Category: Things I Like
Black and Blue’s video – Lens Cleaning
Do you know how to clean your camera’s or projector’s lens the correct way? We have a really good post on the subject here on controlbooth.tv which includes a detailed kit list in case you want to put together your own lens-cleaning go-to bag. To augment this post I recently…
Aja DataCalc
Ever need to figure out how many gigabytes of storage your video recording will take at a certain resolution, frame rate or codec? Ever need to compute how many hours of footage you can fit on a certain drive size? This week’s “Things I Like” is Aja’s DataCalc, an iOS…
pCAM Film+Digital
Things I Like: Nearly every day I use pCAM, a iOS app developed by Hollywood 1st AC David Eubanks. I started using pCAM way back in 1998 on the Palm Pilot platform. Eventually I traded in my flip-phone for an Android but would carry around a iPod Touch around just so I could…
Art and the Bible
Things I Like: Aside from the Bible, if I could make only one book required reading for those involved in church tech and performing arts it would be Francis A. Schaeffer’s Art and the Bible. Schaeffer offers “a Christian perspective” on the arts. Not just arts within the confines of…
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
This week’s “Things I Like” is a book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Unabridged), authored by Tim Wu. Wu, trained as an Attorney has held positions as a Columbia Law School professor, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Obama administration Senior Advisor to the…
LEAD . . . For God’s Sake!
This installment of Things I Like: LEAD . . . For God’s Sake! A parable for finding the heart of leadership (Unabridged) by Todd G. Gongwer To be honest with you, I am not typically a fan of “leadership books” and as a result have not spent much time reading…
Things I Like: KZ ZST & ZS10 In-ear headphones
This “Things I Like” are an inexpensive set of in-ear buds I found out about from Scott Devine’s “Scott’s Bass Lessons” YouTube channel. The in-ear buds are manufactured in China by a company called KZ. The model I bought is called the ZST and they are available via Amazon for…
First Post
I never thought I would have a personal website or a blog. There are many others who have such sites and do what they do very well. I always feared that if I were to have a blog it wind up being, or appearing self-serving. There is really no upside…