Canon’s Explorers of Light
Since the mid-1990s, Canon USA has collaborated with many talented photographers in creating a program called Explorers of Light. The program asked the photographers to share insights on their creative profession and their passion for Canon equipment.
As Canon DSLR cameras added a stunning HD video recording mode to their capabilities, many top notch cinematographers started [...]
Babies
Few weeks separate us from Mother’s Day and from the theatrical premiere of Babies, a documentary film that follows the progress of four infants in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco from birth to their first halting steps.
The film is being distributed by Focus Features and last month Blue Barn had a chance to [...]
The 2010 World Cup Breakdown
On Friday December 4th FIFA announced the 2010 World Cup groups.
The Barn crew have pledged their allegiances!
We await with bated breath!
Castillo
John Huges 1950-2009
Photo: Paul Natkin/WireImage
John Hughes, writer, director and producer past away this morning. His films put smiles on our faces and left an indelible mark on our youth. Mr Hughes, you will be missed.
All-Nude iPhone App Sales Goes Wild
What I really should say is that iPhone app downloaders have gone nutz over the latest version of Hottest Girls. It seems with this rev., the girls, for the spanking low price of $1.99, I mean how can you beat that, come sans bikinis. Nothing. Nada. No clothes. And customers have beaten down the [...]
and in third coming on fast HULU!!
Being a big fan of Hulu.com, today’s news put a smile on my face.
Disney to buy 30% stake in Hulu and put full episodes of ABC shows and select Disney channel shows on the site. Under the terms of the arrangement Disney would pump “a similar amount” of capital and marketing funds as NBC [...]
App Store Downloads Hits 1 Billion
Apple’s iTunes online store just served up it’s billionth application download, an incredible success in less than a year. If you own an iPhone or iTouch then you have access to a stunning variety of apps, from games to helpful applications, and everything in between. Once word got out that anybody can purchase the Apple [...]
Sporting a New Look
Our friends over at DVinfo.net have redesigned their website. The new web lay out has a blog feel with tabs at top of easier navigation and the addition of a video section has made us, at The Barn excited. Great job guys and we are looking forward to all the forth coming. web videos.
2 Wheelin’ in a Segway
I used to get dizzy and toss my cookies in carnival rides resembling the prototype 2-seater Segway. Even as a thick-headed 10 year old I wised up fast. I distinctly recall the “Saucer” carnival ride as my nemesis. And who designed the “Salt and Pepper?” Some evil ride developer must’ve loved the thought [...]
Is 16:9 Inadequate Already? Meet Phillips’ New Ultra Widescreen 21:9
Wait a minute, I haven’t even joined the 16:9 widescreen culture yet and Phillips has to go and announce a “ultra” widescreen? I’m falling way behind in the technology toy race. The 4:3 tv currently growing grey in my living room is feeling so inadequate, I can’t bear to think of what a 21 x [...]
CNN Live Feeds from Inauguration Chunk Chunk Along
It’s 10:45am and I’m watching Live Feeds off the CNN.com website as they chuck along. A lot of us have to work, and it’s here in the office, today, that we depend upon technology to bring us this historical occasion. While the visuals stop and go, chuck along, the audio plays clear and uninterrupted. It’s [...]
When A Cell Phone Becomes An Air Guitar
I normally hate to use our blog space to essentially provide free advertising for products but this one hits my sweet spot. See, truth be told, I was a pretty damn good air guitarist as a youth. While I never broke a tennis racquet performing a mean Townshend-style windmill, I have no doubt I coulda [...]
Panasonic to Buy Sanyo
The news of Panasonic buying Sanyo this morning left me slacked jawed. I worked in the Japanese electronic industry for six years. If you had told me even six months ago that Panasonic was to buy out Sanyo I would have said yeah and the American banking system would nationalized, put down the crack pipe [...]
GHG Photos
Our good friend and neighbor has launched a photo agency. GHG Photos, a photographic agency dedicated to the promotion of photographers that cover climate change and related issues. Named after the scientific shorthand for Greenhouse Gases, the founding members have spent the last couple of years covering retreating glaciers, rising sea levels, scientists [...]
Proud to be an American
Obama and now Altidore!!! Jozy Altidore scored his first goal in La Liga for Villareal.
“I didn’t know the fact about being the first American to score in this league but it’s very nice to have achieved it,” Altidore told the Spanish daily Marca after the match. “I expect that more American goals will come, [...]
Hard to get a NYTimes paper
The NYTimes has sold out of its post election issue even printing another 50,000 copies, you still be hard press to get your hands on one.
Change has come !!!
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>The Blue Barn staff, friends and family celebrated Obama’s victory at Abilene, a bar in Carroll Garden, Brooklyn. The photos of the festivities can be seen at Pardonmeforasking and vayaconlacalo blogs
Blue Barn’s next generation Director of Photography
Throwing at you 4 months, with a thumb in mouth and a light meter in hand. The new addition to the Castillo house hold, it was either another cat or a baby, we chose the latter.
Ya Gotta Do It !
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Paul Newman 1925-2008
Paul Newman passed away Friday of cancer. We at Blue Barn will raise a glass to toast an amazing actor and steadfast activist.
The Video Download Heavyweight Championship: Apple vs. Everybody Else
Just last week a consortium of 20 leading companies, heavyweights like Sony, Microsoft, Fox Entertainment, NBC Universal, Paramount, Toshiba and so on, announced what they’re calling a new digital media framework to allow consumers to acquire and play content on a wide range of devices. This Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) will create a simple, [...]
The Voice of God Dies
His deep, majestic voice brought to life one of the most famous movie trailer phrases “In a world where…” Perhaps the most recognizable voice on television and in the movie theaters, Don LaFontaine voiced over 5,000 movie trailers, 350,000 commercials, and hundreds of television promos. Within the industry Mr. LaFontaine became known as the Voice [...]
Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. His “last lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” was delivered at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007, a month after being told he had three to six months to live because of of pancreatic cancer.
Pausch, optimistic outlook and advice on how to accomplish your childhood dreams [...]
