http://www.paulescandon.com/blog Re: my life (wife and kid) and my work (video production/teaching) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:09:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the last day of July 2010 (aka the baseball trade deadline) as the sun was setting on Winchester, California I found myself cramming the last of our possessions into a filled-to-the-brim minivan. As I was doing this, new tenants that we had just found no more than 2 weeks ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=50 My company, Oremus Productions, recently worked with web search start-up Yebol (www.yebol.com) to create their initial videos to run on their site during their beta launch period.Yebol is a brand new semantic search engine with some amazing capabilities. An old friend of mine that I knew when he was in ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=48 Talk about a triumph and an epic fail. The men's 4x100m relay last night in Beijing was one for the ages. Here's just a little something for all of you who love to see American's beating the French at anything - especially when it's a crushing victory that came after a lot ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=41 Word on the Creative Cow forums this morning is that the newly released Apple Quicktime 7.4 upgrade causes a MAJOR problem with Adobe After Effects where the system crashes after 10 minutes or so of rendering. So far this has been confirmed on After Effects CS3 - not sure about ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=39 Everyone is talking about the new MacBook Air that was announced by His Jobsness yesterday at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco. I think you'll find that the majority of people's initial reactions are not glowing and positive as is the buzz with most newly announced Apple products. Yesterday was a ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=37 In a serious experiment to discover the weight and physical properties of a Granny Smith apple at an industrial speed against a non-moving Irish man the results proved to be dynamic and, well... funny. Ray Doran Show - 2008 Teaser from Paul Escandon on Vimeo. Credits: Irish man: Ray Doran Camera: Richard Sinatra Producer: Alex ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=35 Hey everyone - Happy New Year! I spent this New Years day like I spent last year - cheering on the USC Trojans to victory in the Rose Bowl! One of these days they're going to match us up with a tough opponnent - but I'm not sure when that's going ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=34 A few weeks ago we drove up to Burbank and shot Outdoor Channel show host Michael Waddell on a green screen for Outdoor Channel Broadband and OutdoorChannel.com site tutorials. I shot on Sony HDCAM and composited the pieces together in After Effects. Big ups to Rich Sinatra for virtually creating a ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=33 I've been working on a new show reel to highlight what I've done the last few years and just recently put the finishing touches on it.The following is the intro piece to the longer version of the reel - but I thought I'd just post this up on here for ... http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=31 For those of you who may have found this site through a Google search result and have no idea who I am, this video provides a pretty good primer for you to view. http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=30