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

Another 10 cool things about Moto Droid and Android – Part 2

The Moto Droid and Google's mobile operating system Android are proving to be a match made in smartphone heaven. It's been almost 2 months now since I picked up the phone at a local Verizon shop in San Jose. After about 10 years (maybe longer, I can't recall) on BlackBerry...

New year, New media, New contributors

2009 was many things to many people. For most, economically, it was one to forget. For theater and arts, it was great from an artistic point—if brutally challenging for the box office (see SSC pick for best show of 2009). For media, specifically "new media," blogs, YouTube, social networking etc.,...

Gone in 60 Seconds: Canada

The holiday that was, up North. Harvey's. Chateau Laurier tea. Family. Awesome. https://vimeo.com/8493337

On Location: Riverdance by Broadway San Jose

We capped off a 22-hour coast-to-coast travel day with Riverdance opening night. https://vimeo.com/8492324

2009 Theater in review: Best show

Last year—yes, can you believe 2009 is now last year?—was a terrific year for Bay Area Theater (and Arts too!). A creative tsunami struck. It was as if the deeper the economic malaise, the stronger the surge in creativity, imagination and artistry. It was a pleasure to be a tiny part...

Cinequest film review: Library politics meets goth in dark comedy ‘Shelf Life’

Who knew a library could be grounds for such wicked office politics? It all starts when a fresh-out-of-rehab goth slacker Nikki Reynolds (Betsy Brandt) takes a job at the local library. Strict, by-the-book head librarian Betty Bonhauser (Elisa Bocanegra) is quick to remind everyone using a flip chart of her family's...

First impressions: Swype for Android (tested on Moto Droid)

Still in beta, the software has attracted significant attention in recent months.

Nexus One: Can Google transform yet another industry?

If we've learned one thing in tech over the past 24 months it's not to bet against Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). You need not look any further for an innovative engine or competitive culture than the $200B Mountain View giant. In some ways the company reminds me of Cisco in...

5 Android apps that deliver the wow factor (and might even be practical too!)

Even though the Android Market doesn't yet have the vast number of apps that iTunes does (16,000 vs. 80,000), there is plenty of good stuff out there.

All things Canada: A snowy Ottawa arrival

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