I'm excited to announce that Jessica Stuart has joined MediaStorm as a project manager. Jessica will continue in her current role as workshop director for The Eddie Adams Workshop which will celebrate it's 20th anniversary this year in October. While she won't be full time at MediaStorm until November, Jessica will be expanding our blog coverage, writing grants and developing the upcoming MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Workshop.
You've probably seen Google Street View by now- the new addition to Google Maps that lets you search and zoom into street-level imagery at select locations throughout the world. Pretty cool. However- you might not have seen Wild Sanctuary's KML Layer addition to Google Earth and Google Maps- a layer of soundscape icons that let users click on locations and hear recordings of the area, with field notes describing the location, date, and sources of the sounds. Wild Sanctuary has over 3,500 hours of recordings, representing almost 15,000 species. Samples in this project range from New York City streets, to the sounds of humpback whales in the depths of the Pacific. You can read more about their Google Earth Soundscapes project in The Christian Science Monitor, or just check out the Google Map.
If you are in New York City the evening of June 12, you should stop by the Opening Reception for Moving Walls 13, presented by The Open Society Institute (OSI), part of theSoros Foundation. For more information and to RSVP, check out the invite. If you won't be in NYC that day, the exhibition is open to the public through February 29, 2008, at the OSI Headquarters, located at 400 West 59th Street. Moving Walls is a photographic exhibition series sponsored by the Open Society Institute. "The series represents the transitional condition of open societies and the promotion and maintenance of democratic values." Moving Walls 13 includes work from Robin Bowman, Edward Burtynsky, Friends of Island Academy/International Center of Photography, Margot Herster, Olivier Jobard, and Carl De Keyzer.
Adding timecode can be a hassle. Netmedia's timecode calculator handles the task with ease. This Apple OS X widget performs basic math functions for a variety of tape and film speeds, including drop frame and non-drop frame. Download it here. Learn more about our approach to producing multimedia by purchasing MediaStorm's Post-production Workflow. Spanning more than 200 steps, the workflow covers every phase of editing, from organizing and editing assets in Final Cut Pro 7 through backing up and archiving your project. The workflow includes exclusive access to our Aperture Workflow and our Final Cut Asset Parser. Learn more about MediaStorm's Post-production Workflow.
In the MSNBC.com produced video Life Behind the Lens, photojournalist Chris Hondros of Getty Images talks about his award-winning images from war-torn countries and what it is like shooting in conflict zones. Hondros's work in these areas, from Iraq to Liberia, has produced some of the most iconic images of war of the last decade.