Chuck Jones

Spring Cleaning: Grad School News & Latest Work

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:37:56 +0000

Its been a busy winter and spring for me. I spent most of the winter going through the meat grinder of taking the GMAT and applying to grad schools, and I am very happy to say that I am going to start at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in September. Wahoo! Huge thanks to everyone that supported me during the application process, as it turned me into a bit of a lunatic.

In addition to the application process, I also designed and managed a complete website update for Camp Creative. I think it came out pretty well, with a blog feed on the front page, as well as a portfolio page that gives a pretty unique user experience, with video thumbnails auto-sorting themselves based on relevancy. (This makes more sense if you see the portfolio.) Richard Camp was the creative director, and coding was done by Rick Takes.

Some highlights of recent edit jobs include this video below, a Cisco piece that Camp Creative produced showcasing Cisco’s gaming/casino products. I had some really nice Canon 5D footage to work with and I am pretty happy with the results:

I also produced and edited a course tour of the San Francisco Marathon for Runner’s World Magazine, shot on the Canon 5D around San Francisco:

Lastly, my brother got married! Congrats, Tim and Garrett!

We Got That Broll!

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:40:44 +0000

Slightly NSFW from:28 to :34.

“Mic Check” Music Video from F.O.E.

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:09:51 +0000

Benjamin Ahr Harrison directed and did the graphics and compositing, I produced and did the editing. Max Coyote Nova was the DP, and Tahijr Jetter was the assistant director. We used 5 HVX P2 cameras at 23.98 PSF shooting at the same time to create the pan effect. This was shot at Bravo Studios on West 27th st, NYC.

No Money In URL Shortening?

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:20:50 +0000

Since Twitter’s release a handful of web startups have cropped up providing URL shortening, allowing a user to take a long URL and condense it to make it 140 character Twitter friendly. Apparently this service is hard to monetize. It looks like tr.im, a popular URL shortener service has gone under, posting this message on their homepage:

“tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service, effective immediately.

Statistics can no longer be considered reliable, or reliably available going forward.
However, all tr.im links will continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009. Your tweets with tr.im URLs in them will not be affected.

We regret that it came to this, but all of our efforts to avoid it failed.
No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount.

There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening — users won’t pay for it — and we just can’t justify further development since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner. There is simply no point for us to continue operating tr.im, and pay for its upkeep.

We apologize for the disruption and inconvenience this may cause you.”

I also found this interesting blurb from the tr.im blog: (bold is from me)

“And, the data that tr.im generates — the hottest links that people are sharing right now — is all well and good, but everyone has this data. tr.im gets hit by countless bots every day farming this data to create and operate websites such as tweetmeme.com. So, *everyone* has this data, meaning it is basically worthless *by itself* to base a business on (as bit.ly and others are attempting to do) at least in our humble opinions.

And finally, Twitter has all but sapped us of any last energy to double-down and develop tr.im further. What is the point? With bit.ly the Twitter default, and with us having no inside connection to Twitter, tr.im will lose over the the long-run no matter how good it may or may not be at this moment, or in the future.

So, in summary, there is simply no point in continuing to operate or work on tr.im, and we are moving on to greener pastures. We appreciate all the support and kind words about tr.im we received over the past 12 months, but change is ultimately good, and bit.ly can more than accommodate your URL shortening needs.”

How Would the Media Cover a Lunar Landing Today?

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:12:41 +0000

Given the recent 40th anniversary of the 1st Apollo Moon landing, SlateV investigates how the media would cover the same event today. Genius. (Unfortunately for you SlateV uses Brightcove as a video vendor so this might take forever to load, but trust me its worth it.)

If Noam Chomsky had Jerry Springer’s Job

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:42:34 +0000

From the Australian comedy group ‘Chaser’s War on Everything‘

Hacking a Nintendo with Chiptune band Anamanaguchi

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:36:19 +0000

Back in May I accompanied my good friend and music journalist Ali Gitlow as a photographer to cover the underground ‘Chiptune’ scene. There is a current subculture of musicians all over the world that are hacking old video game consoles and using them to compose music. Ali and I went to a local do-it-yourself venue in Brooklyn and interviewed Anamanaguchi, a chiptune band that has hacked an original Nintendo and an original Gameboy console to create musical compositions. They then take those compositions and play along to them with guitar and drums. Ali’s full story and my photos are posted over at the Flavorpill blog.

What I found most intriguing about this process is that most of these Chiptune artists are too young to have used these consoles when they were at the peak of their popularity. In Anamanaguchi’s case, they are all still undergrads at NYU, and were babies when the original NES was popular.

Getting ready to take apart the Nintendo

Flash memory card Nintendo cartridge hack

Urban Artbeat Biocast from Double7 Film

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:01:19 +0000

I just recently finished editing this fundraiser video for a great non-profit called Urban Art Beat. Urban Art Beat is an after school program in the South Bronx that brings in working musicians as mentors to teach kids how to make music, specifically hip hop music. The program simultaneously keeps kids out of trouble by giving them a place to go and provides an art program in a public school that is totally lacking. It also gives the kids positive mentors to look up to. I was very impressed with what they are doing and I hope they are able to expand to other schools. This was co-directed by my good friends Pete Chatmon and Benjamin Ahr Harrison for Double7 Film.

Things Marketing People Love

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:11:41 +0000

I love this new hilariously spot on blog ‘Things Marketing People Love.’ Marketing people really do like to ‘Coin Things‘ and they most certainly love to ‘Wear Chuck Taylors on Casual Fridays.‘

What Your Social Network Says About You

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:07:52 +0000

A new survey is showing user habits across the social media landscape with some unexpected results:

Do you Twitter? Then you are more interested in sex than the average Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn user. Like LinkedIn? You’re more likely to watch soap operas. Favor MySpace? You’re probably not into exercise.

–See full article by Beth Snyder Bulik via Advertising Age