Thinking: TDK
Where: At my desk

I was looking for an affordable light kit for low light shoots and I finally settled on purchasing the ePhoto light kit late last year. I concluded that the light kit was within my price range and was perfect to start with if I ever chose to purchase a more expensive kit.

While the price was reasonable, the major downside to this kit was that it is extremely difficult to put the softboxes together. The rods used to shape the softboxes appear too long at first but they must be bent pretty far and forced within the softboxes pockets (some reviewers on Amazon believe that they were sent the wrong length of rods). I figured out that the easiest way to install the four rods (per softbox) was to have someone help you bend the rods or if you do not have any help, press the rods against a wall to bend them easier. Once the softboxes are assembled, it is highly advisable that you do not take them apart again.

The lights are pretty bright and I’m happy with how they diffuse. below was the first test run I did with the light kit:

FILED UNDER: DSLR, Edit, Videography BY Aivren AT 2:30 PM
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Thinking: Skyrim
Where: At my desk.

The sequel doesn’t look as cheesy as the first one (which I thought was okay) especially since Retaliation has The Rock and there is no hint of Marlon Wayans being in this film. Plus, it has Bruce Willis!

Bruce. Willis.

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Thinking: McRib
Where: Upstairs

Once I heard that Rockstar games was planning on bringing Grand Theft Auto III to mobile devices, I have been anxiously waiting for them to announce a release date. Grand Theft Auto III was THE game that introduced me to the GTA franchise. Well, it appears that earlier this week, Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto III will be released next week (December 15th) for only $4.99! The grahics look pretty similar to when the game was released on Playstation 2 10 years ago. According to the Rockstar Games site, these are the mobile devices that will support GTA !!!:

Apple iOS Devices: iPad 1 & 2, iPhone 4 & 4S, iPod touch 4th Generation
Android Phones: HTC Rezound, LG Optimus 2x, Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Droid X2, Motorola Photon 4G, Samsung Galaxy R, T-Mobile G2x
Android Tablets: Acer Iconia, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Dell Streak 7, LG Optimus Pad, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, Sony Tablet S, Toshiba Thrive

FILED UNDER: Games, iphone BY Aivren AT 12:45 PM
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Thinking: Skyrim and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Where: I’m upstairs

I’ve been doing some research online for an easy way to display my videos for my business website. I specifically wanted a main video player for one video to display but have video thumbnails available for the other videos. When a thumbnail is clicked, it will start playing in the main video player. I stumbled upon tubepress.org in my research and it appears to do exactly what I want. It’s a free wordpress plugin that works with youtube and vimeo and has a lot of options to work with. I want to test it here before I start working on my business web site…

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EDIT: It’s looks pretty good :p

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Thinking: Pacquiao fight this weekend!
Where: I’m at my desk

The name of this blog is Eat, Edit, Etc. I’ve recently posted about “Etc.” and I’ve posted about “Editing.” Now this post is where the “Eat” portion of my blog comes in. I went to Las Vegas back in September and every meal I ate on my 2 day trip was at a buffet. My favorite buffets were The Buffet at Bellagio and the Spice Market Buffet at Planet Hollywood simply because of the wide variety of food and the food tasted great. Below are the pics of most of the gluttonous plates of food I had eaten.

FILED UNDER: DSLR, Eat, Out and About BY Aivren AT 10:11 PM
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Thinking: Guild Wars
Where: I’m upstairs

Martin Scorsese at the Canon announcment. Changes to the Scarlet camera system.I’m looking forward to the announcements today and how they can potentially affect my future work…

Appears Avid announced new versions of it’s software. Not really familiar with Avid but will be looking in to it.

FILED UNDER: DSLR, Edit, Movies, TV, Videography BY Aivren AT 11:33 AM
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Thinking: McRib is back!
Where: I’m upstairs.

I spent last weekend in Tampa, Florida to work on the webcast for the Paintball Sports Promotion’s (PSP) final event of the year: World Cup. I worked as one of the camera men filming all the action during the live streams on Saturday and Sunday. The games are now being uploaded on to the PSP’s official YouTube channel. Despite the numerous paintball bruises and mosquito bites, I had a blast. Worked with new people who are just as hardworking as the people I’ve been working with and hopefully after this webcast there will be a bigger demand for more paintball content so that I can work more in this industry.

FILED UNDER: Edit, Out and About, Videography BY Aivren AT 1:41 PM
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Thinking: Business cards
Where: In the heat

Action Overload!

I came across this picture from the Expendables 2 shoot which was originally posted on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Twitter account. From what I’ve read online, both Schwarzenegger and Willis will have more screen time than on the first film. Combine that with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Nooris joining the cast along with a bunch of rumored cast members (Travolta, Diesel and The Rock), Expendables 2 looks to be more explosive than the first.

FILED UNDER: Etc, Movies, Twitter BY Aivren AT 9:05 PM
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Thinking: Coffee
Where: Upstairs

Woke up this morning to multiple tweets and FB posts about the official trailer being released. Looks good so far. 6 more months until this movie is out.

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Thinking: Iphone 4S
Where: I’m upstairs

I first heard about this while watching the news during dinner. Because of Steve Job’ keynotes, I own a G5 PowerMac, Macbook Pro, Iphone 3GS and soon an Iphone 4S.

FILED UNDER: Etc, iphone, Random, Videography BY Aivren AT 12:54 AM
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