I was looking for an audio recording app for my Android when I stumbled on this: http://springpadit.com

This handy app does quit a bit and I am very excited to use it.

It’s an organizational tool that is comprised of, “Notebooks.”

You can add as many Notebooks as you like, label them, and change their color.

Within each Notebook you have the option to create a task, assign a due date, create a category such as: Family, Home, Phone, Work or Chores, you also have the option to insert audio and photos.

I would find this useful for remembering places to eat or shops to visit while I am out, recording a band I like, remembering new people or events and then setting a due date to revisit these things when I have some free time.

You can access all of your information from a computer and the display is clean and easy to understand.

Springpad has a very interesting feature that called Places.

This scans the area that you are in and finds local shops. It lists the shops and when you click on one that you are interested in it displays: the address, the website for the shop, the shops phone number and you have the option to add the business to any of your note books

Another feature I like was the barcode scanner. This scans the product you have and displays information on that product. Again you can save this products information to come back to later.

Yesterday I started a video project with two artists I have become friends with.
They are making a music video and need someone to teach them how to edit/edit the video they shot.

They are both photographers.
I am a video editor.

We sit down together and I begin to demonstrate the basics of editing a video.
Immediately one of the artists wants to adjust the colors, contrast and other various elements that I knew nothing about.

So we look at Final Cut's effects and their faces light up. They know what all of the photographic terms mean and they start playing and discussing the features with excitement.

I then show them how long it will take to render their adjustments.
A conclusion is made; it is better to alter the effects after we have done basic editing.

I learned about adjusting color.
They learned about video editing processes and render time.

We then move back to basic editing.
The other artist explains how he wants the video to look, where the cuts should go and so on.
We do a few short edits and the two photographers are floored.
They loved it! It looks great!

I mention, the fact that there is no audio...
Yes, we were editing a music video with no audio.
I explain that it's not the easiest route to take and that matching music to an already cut video is much harder than editing video to a composed piece of music.

We decide to choose a piece of music that reflects the feeling of the film and make a mini music video to it.

While we edit they share ideas with me and I share ideas with them. We discover elements of the work that each of us would have never thought of and are all left signifcantly more advanced than we could have imagined.

After we finish the mini video, we send it to  musician for inspiration. She will compose something based off of our vision and then the final editing can begin.

I will attend several of their video shoots and they are going to be hands on with the editing process.
 I now realize how important collaborations with people from various artistic backgrounds are.

My video edits are going to look much more professional and/or artistic having their influence and
they will be able to edit their work and display their visions exactly the way they want.

Stay tuned for more updates on this collab, I'll post videos soon.

During the first few weeks of my internship, I needed to learn the basics of the company - how it works, the nuances, dynamics, and the office jargon; and how I'd fit and be needed.

Flustered by the amount of information before me, and an ever-building workload, I decided to break up various components of my job into 30-minute segments.

I would sit down and dedicate the first 30 minutes of my time in the morning to checking email, and reading blogs (pertinent to the company, of course!).

Then I would delegate another 30 minutes to reviewing the history of the company.

After that I would work on design - learn programs the company uses and do any sort of design work that they needed done that I was capable of doing.

After each 30-minute period, I would move on to something else.

This technique worked wonders for getting things done!

I was able to return to previous projects for another 30-minute period later, but with different information and insight that I had accumulated from all of my other projects.

I was able to make new connections and retain the information easier.

I didn’t get burnt out on the information that was in front of me because I was constantly moving on to something new. The time limit put in place pushed me to work faster. My days flew by and were very productive.