Author: akiramedia

Insight Actors Studio, Atlanta, GA
I did a little behind the scenes WordPress maintenance on the Insight Actors Studio website as well as a comprehensive template update. If you’ve got a WordPress website, it’s extremely important to keep things up to date as security issues can pop up fairly easily. Things you should stay on top of include: Themes are […]
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$80 HDMI Capture Device
The pandemic has made webcams and video capture devices hard to find. Enter Atomos with their USB connect for around $80. link: https://www.atomos.com/connect-4k
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California “I Voted” Stickers
I LOVE these California “I Voted” stickers. They feature “I voted” 13 different languages. English · Spanish · Chinese · Korean · Tagalog · Russian · Armenian · Persian · Hindi · Japanese · Khmer · Thai · Vietnamese I can’t think of anything more American than this.
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QR Codes
It only took a pandemic for QR codes to have really widespread use here in the States. You can create your own and avoid any dependency on third party services.
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Restaurants Adapting to Covid-19 / Food Truck Edition
Improvise, adapt, overcome – who knew Bear Grylls would be the patron saint of corona virus business survival?
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Pandemic Effect: Support Industries Suffering
Where does the pandemic future take us? Some short thoughts and links to relevant reading.
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Vertical Video Framing
Vertical Video is here to stay (at least for a bit). ‘Might as well make the best of it.
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The Quest for the Perfect Drive-thru Experience
The ‘Rona is causing disruption in the restaurant industry and national chains are fine-tuning the drive-thru experience. FastCompany takes a look at the big players. The fact that they neglect to even mention Chick-Fil-A is an indication that this is less than exhaustive. Local restaurants surviving the pandemic have taken to curbside pickup (See Elizabeth’s […]
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From client and construction leadership consultant Wally Adamchik, Now is not the Time to Hunker Down
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Local Restaurants Face Staffing Shortages
Businesses that survive will be the ones that adapt and maybe even abandon what was “normal” in the past.
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Sony Cameras as Webcams
Sony has followed along with other camera manufacturers and lets you use some recent cameras as webcams.
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Posing Men
Digital Photography School has a handy guide to posing men. Pictured above: pose #1.
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Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Dorothea Lange’s images of Japanese Americans incarcerated at internment camps during World War 2.
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Ikea Catalogs Archive
My mother lived in Charlotte when they opened the first Ikea in North Carolina there. I think the closest one might have been in Atlanta before then. We went one morning to see what it was all about, expecting to spend maybe an hour or so. Later that afternoon, we finally emerged with our purchases […]
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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
I remember some of these from my childhood in the 70’s. Also, George thinks a lot about LEGO Source: The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
Read More...LinkedIn Algorithm Insights
Doing a little research for a client and came across this Hootsuite post from last year about the LinkedIn algorithm. The more you know….
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