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Jul 17
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Sent from my iPhone
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Jan 11
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It’s been ten days and already a lot has happened in 2009. I’m now a graduate graduate student at Lewis University. I finally got all the photos from my October 2008 trip to Colorado onto Flickr (ok, actually that was late last year but still…). My employer has changed and now I work for “National City now a part of PNC”. And I finally upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.7.
I plan on writing a longer post on my trip – maybe a bit of a narrative – and of course embed slideshows of the photos I took. I have a lot of raw video to go through as well but I’m waiting for iMovie ‘09 to get it all put together. I really want to use some of those cool new map transitions – Indiana Jones style!
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Nov 23
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If you follow my Twitter (or Plurk or anything else) or saw a recent post to this very blog, you’d know that I ordered a Røde PSA-1 Studio Arm from B&H Photo in New York. I received the boom arm and was extremely excited to get it set up and working. I took it out of the box and noticed I was missing a part that was advertised on the box: a 3/8″ thread adaptor. So unable to mount my Blue Snowball on the arm as I’d originally planned, I got it all set up and realized that the arm would only stay extended; it would not retain it’s position. Naturally I was very upset about this – the point of the boom is to position the microphone so as to be more convenient. I immediatley e-mailed Røde technical support as well as the retailer. A non-position-able boom arm is not what I was hoping to get. I quickly got a response from Røde which made me happy but I didn’t quite like his answer:
Hi Ben, there isn’t anything wrong with your PSA-1. It is designed to work with the PodCaster microphone. The microphone acts as a counterbalance that stabilizes the PSA-1. You will need a mic that has a comparable weight to the PodCaster which weights about 21.5oz.
Ok great. Now he wants me to buy a Podcaster which starts at over $200. I was under the impression that the PSA-1 would work with any mountable microphone. Hmm. Well, I decided to test his theory and approximated the weight of a Podcaster microphone. It worked. Then I got the brilliant idea to hang my Blue Snowball from the boom arm using a velcro strap. Also works. Here’s a video of the hanging Snowball in action:
The nice man at Røde Support (Michael is his name) offered to mail me the adaptor that was missing from the box. Thanks! Hopefully when that comes the hanging Snowball will be no more…but for right now it seems to be working fine.
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Nov 23
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This was released as a “webisode” supplement to last night’s SNL. It’s funnier than most of what they actually put in the show. Is it because all of the bleeped profanity? It’s bleeped.
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May 28
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For some reason I found this video really interesting given the recent news out of the International Space Station.
Come on, you can’t deny it. You were a least a little curious about how it works.
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May 12
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Oh, how I’ve waited for this day. I’m posting it here and I haven’t even watched it yet. Yes, I’m that excited. Enjoy.
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May 09
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Scot was a most willing participant in my first video shot with the Flip. Thank you, Scot!
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May 09
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I finally ordered my Flip Video Ultra and got it today via the fine United States Postal Service. Here’s my unboxing video:
I anticipate shooting much video with my new Flip and will be posting it in one of two places:
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Apr 14
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Very very fun. I may need to buy it. And probably a game console too since I don’t currently own one.
I’m A Cowboy from Ben Hinc on Vimeo.
