I previously wrote about The Mountain, a great timelapse filmed in the mountains of Spain.
Today I stumbled upon another time lapse, though this time it’s from this great country of ours. Dustin Farrell traveled to Arizona and Utah, capturing the beauty of sunsets out west.
I encourage everyone to check this out and support Dustin by checking out some of his other stuff.
Enjoy!
Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.
I want to start with saying that the folks at the Bethesda Row Apple Store were amazing. Not only did they give me a chance to explain what happened, but they offered to give me a replacement iPad2, free of charge. Shout out to Caryn and Jamie. Thank you ladies so much.
Brand new iPad2
Apple has proven to me, time and time again, that they understand customer service. I started my Apple experience with a laptop five years ago that I still do my video editing on. I’ve gone through three iPods and have an Apple TV and wireless router. It’s safe to assume that I’ll be getting the iPhone5 (or 4S) when it comes out next month.
I want to be on the record and say this was absolutely my fault and Apple did NOT have to cover the repair. But they did.
Thanks Apple (and Caryn and Jamie) for doing the right thing for a customer. It is VERY much appreciated.
The broken iPad screen
About six weeks ago, I dropped my iPad 2 on the carpet. It hit in a way that squeezed the glass screen out over the metal rim. No big deal. The iPad worked normally and didn’t have any issues that I could see.
Last night I decided to try to push the glass back under the metal rim. BIG MISTAKE. The corner of the iPad screen shattered, sending shards of glass everywhere. I wanted to yell, but nothing came out.
I’ve done some research and found that Apple has a history of either fixing the screen for free or charging $400+ for repair. I’m optimistic being a longtime Apple user that they’ll be nice enough to fix this for free.
I have an appointment at the Apple Store in Bethesda this afternoon, so wish me luck. I’ll update everyone on how it goes a litte later.
I know I’m late to the party, but I just finished up all 60 episodes over 5 season of HBO’s The Wire. The show, set in the streets of Baltimore, ended its six year run in 2008. I heard good things at that time about the series, just never had the opportunity to ever see it until recently.
In a nutshell, The Wire covers different facets of Baltimore, like drug trade on the streets and government corruption. Having worked in downtown Baltimore for years, much of what I saw in the city was portrayed very realistically on the show.
Omar Little
Omar Little is one of the reoccurring characters throughout the five seasons. Omar is a street-renowned thug who makes a living robbing other dealers stashes and “re-ups”, or the refill shipment of drugs. When Omar comes strolling by, usually sporting a sawed-off shotgun and whistling “A Farmer In The Dell”, everyone runs, including kids. He has a very strict moral code, despite being a gangster. He never cusses and doesn’t allow his partners to do so either. Once a month, he even goes to church with the grandmother who raised him.
Omar sporting his trademark shotgun
Omar, played brilliantly by Michael K. Williams, shows a multitude of different levels during the show’s run. First and most obvious, he is a thug who has at least ten murders to his name. That being said, one of his biggest rules is he never robs or murders anyone that isn’t in “the game”. He continually does battle with street gangs, first the Barksdale clan, later with Marlo’s group. In the counter-intelligence and stalking Omar does for nearly every robbery or murder, it’s apparent that he is of higher intelligence. He consistently remains one step ahead of his adversaries. He develops complex plans and executes them to perfection. In a different world, he’d be a great special ops mission planner.
In the third episode, we are presented with the fact that Omar is gay. This is a surprising departure from many TV dramas, who present the “thug” as a sterotypical “man’s man”. In an interview, show creator David Simon explains: “I thought Omar, as an unaffiliated character, could be boldly and openly homosexual in a way that a gay man within the organized drug trade or within the police department could not be.” Williams added, ”The way I decided to play it was, So what?” He said, “Yeah, he’s gay, but that’s not the thing you’re gonna remember him for if you meet him down an alley. It’s that shotgun that will have you worried, not his gayness. I didn’t want it to define him.”
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