Video, Design, Web Development | Evansville, IN

According to this article on FoxNews,  U.S. web surfers are spending more time socializing than they are searching.

In August 41.1 million minutes (9.8%) were spent on Facebook versus only 39.8 million minutes (9.6%) on all of Google’s sites combined (gmail, searching, YouTube, and all the other smaller Google webs)

Now you might be thinking we are only talking a 1.3 million minutes difference, but in 2007 Facebook captured less than 2 percent of the minutes and Google had a little less than 4 percent while Yahoo had a little over 12 percent. So the shift is huge with more and more people turning to Social Media for their online source for news, friends, picture upload, videos postings, and games.

So what does this mean for my business?
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We did this quick animation to present the idea of a socail media strategy to a couple potential clients.

What’s amazing is that a few months later, the stats are already way out of date. Facebook now has half-a-billion people. That means the population of Facebook is only less than China and India. Kind of puts it in perspective doesn’t it?

Our resident cinematographer Chris Weatherly was asked by One Life Church to put together this amazing video for his friends the Barnards.

The emotional intensity is impossible to describe. It’s a story of absolute heroic faith.

Seriously Canon.  Can’t you give the other companies a chance to catch up?

Today marked the official release of the Canon 60D, yet another HD DSLR to add to canon’s line up.

This $1100 camera body adds to and improves upon the already impressive video features of the 7D, however, as Philip Bloom points out, this does not turn one’s 7D into a door-stop.

It seems this is Canon’s replacement for the 50D and an attempt at moving cameras at this price point into the video realm.

Personally, I’m waiting to see what Canon comes up with for the 5D MkIII

This past weekend we had the pleasure of working with Thomas and Jessica Bernardin, two very talented local artists, on a video project for One Life Church in Henderson, KY.

The location was the second story of a downtown Henderson office building.  The upstairs looked like it hadn’t been touched since the 1950s and its dinginess provided a stark contrast to the vivid colors Jessica was painting.  Despite it being well over 90 degrees with no breeze, we all had fun in this highly collaborative and highly artistic shoot.

Here are a few behind-the-scenes stills from the shoot.
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Or so Heraclitus thought. Though the principle certainly applies to technology, especially web-technology.

Facebook developers, administrators and designers, like us, have grown accustomed to updates like this from Facebook.  Ones that render hours of our labor, inadequate or obsolete.

The tendency is to moan and shake our fists at the “man” who decided to change the width of custom FBML pages from 760 pixels to 520.  Clearly, the Facebook team will be laughing their heads off while we receive phone calls and e-mails from confused and angry clients wondering why the page we just designed looks like carp and threaten to take their business elsewhere.

Or not.  Really, we should probably just take a deep breath and remember Heraclitus’ perspective.  Changing technology, more than ever, is part of life for developers and designers and needs to be built into our workflow.

What’s your philosophy on handling change in technology?