Clinton Stark

10 years ago Loni and I started Stark Insider. I opened up a Netscape browser, loaded something called Typepad and "wrote" this piece of profundity.  I guess we still haven't really grown up, refusing to leave the creative bubble this site affords our lives. It's hard to believe a decade has already...

The big news out of Canon when it comes to its mid-range DSLR line-up is the brand new EOS 80D. The follow-up to the 70D has been a long time coming, as its predecessor first hit the market in 2013. Three years is an eternity by modern camera manufacturing...

Confirmed. Neon Demon will play Cannes, and, today, the first trailer dropped for director Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Only God Forgives and Drive. The ninety second glimpse looks pure Refn. And that is to say, visually stunning. Elle Fanning stars, and we can only guess at this point that playing...

Welcome to the new flesh! We now have yet another reason not to use a phone -- and yet another reason not to talk with each other. Chatbots are coming! And if Facebook has its way not only will we need to make less old school phone calls, but we'll rely less...

Canon finally unleashed its mighty new 80D DSLR camera on to the world, and, at least in my early tests, it's a barnbuster. Following up on the widely lauded EOS 70D from 2013, the 80D, as I wrote earlier in my hands-on, is not necessarily a brawny, spec monster (especially if...

No one would argue that touchscreens aren't the way of the future. In most cases. They make user interfaces that much intuitive. Without the ability to tap, swipe, and pinch, iPads and iPhones would not nearly resemble the useful consumer products we've come to appreciate. But when it comes to...

That Tesla's Model 3 will sell like hotcakes seems undeniably obvious. Apple-like line-ups formed early this morning (and overnight), with thousands across the country (and the world) lining up to plunk down $1,000 (at least here in the U.S.) to "pre-order" a car they have yet to see. Early word from those...

A little box showed up today from B&H Photo. Low and behold, the brand-spanking new Canon EOS 80D. Three years later, and Canon finally decided to give us a sequel to the iconic 70D DSLR. The 80D is a mid-range DSLR aimed at "prosumers" interested in stills, and, especially, video....

Sony just took the wraps off its updated superzoom, and it looks very much a competitive beast. Priced at $1,498 (USD) the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 III (say that three times fast) has upped its already strong game, and looks to be a tantalizing offering for video shooters shopping in the mid-range. Super Super...

"Children are made of glass. Children shatter." Maybe their parents do too. On Clover Road could have been a straight-ahead story about cults we've seen so many times before: parent searches for runaway child, finds them in remote location under the spell of a spiritual leader, proceeds to rescue them, and...