Early word on the BlackBerry PlayBook: Defeat is an option
New York Times' David Pogue had one of the best lines: "RIM has just shipped a BlackBerry product that cannot do e-mail. It must be…
Clinton Stark
Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.
Final Cut Pro X increases temptation to switch from Adobe Premiere Pro
Some of the new features I've been reading about give me pause: advanced people and shot detection, automatic audio cleanup, automatic color matching between clips…
SF Playhouse Behind the Scenes – Vodka noodles, crawl spaces, blood vessels
In March 2009, with the opening of San Jose Rep's exceptional 'The Kite Runner', we inaugurated the theater section here on Stark Insider. Since that…
Social Media: Have we reached a saturation point?
Perhaps the most revealing finding is that the interest in social networking search appears to be plateauing.
Thank you: Stark Insider sponsors for April
Their support continues to help us to provide coverage of under-reported stories across the San Francisco Bay Area: theater and arts, food/wine events, travel, and…
Theater Review: ‘Lolita Roadtrip’ is gold liquid
No question: playwright Trevor Allen has a gift.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 is here – worth the upgrade?
When I need to wait for anything - waiting for clips to render, importing raw footage into a project, chilling a Chardonnay - it drives…
Dolby Digital Plus – Even Batman would be blown away (Podcast interview)
I popped a VHS cassette of Batman into the VCR and cranked it. "I'm Batman!"
Chasing Butterflies: ‘Lolita Roadtrip’ in a ’69 GTO with Trevor Allen
One of his favorite Facebook status updates: "Writing..."
Interview: Napa Mayor on “living river”, art and … wine! (Video)
Like a lot of people, to me Napa was just another city that we'd pass through on our way to the wineries up further north…