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Social Media Simple — 3 Videos

March 1, 2010

Hav­ing worked in “tra­di­tional” media (tele­vi­sion) for more than 20 years, I have been astounded at the growth of social media and it’s impact on how we do busi­ness as free­lance media pro­fes­sion­als. It’s also appar­ent to me that many of my col­leagues in tele­vi­sion and music pro­duc­tion are not tak­ing part in this rev­o­lu­tion, often because of a lack of under­stand­ing of how it all works.
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South Texas Soul Documentary Features Legendary Texas Musician Augie Meyers

January 25, 2010

South Texas Soul: The San Anto­nio Sound – Augie Mey­ers, Doug Sahm and the his­tory and influ­ence of South Texas on pop­u­lar music of today. Doc­u­men­tary film­maker Tracy Ready exam­ines the influ­ence of Ger­man, Pol­ish and Irish immi­grants in South Texas on pop­u­lar music styles includ­ing Coun­try, Tejano, Blues and Rock and Roll, from a unique perspective.

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“The Golden Hour” origins

January 1, 2010

“The Golden Hour” is an elu­sive time, one of God’s mir­a­cles that hap­pens twice a day, whether we notice or not. Just after sun­rise and just before dusk every­day the sun gets low in the sky, mak­ing the shad­ows long and deep, giv­ing def­i­n­i­tion and a cer­tain qual­ity to the sub­ject that has been sought out by visual artists for cen­turies. Prior to pho­tog­ra­phy, painters would often set up their easels in these spots in the day, when the light is just right.
As a Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy I, along with every­one else in my trade, am con­sis­tently urg­ing clients who want to cap­ture nat­ural beauty of tal­ent, or spec­tac­u­lar exte­rior scenes, to let us wait for “the golden light” either early in the morn­ing or late in the after­noon. I never knew where the term “golden hour” came from, and still don’t know for sure, but I am a fan of famous quotes and was read­ing Bartlett’s Famous Quo­ta­tions when I came across this:
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Social Networking the New Year, and why not?

December 15, 2009

(Orig­i­nal post: Decem­ber 31, 2008)

It’s New Years Eve, 2008; Wow! what an amaz­ing year it’s been, through the tumul­tuous elec­tion process and down­turn in econ­omy, we are still hang­ing in here, and feel quite blessed to be at home with fam­ily today. Among other things, this has been a year in which I delved head­long into social net­work­ing, and it has been fun and reward­ing for me both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. I have gath­ered a few thoughts here, that I hope will ben­e­fit oth­ers, so here we go…

Con­nec­tions are impor­tant, but con­tent is pow­er­ful.
I was resis­tant to the social net­work­ing / blog­ging idea until I began to see the hid­den poten­tial for my busi­nesses, and our devel­op­ing music and doc­u­men­tary film projects.
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TexasB-roll Rides Again Supporting Texas Motion Picture Alliance

December 10, 2009

Please visit TexasB-roll and CityB-roll online today.

“It’s been a long time com­ing” — David Crosby

Yes it has! In 2002, we started offer­ing stock footage of Texas for sale in broad­cast qual­ity stan­dard def­i­n­i­tion for­mats. Now our stock footage is fleshed out in true HD (1080-24p) and we are excited about our Indus­try Spon­sor sta­tus with Texas Motion Pic­ture Alliance. We have dropped prices on our footage to be com­pet­i­tive in a tough econ­omy, and are now donat­ing $5.00 for every HD clip sold on our sites to TXMPA. Read the rest of this entry »

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