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Apple Watch Captures Half of 18 Million Global Smartwatch Shipments in Q4 2018

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Trendspotting: At 50% share Apple Watch still dominates smartwatch market, Fitbit and Samsung gain

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.28.2019

A new report today on the smartwatch market tells us something we already know all too well: Apple continues to dominate. According to Strategy Analytics…

Cameras & Filmmaking

3 Days in Sonoma: Producing a short film using 5 years of footage (Video)

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.27.2019

A woman in wine country. A woman in trouble. Again.

Cameras & Filmmaking

Filmmaking Challenge: Use only a prime lens to shoot your next project

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.25.2019

Limiting yourself to a manual prime lens can ultimately improve your composition and focusing skills, and maybe even lead to more creative results.

Broadway Musical Review: Hamilton at SHN Orpheum San Francisco

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‘Hamilton’ Review: Founding of country was much more difficult than you were taught

BY JEANNE POWELL — 02.23.2019

Stark Insider Broadway Review by Jeanne Powell: Hamilton at the SHN Orpheum Theatre San Francisco. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s remarkable Broadway stage musical Hamilton celebrating America’s founding…

Cameras & Filmmaking

And It Hurts: Looking to ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’, ‘Drive’ and ‘Lost Highway’ for filmmaking inspiration

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.22.2019

For the upcoming Stark Insider YouTube promo trailer I decided to look for inspiration and do something a little different. In this case I had…

Blue Velvet Criterion Lost Footage release on Blu-Ray

Independent Film

David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ to get lost footage treatment by Criterion

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.19.2019

51-minutes of Blue Velvet "lifts" were found somewhere in Seattle and recovered.

Loreto

Stark Insider Presents: Short film ‘Azul’ shot in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.14.2019

“I believe in my mask—The man I made up is me I believe in my dance—And my destiny”. Sam Shepard might not have been the…

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Amazon acquires Eero, doubles down on smart home (and data collection?)

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.12.2019

Eero indicates its data collection policy will remain the same, but with a new owner perhaps anything is possible. In what was a surprise move…

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Incoming: New SI short film shot on location in Loreto, Baja, Mexico

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.08.2019

Incoming! Incoming! Incoming! Every now and then Loni Stark and I like to change up the regular Stark Insider programming and post one of our…

Canon EOS RP specs and first thoughts Clinton Stark

Cameras & Filmmaking

Canon EOS RP full-frame mirrorless camera is lighter, smaller, and — best of all — cheaper

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.07.2019

In the camera world 2018 will be remembered as the year that both Canon and Nikon finally entered the full-frame mirrorless market. Canon with a…