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  • Photos: Minotaur Rocket Launch

    Photos: Minotaur Rocket Launch

    Photos from the NROL-129 mission launch using the Northrup Grumman Minotaur rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Digital Marketing allows you to show your customers what your business is made of and how you can help them with their needs, for that reason if you have business is…

  • Photos: Parachute Jump Training

    Photos: Parachute Jump Training

    Photos from an Army training exercise at the sand dunes in West Greenwich, RI.

  • Building a COVID19 Data Dashboard for Rhode Island

    Building a COVID19 Data Dashboard for Rhode Island

    Full version at covidRI.com (no longer active) This week I created a simple dashboard for COVID19 related data released by the state of Rhode Island. It tracks the following key COVID19 metrics in Rhode Island: Both current/cumulative and historical data for these metrics are shown with graphs and day over day change annotated to visualize trends.…

  • Why your video team needs Retrospectives (and how to run them)

    To start, a quick disclaimer. Retrospectives are an Agile thing and while I’ve worked at places that used bits and pieces of Agile, I am far from an expert. This write up is for noobs like me looking for a way to learn from their mistakes rather than repeat them. So, you wrapped a big…

  • Mohawk trail drone trip

    I took a short road trip to western Massachusetts with my buddy Andy. He brought his GoPro Karma drone. I brought my personal camera rig.

  • Taking the Mavic Air to Nova Scotia

    Footage from a weekend road trip from Rhode Island to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. Filmed on a DJI Mavic Air. Music by Fjordwalker.

  • The ultimate live streaming checklist

    Whether you’re trying to reach prospects, customers, or internal stakeholders, live video provides a powerful, engaging way to get your message out into the world. But if you don’t have any live streaming experience, the process can seem a little daunting — especially if you’ve ever witnessed any live streams gone wrong. I mean, no one wants…

  • Inbound Video and the Death of Impersonal Marketing – Digital Summit/Revolve Conference 2018

    Every marketer knows doing things “the old fashioned way” is unsustainable yet most people still don’t think this same way about video. Agencies and brands alike keep getting stuck viewing video through the lens of the “deliverable,” meaning a snappy 15 or 30 second spot that you make once, then syndicate across platforms.  That’s no…

  • My professional sound setup for live streaming with Twitch and OBS

    I’m a lifelong avgeek and as I’m learning to fly for real, I use my home simulator as a really useful training tool. Occasionally I’ll stream my flights, and because I have a production background I really wanted to have a proper audio workflow. The following setup is exactly what I use to send audio…

  • Control your entire lighting setup with an iPad

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: Whether you’re working in a studio or on location, controlling your lighting setup can be a pain. As your setups get more complex, it takes more time to tweak individual lights and even if you’re working with a larger crew making final adjustments can eat up…

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