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Posted in Camera & Eye, Life on Feb 28th, 2007
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!When you work in a creative field - or maybe in any field - how do you measure your success? And what is success? Those artists who [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Life on Feb 23rd, 2007
Extras are the people in the background of a film that give life to a scene. A less-than-glamorous job (lots of waiting), they are usually directed by the assistant director.
Usually the extras are furnished with simple instructions like “Hey you in the grey shirt - walk from here to there. You with the cap, sit [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Technology on Feb 22nd, 2007
Over at the Apple discussion board, I stumbled upon this gem:
I’m a film editor who’s had the privilege to work on $100 movies to $100 million movies.
Story is king. If your story is working, and crafted well, and paced properly, you can get away with almost whatever you want. For instance, when I cut scenes, [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Life on Feb 10th, 2007
I took my first photo when I was about 7 years old. Growing up in Germany of the 1970s, it was not a Kodak moment, but an Agfa moment. Anyway, the object in question was a cat on a field that apparently grasped my attention of my new Agfamatic kamera. Processing was expensive (when you [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Life on Jan 17th, 2007
I still have not figured out how youTube makes money, but the founders of Skype are about to launch their own offer.
[The service] has the codename The Venice Project. It will offer “near high-definition”, programmes supported by advertising, with tools for users to personalise their channels or discuss programmes with others.
[...] one person close to [...]
Posted in Life on Nov 25th, 2006
After a week of editing, photoshopping, rotoscoping, colour analizing, scanning, fixing, brushing and some more screen staring, it is finally week-end. I hope all of you have a good one too.
If you wonder where you end up when you dig a hole through the earth
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