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
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
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
Halloween is only four days away! Some of us are counting down the days until we can finally break out the costume we’ve been putting together for the last few weeks. The procrastinations are realizing there is just enough time to put something together and still look like there was some actual effort put into … Continue reading
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
Welcome to QuimDigital Underground! This is the first installment of a regular series featuring the undiscovered, unsigned, highly talented artists your iTunes library is missing. This week we present Diverze, and the first single off he and his cousin Skoobs’s upcoming collaborative EP, SLV2. The Buffalo, New York artists began making music together at … Continue reading
Being someone who’s heavily into cars, mountain biking, and a fan of all things action, I can really appreciate a great shot and video work. Despite grading my photography and videography knowledge/skills as amateur at best, I thought I’d seen pretty much everything GoPro cameras were capable of, and their creative uses. However I never though I’d … Continue reading
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
Earlier this year DJ Pigpen released his Spring Break themed, hour-long, Oh Budg!: Vol. 1 mix. Now he’s broken Vol. 1 down into the Spring Break Essential Pack; which features the tracklist and free downloads of all 14 of the DJ Pigpen original mixes that went into creating Oh Budg!: Vol. 1. The Spring Break … Continue reading
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