BurntPhotons

I totally forgot about this. I put together a audio slide show for the photographs from 2007 from the photographers at where I work. Please check it out. I work with some awesome photographers!

Here is the Link

It seems as if as soon as I say I'm going to make myself put more content on this blog that inevitably something comes up to slam that idea down for a bit.

Late last week I was informed I was doing a video piece and going out and shooting and putting something together.

I'm all for video. It's where newspapers are heading and where they can help keep themselves lucrative and breaching the new edge of media. In the end this knowledge will make me more marketable and useful. So, I decided a while back that I was going to submerge into and hope that I would be able to come up for a breath and at some point.

So I put pressure and on myself to learn final cut pro and put something together by the end of my three day weekend. I shot a football scrimmage Friday night and spent the entire weekend immersing myself into the video world. I ate and slept, but I wanted to give it my best shot right up front. Produce something that would show what the photo department was capable of given the right equipment and time (and a bit of direction).

At the end of three day weekend I had a 35 second promo spot for the ThisWeek Community Newspapers Central Ohio Football Preview tab. I'm happy to say it was well received by upper management.

The final piece took way too much time to produce, but it wasn't fully about the end product as it was about the path getting there. I'll upload the video to the website in the next day or two. I need to veg out now. I've been putting in extra hours at work and I'm feeling like if I take on another task my head will melt.

The start of Friday night football is tomorrow, so I need to rest up for that too.

So do you know TED?

As their about page states:

"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader."

"The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)."

It is a really cool event. (Or at least appears that way from back here in Ohio.)

They get some big-named presenters like Jane Goodall, Bono, President Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos, and James Nachtwey to talk on all subjects they care about or champion such as technology, AIDS, and global warming. In addition TED answers the wishes of some of the presenters ever year.

TED offers some of their presentations online to view from their site. I happened to stumble across them a long time ago and am slowly making my way through some of their video content. I just stumbled across this presentation from the My Extra Life blog which linked to a YouTube presentation by one of the presenters talking about a a photosynth demo.

Check it out... and all the other video's at TED.com.

EDITED 8-9-2007: Fixed the links to TED.com. Evidentially I suck at html.

What a weekend, and it isn't even over yet.

Friday I went down to Cincinnati for a cousin's wedding. The event was beautiful (and so was the bride). It was great seeing the family and some of my other cousins who were able to make it to the event.

Then I went back to my mom's, slept 4 hours and headed to Ball State University for a multimedia seminar today. I just got back from it, and I feel my body beginning to turn off bit by bit from all the traveling and lack of sleep. I could push myself to work on a few things but this is suppose to be the weekend, right?

The seminar was great though. Learned tons and I'll hit some of the highlights when I recoup a bit and get my head back on straight. I'll also get a couple photos from the wedding up.

For now... I'll turn on some Brad Sucks and chill out. So goes the sleep deprived.

I finally update my website. Ok... not this one. The other one at TimNormanPhoto.com.

It had Wordpress as its base that was never updated. Basically I had loaded the Wordpress software on there to test it out since I only get 2 databases with my current provider. I never meant for it to stay there, but it was always something in the back of my mind to fix. Well... now I've fixed it. Sort of.

I put up my portfolio on to the website. It is bad as far as design goes, but it is something better than a blank Wordpress document. Don't feel obligate to look at it.

That website is my second site to design and flesh out after this one. (A basic design for this site is close to being done.)

If only I could get myself to stop watching all those television shows and video casts then I would have plenty of time.