A few weeks ago I made an announcement on the blog about the upcoming Vimeo Film Festival, which will take place on October 8th and 9th in NYC.  I am a judge for the festival and I will also be speaking at the two day event next month.

If you are thinking about going, Vimeo has extended a special offer to  the readers of my blog.  Head over to the awards registration and enter “Laforet” as the discount code.  The first 30 people will get $30.00 off the ticket price – which includes access to the various lectures and workshops.  A special thanks to Blake Whitman for this offer, and his whole team for putting this festival together!

Hope to see you there!

September 25th and 26th will be a busy weekend at the Los Angeles Film School during the PhotoCine Expo.  I’m glad to join a few good friends including Shane Hurlbut, Alex Buono, (tentatively Rodney Charters) and the Bui Brothers who will be speaking and sharing their knowledge of HDDSLR film making that weekend.  I will be giving the final Keynote speech of the weekend on the 26th.  If you’re going to be in LA that weekend I recommend you come check the event out –  last year’s inaugural CineExpo was fantastic and one of the very first events to bring HDDSLR film makers together.  You can register for the vent here.

Last but not least – I will be leading a “Master Class” on Saturday the 25th. There are only 15 spots open and I’m very excited about the resources we have on hand for this workshop – it could just turn out to be one of the best workshops I’ve been given the chance to put together to date.   If you’re interested I recommend you sign up sooner rather than later – as these workshops tend to go in the first 24-72 hours.  E-mail Pamela Berry to reserve your spot.

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Thanks to Vimeo’s new HTML5 player and Rob Haggart’s help installing a new plugin for me in WordPress (Rob  hosts this blog on his Photofolio site) – this site and all of the Vimeo videos in it are now iPad, iPhone & iTouch friendly – and will of course continue to run on all up to date browsers as before!

The beauty of the new Vimeo player – which they call their Universal Player –  is that it pretty much will play on any platform out there whether it runs on a Mac/PC/or iOS/Android devices which is absolutely killer.  It’s nice to see solutions that don’t depend on Flash rolling out.  While I never had anything against Flash – apparently Mr. Jobs did and it’s been a pain not to be able to view videos/slideshows on the new iOS devices that have come out.

I know many of you have e-mailed me or posted in the comments section asking for this feature – so here you go!  You can now read this site on your iPads etc!   Thanks Rob and I hope you all enjoy the new capability of this site.