Clinton Stark

Clinton shoots videos for Stark Insider. San Francisco Bay Area arts, Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave, and chasing the perfect home espresso shot 25 seconds at a time (and failing). Peloton: ClintTheMint. Camera: Video Gear

Canon T2i photos, testing lenses using FD-EOS adapter

(Update: I've added photos of the lenses in a gallery below.) Our love affair at SSC with the new Canon T2i is still going strong. If you notice a different look to some of the new videos, and more photos, more gloss, then you can thank it for that extra...

HootSuite goes social

HootSuite is a company on the move, and and their latest update adds some interesting collaboration capability to an already strong product. I've been tracking them closely for the past 6 months or so, and based on their rapid product release cycles and continual innovation I'd say they've got a...

Gone in 60 Seconds: Pebble Beach Food & Wine

https://vimeo.com/10880035 When you think of Pebble Beach, it's easy to conjure up images of beautiful golf greens overlooking waves from the Pacific Ocean crashing down on the rocky shores. But over the last four days it was also about food and wine. No doubt, a beautiful setting, and a first...

Stark Insider Presents: Robert Kelley on TheatreWorks, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Much like Silicon Valley's venture process for tech startups, Kelley and his team introduced the New Works Festival nine years ago.

Google Docs updated, takes another shot at Microsoft Office

Google today announced an updated version of it's increasingly popular online productivity suite called Docs. The new features include the ability collaborate with 50 people on a single document (or spreadsheet, presentation), faster performance and more accurate import of existing Office files. The enhancements come just months before Microsoft Office...

Theater Review: TheatreWorks’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ elegant, touching

In the end hope prevails in TheatreWorks' To Kill a Mockingbird. And despite a down South journey involving serious—and very relevant—issues including racism, rape, and justice, we're left feeling inspired and convinced that humanity can triumph. Yes, Harper Lee's classic novel still packs emotional punch. In fact, it serves as a...

Stark Insider On Location: Michael Chiarello Pebble Beach Food & Wine

https://vimeo.com/10834608 Michael Chiarello is an Emmy-award winning Food Network television host. But also, as I know all too well, he runs the NapaStyle retail shops here in the Bay Area. This I know because I must tour them—along with Williams-Sonoma and various other distinctly non-Clint destinations—when enjoying a weekend stroll in Los...

Theater Review: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Indeed James Carpenter does make for the perfect lone wolf. Howling at the moon, so to speak, and trying to convince anyone that will listen to his delusional rants, he truly believes he was—and is—a savior in Aurora Theatre's John Gabriel Borkman. He's equally brooding and charismatic. And, as always...

Citizen journalism startup AllVoices expands into 30 cities, will it work?

New media is an interesting place to be these days, and there are no shortage of interesting—and unproven—business models cropping up every day. The latest is AllVoices, a platform that allows would-be journalists to blog and publish photos about local and national news stories. I just read today on TechCrunch...

iPhone OS 4.0 adds multitasking, coming this summer

Apple today gave a sneak preview of the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 at their Cupertino headquarters. The upgrade will be available this summer and in the fall for the iPad. The biggest new feature should address a long-standing weakness and nagging point for enthusiasts: multitasking. Now, much like a regular...