“The worst thing you can do is purchase a camera on a credit card.”
Before you make that big camera purchase, Sareesh Sudhakaran (AKA Wolfcrow) has some cautionary advice. His most salient point: You don’t need a camera if you aren’t planning to make a movie immediately.
Still really want that camera? Only buy it if you have a detailed plan for how it can make you money.
Sudhakaran argues that, contrary to popular opinion, cameras are not really an investment. That’s because once you buy a camera, it loses value immediately.
“A camera has a certain time period after which it is no longer lucrative,” Sudhakaran says. “A camera today is only good for about two years. After two years, the manufacturer will release an upgrade or new model. By the third year, the camera starts to feel and look old. Clients won’t want it.”
Due to this certain depreciation in value, Sudhakaran says the worst thing you can do is purchase it on a credit card that charges interest. You’ll want to make your money back in two years; after two years, you can resell your camera at 40-50% of the original purchase price. And in the interim, you’re going to have to charge clients a premium to make that camera purchase financially worthwhile.
Sudhakaran also points out that camera-hungry newcomers don’t always understand hidden costs, such as maintenance, insurance, or travel permits.
So before you buy that shiny new gear, make sure you have a solid money-making plan and have done your due diligence about hidden costs.
2 days after some Black folks began rioting in Newark in 1967, the riots in Plainfield NJ started.
Plainfield is 18 miles southwest of Newark, and 1/3 of Plainfield’s 48,000 people were Black.
Tensions remained high that summer through the night of Friday, July 14 when a fight broke out at a local diner, The White Star.
40 young black men left the diner and marched back to their housing project in the West End of Plfd.
Expressing their anger along the way by smashing store windows and tossing stones at cop cruisers. The group dispersed When the Plainfield police showed up.
On Saturday night trouble started again.
Lifetime Plainfield residents said that “outside agitators” from elsewhere came to provoke violence and to “rile up” the community.
Some of them were white males & some were blacks. The hate they provoked was infectious.
Looting increased & Molotov cocktails were hurled at fire trucks.
Cops from surrounding jurisdictions were called in and the rioters left as rain started early Sunday morning.
Several hundred on sunday people convened at a local park to hear the local Dir of Human Relns discuss the situation in the city.
Park Police, who had jurisdiction over the park, decided the meeting was unlawful and ordered the crowd to disperse.
The crowd broke up and reformed in West Plainfield where widespread rioting resumed.
the Pagan motorcycle gang entered the area and a confrontation between a group of young black men and the white Pagan gang was erupting.
Police Officer John Gleason got between the two groups and the Pagans left.
The remaining crowd of Plainfielders refused to disperse and Gleason became surrounded by the crowd which began to threaten him and close in on him.
Gleason feared for his life and fired a shot at a young man and wounded him.
When Gleason attempted to leave the area to get help, he was overtaken by a mob and was beaten with a steel grocery store cart, stomped and eventually brutally shot and killed with his own police pistol.
Middlesex arms theft
meanwhile in Middlesex New jersey, a gun factory was raided and 46 automatic weapons were stolen.
The Plainfield Machine Company produced M1 carbines for the civilian market.
The stolen rifles found their way onto the streets of Plainfield.
The cops were anxious because of the large number of guns now on the streets and the Plainfield Fire Department Station was under constant gunfire for five hours.
Bullet marks in the brick walls are still there. Finally,
Nj Army National Guardsmen, in armored personnel carriers relieved the station.
The Plainfield cops tried to have residents turn in the stolen rifles.
Black residents felt that having the guns in the community kept the police at bay and that they now had power over the police.
When none of the stolen guns were returned, the area was cordoned off and 300 heavily armed New Jersey State Police and National Guardsmen started a house-to-house search for the stolen weapons.
After an hr 1/2, with 66 homes searched, the operation was called off.
Plainfield New Jersey declined from the stigma of the riots and many of the looted/ burned looted businesses remained vacant for over four decades.
After leaving, since the owners didn’t want to live there anymore but couldn’t sell, they sometimes let them go derelict.
Arties vulture, made in adobe flash and adobe after effects.
With a nod to being honest. I did not do the character design myself. I simply googled: “Cartoon Vulture” and got:
And of course, the logo is a parody / homage / (rip off?) of the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes logo from a thousand classic cartoons. I changed it from red to blue, to distinguish it from Looney Toons and I thought it was a better color compliment to the yellow letters.
The blue circles were “painted” in Adobe Photoshop and turned into a dozen 3D space layers in Adobe After Effects. The letters are yellow helvetica with a white stroke around them. And then a black stroke around that. I rasterized the letters and individually tilted them using the lasso and transform tool.
I so love this list.When I watch watch Star Trek reruns in the 70s, ALL of the technology was fantasy.
Even the automated doors.I can remember asacid most grocery stores had old style hinged doors, but more and more were started to add “futuristic” automatic sliding doors.As kids we loved to play with them, jumping on the pad to get the electronic doors to open ”like on star trek”.
When cell phones arrived in the late 90s, we were like “ we finally have star trek communicators….
Sure, it was alwaysthe tendency of electronics to keep getting smaller and better. Big military and Policeradios were too expensive and too big for regular people. But maybe one day inventors could make “radios” like that available to regular folk.And Star Trek put ideas like that into engineers minds,Star Trek had the idea, not the science, to do it. Engineers could take Star Trek ideas and build the science into it.
Star Trek had desktop computers 30 to 40 years before the real world did.PADD’s….. iPads…
Tablets…
We don’t have replicators but we have the beginnings of 3D printing. We don’t have warp drive but…. well we’re nowhere near THAT, but who knows, maybe some day…
One thing this list forgot to include is that in the sixties, medical technology on Star Trek was pure fantasy. You could see a patients vital signs on computer screens. That didn’t exist then but its common place now.
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