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NYCTV | NYC Media Group | About NYC Media Group

“NYC Media Group, formed in early 2005, is the entity responsible for managing and programming the City of New York’s media assets and forms an integral part of New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. NYC Media Group oversees one broadcast television station reaching approximately 7.3 million households, five New York City cable television networks reaching approximately 1.8 million households each, one full power FM radio station (WNYE 91.5FM), and its Emmy award-winning production company, NYC TV Original Productions.”

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In conjunction with and in addition to NYCTV the NYC Media Group oversees and operates a number of other media assets.

Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Production News | NYC TV - the Station that’s ‘Everything New York’ - Celebrates Fifth Anniversary | August 1, 2008

“NYC TV just celebrated its fifth anniversary as the official television network of the City of New York. Launched in June 2003, NYC TV expanded its coverage of City history, culture and entertainment by developing a slate of original programs showcasing the vitality of the City, while also continuing coverage of important governmental activities such as City Council hearings and Mayoral events.”

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  • NYCTV has been nominated for and has won a number of prestigious entertainment industry awards including 7 Emmy Awards.

    • NYCTV | Programming

  • Food
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Neighborhoods
  • History and Culture
  • Music
  • Daytime
  • Specials
  • Shorts

    • Media

  • Live Streaming (Channel 25)
  • Video on Demand

    • I couldnt get the Live Streaming to work but there was a generous selection of programming to watch on Video on Demand. I especially liked the Emmy Award-winning Secrets of New York, wherein the show currently explores mysterious and largely unknown areas of the city, including a tour thru the abandoned New York City City Hall Subway Station as well as other locations that simply make a location scout’s mouth water! ;-)

  • Secrets of New York

    • Secrets of New York

    Secrets of New York urban legend manhattan queens staten island bronx brooklyn

    Typhoid Mary Prison 29 Sep 2008, 1:00 pm

    Journey to the remote lockup where Typhoid Mary died

    Source: Secrets of New York Secrets of New York |

    Try "Culture" 29 Sep 2008, 12:56 pm

    The rich culture of NYC is just a click away.

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    Tribeca Murder Mystery 29 Sep 2008, 12:53 pm

    The first American legal “dream team” defends a murder suspect in 1799.

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    Train and Water Secrets 29 Sep 2008, 12:52 pm

    Explore abandoned train station and giant water valves.

    Source: Secrets of New York Secrets of New York |

    Touching the Sky: GWB 29 Sep 2008, 12:50 pm

    Spanning the Hudson: the amazing secrets of the George Washington Bridge.

    Source: Secrets of New York Secrets of New York |

    Time Keeping Mysteries 29 Sep 2008, 12:40 pm

    The mystery of New York’s oldest clock, as well as a stolen statue.

    Source: Secrets of New York Secrets of New York |

    The Search Button 29 Sep 2008, 12:36 pm

    Can’t find something? Try the search button.

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    The Most Valuable Toy 29 Sep 2008, 12:33 pm

    Mysteries of New York City’s most valuable toy

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    The Courthouse Pens 29 Sep 2008, 12:29 pm

    Journey into the bowels of the Criminal Courthouse.

    Source: Secrets of New York Secrets of New York |

    The Costliest Painting 29 Sep 2008, 12:28 pm

    A priceless painting stolen by Nazis, but now on view in New York City.

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    Blogmarks for 2008-08-19

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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 2008-06-07

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    links for 2008-05-10

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    links for 2008-05-09

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    Minnesota Creative Source

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    Minnesota Creative Source

    Minnesota Creative Source | About Us

    “Building on our years of success producing the Minnesota Creative Sourcebook, this site expands our ability to generate exposure for photography, illustration, design, film & video, audio, printing and related industry services.”

    …read the rest…

    I found the Minnesota Creative Source and was impressed by its design (by Treefort (Minneapolis, MN) and implementation of RSS feeds to distribute its content. The Minnesota Creative Source feeds contain generous helpings of visual media, i.e. photos and multimedia as well :-)

    My feeling about RSS is, especially, given RSS’s simplicity of use, that RSS is currently a vastly under-utilized media and information distribution technology with much unrealized potential that is sort of waiting for the much of the world to catch up with it!

    FYI an often good way to tell you have found RSS content is by this icon (…via Wikimedia Commons…)

    RSS Icon Minnesota Creative Directory RSS Feeds available:

  • # Subscribe to Entire Minnesota Creative image portfolio: Images RSS
  • # Subscribe to Entire Minnesota Creative audio & video portfolio: Audio & Video RSS
  • # Subscribe to Advertising Agencies: Images
  • # Subscribe to Web Design/Internet Services: Images
  • # Subscribe to Film/Audio Production: Audio & Video
  • # Subscribe to Design/Marketing: Images
  • # Subscribe to Illustration: Images
  • # Subscribe to Industry Services: Images
  • # Subscribe to Photography: Images
  • # Subscribe to Printing: Images

    • …go there…

    Minnesota Creative Source Photocast

    A feed of photos from the top creative talent in Minnesota including photographers, illustrators, designers, and other creative individuals and companies.

    Treefort [Test] 2 Jul 2009, 10:26 am

    Treefort [Test] posted a Web Design/Internet Services:Web Applications image.

    Source: Minnesota Creative Source Photocast Minnesota Creative Source Photocast |

    LBF Photo, Inc. 23 Jun 2009, 11:55 am

    LBF Photo, Inc. posted a Photography:Advertising image.

    Source: Minnesota Creative Source Photocast Minnesota Creative Source Photocast |

    LBF Photo, Inc. 23 Jun 2009, 11:24 am

    LBF Photo, Inc. posted a : image.

    Source: Minnesota Creative Source Photocast Minnesota Creative Source Photocast |

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    Bookmarks for April 7th through April 8th

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


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    Links for April 2nd

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


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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

    1 Sinatra Drive Hoboken, NJ pano 16 Aug 2006, 2:38 pm

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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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    Sinatra Drive, Hoboken, NJ [?]

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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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    1 Hoboken Train Station pano 16 Aug 2006, 2:13 pm

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    Hoboken Train station, Hoboken, NJ [?]

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

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    Near Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]

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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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    Frank Sinatra Drive near Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]

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    Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]

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

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    Location Scouting on Technorati + Other Sources

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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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    News :: Q-spheres

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    Q-spheres HDRi


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    (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.

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

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    Creative Planet Websites

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    The Creative Planet websites are the online version of all those niche trade magazines you always can never resist subscribing to (free for qualified subscribers!) and often wonder what you were thinking as six months of “Widgets Monthly” piles up unread; the upside of the online versions (if you can stay your trembling hand from subscribing by email) is you can stay up to speed on your own time on the latest technologies (yup, lot-o industrial/gear/tech press releases) online -and no trees died for your sins:

  • MAGAZINES
    carsound.com
    dcinematography.com
    governmentvideo.com
    medialinenews.com
    prosoundnews.com
    rentalandstaging.com
    resmagonline.com
    sportstvproduction.com
    systemscontractor.com
    surroundpro.com
    televisionbroadcast.com
    videography.com
  • NEWSWIRES
    AVWorshipSystems.com
    LivefromNAB.com
    LivefromNSCA.com
    LivefromCedia.com
    LivefromInfocomm.com
    WhatsnewatNAB.com
  • CREATIVE PLANET COMMUNITIES
    2-pop.com
    cinematographer.com
    designinmotion.com
    dcinematography.com
    directorsworld.com
    dv.com
    editorsnet.com
    governmentvideo.com
    hdvroadshow.com
    postindustry.com
    vfxpro.com
    televisionbroadcast.com
    videography.com
  • MUSICPLAYER
    musicplayer.com
    guitarplayer.com
    bassplayer.com
    dv.com
    keyboardmag.com
    eqmag.com
    backbeatbooks.com
  • EVENTS
    GVExpo
    Digital Media DC
    DV Expo
    Surround Expo
    Entertainment Media Expo
    DVD Entertainment Conference
    HDV Roadshow
  • SUBSCRIPTIONS
    Digital Cinematography
    Government Video
    Medialine
    Pro Sound News
    Rental & Staging Systems
    Residential Systems
    Sports TV
    Surround Professional
    Systems Contractor
    Television Broadcast
    Videography

    • Feeds are available, but as far as I can tell only on the The Creative Planet websites, I wasnt able to find any links to subscribe to the feeds. It would be really nice if these feeds were rss-enabled on the public side; If they were, if you had the tech where-with-all to have (and have figured out how to use) a newsreader, subscribing to feeds to my mind is inherently a lot less painful than an email subscription when you just feel information-overloaded or grow loathe of whatever content you may have happenned to have subscribed to. A lot less potential privacy issues as well, altho admittedly a company such as CMP Media (parent of The Creative Planet websites) is by nature in the business of selling advertising based on aggregation of market research and demographics data, which is probably their reason for not offering up anonymous feed subscriptions. Just seems oh-so-old-school…oh well.

    On the proverbial flip side of the burger, if you are a business in a related field, companies like CMP can provide an important outlet for announcements of newsworthy events or innovations that involve your business. As depressing as all those back issues of WidgetWorld can look piling up on your commode tank, the fact is that journalists rely on these types of periodicals and the data contained therein for background and research. You want to be sure there is plenty of positive hype about your ground-breaking widget in FindArticles as well as (obviously) on Google and Yahoo.

    I personally also like PRWeb, and also NewsisFree for driving people crazy with announcements of my latest bits of news of widget of the month ;-)

    About Creative Planet Communities

    “Founded in 1997, the Creative Planet Communities, a division of NewBay Media LLC, offers online resources for the film and television production professional. Updated daily, the CPC sites offer news, articles and discussions forums for the creative community. The company’s network of sites includes 2-pop.com, VFXPro.com, Cinematographer.com, Videography.com, DCinematography.com and DesigninMotion.com.”

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    Slashdot | Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons | Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday May 20, @11:58PM from the popular-to-be-free dept. | Music | minitrue writes:

    “Pearl Jam released their first music video in quite a while under a Creative Commons license allowing anyone to “legally copy, distribute and share the clip” for noncommercial purposes. Creative Commons thinks this may be the first video produced by a major label ever to be CC-licensed. So although the file is only available as a free download via Google Video through May 24, fans can continue sharing it online themselves in perpetuity.”

    15 years ago I would never have have believed you if you told me this would be a headline in 2006.

    Telecommunications and networking are truly turning the world on its ear. Those of us working in communications fields would do well to keep our eyes and ears open for events such as this, as well as advances/changes in technologies in general. -RH

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    Museum of the Moving Image

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    Museum of the Moving Image | About | Mission

    “Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.”

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    CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media

    “The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.”

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