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365 Days – June

Posted by Brusca under Panorama, Photography, flickr, iPhone

I have decided to take a photo for each day of 2010 with my iPhone. They can be self portraits or anything that takes my fancy or wherever I am at at the time. All photos are edited directly on the iPhone and mostly edited with the Best Camera App, developed by Chase Jarvis. At the end of the year I will hopefully put a book together, perhaps produced in Aperture. Here are my June photos.

For more details on these photos visit my Flickr Collection, 365 Days of 2010. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusca/collections/72157623604227238/

My Favourite iPhone photo for June is “Welcome Home Jessica Watson”. Check out the panoramic prints I have of Jessica returning.

A New Panoramic Print for you to LOVE

Posted by Brusca under Nikon D90, Panorama, Photography, Portfolio, flickr

OK so this is an oldy but a goody. Cabarita is my little getaway spot. It’s far enough away from the hustle and bustle and not crowded like Byron Bay. I like to go there out of the holiday season as it’s just so peaceful. This one is taken from the point looking north. This print has now been added to Love the Pano. I also have another that looks south, to be added to the collection soon. Enjoy!

The Dreamhost with the MOST

Posted by Brusca under Hosting, Social Networking

Well I’m in my 10th year with DreamHost and during that 10 years they have been nothing short of an amazing service. Sure like everybody they have had their fair share of hard times. But what I love is the transparency they have with every aspect of their business. When things (inevitably they do) go wrong, they communicate it and as soon as that is fixed they make light of the situation (“perhaps we shouldn’t have pressed that button”). I love the way the Dreamhost team connect with their clients and I’ve always felt comfortable with Dreamhost and can’t see myself changing anytime soon.

Recently they had to switch my account to a new server. This was slightly worrying as I have a lot going on with my setup and client websites. Once the switch happened though everything seemed to be 100% as normal. But I did stumble upon a small issue with an RSS feed I had written, so I logged into my trusty control panel and decided to use the LIVE CHAT support, I was happily greeted within 1 minute and had what could have been a serious issue solved within 5 minutes.

Here is a slightly adjusted transcript for obvious reasons…

DH: Thanks for using LiveChat, how can I help you?
Bruce: Hi, My websites were changed to a new server this week
Bruce: everything seems to be fine except one thing
Bruce: I have 3 RSS feeds on iTunes (video podcasts). Suddenly they are not validating since the change
Bruce: www.twendy.tv/episodes/twendybusiness.xml
Bruce: Is one feed as an example
Bruce: I can only put it down to the php config differences
Bruce: on the new server
Bruce: Are you able to assist with that?
DH: Hmm, I don’t see anything right off the bat
Bruce: One error is “Feeds should not be served with the “application/x-httpd-php” media type” is this a setting in the php cnfig?
DH: Looks like it’s trying to download the file rather than view it
Bruce: Yes that’s right. A classic symptom of the config not setup correctly to handle these files
Bruce: these were validating perfectly before the server change
DH: Give me just a moment while I look into this
DH: Okay try now
Bruce: The feeds aren’t coming up with the http error, still not quite validating, I could fix that though
DH: Is www.twendy.tv/episodes/twendybusiness.xml loading correctly now?
Bruce: Excellent. Site is loading and feed is loading with one or two fixable errors.
DH: Great to hear!
Bruce: Thank you! You are a champion
DH: I’m glad we got it working again for you
DH: Have a wonderful weekend
Bruce: you too
Chat session has been terminated by the site operator.

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Africa Freak

Posted by Brusca under Africa, Nikon D90, Panorama, Photography, Tanzania, flickr

Awesome news! I have just been accepted as a contributor to the Safari blog, Africa Freak (African Safari and Wildlife Specialists). Now granted I’m not a specialist in that field, but my passion was intensified for Africa after a 3 week whirlwind trip in June 2009. In 3 weeks I experienced 2 very different safaris, Serengeti/Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and a 55km 3 day hike through the crater highlands in northern Tanzania, so with that I am hoping to share my experiences and provide tips on things I learnt on the way. I have captured an incredible amount of footage and images from that trip and some I am yet to share on any blog, so look out for that in the near future. Check out some of the current imagery I have placed online already. Tanzania and Crater Highlands Trek and some panoramic prints.

A New Twend

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Design, Entertainment, Film making, Internet TV, Nikon D90, Portfolio, Social Networking, TwendyTV, Video, flickr

You have to love the freedom of creating on the interwebs people. From interviewing successful business owners to animating lego or geeks talking about… what geeks talk about. I give you TwendyTV. I with the help of some pretty amazing friends hope to grow TwendyTV into a hip little internet TV network of shows that will one day also integrate into the TV network as seamlessly as switching between cable TV channels. So look out ABC’s of the world, look out NBC, CBS and all the big boys… ha ha… baby steps, ease up Bruce.

Why Twendy?
When I was traveling around Tanzania in June 2009 there was one Swahili word that really stood out, Twende (Let’s Go). After arriving back I felt inspired to start working on an idea for a travel blog called Twende, but this soon turned into grander ideas of creating multiple shows and an internet TV network. One thing lead to another, a tweak of the word to accommodate a grander theme and voila, TwendyTV. If anything it’s a bit of a play on the word Trendy, but the W I feel also gives it a slight TWITTER slang. I have felt for a long time that TV networks and internet content will eventually merge into a seamless experience, so why not start something now before it the BIG BANG happens. What I also love about this project is that there are no boundaries, no limits, this is completely open to the world. Hopefully our regular TV shows will end up the same way, being released to the world instead of restricted to one country then filtering out in time to other countries. Fat chance of that happening right now, but you never know.

www.twendy.tv

TwendyTV Channels
Initially we were to launch with 4 shows, but could only manage 3 to start on the current time restraints. We are currently working on the before mentioned travel show and also a conservation style show called Evergreen.

Current Channels

• Twendy Town
• Twendy Business
• The Geek That Was

Most Popular Episodes

• Brad Sugars of Action Coach
• Hamish Edwards of Xero
• Zombie Apocalypse
• LOST in Twendy Town

While we have launched and everything is GO, there is still plenty of work and progress to be made. I do hope you enjoy what we have to offer and there is plenty more to come. We also have some behind the scenes photos and footage, enjoy! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and or facebook.

Can You Love the Pano?

Posted by Brusca under Nikon D90, Panorama, Photography, Tanzania, flickr

My passion for photography has certainly grown exponentially over the last 2 years. I find it hard to go through a single day without taking photos nowadays. On top of my creative passions is something I have been doing since as far back as 2002, and that’s taking panoramic photos. I have had at least one or two people mention that they love my panoramic photos.  So I decided, why not take the next step and start selling my panoramic prints online. Cut to the pre-cooked sample, and voila! www.lovethepano.com. Right now as of this post there are 9 prints to choose from, and a good range of subjects from a Lioness, Cheetah, Hyenas to Jessica Watson and a Brisbane city scape.

You can also show your LOVE for each print. Prints are ordered by the most loved to the least loved. Below are some examples, the rest are right here. I do hope you like and any feedback is appreciated.

Lioness Serengeti

Hyenas and Vultures

Zanzibar Sunset

365 Days – May

Posted by Brusca under 365 Days of 2010, Photography, Social Networking, flickr, iPhone

I have decided to take a photo for each day of 2010 with my iPhone. They can be self portraits or anything that takes my fancy or wherever I am at at the time. All photos are edited directly on the iPhone and mostly edited with the Best Camera App, developed by Chase Jarvis. At the end of the year I will hopefully put a book together, perhaps produced in Aperture. Here are my May photos.

For more details on these photos visit my Flickr Collection, 365 Days of 2010. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusca/collections/72157623604227238/

My Favourite iPhone photo for May is

365 Days – April

Posted by Brusca under 365 Days of 2010, Apple, Photography, Social Networking, flickr, iPhone

I have decided to take a photo for each day of 2010 with my iPhone. They can be self portraits or anything that takes my fancy or wherever I am at at the time. All photos are edited directly on the iPhone and mostly edited with the Best Camera App, developed by Chase Jarvis. At the end of the year I will hopefully put a book together, perhaps produced in Aperture. Here are my April photos.

For more details on these photos visit my Flickr Collection, 365 Days of 2010. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusca/collections/72157623604227238/

My Favourite iPhone photo for April is