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  • Underwater Videography

    Last Christmas, I ordered my daughter a last-minute Christmas gift, paying for “guaranteed” delivery by Christmas.  It was a waterproof cover for her Flip HD camera – and the timing was important because we were headed to Hurghada, Egypt, for a week of sun and snorkeling – on Christmas day.  Thirty bucks for the cover,…

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  • Videomaker offering Webinars

    Videomaker has a helpful web site and magazine chock full of video editing tips and new product reviews; they are nice enough to condense all the latest news into a handy weekly email – one of the few “marketing” emails I actually look forward to.  Unfortunately they also occasionally send out flyers for training events I can’t…

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  • Telling a story in video

    The cool thing about all this technology is that now anyone can create just about anything and share it with everyone else.  Most of it goes unnoticed by the vast majority, but that’s not why most of us create.  Most of us create out of some intrinsic desire to imagine, to create, to make something…

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  • Easy Flip Camera Lens Repair

    In case anyone other than me has cracked the lens of their Flip camera (or one of its close cousins – it would probably work for them as well) here’s how I fixed mine after it had an unfortunate encounter with a curious cat and a stone floor 3 feet below.  It turns out the…

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  • New Music

    I created some more music.  Feel free to download it and use it for stuff (Creative Commons / Share Alike) – all I ask is to see what gets done with it, really.  Maybe eventually I’ll put this on a separate page if there’s more, but for now: Some variations on a theme I’ve had…

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