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kyo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:24:06 +0000

Testing WordPress/Facebook integration. This article was posted from our own WordPress site and syndicated on Facebook. A video hosted at vimeo follows.

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Weekend Hikes

kyo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:24:35 +0000

Weather is definitely starting to feel a lot like spring in our neck of the woods. And so we have started going out on short hikes with the kids. Last week, we checked out “Little Yosemite” in a little town named Sunol, which is near Fremont. The rolling hills have this vibrant hue of green which we expect to last not too long. Alameda Creek is flowing swiftly this time of the year with all the rain from the previous week and it does remind me of the Merced River in the high sierras.

Sunol, CA

Next day was spent walking around a Palo Alto landmark called “The Dish”. The radio telescope was built by the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s which at one point was used to communicate with the Voyager.

The Dish, Palo Alto, CA

Edgewood Park & Reserve, Redwood City, CA

Abbey Road and Native Instruments

kyo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:59:54 +0000

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Filoli Gardens: Daffodil Daydreams

kyo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:23 +0000

Philip Bloom with the Canon 7D and 5DMk2

kyo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:37:05 +0000

Here’s a neat short taken at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco:

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And another really cool clip of his 5-day visit to Skywalker Ranch to demo the capabilities of these Canon DSLRs to the Lucasfilm folks. Nice story on his blog too:

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People of San Francisco

kyo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:07:51 +0000

“In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant” — Will Durst

So there’s an amusing collection of street photographs at People of Walmart, People of the Park (Disney) and People of Public Transit. I think if somebody built a site of folks from our city, this would put these other sites to shame. And that’s not even including the really interesting and colorful characters at annual events like Bay 2 Breakers, BurningMan, Folsom Street Fest or Exotic Erotic Ball.

What other similar sites do you know? Please do share.

Jessica Sanders for Sony’s Make.Believe ad campaign

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:36:57 +0000

Found this clip on the PlayStation Network today as I was browsing for free videos to download. It’s part of Sony’s “Make.Believe” ad campaign featuring real people using their products.

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Acid Test

kyo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:59:34 +0000

Stunning HD footages about the acidification of the oceans. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver.

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Sorry, No More Exotic Location Shoots …

kyo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:49:19 +0000

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A Busy Long Weekend

kyo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:04:13 +0000

Took videos of Gio’s birthday party and edited the clips. Thank goodness for iMovie and doing rough cuts.

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Been learning Autodesk 3DS Max 2010 for the past 2 weeks. It’s nice that the 30-day demo is not crippled.

The modeling tools are pretty intuitive once you understand the terminology and basic use of ‘modifiers’. I generated the frames on the PC and brought in the frames to After Effects CS3 (color correction, curves). I then assembled these assets in Premiere CS3 and exported to Web format (720p H.264). In the architectural scene, you could see some flickering. Not sure if that can be eliminated by using a higher quality setting but the rendering times would definitely be longer. The bundled Mental Ray rendering engine is awesome.

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We celebrated Valentines and Chinese New Year at my sister’s place with some seafood. I am stuffed.