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How to get past the NYTimes.com paywall nag screen

The video first shows how the nag screen pops open preventing you from readying the webpage without a subscription. There are actually three easy ways (only two are shown in the video). Chop-off everything to the right of the ‘.html’ in the URL to visit the webpage. Just hit the ‘Reader’ button in Apple’s Safari [...]

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Summer Snow on Mauna Kea Summit

Rare June snowfall in Hawaii

A storm and cold temperatures combined to create a rare snow-capped Mauna Kea in June. Hail and snow fell on the mountain shutting down summit operations Saturday night as up to eight inches covered the ground. On Sunday crews cleared the roadways, the sun melted some of the snow and access re-opened to the public. [...]

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Technicolor Cinestyle for Canon HDSLR cameras

Loaded the Technicolor Cinestyle Picture Style into both my Canon 7D and Canon 60D cameras. The profile produces a very flat image in order to expand the dynamic range of color graded video in editing. I have to admit the video straight out of the camera looks really crappy as it’s very low contrast. The [...]

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HuffPost goes with the snow

HuffPost goes with the snow

Looks like The Huffington Post decided to publish my snow in Hawaii video. Florida is the only state that doesn’t have snow on the ground today, though they did a few days back I guess. So 49 states with snow. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/12/snow-in-hawaii-it-is-poss_n_808226.html

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Slo-Mo Optical Flow

I haven’t used Final Cut Studio to its fullest and I’ve been wanting to use Motion to create some slow-motion footage for awhile and luckily there was a pretty easy tutorial posted online (see below). I shot some footage of surfing at Kawaihae Harbor this week an decided to use it as a test. You’ll [...]

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Volunteer for a film festival, get a pass worth $350

The Waimea Ocean Film Festival is looking for volunteers. The film pass for volunteers is a $350 value. We’re asking volunteers to commit to 16 hours for a Film Pass. This pass gets them into all programming excluding the opening and closing events from the 6th to the 9th. It’s unlimited films and speakers. They [...]

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Lost 8mm film of Christmas Hula *kinda*

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HDSLR workshop coming to Honolulu

I helped to put together his website and his workshop launched to great success in Seattle last week. Now it’s coming to Honolulu, and Los Angeles if you’re on the West Coast. My buddy PF is bringing his workshop to Hawaii in December. A great time to be in Hawaii and learn some mad skillz [...]

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The Cherry Blossom Festival

The HD version can be found here.

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GOT SNAKES?

Not really, this is Hawaii after all and this wasn’t the zoo.

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