On January 25 at the SMUD campus in Sacramento, over 100 highly motivated high school juniors and seniors attended the 5th annual Youth Energy Summit. The theme of this year’s event was the Business of Being Green and was kicked off by keynote speaker Nikhil Arora, the co founder of Back to the Roots. Known as an event that focuses on developments in sustainability, YES is a community partnership between SMUD, Lodi Electric Utility and the LegiSchool Project at California State University at Sacramento. Read More
Recently, sustainability has become a popular topic on capital hill as business and political leaders face hardships with the poor economy in the United States. In fact, sustainability strategies have been growing in popularity over the past several decades. In the educational system, the need to inform the public of emerging technologies in the area of renewable energy has never been greater. Read More
The KNOW Tour is Stillmotion’s 36-city educational filmmaking tour that is currently ongoing until November 20th, 2012. Read More
Over the past couple of years I have increased my love affair with light. Whether through stills or cinema, the Ice light has truly become a beloved tool of mine to allow my subjects to pop off the screen rather than to just simply blend into the background. Read More
In the growing world of Internet content creation it is important to understand your rights as a content producer. Whether you’re a photographer, videographer or mobile journalist, at some point in your career you will use a creative commons licensed product in your work. You might even find yourself on the opposite side of the spectrum choosing to license some of your work through creative commons to increase exposure in other markets. Read More
With the rise of the intelligent communications such as “smart phones”, web cams and tablet devices so has the risk of unwanted eavesdropping of private conversations. In 2010, 3194 wiretaps were sanctioned to thwart criminal activity. The resulting information collected lead to 800 convictions from 4711 arrests. Read More
The results of our new poll are in and the results in regards to the popularity of citizen journalism are fairly evenly divided amongst participants. The results of the 4 questions polled can be found below. Read More
With all the hype surrounding technology these days, the idea of telling a story with minimal gear seems absurd to some. The digital landscape is changing faster than ever before and artists are choosing tools that will allow them to connect with their audience’s emotions first. Below is a Storify article highlighting this new trend in storytelling. Read More
On the heels of yet another NAB (National association of Broadcasters) conference in Las Vegas and the release of new cameras, I thought it fitting to revisit the debate of tech versus story. With the release of new cameras into an industry that is already littered with more choices than ever in regards to form factor, recording format and ingestion options comes the need to examine the benefit of such tools to one’s attempt to tell a story utilizing today’s technology. Read More