Just got the GoPro HD Hero2. Here’s a quick unboxing video I made (shot on iPhone 4). One of the key components under the hood is the more powerful Ambarella A5s chip. This is a an upgrade from the previous Ambarella A2s. It’s still amazing that these chips can pack even more power!
Thanks to NoYesNo (aka Mark Pernice) for the tunes.
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I recently had a large container of coins that I was ready to cash in on. Problem is, even with today’s technology Citibank and most banks still require their own customers to roll coins and write your account number on each roll. I refuse to pay a retail coin machine (ie Coinstar) 10% for something Citibank should do as a service for its customers. I am not being lazy here, it just doesn’t make sense that my own bank that handles cash and coins every single day can not provide this simple service for its own customers. Fortunately TD Bank seems to be the only bank around that offers coin counting as a free service for its customers (7% for others). So I had a friend who is a TD Bank customer cash them in for me. I called and emailed Citibank and asked them if there was any way they could waive their fee for me (a customer for the last ten years) and their answer was no.
Last year I decided it would make sense to get some YouTube traffic for ThatSongSoundsLike.com. Using Adobe After Effects I set up a fairly simple template that allows me to import new album art and audio and automatically render the waveforms. Here is the video version of Britney Spears vs. Jermaine Jackson.
A few weeks ago my co-workers and I took part in Music Hack Day in NY. We created a simple to use service that allows anyone to tweet music. You send us the name of the artist and we build a playlist for you or your friend. Check out this great Mashable article for more info and then start rocking! Try it out right now by tweeting in one of the following formats:
arcade fire @sndchck
or make a suggestion to a friend:
@KeithHopkin arcade fire @sndchck
Now just come to SndChck.com, sign in with your twitter account and we’ll do the rest.
I wanted Ricky to here some Mogwai so I tweeted
@rickyrobinett mogwai @sndchck
Here’s what his page looks like:
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In a few weeks I will be heading out to Slamdance in support of CJ Gardella’s film Shunka which will have it’s debut festival screening. We were also recently informed that our pitch for a one minute Panasonic film contest was accepted. We will have the new Panasonic AG-AF100 for one day to shoot during the festival. After some editing heroics it’ll screen on Thursday, January 27th at 11:30am. with the other submissions. A winner will be chosen and the AG-AF100 will be awarded!
Michael Patrick Nelson at the Long Island Press recently interviewed me for a piece he did on the rise and eventual desertification of various social network sites. Check out the full article here:
http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/09/30/from-friendster-to-myspace-to-facebook-the-evolution-and-deaths-of-social-networks/
Kickstarter funding for the Catastrophic Neon Rainbow video shoot was a success and the video was shot last weekend. Check out more info on the Kickstarter page. I’m excited about this one!
