio Western town studio and film location, complete with 12, 000 square ft. sound stage. Props and set dressings available on site.

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RICH’S QUICK GUIDE TO POSTING PICTURES TO A WEBSITE

also here: http://rrhobbs.com/postingyourpics.html

It’s good to know how to post pictures to a website- whether you are an artist or you have some other tangible object or property you need to illustrate. A lot of people go about this task using email, but there are a few reasons this IS NOT a always a good idea. Consider this: You have a dozen pictures (of anything) that you need to have someone see. Depending on the resolution of the pictures, you could spend HOURS emailing these pictures.

AND

1.) If you get ONE letter or number or other character in the recipient(s) email address wrong YOU GOTTA START OVER
2.) If your ISP limits the message size (my isp limits each email msg size to 2mb) and you go over YOU GOTTA START OVER
3.) If you need for someone (else) to see the pics later on then YOU HAVE TO SEND THEM AGAIN
4.)If you forgot to cc: someone YOU HAVE TO SEND THEM AGAIN
5.) If you left out a picture you have to figure out which one it was and email everybody again.
Doesn’t it make a lot of sense to only have to go thru these hassles once?

FIRST THINGS FIRST- WEB BASICS

A basic understanding of how the www works is needed. For instance, what happens when you look at a web page is that your computer (browser/client) sends a command over an electronic network (the web) to another computer(server) asking it to let you look at some files. (The computers have to understand each other but that’s a story for another day) The spot on the network AND on the other computer where the files are stored is known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). The spot that you are “calling” from is known as your IP address (Internet Protocol address). Provided everything goes well, you are sent the content that you requested and you will see a web page(text and/or pictures, etc.) That’s all the web is: FILES ON COMPUTERS! Proper software and hardware on your end makes VIEWING these files possible.

So the next question is: “How do I become the computer (server) on the “other end“?

Answer: Unless you are a REAL techie (in which case you would not need to be reading this) you have no business running a web server. BUT there ARE plenty of techies in this world, and there are many servers, AND there are many servers you can USE to display your info to the world. In most cases servers are Unix operating system computers with a direct, very fast connection to the web. Some are free to use, some you pay for.

Next question: “So how do I get my files to a server?”

Answer: Several ways, to start.
Since you are probably new to this you may want to try one of the many “free web space” services available. Several popular ones are: Geocities ( Geocities ), Tripod ( www.tripod.com ), I’m not going to go into detail about using these services, if you go their site(s) plenty of info is available. One way or another the files you wish to display are UPLOADED to the server (More about this later)
NOTE: The reason these services are free is because you almost always have to display some advertising on your web pages for them. Often you can pay a fee and forego this duty.
ANOTHER NOTE: You probably use an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to “get on the web”, like AOL, Earthlink, Concentric, RCN using a DIAL UP CONNECTION or maybe you have a DSL or ISDN or CABLE MODEM connection, or maybe you are affiliated with a learning institute or have a a job with a company that is “wired” and they provide you with access to the web. Anyway the point is, if you have an ISP that you pay for you often get web space to use as part of the service.
You can also get your own DOMAIN. This has a certain amount of appeal because you it’s YOUR domain, and its often easier for people to identify you, which can be a huge boon, especially if you are in business. (i.e. www.rrhobbs.com is MUCH easier to remember than www.tripod.com/rrhobbs or www.geocities.com/broadway/6247/ (these are real url’s however they have not been updated for some time) Getting your own domain involves checking availabilty of whatever domain name “dotcom, net, org” you have in mind, (i.e. rrhobbs.com), and registering the domain with the INTERNIC. The INTERNIC is: “US Department of Commerce regulated organization provides public information regarding Internet domain-name registration services.” See the INTERNIC site for all the details ( www.internic.net )

Once you have your own DOMAIN alas, you still need a HOST (a server to use). Often your present ISP offers WEB HOSTING SERVICES, and there are many companies who do nothing but web hosting. www.ispcheck.com is a good starting point for finding a web hosting service. Your web host can assist you in registering your domain, too.

GETTING YOUR FILES ONLINE- REALLY

If you get your own domain and web host, most likely the way you will be getting your files on the server is to FTP (FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL) them to the server. Your webhost will most likely have plenty of details about this (the parameters,settings and password needed by your FTP PROGRAM (your webhost will probably have some suggestions, a couple I know of are WSFTP ( www.ipswitch.com ) and Cute FTP ( www.cuteftp.com ). There are Mac OS ftp programs (clients) at www.macosarchives.com .
A user friendly way to present your pictures is to use THUMBNAILS. A program I use is Thumbnailer . It will not only create thumbnails, it will automatically generate web pages, saving a LOT of time and headaches.

NOTE:Unfortunately, (at this writing) Thumbnailer is available for Windows only. I’ve heard that Extensis Portfolio is a good thumbnailer for Mac OS. I don’t know whether it will generate web pages on the fly or not tho. You can also make thumbnails in Photoshop.

This is not, nor is it intended to be, a be-all / end-all for web publishing. In that vein, please don’t email me with questions about any of this unless I specifically requested you do so. Use your ingenuity and search for more info about stuff you dont understand or would like to know more about on the web. There’s A BUNCH of stuff! Good luck!

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo: The reader uses information obtained via this document at his/her own risk. The author is in no way responsible for damges incurred in any way from use of any information contained in this document.

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# updated 6/7/2008 - some clean up / added map

Please note: The most currently updated info is available here: http://rrhobbs.us/locproc.owners.html

Excerpt:

PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION BELOW CAREFULLY. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE IS A LINK TO A FORM YOU MAY USE TO LIST YOUR LOCATION WITH US.

(INFORMATION FOR ALL HOME/ PROPERTY OWNERS)

LOCATION PORTFOLIOS:
a. We create a digital photo portfolio of your location. Initially we might request that you send us some photographs of your location (dont have to be professional) to give us an idea of what it looks like. We may also request to come out to scout ourselves.
b. We promote your location by emailing an internet link of pictures of your property we have on file to clients when an enquiry is made for locations of the type for which your property may be suited.
c. Once a client shows interest in your location we will call you to:
1. give you what details we have and find out if your property might be available.
2. discuss fees, restrictions, rooms to use, etc.
3. set up a time for the client to come and do an initial “go see.”

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Clay’s New York City Reference:

New York City Govt pages | www.nyc.gov

NYC Mayors Office of Film Theater and Broadcasting (MOFTB)

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…lots of general New York City resources

Panix Public Access Networks Corporation

“Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, is dedicated to providing stable and reliable Internet access, email, netnews and UNIX computing services to the public. We started in 1989, before the advent of the Internet, and we’re still going strong.”

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Owhatever Production Resources,Production Services, Production Jobs | Hollywood Yellow Pages | ABOUT

“OWhatever.com is the Yellow Pages of Hollywood.

The entire industry finally has the most complete, world wide resource directory on the web 24/7, with the most current information that motion picture and video professionals need to expedite their work.”

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A Primer on Production | By Bill Miller | Sep 1, 2002 12:00 PM

“From planning a budget to hiring a crew, this ‘how to’ guide will help you through the common pitfalls of video production.

Depending on the size of your production, one person can usually do more than one job. For most budgets, a few key people can do all of the jobs required.

The next few pages contain almost everything you’ll ever need to know about putting a video production together. Production can be as challenging as driving in a foreign city without a road map.”

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