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richard
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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Inner Life of A Cell

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes people share interesting videos as animated gifs. When I see these interesting videos I quickly google the search term and find the complete video. I then share it.

  • Setting up Chromecast

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSetting up Chromecast takes four steps 1. Plug it in 2. Connect to chromecast wifi 3 type appropriate wifi password for home network 4. wait as chromecast updates Now you can use it from your devices. It’s like setting up a gopro camera. If you’ve managed that you can do this-

  • Lufthansa – Total Solar Eclipse – Watch From the Stratosphere

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Lufthansa flight took a detour over Iceland so that passengers would pass in the shade of the total Eclipse.

  • Headline rating app to encourage useful headline writing.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn future I would like an application or social network that allows me to rate headlines according to whether they are sensationalist, informative, emotional informative or other. The aim of this network or app would be to discourage article writers from re-using the same phrases over and over. It would encourage…

  • Social media, loneliness and isolation.

    Reading Time: 3 minutes“The pathology of social media is all about loneliness” Social media professionals take the weekend off. Twitter users use hashtags so that their content can be found without being followed. Everything is turned towards discoverability rather than commitment and conversation. Social media practitioners know that people aren’t listening attentively so they repeat…

  • An Air France advert with swings

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI would have enjoyed working on this. I’d have played on the swings in between takes.

  • The Solar Eclipse as seen from the Vaud Countryside

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSolar Eclipse 2015 from Mainvision on Vimeo. Eventually the clouds blocked it.

  • Audible books and Kindle Unlimited

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year I have set myself the goal of reading 30 books. I am currently on track to reaching that goal. Most of my reading material comes from two sources. Audible.com and amazon.de. What I like about reading books via Audible.com is the freedom it gives me to do something at the same time…

  • Reading Time: 3 minutesThe apple watch will put no one out to pasture. Have you seen how many people from my generation can’t even read books on a kindle? What will put the web out to pasture is the tabloid/gossip magazine style of writing. Too many mainstream media hubs and blogging platforms write for the…

  • Access to contemporary technology helped promote my habits as an early adopter.

    Reading Time: 2 minutesParents in the silly con valley are idiots. They are in a trillion dollar industry and make billions a year because people want to use the technology they are developing. Think about how different my childhood would have been if we had learned camera work and video editing in art classes rather…