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Posted in Cool Sites on Apr 20th, 2007
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The Blog Population Grows & Grows & Grows - Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and they’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs [...]
Posted in Cool Sites on Apr 19th, 2007
Gems from the Web:
HaptiTouch 2.0 Will Make You Forget All About That Silly iPhone - …yet another “iPhone killer”. Yeah, as if…
NAB Video - AJA IO-HD at FreshDV - Details and Q&A on AJA’s new HD ingest/encoder/breakout box solution. HD-SDI, Firewire 800, supports the new ProRes codec on-board, and many many other options.
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Posted in Film on Apr 18th, 2007
In a previous SurfFoo, I pointed to an idea about Open Source Filmmaking.
Basically the idea is that directors make all the raw footage of their documentaries freely available, to allow their audience to see the uncut picture, the whole truth so to speak. Thus, the audience can edit their own version of the documentary.
I [...]
Posted in Life, Technology on Apr 17th, 2007
When a Microsoft programme works smoothly, I am surprized; when a Apple programme doesn’t, I feel personally insulted.
There I said it.
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Posted in Humor on Apr 17th, 2007
On a night exterior the sound recordist goes out for a pee into the woods. The moment he has his pants down, the AD shouts “Silence, going for a [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film on Apr 16th, 2007
This weekend I got to see a fun film about the film business, The Last Shot (and don’t let the first 5 minutes of the film misguide you). Joe Devine pretends to be a movie director, and gets Steven Schats to believe that his film will be produced. At one point this dialogue entails between [...]