Upcoming Events Where I’ll Be Showing my Mug

Upcoming Events Where I’ll Be Showing my Mug

I have a few events where I’m booked to show my mug at this fall. The First is tomorrow. I’ll be sitting on a panel to discuss Old Media vs. New Media at the montly Social Media Club of St. Louis meeting. Get the details here. The panel will include Tim Eby Director and General Manager at 90.7 KWMU-FM – NPR, Craig Cheatham Investigative Reporter at Channel 4 News – KMOV, Erica Smith Multimedia producer at St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Mike Flynn Blogger at PunchingKitty.com, Web Developer, in addition to myself. On...

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Pokey LaFarge Photo Shoot and New Web Site

Pokey LaFarge Photo Shoot and New Web Site

Over the summer some time, Pokey LaFarge called me from the road to ask if I could shoot some  new promo photos of him and his band in August. Of course I said yes, because I’ve been a fan of Pokey’s ever since I interviewed him for the first time a couple of years ago. We ended up getting together at his house to take some shots. I set up lights and took some inside and then we went outside and took some shots in the street. The area near his apartment building was kind of a perfect setting for Pokey. It’s near the old Lemp...

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DO NOT BUY A DROBO!!

DO NOT BUY A DROBO!!

If you know me, you know that I make videos. I use a computer to edit these videos. And since video files on a computer are very large, this requires a lot of hard disk space to archive the videos I want to keep. And, if you are responsible with the data you want to keep, you will keep it on at least 2 hard drives, because hard drives fail. So storing these large files requires at least twice the space that they actually take up. As a consequence, over the time I have been doing serious video work, I have amassed an array of external hard...

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