It took several hours to get it perfectly balanced and will take many more hours to tame, but I can say already that the Steadicam Merlin 2 is one impressive piece of kit. Friday will be the big test, an exercise both strenuous and delicate. Strenuous because steadicam operation involves holding a five-pound weight some […]
Here’s from William Bradford Huie’s novel The Klansman: “Men must posture that they might endure themselves.” Themselves and everything around them, I’d say. And vice versa. It’s much less complicated and far more considerate to let one’s avatar act on one’s behalf in most situations. That, as opposed to foisting one’s “true” self on those […]
Two video gigs materialized today. One for next week and one for three weeks from now. That’s the good news. The bad news, which doesn’t mitigate the good news so much as make it more interesting, is that in order to execute the gigs to my satisfaction, I’m going to have to spend almost as […]
