November 2007

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The logical evolution of the iPhone will be a small form factor iPhone shuffle. Someone leaked the instruction video on youTube:

Update

The ad has been leaked as well now:

Ever since returning to Norway on a windy evening last week, at least one member of my family has been down with flu, coughing, sweating, general quirky unwellness. As it seems, now it is my turn. Which is especially excellent timing, since I am about to embark on a 3-day shoot in the mountains of Norway — thankfully indoors, tripod (which I foresee to be mostly locked), documenting.

Wouldn’t it be great if, whenever you become ill, you could invoke a time bubble. Life around would just stop — no bills to pay, no kids needing attention, no jobs-that-cannot-wait. Only once you are fine again, would life return to its normal pace, picking up where you left for recuperational purposes.

If only…

Layout

I’ve been tweaking a bit on the new theme I am using (which I was sort-of forced to do after a certain incident with an unlucky upgrade of WordPress), and cleaned up a bit in the plug-in list. The new WP has a nice feature that alerts you to available updates for your plug-ins, right from the admin area. But as it turns out, there are plenty of plug-ins that are not registered as outdated, even though there are newer versions available. Also, somehow the Postalicious plug-in, that powered my SurfFoo posts, no longer does its job. Which might be good as well, as it is better to focus on original content, rather than passing on links. Right?

What do you think of the general feel of the new theme — and are there certain things that annoy you, things that you miss? (And who is the first to point out the error in the main picture? Hint: I am just following a Sony marketing tradition )

Off to bed, to recuperate.

…or maybe 2.7D. Here a video from a researcher team that has developed software that allows for automatic transfer of 2D images into a 3D world. Amazing: Here´s a link to the hi-resolution version of the video (though it does not seem to work om my Mac), and some more samples are here. (via)

Neon Bible is an exciting example of an interactive music video. Simplicity should not be confused with Quick To Do.
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Nice French example of what can be done in post production.(via)

Derek Powazek has written a great post on how to work on events. While written for stills cameras, the piece also applies to video shooting. (via) Just replace “flash” with “on-camera light”.Talking of which, I try hard to avoid using them. They just kill the lighting mood, and the light comes from the same angle as the camera, removing any texture. In the past 5 years I have used a on-camera light on 1 occasion, for about 3 seconds.If you have to use on-camera lighting, try to soften it. Either with a gel in front of the lamp, or use a softer fixture, such as a miniKino, or a Litepanel.