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

Under the Baja Sun: Loreto Farmer’s Market

https://vimeo.com/9543623 Astonishing visuals are the norm in Loreto, Baja California Sur. Crystal blue waters of the Sea of Cortez. Dry desert land with a stray cactus here and there. The locals going about their business, ready smile. But the farmer's market (aka people flocking to fruit) really stretches the imagination;...

Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest Film Camp Week 1: Pre-production, a Zombie movie?!

https://vimeo.com/9533778 "We're doing a Zombie film about Zombies created from pollution," pitches Brianna Pereira from Boynton High School. And with that, week 1 of the Adobe Youth Voices program in partnership with Cinequest 2010 film camp kicked off last Saturday at Adobe HQ downtown San Jose. 31 next generation film-makers arrived...

Film Review: ‘Kill the Habit’

You know you're in trouble when a relentless drug addiction and a discovered stash of dirty money are the least of your problems. Oh, yes, what to do with the body? In Kill the Habit that becomes the question of the day for three women (Lili Mirojnick, Katerina Moutsatsou, Maria-Elena...
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Google donates $2M to Wikipedia, no attribution required

It's probably something a door-to-door Encyclopedia salesman would never see. Two million dollars just fell out of the sky courtesy of the Google Gods into the lap of Wikipedia, everyone's favorite free-for-all knowledge web site. An announcement was made via Twitter by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and now board member...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says 60,000 Android devices shipping daily

There were no product announcements by Google at MWC. However, during his keynote, CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google along with their partners are now shipping 60,000 Android devices daily. That works out to over 21 million units per year, and would place Google in the fourth place after...

Will official Steve Jobs autobiography give us juice or gloss?

Steve Jobs will attempt to set the record straight. In collaboration with former TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson, an official autobiography will be penned about the famous co-founder of Apple computer. There have been many books about Steve Jobs of varying degrees of quality and credibility. And there have also...

Film Review: ‘The Bone Man’ an Austrian Fargo with German cars and a twist

What is it about great European indies that make them so endlessly fascinating and watchable? The Bone Man is another example, and I think it'll be a festival favorite at Cinequest. It's two hours of terrific entertainment. It kept me guessing throughout and I appreciated the exquisite quality of everything...

Can Microsoft stem market share losses with Windows Phone 7?

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Microsoft (MSFT) announced Windows Phone 7, the long awaited upgrade to its mobile platform used in about 13% of smartphones. Unlike Apple and RIM (BlackBerry), Microsoft will not manufacture handsets, and instead license the OS to others, a strategy consistent with...

Film Review: ‘FrICTION’ a clever “fourth wall” film

What if you were scripted to behave badly? Breaking down the fourth wall—the unseen barrier between actor and viewer—has become somewhat of an interesting trend in film (see Funny Games starring Naomi Watts). We've seen it for years on stage in the theater; an actor will maintain a personal...

Bill Gates at TED: Fireflies and terrapower

Bill Gates is on a mission. In his continued leadership of all things philanthropy 2.0, he's shifting gears to take on climate change. On Friday he spoke at TED about "terrapower," something I'd never heard about before. Chances are most people haven't. It's still under development, and could potentially never...