I went to Philippines last month, I didn’t get a lot of shots in but enough to make this video.
sNSFW: cute puppies.
Poetry is an abstraction of lyrical rhythm and concise thought so that I...
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I went to Philippines last month, I didn’t get a lot of shots in but enough to make this video.
sNSFW: cute puppies.
So I found this scene where spiderman gets knocked around by Venom and I took the sound out of it and replaced the foley to make it sound more like AAA game title. I was thinking of doing another cartoon clip, but I’m not sure just which to do yet.
Since I moved to Asia, I’ve been baffled at the complete lack of production quality in the tv shows. Especially Singapore. A lot of this can be attributed to laziness in post-production. Or just lack of vision. It isn’t lack of money.
Well. It’s time to put my money where my mouth is and show just exactly how easy it is for one person to give an example of what I mean, using a camera that cost less than US$1000 and a copy of Final Cut. Granted there’s some compression in the video that’s led to some artifacting, but I think you get the gist.
I’m not at all a professional at this either. This is really that simple.
Blocking reform: the public union monster
Written, Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
Sound & Music by Sean W. Malone
Narrated by Bill Catlett
Executive Producer: James Slater
At a time when the private sector has lost around 5 million jobs, and those still employed are accepting frozen salaries, canceled bonuses, and longer work days, jobs in the public sector are booming!
Public sector unions have used their considerable political power to redirect taxpayers’ money to preserve not only their jobs, but their generous salaries & benefits as well, all while providing poorer quality public services to the American people.
With the gap between pay & performance widening, unnecessarily costing American taxpayers billions of their hard-earned dollars, reining in spending on public employees is crucial to America’s financial future.
Many relatively simple reforms, like the elimination of fixed payouts for public sector pensions could help control these costs. So why don’t these reforms happen?
The public sector unions stand in the way of changing the system.
A study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute estimated that the average public sector worker earned 46% more in salary & benefits than private sector employees performing comparable work.
The official unemployment rate has hovered around 10% for the last two years, and the private sector loses more jobs each month, but public sector employment has grown. The jobless rate for government workers is under 3% and their salaries continue to rise.
When the movement among [p]public-sector workers to unionize began gathering momentum in the 1950s, some critics observed that government is a monopoly not subject to the discipline of the marketplace, and allowing them to unionize would eventually give them the power to hold politicians & taxpayers hostage.
Since then, public-sector unions have successfully shut down schools,
police & fire departments and other essential public services, including entire transit systems, by going on strike to prevent common sense reforms that would rein in spending.
There are often no legal alternatives to public services, so many states have
outlawed such strikes. But that has only pushed unions to organize political action committees, hire lobbyists and use their considerable muscle to elect sympathetic public officials.
Savvy public unions are now moving to crush the rise of anti-tax movements around the country.
And they’ve been successful!
In spite of high unemployment rates and huge budget deficits, states like California & New York have already raised taxes to cover their promises to unions instead of making efforts to cut spending and live within their means.
In the private sector, an employer forced to pay too much for labor will eventually go out of business - but in the public sector, more union members
just means more voters, more dollars for political campaigns and higher taxes to fund expanding wage & benefit payments to workers who are impossible to fire.
Public Sector Unions have spent several decades successfully demanding unsustainable salaries & endless benefits at the expense of struggling tax-payers. It’s time for Americans to fight back, while simple reforms are still enough to secure our future.
Shot, edited, rendered and uploaded on my iPhone before getting to work this morning. I’ve had to delay all of my other work because my trusty Powermac G5 died suddenly after 5 years of faithful service. I’m currently waiting for a replacement.
The Philippines is always an interesting place. Parts of it seem developed, some parts are newly industrialized and some parts are lagging more severely. In this case, I was in Bulacan, a province north of Manila. It has many rice fields. People dry their crops on the road in the hot sun mid-day. This is.. not a choice location in my opinion, but the locals seem fine with it.
Some of the locals, the de Jesus family, were happy to have me as their guest. They treated me to some tasty food. I still haven’t been much outside of the island of Luzon, and I might fancy a trip to Cebu some time. More travels to come!
