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At Work | May 23, 2010 |

What I’ve been up to lately, May 23

Drove to Visalia, received a contributor credit in the Wall Street Journal.

Moderated a live chat, shot photos and (lousy) video at the Stockton State of the City speech.

Went to the release party for “Portraits: 32 Singers, 32 Songs,” shot photos, video and wrote a blog post.

Saw Prieta perform at the Plea for Peace Center in Stockton, shot photos and video for a blog post (hopefully) this week.

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ianhillmedia.com | May 16, 2010 |

Redesign

This morning I’m finally starting a long-intended redesign of ianhillmedia.com that will involve building a custom WordPress theme. It actually will be the second custom theme I’ve built; the first was for a proposed project that never came to pass.

My goal is to create a site that best reflects me as a Web content producer, an aspiring developer and designer and an amateur photographer. Consider it a site for the modern journalist.

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Photos | May 02, 2010 |

Photos: Spring wildflowers in French Camp, California

It’s just a little past the peak wildflower season here in north-central California, and there are plenty of bright, colorful flowers on which I can test my photography skills. Yesterday I shot several flowers along the road to Fresh Edibles farm in French Camp, California, above, where I was picking up vegetables. I took more than 400 shots; what I believe to be the best 20 or so are in the slideshow below.

The experience provided a great opportunity to practice working with my camera in different lighting situations. Unlike musicians, whom I typically photograph, flowers obviously don’t move around that much, making it easier to take several different shots of the same subject with different settings on my camera.

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Technology | Apr 24, 2010 |

Processing project no. 2: Objects

Did I already mention how much I love Processing? Because I really, really love Processing.

Here’s my latest project, which was created using this tutorial. Watch the objects for a bit and you’ll notice that their speed remains constant. If this project were created in Flash using Actionscript, everything would slow down over time and eventually move like sludge.

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