Red Means Go; Photos to Audio

Jarvis wrote a book called "The Best Camera: Is the One That's With You" and even though I haven't read it, or even had a chance to even look at it, browsing the website and the Apple iPhone application that he created with it is remarkable. It makes me jealous at one point, but then stop and realize that regardless of what is happening, there is always something to take a photo of.

I was sitting in my school's dining commons, bored, and so I pulled out my phone and started playing with it just as most college students would, but instead of texting someone, I decided to take photos. This isn't the greatest photo in the world, but the 3 megapixel camera on a cell phone isn't suppose to go up against a Canon 5D Mk II robust 21 megapixels.

SLRs are by far the most superior cameras that are on the market for there ability to let the photographer create the best possible image with the best possible accessories available; lenses, flashes, etc. Point and shoots are getting exceptional quality photos now though thanks to new technology, but nothing like SLRs. The camera phone on the other hand, is a fun addition to a tool we use for communication everyday, but has become much more than that.

Thanks to new smart phone applications and the ability to do edits on our cellphones and then upload them to our computers, the way photo creating and sharing has drastically jumped. Everywhere on Twitter and Facebook there are people with Mobile Uploads from the scene out of a car window to group of friends at a restaurant. They are the gateway to everyone getting into digital photography.

Happy New Year two and a half weeks into the next decade. Expecting a lot to happen in the coming months, all of which is out of budget but is all really cool to read, form an unbiased opinion, and blog about anyways.

The idea was to go to the local skate park, which happens to be Rye Airfield in Rye, New Hampshire. It is a massive indoor skate park in what used to be an airplane hanger. The concept I have worked up is what do kids that go to skate parks when it's warm out do when the "season" changes? So this is briefly what I came up with. I want to take my camera and recorder and capture images of BMX bikers and skateboarders doing tricks and interacting, as well as capturing natural sound from the bikes and skateboards grinding on metal rails and ledges to landing on ramps and maybe a crash too.

Then come the interviews... My favorite part. Finding someone that will talk to me, but not just talk to me, go to a quiet part of the park and answer a few questions. I mean they aren't hard questions, it is just hard when there is music blaring or someone is speaking over the loud speaker. It may have its challenges, but I'm confident, once I can figure out work and school and getting back here.

It's an interesting project, and I can't wait to put into practice. I've used everything so far, except the biggie, the audio recorder. Then, I'll be able to put together a nice multimedia slideshow of the transition from summer to winter for BMX bikers and skateboarders.

Should be exciting.