MamaBetty

MamaBetty
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Taken when I was last in SoCal.

Microsoft study supports "six degrees/small world" theory. Kevin Bacon hasn't yet commented. http://ping.fm/guq92

Eleven tips for using video in your article

Blogger Andy Dickinson gives a few tips on how to get a video right on a newspaper website. After studying The Times, The Telegraph, FT and the Guardian's websites, here are his tips...

Eleven tips for using video in your article - editorsweblog

Let's Step Outside: The evolution of the fight scene, from the Duke to the Dark Knight.
By Dennis Lim

At one point in Michael Ondaatje's book of interviews with Walter Murch, the venerable film editor reflects on how effective cutting keeps audiences grounded as one shot, often imperceptibly, becomes another. The trick is to determine where the viewer's attention is trained in a particular shot and to cut to a shot that contains a focal point in the same area of the frame. But there is at least one major exception to this rule: the fight scene. "You actually want an element of disorientation—that's what makes it exciting," Murch says of his approach to splicing together a fight. "So you put the focus of interest somewhere else, jarringly, and you cut at unexpected moments. You make a tossed salad of it, you abuse the audience's attention."

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Web Design is 95% Typography

95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.

http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/

Elvis and the Opposite

A 14-year old video blogger named Fred somehow managed to get a fan base of almost 45 Million users. Now instead of asking how that’s possible, Seth Godin and Robert Scoble trivialize his success. Did they forget what Elvis said?

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Lifehacker Top 10 Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

So many video file formats so many handheld video players so many online video sites and so little time To

Lifehacker Top 10 Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

It Only Took A Minute | Dlisted

It Only Took A Minute | Dlisted

Whoopi stirs it up on The View. That's what's she's famous for, no?

Always good advice

Seat 1A: Reflections On Italy 

Spend less time on news, the Internet, and TV and more time reading, working in the garden, and listening to music.

Spend less time rushing from place to place and more time walking or strolling.

Walk more upright and with a swing in your arm.

Wear simple clothes that fit you well and are made from quality materials.

Don't worry so much about making a fantastic meal. Make meals that are simple and fresh, and they'll turn out fantastic all by themselves.

Take time to enjoy those meals. Eat them face to face, not in front of the television, and savor the courses and the conversation. A meal is a gathering and a reward to enjoy, not a task to complete.

Enjoy your wine regardless of its cost.

Plant more flowers, and lots of herbs, in your garden.

Have a simple breakfast every day.

Walk to the local market.

Enjoy the fruits of your own city. It has museums and architecture, too.

Alan L Nelson via Rebecca Blood