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PressPausePlay

By Jon Roemer On 3 Feb ’12 · Leave a Comment

In a world of democratized media production what is king, where does value lie, and what becomes of quality?

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A Canon C300 at the AbelCine meet & greet. NY, NY, January 26, 2012.

Change, Flux, Reinvention

By Jon Roemer On 26 Jan ’12 · 2 Comments

It’s a weird time – I just redid my people print portfolio, first time in years. Yet, last fall was dominated by video work. So, as I redo books (architecture is next) I’m also thinking about video, cameras both still and video, upgrade paths, compromises, choices and where best to allocate resources.

My still cameras, [...]

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Bottom edge, Kodak 35mm transparency, 1977.

Gets You Misty Doesn’t It

By Jon Roemer On 20 Jan ’12 · Leave a Comment

A Kodak corporate video used as an intro for CEO Perez’s 2006 appearance at the All Things Digital Conference:

To see how far Kodak has fallen is to look back to the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s when Kodak was ubiquitous. Even as a non-photographer you would have been hard pressed to go a day [...]

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PIPA and SOPA

By Jon Roemer On 18 Jan ’12 · Leave a Comment

PIPA and SOPA are not Kate Middleton’s sisters, they are proposed federal anti-piracy bills which if passed would severely censor the Web.

To learn more:

End Piracy, Not Liberty at Google. You can contact your congressional delegation in the column on the right.

Fight for the Future , video by Kirby Ferguson [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Washington, DC. January 14, 2012. Click to enlarge.

MLK

By Jon Roemer On 16 Jan ’12 · Leave a Comment

We were in Washington, D.C. this weekend and got a chance to visit the new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.

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Peter Yang for the NYT. Prop stylist - Lisa Frantz, Clothing - Antonia Xereas, and Grooming - Kerrie Plant-Price.

Just When You Thought You’ve Seen Everything

By Jon Roemer On 8 Jan ’12 · 1 Comment

Amazing portrait by Peter Yang of Stephen Colbert for the Sunday NY Times Magazine:

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In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle

By Jon Roemer On 18 Dec ’11 · Leave a Comment

Friday night, somewhat on a whim, I decided to upgrade my Mac Pro to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Lest that seem haphazard or foolhardy it wasn’t quite that spontaneous. A Mac Pro has four drive bays and I always have a full clone of my primary HD with the OS. I also made sure [...]

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Killer Kricket

By Jon Roemer On 23 Oct ’11 · Leave a Comment

Some googling shows this to be a cave cricket, also called a camel cricket. 48 years and I’ve never seen one of these. The point on its tail is not a stinger but is for laying eggs.

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