December 2007

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Our documentary on TV - again

27-Dec-07 in Film, Life | No comments

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Today NRK2 will re-run our documentary “Med dobbelt bunn Odvar Nordli forteller” (or “Words and Shadows of a little place” as we chose to call it in English). In case you can get Norwegian television, it will be screened at 22:20. And if you can’t, you can currently buy it via our in-the-works website.

Presenting my new photo blog

23-Dec-07 in (Meta)Blogging, Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Life | No comments

Hop over to Visualnary to be one of the first to visit my new photoblog.(For the technical inclined: it runs on Pixelpost, which is really easy to set up.) 

Happy holiday season

21-Dec-07 in (Meta)Blogging, Fun, Life | 3 comments

All the best wishes to all of you. Have a very merry Christmas (or whatever you like to call it - just please not “Festive Season”). Time to enjoy some calmness, togetherness with the family, and time to talk. And in case I do not get to blog before the end of the month, I wish you all a very good 2008.

And remember, X-mas should not be about receiving expensive gifts.

By tradition, Christmas decorations should not be erected prior to Christmas Eve, lest this visible proof of anticipation of a festival anger capricious forces. Evergreens especially (and that includes your tree) should not be brought into the house before this time. Comfort should therefore be drawn from the knowledge that greedy merchants who put up their Christmas finery in early November daily court the malicious attentions of evil spirits. (via)

And a highly usual x-mas song played on a highly unusual instrument:

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SurfFoo for December 20th

21-Dec-07 in Life | No comments

Gems from the Web:

  • Applying a Realistic Tattoo - Thanks to Photoshop, you can now get a tatoo without the pain
  • (P2) Tutorial - Video tutorial on how to import P2 media into FCP 6
  • The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test - Here you can find out wether you are left or right brained. Or whether you are just a man )
  • Thinking of switching to a Mac? Here’s why you might - a primer on switching to the Mac
  • Squidfingers / Patterns - Great 50s/60s style backgrounds, free downloads.

    • SurfFoo for December 11th

    12-Dec-07 in Life | 1 comment

    Gems from the Web:

  • How-to books about Sound for Digital Filmmakers - Handpicked selection of books on sound, platform independent.
  • Thank god - Synonyms from Thesaurus.com - A surprising result
  • Automatic Photo Pop-up - Very interesting paper about how to derive 3D images - automatically! - from a single 2D photo.
  • FreeRice - Build up on your vocabulary while giving rice.
  • Give Good Food to your Mac - Offering up to 70% off some good shareware programmes
  • First Fake Apple iPhone in Russia: Photos - Imagine that people are actually buying bad copies of the iPhone
  • Freixenet :: The Key to Reserva - Martin Scorsese re-creating a never-made Hitchcock movie from a 4 page script. (Or is it just - very clever - marketing? Of course it is.) Worth watching for the opening shot alone.
  • Cohen Brothers - Good article digging into the Cohen Brother’s editing style (and a bit of technology as well)
  • Access USA - The Leader In Package Forwarding - Lets you order from US based merchants that do not ship internationally.
  • Rejected iPod Engravings - Engravings that never made it onto an iPod
  • Video Business Advisor - claims to “help your video production business prosper.” (though I would not take their layout as a guide. ) )
  • VEESCOPE.COM - Real time chroma keyer for OSX. 100 bucks.

    • Where is this blog going?

    2-Dec-07 in (Meta)Blogging | 6 comments

    ekgFor this blog, I used to employ PopStats to get an idea of how many readers I have. I learned that I had a solid readership of about 100 souls per day.

    A while ago, another Blog recommended GetClicky, which I gave a shot. It turned out that that one gives totally different statistics than the other one. So when WordPress started offering statistics as well, I installed their plug-in. Might be not so surprising, but again, I get different numbers.

    Blog statistics are no exact science

    Taking the last week as an example, the following numbers pop up:

    • PopStats gives me a daily average of 126 visitors with 2618 hits, or roughly 20 hits per visitor.
    • GetClicky calculates an average of 31 visitors with 60 actions per day, or roughly 2 actions per visitor.
    • And the WordPress gives me 34 visitors per day, and doesn’t elaborate on the hits.

    While I would love PopStats to be right, it seems more likely that I get just above 30 visitors a day. Not that the amount of people is so important to me, but these 30 visitors click on average only once before leaving again. Which suggest, that they do not find the content very interesting. Add to this the average number of comments per day (close to zero), and I start to wonder where this blog is going. Maybe it is beyond its half life?

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