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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth

5 Fall Over Empuriabrava

A hair brained idea to fly to Empuriabrava to do a skydive. Jon (who made this video) decided his friends should try it, as he had done the year before. James, Maz, Joss, Jon and I were taught in broken English and Spainish how to avoid problems – like folding your arms, reacting when he taps you on the shoulder etc. All of which I totally forgot when I finally realised I was out of the plane. I truely had put the actual event of jumping totally out of my mind. So was relatively relaxed….. till I was at the door. Oh well what a rush!

RIP Michael Jackson

A great talent passes on. Remebering when this shot was taken @ Wembley Stadium. It was the day after some photographer had used a very long lens and spotted his nose was looking VERY strange. All photographer’s bags were peered into by record company girls who knew nothing of 2x converters for long telephotos… The chap who had shot him the day before was banned from being in the stadium, but was on the rota to be there that night too. Apparently there was talk of him shooting from a helicopter!

The show was fantastic, and great to be at the front of – even though it was just 3 songs…

Michael Jackson @ Wembley Stadium July 1992

Midas PRO6 Videos

Here is a quick test of uploading big HD WMV files to Blip and seeing what their ‘Converting to Flash’ methods turn out like… mm didn’t turn out too nice, so THIS is a version I did myself…You can of course download the original WMV and watch it is glorious 1920×180 25p

Canon EOS 5D Mark II review on The Register

The review for The Register is up today, ten pages of photos and comment on this new fantastic version of the 5D. I really didn’t want to send this back. It is ideal for everything I do. Have to wait in line for availability…..

Grab of first page of review

Feature on the Yamaha website about Pocketrak CX

A story about a great piece of gear I use for the video stuff I do.

A perfect recorder to compliment ENG situations

http://uk.yamaha.com/en/news_events/music_production/2009/james_cumpsty/

Some new pages, (with New Look) on website

There are a couple, one for Jimmy Chamberlin (ex- Smashing Pumpkins) and one for Donavan Hepburn (Adele)

Jimmy Chamberlin

Donavan Hepburn

Moon.

Oh – this looks good…. lonely like Silent Running…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIexG8179K8

Nice article with director Duncan Jones @ studiodaliy.com here

Oh, then I find out who his dad is… now I am very curious…

Like this… Elizabeth Gilbert Talk

Howard Jones @ O2 – “What Is Love”

Snippet of forthcoming Howard Jones DVD shot at the Indigo Theatre, O2 Arena London. Filmed with Sony EX1’s & 3’s with some further shots coming from HDV cameras in smaller places. This is the original mix from the FOH desk. On the finished DVD there will be a special 5.1 mix available in Dolby and DTS formats as well as another stereo mix. Multicam editing in Edius, resized in Virtual Dub and Flashed in Flix Pro