richard
richard
@admin-richard@www.main-vision.com

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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  • Vimeo for Iphone

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor watching videos while on the move. Vimeo for iPhone: We just birthed a new app from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

  • Godard talks about Le Mépris

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  • Le petit Soldat de Jean Luc Godard

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFilmed in a Cinema Verité style. They mention Geneva. A nice conclusion.

  • On advertising and how it has degraded the viewer’s experience

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvertising and documentaries don’t mix and this is especially true in the US. When you have ad breaks every 5-10 minutes telling a story is impossible. You have to think of the people tuning in half way, and you need to think of those leaving after just one ad break. As a…

  • Twitter’s spam problem

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is an easy to solve problem that Twitter has yet to correct. Spammers create an account and send @username hyperlink. This type of spam would be tremendously easy to eliminate yet twitter does nothing of the sort. A simple filter would be enough to prevent such posts from taking place.

  • Two via ferrata later in Leysin

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRunning down a ski slope in hiking shoes is fun. You’re jumping, bounding and landing back down. The snow is slush and you sink, you rise up and fall on the second thought. Continue for a few hundred meters and you get to the bottom. You can also sledge down and…

  • Lac de Joux – Atmospheric

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAtmospheric shots of the lac de Joux. [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157629461258445″]

  • Freeze complete – Lac de Joux

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe lac de Joux eventually froze over completely. As a result of this you could walk on the ice. Some people were kitesurfing whilst others were having Marrons chaud. In one or two places you could see that the water level had decreased as a result of which the ice sheet…

  • Siberian car clamps and ice skating ducks

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the short period when we had the “Siberian weather”. many people went over to Versoix to look at the frozen lake and the beauty revealed as ice and wind played with stillness to form nice creations. These pictures were taken between Bellevue, Versoix and the Port de Crans. I particularly…

  • Random shots of the countryside

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNature as it appeared a few days ago. [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157629508225047″]