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
Scoring Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft E3 announcements
It's often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in an increasingly bloody death match. Killzone indeed. NPD estimates the annual market for video game hardware and software is in excess of $20B. That...
Canon EOS DSLR Cameras: 5 tips for shooting video
"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film director.
Starbucks offers free wi-fi, seats even harder to find
To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.
Theater Review: ‘The Tosca Project’
Billed as A.C.T.'s valentine to San Francisco, I could not think of a simpler, more accurate way to describe this emotional, visceral show.
Sunday Espresso: World Cup 98, 24, T2i
Within 20 minutes, one million people had poured into the streets. Dancing, celebrating. All next to the Arc de Triomphe at Place Charles de Gaulle.
Update: 112 theater, stage reviews and counting
There's a new generation of theater-goer out there that's into social media, doesn't read newspapers, and might just respond to something we do, however silly.
Google, now more like Bing
All of a sudden Google looks a lot more colorful this morning. Staid be gone. And it seems that with Bing, Microsoft can still throw a hay-maker, and influence a certain Silicon Valley nemesis on occasion. In case you missed it, background photos are now available on the previously minimalist...
Ed Norton on “the power of the crowd” and fundraising
You can add yet another personality to Ed Norton, star of Fight Club. Although this one is not related to project mayhem, it does share one thing in common with that effort: he's trying to rally people to support a common cause. In this case, fundraising for non-profit organizations....
ThinkPad X100e Review: One Intel chip short of greatness
This is the little ThinkPad that could. It's so full of potential, and so close to greatness, it's hard not to cheer it on, even if the anemic AMD processor wheezes and sputters along the way. As it is, the ThinkPad X100e by Lenovo is a decent 11.6-inch portable...
Theater Review: ‘Opus’ at TheatreWorks earns standing ovation
Opus is truly a wonderful capstone to TheatreWorks' 40th season, which has been, by all definitions, a smashing success.
