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25 Jan

Welcome, good evening..

..and congratulations. You have found my digital playground for all things creative, culinary, technical, and philosophical. I plan on using it for my photography, videography, music, food, ramblings, …

06 Dec

Photos of Europe..finally!

Well, that only took 4 months! I’ve been lazy’ll admit it, but going through 1,786 pictures and rating/processing them all did take a loooong time. …

23 Aug

fumbling with FCPX (and the resulting euroflick)

Where were you? Greetings! In the few months I’ve been away from this blog, I have been busy doing more interesting things than writing blog posts. Well, …

18 May

The Quince, our unsung hero

I love fruit. The more exotic or weird, the better. As a kid, growing up in frosty and decidedly non-tropical Switzerland, there weren’t too many …

19 Feb

Buddha, film genres and the mind: how to make films that reflect who you are

A recent post by Gregor Schmidinger on Nino Leitner’s HDSLR film-making blog has stirred something in me. Gregor wrote a very philosophical post with a …

26 Jan

Be careful what you wish for II

I published the first part of this article a way back on one of my older blogs that has since been deleted. I’ve imported it …

13 Jan

Vintage Minolta MD/MC mount lenses on Canon EOS EF mount?

yum..vintage lenses! I made a huge discovery this Christmas! The video tripod post will have to wait a bit, as I just had to get this …

07 Jan

HDSLR tripods on a budget – carbon fibre stills tripods

Happy New Year! May it be a productive one I wish I could claim that I’ve been very productive but hey, it was the …

01 Dec

The Canon 60D for beginner film-making (vs. the 7D, D7000 and the 550D/T2i)

I often see people on forums asking which camera they should get to shoot video with. I’ve also asked myself this question a few times …

15 Nov

and he learns how to fade!

love me some specular highlights Well, waddayaknow? I finally taught myself how to fade in and out rather than just making brutal jumpy cuts! Naturally, I …