While working on a Television Commercial in Bangkok Thailand recently, I was able to go and visit an area called Baan Moh. This area is a highly dense, retail electronics component resale and distribution zone. Thousands of small operators sell millions of electronic components from Microchips, Passive types like resistors, capacitors, diodes etc, to expendable’s [...]
Nasa
Fourmile Canyon Fire
The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn west of Boulder, Colo., in this image taken on Sept. 7, 2010, casting a long line of smoke to the east that was visible from NASA's Aqua satellite in its orbit around the Earth. MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of the fire at 2:40 p.m. local time (20:40 UTC) on Sept. 7. The red outline corresponds with the unusually high surface temperatures associated with an active fire. The thick smoke plume flows eastward. Over the plains northeast of Denver, the smoke plume casts a shadow to the north. By early morning on Sept. 8, thousands of people had abandoned their homes while the battle against the blaze continued. Image Credit: NASA/MODIS
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Engadget
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- iOS 4.1 jailbreak on the way after bootrom exploit discovery 9 September, 2010So let's see, how long has iOS 4.1 been out in the open for public consumption? We make it less than 24 hours, yet already some earnest jail busters have managed to liberate it from Apple's control freak clutches. It's still a fair distance away from an easily executable jailbreak, but it's looking like it'll work on iPhone 4, the la […]
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Karl’s Cinematography Blog
- New TVC’s! 31 October, 2008OK it’s been a while since I updated this site! 1000 apologies but I have been busy. Recently, I have been back to Singapore quite a few times on various projects, some of which I can now share with you! I shot a Canon Camcorder TVC for Hakuhodo singapore and an ASUS Laptop TVC for Leo Burnett Singapore - All through production House The Shooting Gallery Asi […]
- A new blog! 23 September, 2008Recently, I have been blogging to a new site. It can be found here. The reason, I can blog entries directly from my iPhone using WordPress software. I will be moving the blog over to this new site in due course, however this site will still contain additional material such as showreel components etc. Many thanks! […]
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