Posted in Apple, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, R3D, REDCINE, Red Camera, cameras, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Thursday, 20 December 2007, 9:45 am | No Comments »
Torrey Loomis, CEO of Silverado Systems, has just posted an extremely generous offer on Reduser.net: 6 DVDs full of native 4K Red Red “footage” (i.e. native 4K RAW R3D movie files) which he’ll send free to any address in the U.S. (US$19 for shipping to an international address). This is super cool for those [...]
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I had sometime to kill, before watching the late show of the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men at the Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 theater in Portland last night. So I walked over to Powell’s on Burnside, at 9:15 at night. What a joy. A few million books laid out in a cavernous [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0, groupware, lunarr, near-time, wikis on Friday, 14 December 2007, 11:29 am | No Comments »
Lunarr is a cool new Web 2.0 app in invite-only alpha. It’s a well-funded Portland-based start-up, founded by Toru Takasuka–famous for, in his previous life, for founding and running the online groupware company, Cybozu.
Lunarr is basically an enterprise wiki with a new metaphor for dealing with online docs–they’re “two-sided”, so someone writes a doc, then [...]
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Posted in Japan, blogs, 日本語 on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 2:01 pm | No Comments »
日本人の方（友達含めている！）へ、ぼくのブラグにようこそ！じゃ、実はだいたい英語で書くつもり、けど時々日本語で書きたい。ま、読み書きが下手になった。（文保も、ね。）
私は１４年間東京の中野新橋に住んでいた。感慨たら、懐かしいになる！
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Posted in Web 2.0, blogs on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 10:00 am | No Comments »
In case you’ve been living under a rock. But this really does hit the nail on the head:
Bloggings’s Six Pillars: There are six key differences between blogging and any other communications channel. You can find any of them elsewhere. These are the Six Pillars of Blogging:
1.Publishable.Anyone can publish a blog.You can do it cheaply and [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0, WordPress.com, blogs on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 8:29 am | 4 Comments »
If you’re thinking of starting a blog, I recommend WordPress.com. My brother (who’s thinking of starting a blog) and my friend (whose been blogging since 2004 on blogger.com and feeling some of its limitations) may find this useful:
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Posted in Apple, Final Cut, French New Wave, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cinematography, handheld, high-definition, workflow on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 10:11 pm | No Comments »
The Red One Digital Cinema Camera is poised to make a revolution in film-making. I believed this 25 months ago when I first heard rumors of the camera. And now that Steven Soderbergh and Peter Jackson are raving about it, and Hollywood films being shot on it, it’s a commonplace notion. But here’s a synopsis [...]
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Posted in Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, Jaman, JotSpot, Kanda River Ltd, Red Camera, Web 2.0, YouTube, facebook, high-definition, online office apps, wikis on Monday, 10 December 2007, 11:19 am | No Comments »
… to explain its reason for existence, my motivation for starting it, and a bit about my background and interests.
Check out “About Indie 2.0 blog”.
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Posted in Portland, blackberry, blogs on Monday, 10 December 2007, 9:00 am | No Comments »
To you, gentle reader, I know the distinction between this post and the last is immaterial. But to me, trundling through the dank Decembery streets of a Pacific Northwest Monday morning–it’s profound. OK. I promise it will stop here. No “Blogging with a blackberry on a streetcar while eating a donut…” (Although that’s a great [...]
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Posted in WordPress.com, blackberry, mobile on Monday, 10 December 2007, 8:08 am | No Comments »
(like I am now) is way cool.
More on how easy this is using
WordPress.com, and why I choose
WordPress.com in general, soon…
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