archives

YouTube

This tag is associated with 46 posts

What Separates Us Smartphone Photographers from the Pros

Given how good smartphone cameras have become, it’s relatively easy to take a good-looking picture (especially coupled with a versatile photo-editing app).  Run of the mill point-and-shoot digital camera are powerful enough to take a very high-quality shot.  So what is it that professional photographers do take to their photos to the next level? Last … Continue reading

Waze: The Only Way to Travel

The power of the average smartphone has grown immensely.  Over the last 5+ years, we’ve watched smartphones replace device after device, as their capabilities have increased.  We no longer carry around MP3 players.  I don’t remember the last time I saw someone walking around with a digital camera.  And when’s the last time you drove … Continue reading

Skittles: Share the Rainbow, Taste the Rainbow

I won’t bore you with a long-winded introduction, but I will say two things… There’s NO WAY Skittles actually produced this commercial.  It has to be a parody. It’s probably definitely NSFW (not safe for work).  But if you choose to watch it in class, or any other quiet, public setting, be prepared to excuse … Continue reading

Fallen Heroes

Okay, so this post may not be as serious as the title makes it seem… But it seems like many of my heroes, real or fictitious, have fallen in one way or another.  Batman seemingly retired at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.  Iron Man blew up his collection of suits, and had the arc … Continue reading

Watch The Duck

I began this morning the same way I do every morning, by watching ESPN.  Right before a commercial break during my favorite/most hated morning show First Take, an extremely catchy song came on that I had to hear again. Watch The Duck’s “Poppin Off” is like hip-hop meeting dubstep… break dancing while doing the robot… hipsters … Continue reading

Snapseed = Instagram on Steroids

Now that we’ve got cell phones with cameras capable of shooting up to 41-megapixel photos and 1080p HD video, everybody’s a smartphone photographer.  Unless you’ve spent hundreds (or thousands) on a D-SLR camera, many of us don’t see the point of carrying a standalone camera.  However there seems to be a huge gap in the … Continue reading

R.I.P. Brandon Knight

As many of you know, I love Twitter (insert shameless follow me @QuimSauceLIVE plug here).  So when I woke up this morning, and saw the national attention Detroit Pistons second-year guard Brandon Knight was getting, I hoped it was for the right reasons.  After further investigation, it wasn’t.   As the tape clearly shows, DeAndre … Continue reading

Who’s ready for Fast & Furious 6?

Although the plot lines have shifted from relatively harmless street racing to multi-national criminal organizations, the Fast & Furious movie series has managed to not only keep its original 2001 fan base, but appeal to moviegoers of all kinds.  To me, no movie in the series will ever top the original.  The Fast and the … Continue reading

CrankThatBass – Beats of the Week: Vol. 3

Welcome to the third installment of the CrankThatBass Beats of the Week.  As usual we’re bringing you the hottest and freshest dubstep, house, trap, electro, and hip-hop tracks of the week. Two weeks ago I posted a song by Jackson Breit, and I told everyone to be on the lookout for him.  Well this gentleman … Continue reading

M-M-M-Michigan Made Music

Even with my limited perspective of the inner workings of independent artists in Michigan, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend.  There’s a serious lack of community and mass collaboration.  Sure everyone has their own groups they work with, but I’ve never seen a statewide network of talent all striving for the same goals.  That’s all changing … Continue reading