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Stacey and I love watching BOB’S BURGERS reruns after work. It’s a fun show that generally works an original song (or two or three) into each episode. We saw the episode the other night with the song “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom.” Stacey instantly decreed it the best BOB’S BURGERS song. I think she’s right, and that reminded me that my pal (and HIDE AND CREEP actor) John Walker recorded a terrific cover of the song. My pal Chris Mitchell has been taking all kinds of cool photos lately, both digital and... Stacey and I love watching Bob’s Burgers reruns after work. It’s a fun show that generally works an original song (or two or three) into each episode. We saw the episode the other night with the song “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom.” Stacey instantly decreed it the best Bob’s Burgers song. I think she’s right, and that reminded me that my pal (and Hide and Creep actor) John Walker recorded a terrific cover of the song . My pal Chris Mitchell has been taking a...

I am an iPhone guy. And I’ve been an iPhone guy basically since they started making iPhones. It’s been fascinating to see the camera evolve from rudimentary (low-res stills and no video) on the first iPhone to generally amazing (comparable to many “real” cameras) on modern iPhones. My current phone is a couple of years old — I am an iPhone guy, but I am not a gotta-get-a-new-iPhone-every-year guy. But I am going to have to get a new one pretty soon, because apparently the camera on the current “pro” iPhone is legitimately pro. I mean, you can shoot “log” video on an iPhone 15 Pro and record it to an external USB-C drive! Stu Maschwitz has an excellent blog post about how he uses professional post-production tools to color correct shot-on-iPhone video. Be sure to check out the post’s embedded video to see some examples of how good iPhone video can look these days. Speaking of professional post-production... Here’s a video about the visual effects of (the most excellent) ...

As much as I love real film and real film cameras (I shot my first two features with an Aaton LTR 16mm film camera), I rarely shoot film anymore. Because (1) digital is pretty good these days, and (2) film (and film processing) is really expensive. Stacey is more of a stills shooter than me. She’d been kind of thinking about maybe getting a new stills camera. Which got me reading up on stills cameras. I asked Chris Mitchell what he liked these days, and he started singing the praises of Fuji’s digital cameras. I started looking at Fuji’s options and talked Stacey into getting a Fujifilm X-T30 II . Aside from taking good photos, it’s just a good-looking camera — it is silver and black and has a charming retro-but-not-too-retro look. We’ve been in Iceland for the past few days, and I must admit that I have been using Stacey’s new camera a lot more than she has. And I really, really like it. I assume you can just shoot regular “raw” photos with this camera and then tweak the c...