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Enjoy a Little Drone Porn. Two minutes of a Sizzle Reel. Come Fly With Me!

L Locations in order of appearance:   Lake Sherwood in Westlake Villiage, CA Sunset Blvd and Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, CA Sunset Blvd in Hollywood behind Sunset Plaza  Carmel By The Sea, CA  (That gorgous white beach) Pescar Drive in The Town of Paradise Valley, CA Theater Palisades in the Pierson Playhouse, in Pacific Palisades, CA

Another Quadcopter video...

This one I shot in Phoenix at 16th Street and Butler I hope you enjoy and share this with your friends.  My Magic Carpet ride!

Another Quadcopter video! DJI Phanton 2 with GoPro3+ camera at work.

This is from a friend's property in Wayne, IL.  The morning light helped make some cinematic art.  I saw the raw video on a new 65 inch TV and the resolution and detail blew me a way.  Please enjoy!

The Sad Ending of My Quadcopter Drone Spycam

Los Angeles, CA —I thought I learned how to fly my new Blade 350 quadcopter very well.  It was now time to shoot some cool video over the trendy UCLA neighborhood of Westwood while I was in town.  I wanted video of the old movie houses and such from not so high above.  I carefully placed and set up a brand new GoPro 3+ camera on the gimbal and sent the drone all over the area for nearly 10 minutes.  I landed it perfectly and changed the battery sending it up to the Western sky.   I sent it up really high and unfortunately this time directly into the sun.  I was completely blinded and I maneuvered the control to the North.  However I completely lost sight of it and the advertised return home feature failed miserably.  It simply vanished from view. The little drone should have flown until the battery discharged and the thing would have slowly descended until it made a soft landing, but where?  I don’t have a clue!...

News gathering Video Technology and Guerilla Journalism!

Los Angeles, CA —Wherever you go in the City of Angeles doing news the paranoid public relations people and their security agents demand absolute control over anyone shooting video.   The equipment to shoot quality video was cumbersome and difficult to move around without attracting loads attention.  That’s changing faster than the speed of light.  They can’t seem to repress the journalist with the notepad but ejecting cameras from most real estate has proven all too easy. Today you can shoot very watchable video with quality iPhone cameras and a host of small camera choices.   The somewhat new GoPro cameras are nothing short of incredible.    I have two of them now; the Hero 3 and a Hero 3+ are in my video gathering arsenal. Any day now and I will take delivery of a Blade 350 Quadcopter that will zip right past security guards, police and fire lines.   It will instantly defeat even the tallest walls and fences to obtain exceptional ...

Go Pro Cameras and Streaming Video is a Media Game Changer

Go Pro Camera with WiFi kit Chicago, IL —During the recent NATO protests in the Windy City, there were as many as a dozen people using IPads and IPhones to broadcast live streaming video to the Internet. The images were only as good as the WiFi connections available and the tiny camera lenses would permit.  Some were better than others.  The real breakthrough here was that this technological marvel could be managed by nearly anyone. I spent several hours watching what the NATO protest I-cameras were broadcasting and found it interesting along with some very candid remarks by protesters.   I had to guess the locations they were broadcasting from, by the local landmarks because the camera operators were not professional or even marginal reporters.  They simply let the cameras roll. Perhaps ustream.com or the camera makers could direct their consumers to some places where they could get some very basic reporter instruction.  Reporting on...