Don LaFontaine passed away on September 1, 2008. If you aren’t familiar with his name, you will almost certainly recognize his voice. Don lent his voice to nearly 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commericals. He will be missed.

Engadget tipped us off to an Instructables article that shows you how to add a CCD eyepiece to a set of binoculars. The parts list seems relatively inexpensive, the CCD camera module is probably the most costly item on the list.

Via Flowseeker comes this fantastic trove of creative ideas for how to lens and frame the concept of Authority.

Photographer Richard Ross has an online photo exhibition entitled “Architecture of Authority” that manages to convey a sense of power and control very well in single images, and even more so when viewed as a collection. If you are looking for innovative ways to show authority in your next film or video project, I highly recommend browsing this collection.

This is a bit off-topic, but we’ve all been there so I thought I’d share it anyway. This humorous short video shows what Stop signs might look like if designed by committee.