OH MY GOD - Facebook not SAFE!

Hey guys,
I just came across this from BBC news. It's regarding Facebook, they are talking about different "applications" there have a program that can steal your information and perhaps even your identity, so please be carefull you all. Check out the video.

Priyom.

Love and journalism

I realize that not everyone in the multimedia class is considering photojournalism as a career, but there are a couple of us, so I thought I'd just bring up the topic of relationships. In the documentary class, one of the final words of wisdom from Johnny was that relationships are hard to maintain as photojournalists. He said that any of us who intended on taking on the mantle should be prepared to miss those special occasions -- birthdays, anniversaries, date nights (but never, ever miss the birth of a child) -- should we choose to have a longterm significant other.

I'm not saying that it's impossible. I'm sure it is. But it's often quoted that journalism is a lonesome business:

• "Working as a photojournalist can be lonely and difficult." ~ Aidan Sullivan, vice president for for editorial photographer relations of Getty Images
• "The job can be lonely, and patience and perseverance are required to get the right shot, at the right time." ~Skillset.org

I'm not really trying to be a doom-and-gloom type, but I just always here about the solitary photographer, the lonesome and dogged photojournalist hauling around half a dozen cameras with a slightly bewildered and anti-social glaze in his or her eyes.

Just to show you it's not all dark and unhappy, I did find a short piece -- multimedia, in fact -- about maintaining relationships in hard places. I mean, a lot of it is general tips and hints, but it all pertains to the topic at hand. So take it all in, enjoy it all, and love makes the world go 'round. ... well, that and a couple of overbearing cosmic forces. Or God. Whichever. Anyway, here's the link.
Yes, I did all that just to lead up to a RickRoll'ing. Ha!
See y'all around.

Slow-motion, yeah!

At NAB this past month, one of the sessions I attended featured the new Phantom HD camera, a rather nifty (and of course ridiculously expensive!) little device capable of recording hi-def video footage at up to 1,000 frames per second. For a demonstration, they shot footage of a quarter spinning on a flat surface, as well as one of those children's toys that does back flips after you wind it up. While that might not sound all that amazing, it was simply incredible to see how much detail this camera is capable of recording, stuff that the human eye could never pick up on. And the really cool part is that the footage could be stopped at anytime to provide a perfect, hi-res, 10 megapixel frame (yup, a lot of storage space is needed...). Take that interlaced video! Anyway, I tried shopping around the web to see if I could find some sample video of the camera in action. This first site, called Vision Research, features a number of different videos, all shot exclusively with the Phantom (check out the water balloon one...absolutely ridiculous!). This other site, Lucid Movement, also has plenty of high-speed videos dealing with everything from explosions, to stuff with water and smoke, and of course, various things breaking. Hooray for slow-motion! Enjoy...

As promised, UWire

Here's the link to the site I was talking about in class. It's very similar to linkedin in that it provides a kind of social networking of sorts for professional journalists. The main difference between UWire and Linkedin is that UWire allows you to post stories, photos, etc.

Lab Hours

Lab hours through the end of the semester:

• Wednesday, April 23 - 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 24 - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Friday, April 25 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Monday, April 28 - 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 29 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 30 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Thursday, May 1 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Friday, May 2 - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Lab will be open to 3610 students only after 1 p.m.)

Deadline for final multimedia pieces on Change are due by 1 p.m. on Friday, May 2. Be sure to leave plenty of time to export - you all know that can take a while. The clock on computer 0 will be used as the time standard and no project will be accepted after 1 p.m.

Well, this can't be good ...

Anybody ever heard of Orphan Works? I don't pretend to know much about copyright law, but, from what I've been reading, this stuff is a little worrisome. Apparently, there's a new bill going into Congress that should be hitting the floor in mid-May, and it looks like it could mean a lot more bills to pay and red tape to go through when you take a photo, make a video, or paint a picture. At least, if you're looking to actually own your own creative work.

This might just be artists acting a little sensational, but I got this article in one of my feeds this morning. The implications outlined on the Illustrator's Partnership of America site are a little scary. I checked out Picscout because they could stand to profit pretty heavily from this, and their prices are, I guess, reasonable but their numbers are a little low (I mean, $35 a month at most, okay, but only up to 2000 photos?). I'm not sure how an Orphan Works legislation passing in Congress would affect those of us who are in the sphere of journalism, but I figured I'd make mention.

I'm sort of out on the whole issue at the moment. As far I understand it, as long as you make sure the work is in a place where it's obvious who actually owns it (I imagine that Facebook, Flickr, and other such Web sites, where social contact is a big part of the allure, would be safe enough), you can always prove that you were available for contact so there's no way somebody could really call your stuff an orphan work.

Anyway, just figured I'd drop the line ...

Seth is the man

I thought this was a really good audio slideshow that I came across while getting ideas for my last mulitmedia assignment...It was done by the one and only Seth Siditsky. Are most people doing audio slideshows or video?