DV JIB (large)
Here’s my new mobile DV Jib-Lift XK3R79-600S. What a beaut! This is the large model (JLG), although you can step up to the extra-large edition (JXLG) for only a $27,000. Problem with […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Greetings from Zoom Street
By the sea, by the sea…
Finally a weekend without work.
Treading Data
HP,workstation I’ve been on a book bender, or maybe I should call it a blackout… eight lost weekends? I dunno, but time flies when you’re having funky. I’ve been burning […]
Film Noir, Minus the Film
The “Major Motion Picture” based on my forthcoming book, SHOOT TO THRILL: A HARD-BOILED GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, is in production in L.A. and San Diego. The whole epic is […]
Cover Story (Part 2)
Just a rumor, but it’s worth a shot… Word on the street is…when my book, SHOOT TO THRILL, goes into a second printing it’ll really be rare. Scratch that, what […]
Cover Story (Part 1)
Finally finished SHOOT TO THRIL Typed the words “The End” last Saturday morning, 4:18 AM PST. I was too tired to crack open the bottle of absinthe on my desk […]
Film Noir’s ‘Buried’ Treasure
Scene from the Film Noir classic, Bury Me Deadly (1947) in which Edward R. Marrow is chased through Balboa Park by a dame with a gun (Jessa Valdora). The film […]
Hard Times, High Crimes, Tight Deadlines
Photo by Derek Pell No time for the fireworks this year, I spent the weekend shooting. Sure it’s a crime to work on holidays, but with deadlines looming I’m like […]
