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WNYC News Blog - New York’s Lost Subways www.wnyc.org The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the largest in North America. And there’s even more…
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Some Blogs by Other NYC Location Scouts nyc.locationscout.us Below is a list in no particular order of blogs authored by other New York City area location scouts - Scouting…
December 2011
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Yaniv Pardo Unveils Twisting Geothermal-Powered Tower for Netanya, Israel inhabitat.com Netanya is a fairly obscure city in Israel that lies just north of Tel Aviv. Yaniv…
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Forgotten New York forgotten-ny.com Forgotten New York |
Location Scout Gallery: NYC Holiday Fisheyes
Location Scout Gallery: NYC Holiday Fisheyes - On a sunny clear December day, I was location scouting in Manhattan and shot these fisheyes.
Rockefeller Center NYC - Wikipedia
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown...
Location Scout Resource: NJ Film Production...
Location Scout Resource: New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Production Services Directory
The Production Services Directory is your comprehensive guide to production related personnel, goods and services available in New Jersey. Search the category index…
…Get listed… …My NJ Film Production Services Directory listing (as well as listings of other New...
Location Scout at livejournal.com
Location Scout at livejournal.com rrhobbs/livejournal
About LiveJournal
“LiveJournal, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, is the corporate home of LiveJournal.com and all affiliated products.
LiveJournal represents social media without borders. With a deep tradition of global participation, LiveJournal is on the forefront of personal publishing, community involvement, and individual...
Location Scout Resource: Tennessee Film and Music...
Location Scout Resource: Tennessee Film and Music Commission | About
The purpose of the Tennessee Film Entertainment & Music Commission is to promote and facilitate economic development of the film/music community through the recruitment of business; promoting Tennessee as a location in feature films, television productions, commercials, and other works, building infrastructure, and...
Location Scout nyc.locationscout.us at Posterous
Location Scout nyc.locationscout.us at Posterous
Posterous - Wikipedia
Posterous is a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. It is based in San Francisco.
Updating to Posterous is similar to other blogging platforms. Posting can be done by logging in to the website’s rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging. Mobile methods...
Location Scout Resource: Florida Film Commission
Location Scout Resource: State of Florida Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment | The Capitol, Suite 2001 | Tallahassee, FL 32399 | 877.FLA.FILM | 818.508.7772
About Us: Vision & Mission
The Governor’s Office of Film & Entertainment
The Governor’s Office of Film & Entertainment is the state’s economic development program for the development and expansion of...
Location Scout Resource: Alabama Film Office
Location Scout Resource: Alabama Film Office | Alabama Film Office: Mission Statement
To increase economic opportunities by building and promoting film and the related media industries in the State of Alabama. This includes recommending policies and legislation, implementing and participating in programs and projects, and actively representing Alabama’s natural assets and film industry...
Location Scout Spotlight: Manhattan at Night From...
Location Scout Spotlight: Manhattan at Night From West Chelsea - The photo below was made from a private space in the Starrett - Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street in the neighborhood known as West Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, NY looking uptown and (in the panorama below) displaying, from the left (west) the Hudson River and New Jersey cross-town to right (east), the Empire State...
About.com: NYC Traffic Congestion Pricing Plan
About.com | Pamela’s Manhattan, NY Blog | Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Plan Passed by City Council | By Pamela Skillings, About.com Guide to Manhattan, NY since 2005 | Tuesday April 1, 2008
The City Council narrowly approved Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan last night by a vote of 30 to 20.
…In a nutshell, the congestion pricing plan would require drivers to...
More Art Galleries Than You Can Shake a Stick At
Doing location research lately looking for an art gallery in New York City with a certain architectural element to use as a location for a photo shoot and stumbled on Chelsea Art Galleries.
Holy Guacamole!
I know there was always a considerable number of art galleries in NYC, particularly in Soho (at least since maybe the 70’s) - it’s like there has been an EXPLOSION of art galleries...
Manhattan at Night From West Chelsea
The photo below was made from a private space in the Starrett - Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street in the neighborhood known as West Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, NY looking uptown and (in the panorama below) displaying, from the left (west) the Hudson River and New Jersey cross-town to right (east), the Empire State Building on the edge of the frame.
ALL location scouts LOVE the...
Trigger Street
Trigger Street.
From Trigger Street - About Us:
“Trigger Street Productions, Inc., was formed in 1997 by Kevin Spacey to develop and produce entertainment in a variety of mediums. Realizing that the path to his own success would have been much rockier without the support and encouragement of many outstanding mentors, Spacey has sought out a way to inspire, nurture, and help bring exposure...
Location Scout Seasons Greetings!
Season’s Greetings to all from Location Scout R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us!
…in the city…
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…in the country…
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Location Scout Spotlight: County in big screen...
Location Scout Spotlight: County in big screen spotlight - Ipswich Evening Sta
Location filming can therefore help Suffolk to showcase the beauty of the county’s countryside and historic heritage. Anyone who knows of a Suffolk …
Screen East
…of interest to location scouts:
BBC: Film agency folds as finance manager is arrested
Google News Search: "sequential+liability"
Google News Search: “sequential+liability”
AICP: …Sequential Liability means that the agency as agent for its principal, the advertiser, is liable for payment to the production company only if the advertiser has paid the agency; otherwise the advertiser is directly responsible for the payment.
…more…
NY Times T Magazine
As might be expected, but apart from its arguably “dour” nickname, the “Grey Lady”, the New York Times is at the forefront of fashion, style and the arts with its TMagazine, online sister publication to its hardcopy T The New York Times Style Magazine
About TMagazine:
“The ultimate destination for all things related to style. The new site combines the visually rich,...
APA Omnicom Press Release
Stephen Best / APA National CEO | March 21, 2009 | APA on Omnicom statement…”our policy has not changed” | republished with permission from Advertising Photographers of America (APA)
The last week has seen ever-increasing concern and anger in the advertising community concerning a change in the way the Omnicom Group and its subsidiaries conduct business between Omnicom...
Location Scout Resource: Frappr
Location Scout Resource: Frappr - In 2006 I was exploring a number of interactive maps mashups that could be used by a location scout.
Frappr was a free online interactive maps service. It seems to be on (long term) “sabbatical” now.
“Frappr” is “web2.0-speak” for “friend map”
Frappr - About Us
In 2007, Platial acquired Frappr! Read about Platial...
Location Scout Nightmare: Amazon S3 Crash
Location Scout Nightmare: Amazon S3 Crash - Early this morning when Jungle Disk started throwing errors, I knew something wasn’t right, it wasnt till around 10:30 things were back to normal.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The 21st century location scout (me) relies heavily on digital and online resources for creating, organizing, presenting, backing up and archiving.
I use Jungle Disk as an...
Location Scout Nightmare: Amazon S3 Crash
Location Scout Nightmare: Amazon S3 Crash - Early this morning when Jungle Disk started throwing errors, I knew something wasn’t right, it wasnt till around 10:30 things were back to normal.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The 21st century location scout (me) relies heavily on digital and online resources for creating, organizing, presenting, backing up and archiving.
I use Jungle Disk as an...
Location managers honored at COLAs - Hollywood...
Location managers honored at COLAs - Hollywood Reporter
The location managers behind Stage 6/Screen Gem’s “Fired Up” and Universal/Imagine’s “Frost/Nixon” tied for location manager of the year while the location team behind DreamWorks’ “Eagle Eye” took location team of the year, two of the top prizes at Sunday’s 14th annual California On...
AICP | Doing Business: Sequential Liability
AICP | Doing Business: Sequential Liability
…Sequential Liability means that the agency as agent for its principal, the advertiser, is liable for payment to the production company only if the advertiser has paid the agency; otherwise the advertiser is directly responsible for the payment.
Certain agencies have inserted a Sequential Liability clause in their contracts. Others have added a...
Bigfoot Entertainment hires Cebuana as location...
Bigfoot Entertainment hires Cebuana as location scout for upcoming … - PR Inside
Jill Watt, a 25-year-old Cebuana, is the location scout that Bigfoot Entertainment has turned to for its latest feature, Tears From Afar. The film follows the story of a young Vietnamese woman who weds an American man with the expectation that he …
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Bigfoot Entertainment
Location Scout Resource: Wireless SD Card
Location Scout Resource: Wireless SD Card: LifeHacker: Stuff We Like | Add Wireless Sync To Your Camera with Eye-Fi | …via Gizmodo
The Eye-Fi secure digital memory card adds Wi-Fi to any camera and supports automatic wireless uploading to your computer as well as tons of different web-based photo sites, from Flickr and Facebook to Picasa and the open source Gallery2.
This may be old news to...
2005 Risks In Global Filmmaking Map
“Every filmmaker, from major studios to independent producers, experiences some element of risk while filming in foreign countries. That is why, each year, Aon/Albert G Ruben, the largest entertainment insurance broker in the world, comprehensively measures and maps the risks filmmakers face across the globe.The 2005 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map measures crime, corruption, kidnap and...
Location Scout Resource: Google Calendar
Location Scout Resource: Google Calendar - Location scouting is production work. Production work is done on a schedule, to a schedule. Times and dates are a big part of the picture. Nuff said?
A lot of location scouting and location management tasks also involve working online, so it is helpful to have at one’s disposal online and / or electronic time management resources and the skills to...
Location Scout Resource: Film / Movie locations -...
Location Scout Resource: Film locations | Movie locations - Filmaps.com.
Filmaps, share and discover film and TV movie locations around the world. You can search by movie or locations and see the results in Google Maps and Panoramio photos
As a film and video location scout, I am often given movie references to use in new location searches, i.e., “we want it to look like the club in...
News: Location Scout - SIFE
News: Location Scout and Production Coordination for SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) Photo Shoot
Location Scouting and Production Coordination in NJ for an advertising photography shoot for SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) for photographer Laura Crosta from LA and DDB/Santa Monica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIFE
Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) is an international non-profit...
Location Scout Resource: GeoCommons
Location Scout Resource: GeoCommons
GeoCommons is the public community of GeoIQ users who are building an open repository of data and maps for the world. The GeoIQ platform includes a large number of features that empower you to easily access, visualize and analyze your data.
A diverse range of maps can be created using GeoCommons, using existing datasets available from Geocommons or by uploading...
Television Production Studios
Backstage / Ross Reports | Television Production Studios | Television Production Facilities | Television Studios and Offices
“The following are Los Angeles and New York production facilities that produce for television”
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Location Scout Resource: New York City Street Film...
Location Scout Resource: New York City Street Film Set - Exterior Sets — Warner Bros. Studio Facilities
New York City Streets Set Virtual Tour
… & other exterior sets…Warner Brothers Studios Facilities | General Information
Warner Bros. Studios, one of the foremost motion picture and television production and post production facilities in the world, is the site on which...
CT Film Commissioner Suspended
This interesting newspaper editorial article came my way via my email inbox via The Hartford Courant and Google Alerts wherein the Courant calls on the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism to clarify its placing Film Commissioner Heidi Hamilton effective August 21st.
The problem seems to involve questions of internal policy matters at CT state government levels and I would presume (or...
New Film Commission Director and Filmmaking Tax...
Shoot Online | Meet The Commish | Filming Incentive Program Takes Hold In Connecticut | By Robert Goldrich
“July 21, 2006 — Heidi Hamilton became Connecticut’s Film Division Director last December, after having worked under the previous director. She brings to her position a broad-based background in law and filmmaking.”
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CT Film | Connecticut...
DOT Location Manager Job Description
DOT Location Manager Job Description - 191.167-018 - LOCATION MANAGER (motion picture; radio-tv broad.) - DOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles Job Description
CODE: 191.167-018 | Buy the DOT: Download/Diskettes/CD-ROM | TITLE(s): LOCATION MANAGER (motion picture; radio-tv broad.)
Arranges for leasing of suitable property for use as location for television or motion picture production: Confers...
Location Scout News Fall 2011
Location Scout News Fall 2011:
Location Scouting for U.S Department of Veterans Affairs
Production: Wonderful Machine
Photographer: Robb Scharetg
Pop-up Marketing Venue Location Scouting Chivas Regal
Legacy Marketing Partners
Event Venue Location Scouting - Chobani / Shepherd’s Gift Foundation
Agency: Leo Burnett / NYC
Production: Possible Productions
Location Scouting for...
Some Blogs by Other NYC Location Scouts
Below is a list in no particular order of blogs authored by other New York City area location scouts:
Scouting NY
I’m not a very good photographer. Somehow, however, I’ve managed to be employed as a New York City location scout for the past four years, finding locations for feature films. I’ve been pretty much everywhere at this point, from the highest rooftops to the deepest subway tunnels.
...
Location Scout Resource: Association of Film...
Location Scout Resource: Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) - Not everybody knows about the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) …or even what a film commission (or film office) is. ;-)
A film commission (or film office) is a bureau or office set up by (or perhaps in partnership wth) a local government by a group of interested parties to facilitate...
Location Scout Interview: WCBS-TV
Location Scout Interview: I was interviewed last week by New York, NY CBS affiliate WCBS-TV, for a video news article entitled Hollywood Being Priced Out of 1 Upscale Rockland County Town that ran on the Thursday, April 12th 11pm Newscast and in extended form the following morning on the Morning News regarding a situation in Orangetown Township, NY whereby the town has initiated a $500 per hour...
Location Scout Resource: 10 Common Mistakes...
Location Scout Resource: 10 Common Mistakes Starting a New Business - These probably apply to any small business owner, new business or not.
Being a location scout can be a diversified occupation - i.e. you might be on staff at a production company, you might have a regular job on a tv show, a temp job on a movie for anywhere from a few days to several years or you might be almost exclusively a...
News: April Location Scout Jobs
News: April Location Scout Jobs - April was a busy month including a number of location scouting and production chores for clients such as Bizzaro-Moss Photography (NYC), HK Productions (Tokyo), SKS Productions (NYC) and Matthew Klein Photography (NYC)
Location Scouting: Final Days of the Revere Sugar...
“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.
via Gothamist and BlueJake:
“Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our...
Location Scout Resource: 5 Spots for Fall Foliage
Location Scout Resource: 5 Spots for Fall Foliage - A location scout generally gets busy in the late summer with clients gearing up to shoot in the upcoming fall color - here are a few ideas: CNN Money | 5 spots for fall foliage
It’s that time of year, and the leaves are starting to change. Here are five easy-to-get-to spots with stunning views of nature’s handiwork.
Location Scout Resource: 10 Common Mistakes...
Location Scout Resource: 10 Common Mistakes Starting a New Business - These probably apply to any small business owner, new business or not.
Being a location scout can be a diversified occupation - i.e. you might be on staff at a production company, you might have a regular job on a tv show, a temp job on a movie for anywhere from a few days to several years or you might be almost exclusively a...
FPS Fest – film.photo.synthesis 11-17-2009
FPS Fest - Film.photo.synthesis | November 17th, 2009 | 6pm | ROOT Brooklyn | 131 North 14th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 11222
FPS Fest is a film screening event that explores the transition from still photography to motion. The once separate industries of still photography and motion filmmaking are intersecting across a number of realms; from new technology to new demands from clients,...
FilmMakers.com
FilmMakers.com - The Art and ShowBiz of Film Making
“FilmMakers.com features articles and info on filmmakers, filmmaking, film festivals, film schools, indies, short and feature length films for sale; database, distribution, production, and much, much, more.”
…read the rest…
Film Forum at Montclair State University
Spring 2009 Film Forum Schedule Announced! | Series brings award-winning filmmakers to campus to discuss the art and business of filmmaking
Tuesdays from 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Location: University Hall, Rm 1040– open to all – admission free
Sponsored by the Montclair State University Film Program
Contact: Roberta Friedman, Visiting Filmmakers Coordinator, 973-655-7282
Montclair State...