Every now and then, you just need to have a bit of fun.
I do love tinkering with gear. The best tinkering is when it’s just done for fun. The best ideas come out of fooling around. Today’s fooling around was based on the idea of trying to attach my DJI Osmo to my Remote Control Truck. I didn’t have high hopes, but it was an expedition that […]
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. ‘Let’s put the call to action button over the skip button. That way when they try to skip, it’ll take them to the website. It’ll drive up click through and send the analytics through the roof…’ I’m almost certain that’s how the conversation went. […]
Advice from a centenarian.
A little while back, we had the pleasure of interviewing a lady who was celebrating her 100th year. She was a fascinating person who had led an adventurous life. When it came to the question of advice for future generations, her answer was simple. ‘Just get it done’. Love it.
An editor. An explanation.
Over the years, I have found it rather difficult to explain what it is that an editor does, or rather, to get folk to understand what it that I do. And then I saw this… Huge props to http://insidetheedit.com/ for this wonderful piece.
Stay uncompromised. A series of portraits.
This is a great series of branded content clips that Audi America starting releasing a few days ago to celebrate the launch of the new A3. Whilst the initial launch video [right at the bottom] felt a bit clunky, the individual portraits are a lovely glimpse into what makes these people tick. I’m loving the […]
Happy New Year. So now what?
Everyone starts with their New Year Resolutions but few have a specific plan of how to achieve it, so it’s pretty much doomed to fail from the start. The old adage of ‘Fail to plan means you plan to fail’ still holds true. Instead of New Year Resolutions, I’m working on the idea of setting […]
OgilvyCT rethinking the skippable YouTube Ad for Audi
I spotted this on Twitter last night and thought this was worth a repost. For a while now, YouTube has implemented the idea of the skippable ad which means after 5 seconds of the ad, you are able to click a skip button and get to the content you actually wanted to see. Most of […]
I bought a Samsung phone and my world didn’t end.
I need to preface this by saying that I’ve been an Apple user for nearly 25 years. I have worked almost exclusively within the Apple ecosystem for that period and things have been good. For my chosen profession of video editing, this relationship, for the most part has been a good one. So when the […]
I’m not a runner…
I’m not a runner, or at least I wasn’t. I never thought I would end up being someone who could be identified as being a runner. Each time I think about this, I keep having a ‘who are you and what have you done with Alister?’ moment. It’s just not me, and yet here I […]
Backup your shit.
Seriously people. Backup your shit. I don’t care what you are doing now. Stop whatever it is and go and do a backup NOW. You think I am kidding? Don’t make me come around there….. This is the kind of ‘take to people with a stick’ attitude that is needed to get regular folks to […]
Backup your shit.
Seriously people. Backup your shit. I don’t care what you are doing now. Stop whatever it is and go and do a backup NOW. You think I am kidding? Don’t make me come around there….. This is the kind of ‘take to people with a stick’ attitude that is needed to get regular folks to […]
30 days without Social Media. An experiment.
Ok, so I read an article this morning by Steve Corona (CTO @ Twitpic) about giving up Social Media for 30 days and it struck a chord. You can read the article here. http://stevecorona.com/how-30-days-without-social-media-changed-my-life So rather than doing the usual thing of waiting till the end of the month for this kind of adventure or […]
Don’t forget to archive your MobileMe.
oh mobile me. I remember that. It was that super early cloud offering from Apple that kind of lost relevance as time went by. Well, if you hadn’t heard, it is being shut down at the end of the month (30th June 2012). More details can be found here. http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html I have seen others post […]
USA Trip. Part 1 – Pre-NAB
Ok, so I have been in the USA for nearly a week now. Just a bit of a pre-NAB tour of the countryside to get acclimated and ready for the mayhem that is NAB. Part of this trip is to experience the wonder that is the yearly festival of all things broadcast – NAB Show […]
Rendering….
One of my New Years goals (note. not resolution) is to write. Not write more or write heaps. Just write. I am one of those people who is constantly thinking of ideas, then gets frustrated when I cant get that idea out. It doesn’t necessarily matter if anyone is listening or reading for that […]
Back again.
This is really just a setup post. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s more of a ‘hey, is this thing on?’ than a ‘hello world.’