This year I helped produce, direct, shoot, and edit a video for the Veritas Youth Retreat in Lafayette, LA. I was a bit out of practice and forgot how much work it had been in previous years. The retreat holds a warm place in my heart every year and it is always a moment of spiritual re-charging for me. Of course it is a physically draining weekend, God’s grace keeps me through the late nights. Enjoy!
http://www.vimeo.com/9885237I loved this commercial during the Super Bowl! I think that this is to combat the “search overload” that Bing has been trying to sell. If you ask me Google always gives me the best answer. Bing and I don’t get along!
I am not much of a football fan. If something doesn’t have a USB port, an Apple Logo, and a screen on it, I don’t usually pay attention. But the New Orleans Saints have swept through my fare state of Louisiana like the breath of the Almighty. I think that what has happened is much bigger than a team of amazing athletes having an widly successful season. What we are seeing is a city, nah state, finding hope again.
This video gave me some perspective about how deep this is for people of Louisiana and New Orleans. I was shocked a few nights ago when the Saints won the NFC championship cinching their place in the Superbowl, that countless numbers of people were brought to tears over the victory. In my city of Lafayette, 3 hours west of New Orleans, there were fireworks going off across the night sky! After speaking with a few residents of New Orleans I now know why this was so important. It said to the world that New Orleans is alive once again! That there is no longer a spirit of “rebuilding” in our hearts, but of resolve that the foundation has been rebuilt and the hope of New Orleans is touching the heavens like skyscrapers of new growth.
Making quality coffee truly is a passion. Alot of effort and care goes into pulling a quality shot of espresso. To be distracted or careless in this process can bring about a TERRIBLE drink. This video from the Intelligentsia coffeehouse in California is very well done. I would encourage you to watch it in HD as well. Enjoy!
http://www.vimeo.com/8709313Well I decided to hold off on getting a new DSLR and picked up a Canon G9. I have been really impressed with the camera so far and still have tons to learn. One big cinch for me was that the camera provided the ability to hack a new firmware. This opens up other features like HD video, time-lapse photography, and many other features.
Let me know what you think of my first shot. This was on the side of the road on the way to Rayne. It was unbelievably foggy!
I have been playing around with the Chrome web browser this week and have to admit that it is fast, smart, and elegant. Don’t get me wrong…I am a bit of a browser whore. I move from Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and yes, even IE throughout the day. As a web designer I am currently forced to test websites in multiple browsers for compatibility. This is a necessary evil until the browser community get’s their act together and can agree to support and render the web the same. So my official take on Chrome is that it is a great and fast web browser for your general surfing. It won’t become my developer browser until I get Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar, two essential dev tools, but it has picked up steam as my surfing browser. So I encourage people to check it out and see what you think. Easy to download and install.
I figured everyone else was running a special Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale so I had a few things that I wanted to put on the market that are for sale. I am trying to sell a few things to raise some money to replace my stolen Nikon D200. Let me know if you are interested! If you are local and I know you I will accept check, money order, cash, or paypal. If you are stumbling upon this on the internet I will only accept paypal or money order. I would take actual pictures of the devices on request, but I don’t have a camera anymore so some of these images are stock. If more information is needed or pictures requested I will make sure to add them.
Condition: Like New
This is a great lens and I really hate to part with it, but I recently purchased another lens that replaced it’s need. Seeing as my camera was STOLEN, it doesn’t make much since for me to keep this lens when I don’t have a camera for it to go on. This lens was fantastic for low light and amazingly sharp. It provided a great depth of field at lower stops and was sharp as hell. More info: http://tinyurl.com/dcokgh
Condition: Like New, with silver Apple Decal
1.6ghz, 2GB ram, 8.9 inch screen, 16GB solid state HDD, Alpine White with Silver Apple Decal, Belkin Dell Mini 9 messenger bag
This netbook has been a great addition to my computer arsenal. It started out as a pet project that I had tons of fun working on. The computer is running OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.1 UPDATE: 10.6.2 and dual boots OS X and Lite Version of Windows XP. UPDATE: I have cleaned the machine and just reloaded OS X to save space. This machine was great for surfing the net while watching TV and especially useful for testing websites in Internet Explorer for screen size and browser compatibility. It was a great note-taking or on the run machine. More info: http://tinyurl.com/57kdop and http://tinyurl.com/yzptv6e
Condition: Like New
Includes: Energizer ER-C557 Extended Life Battery, Sony ECM-HGZ1 Gun Zoom Microphone, Sony HVL-HL1 Video Light, Sony NP-FP50 Battery, Lowe Pro Slingshot 200 AW Shoulder Sling Bag
The Sony DCR-SR80 is a Standard Def tapeless camcorders, sporting a 60GB hard drive for storing hours and hours of your home movies. It supports 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 standard aspects, and makes it especially easy to burn to DVD with a special one-touch DVD-burn button that connects to your PC’s DVD drive through the included Handycam station. It has a 20x optical and 800x digital zoom and a 1 megapixel still camera feature. The included shotgun mic and video light definitely augment the camera for lowlight and low audio events. The included extended life battery significantly increases the battery life over the included NP-FP50. More info: http://tinyurl.com/ykqt6aw
Condition: Excellent
Includes: Seagate 250GB 7200rpm SATA drive
This NAS, Network Attached Storage is super simple gigabit file server supporting both Windows and Mac that could be a great Small Business or Home File Server. It has some really great features including USB print server, built-in iTunes server, torrent file downloading, FTP and HTPP servers. It is a perfect multimedia storage center for the digital home. One great feature is the ability to do one touch USB copies. If you have a thumb drive or digital camera that you would like to quickly backup you simple plug in the front port and hit copy it automatically copies all the data to the internal hard drive. It includes support for DDNS services to allow your server to be remote accessed, and provides UPnP so many home media player can detect music and videos stored on the drive. The internal drive, a Seagate 250GB is a solid, fast, and reliable drive and can be changed very easily. For more info: http://tinyurl.com/yj627gh
After some blood sweat and tears, we have a new Crucé! Complete with new branding and identity, featured work, new portfolio, and snappy new blog!
www.crucedesign.com
You gotta love how Apple strives to show that they are on both ends of the spectrum. You can find “the evolution of the Apple ad” on Webdesigner Depot. This ad is from 1996 and is one of a series of Powerbook ads here.
