<![CDATA[n The Plan  n As anyone who knows me will know I’m a huge fan of Blackmagic Design and the products and services that they provide. I wanted to look into what product they have that the everyday gamer, Remote Teacher or anyone really could use to help make engaging streams or presentations. n I’m…

<![CDATA[n n Event Rig Series – Part 3: A Small Portable Basic Lighting Rig  n In the third part of my accidental series on Rig for events, I will look at a basic lighting setup to go with our Audio setup for last time. (Unless you’re really into broadcasting your gigs from the get-go I don’t…

<![CDATA[n In my last post, I described how I have had an idea for years about building an eco-village and with the help of Generative AI I was finally able to get some of those ideas onto paper. I wanted to share another idea that I had with you that may be a lot more…

<![CDATA[n n Using AI to help me visualise a grand plan I’ve had in my head for years.  n I’ve been playing with a few Generative AI tools over the last few weeks to generate images for my blog posts as I don’t always have time to get Photoshop fired up on my aging laptop….

<![CDATA[n n Event Rig Series – Part 2: The Local Bands Sound  n Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work with a variety of artists at different stages of their careers from local pub bands to international artists. It has been an absolute blast and nothing beats the buzz I get when doing…

<![CDATA[n Just a quick post to say I have added some helpful calculators to the projects menu. I’ll be growing these out over time but I thought I’d add the ones I use daily for now. You can find them in the projects menu at the top of the website. n So far I’ve added…

<![CDATA[n Event Rig Series – Part 1: Blackmagic’s NAB Presentation was nuts! They launched some amazing products but it was nuts!  n n Blackmagic has certainly been busy over the last few months. I can’t believe how many new and updated products they announced on Friday in their pre-NAB show stream. I unfortunately didn’t get…

<![CDATA[n A match that could be made in heaven!  n n As you may know, if you have seen any of my previous posts, I had a bit of downtime recently (mainly due to me being an idiot) and I have lost a lot of my old posts (somewhat down to me being an idiot…

<![CDATA[n n Blake Stephen Hope  n Born on 6th March 2023 at 14:48 weighing 6lb 9oz n I’ve been a bit quiet over the last few weeks, a big part of that is due to the latest addition to the Hope Clan about a month ago (another factor is I kept breaking my website every…

<![CDATA[n If in doubt leave it alone!  n You may notice a few thing may look a bit different or missing entirely around here.  n Well… that may be a little bit my fault. I tried to do some updates on my hosting server and things didn’t quite go to plan.  n Thankfully I have…