Okay, so, yeah… not “hell” exactly. But definitely Heck. I’m in computer heck. I’ve spent the last hour and a half on the phone–or more accurately, talking to my laptop’s screen–Skyping with various people in various offices at Apple Computers, trying to get one of them to explain to me how to make Quicktime Pro [...]
The first time we went to Pragya’s with Nutan to introduce ourselves and to tell them about our project, Pragya pointed to a cozy little bed with carefully placed stuffed animals on top of it and told me, “This is our bed.” The three of them, mom, Pragya and her eight year old little sister, Praynena, all sleep together. I remember how I used to [...]
We’ve got an excellent guy working on it. Suman is friend-of-a-friend of the Little Sisters Fund, and it’s all going great. Well, almost all. That the way we’re doing it is to log/capture our tapes (so that the data is safe on our Dulce drive), then we give Suman the tape and our second camera [...]
I guess it is about time to talk about some of the gearhead stuff upon which this blog was partly founded. CANON XH-A1 video camera: It’s been around for a while, and compared to digital still cameras, camcorders (especially at the ‘prosumer’ level, typically have a much longer product lifespan. That combined with the fact [...]
It feels so good to know we are not alone. I had barely finished my blog session yesterday when I received a comment from a documentary filmmaker we have never met–John Gyovai of Skyhouse Films. His website’s tag line is Telling Stories that capture the heart and mind (I like it). He out is out there [...]
