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Google Answers has a great thread full of info useful if you are interested in having your property used for movies, film and photo and want to know who to contact:

Aemkei at Sumaato Blog writes:

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

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

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…).

Shoot Online has recently announced its Publicity Wire Service.

I moved my links off this site to point to my links on del.icio.us | del.icio.us/rrhobbs after several years of trying ways to keep up with the the links I use regularly, to maintain them using various scripts and built in features of Wordpress (my site-building tool of choice), that del.icio.us proved to be the most efficient means.

Mark McKennon and I recently had the opportunity to tour Lightbox-NY, a 10,000 sf rental studio / industrial location in the Bronx, on Barretto Street, in the Hunts Point area, in the building complex I have always known the Bronx Apparel Center.

The 2007 Photo Plus Expo was this week in New York City.

I had seen this around on the web for a while, just getting around to posting about it:

The New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) publishes a monthly newsletter which features news about the film office as well as other news of interest to the film and tv production communities.

Primospot

like zero is a music video I made using using my friend and bandleader Bruce Hanson’s song of the same name as performed by his band, Fellaheen.

From the Photobubble website:

I was interviewed last week by New York, NY CBS affiliate WCBS-TV, for a video news article entitled Hollywood Being Priced Out of 1 Upscale Rockland County Town that ran on the Thursday, April 12th 11pm Newscast and in extended form the following morning on the Morning News regarding a situation in Orangetown Township, NY whereby the town has initiated a $500 per hour fine for film crews present before 7a.m. or after sunset.

For some people, especially those that travel frequently, it might be incredibly useful to be able to easily find coffee nearby.

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This past week I was contacted by a mid-Westchester County, NY property owner about the prospect of using their 200 year-old farmhouse home as a shoot location for film, photo or video projects.

As evidenced by the rest of the content here on my website and very likely because you were looking for someone like me, you probably already know I am a location scout and location manager and maintain a location library of shoot-ready locations for use by film, video and photo production.

In addition to being a beautiful home, this particular house has the distinction of recently being the “hero house”, or one of the main filming locations in the soon-to-be-released Miramax Film Corporation feature film, The Hoax, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Richard Gere and Alfred Molina (complete IMDB webpage here) which attempts to tell the story of the Clifford Irving / Howard Hughes autobiography scandal of the 1970’s.

The owner relates to me that filming for the movie last year at their home went on pretty much full time for a period of about two months and that, overall, they enjoyed the experience and wish to host more shoots at their home in the future.

The home is located within a 30 mile radius of Columbus Circle, New York City, so it may be considered “within the zone” for many film and video shoots.

Videology-TV | From The Devil Himself | Viva Voce

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.

Wayfaring.com is a maps mashup that allows you to create maps with routes and waypoints. This could be useful for a location scout to coordinate logistics for a project involving several locations during the course of a day.

GoodWidgets is a site where you can build a number of photo album widgets using photos from popular photo services. A location scout might find this useful to present an album of location photos like this – my photo set of the Brooklyn Bridge at Flickr:

“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.

via Gothamist and BlueJake:

Google Maps Geocoder via Aemkei at Sumaato Blog

This post would probably be more appropriately titled “How NOT to embed a Flickr Map”; it has been done quick-n-dirty using the url link to my Flickr Map inside an iframe and it looks it.

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

Via Paul Stamatiou HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows

Yet another web trick the aspiring location scout might want for presenting locations.

Here is a way to imbed your Flickr photos on your website using the Mapsack Flickr Widget, which could be useful for a location scout wishing to present locations to a client at the same time illustrating said locations’ geographic postion(s).

MapKit | 7/5/2008 | MapKit is now Platial

I am currently exploring a number of interactive maps mashups that can be used by location scouts.