Posted in HMV, Pandora, Singapore, Web 2.0, downloads, long tail, movies, music on Thursday, 31 January 2008, 8:52 pm | 2 Comments »
I’m finishing up a job down in Singapore. Had my pepper crab for the trip. All is well.
I was here over the weekend, and so got to check out a record store (HMV) and thought about seeing a movie. Thoroughly depressing.
As for movies, there’s less than 5 art house movies. A half dozen local and [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, economics, recession on Thursday, 24 January 2008, 3:04 am | 3 Comments »
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of Web 2.0. I think it holds great potential for group collaboration, online participation, democratization of the means of creative production, and knowledge managment.
But I think this blogger (Joe McKendrick, in The Fast Forward Blog, a Hosted Discussion on Enterprise 2.0 ) has a case of ‘irrationally exuberant’ [...]
Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Jim Jannard, Red Camera, cameras on Thursday, 24 January 2008, 3:02 am | No Comments »
Jim Jannard, on reduser.net has announced that the Red One camera is coming out of beta, and that there are two major upgrades to the firmware (Build 14 and 15) being rolled out in the next 7 weeks:
Coming out of Beta…
We are coming out of Beta into full production. Build 14 is the [...]
Posted in Hawaii, Indie filmmaking, YouTube, sea turtles on Saturday, 19 January 2008, 12:11 am | No Comments »
OK. One more vaca video (I promise this is the last one): a slow-paced sea turtle video I shot using the same Sony Handycam off Kahalu’u Beach in Kona. I’ve done a lot of reef snorkling, but this is one of the best places I’ve been. Not as amazing as the Great Barrier Reef, but [...]
Posted in FilmAid, Gus Van Sant, Indie filmmaking, Kite Runner, Martin Scorsese, Portland, TWIM, The Fabulous Picture Show, Under the Bombs, alJazeera on Friday, 18 January 2008, 5:43 am | No Comments »
OK. So I’m flipping through my cable channels in my apartment in Hong Kong (the self-referential commercials that take up 13 minutes of every hour on cable drive me to do that) and I find, lo and behold, a new channel, Al Jazeera. Apparently landed in Hong Kong only a few days ago. What a [...]
Posted in Hawaii, Indie filmmaking, Web 2.0, YouTube, dolphins, underwater video on Monday, 14 January 2008, 12:27 am | No Comments »
Well, this could be considered off-topic (”what I did on my vaca”), but I think you’ll enjoy it. Check this out:
My wife and I were on the Big Island of Hawaii a couple weeks back, for a wedding of friends. And we got a chance to snorkel with spinner dolphins off Kona on New Year’s [...]
Posted in RSS, Web 2.0, WordPress.com, blogs, site stats on Saturday, 12 January 2008, 12:40 am | No Comments »
WordPress.com had turned off last year any stats on who was reading your blog via RSS feed. However, they’ve just turned on an interesting graphical way to view this data. Here’s an example:
Basically, views of a blog post via RSS feed are shown in light blue on top of views via browser (in dark blue). [...]
Posted in 4K, David Lynch, Indie filmmaking, Jim Jannard, Quicktime, Red Camera, high def display, high def projector, iPhone, movie theater on Monday, 7 January 2008, 7:51 pm | No Comments »
This will be very, very cool. Here’s Jim’s post on it at reduser.net:
4K Delivery…
We are very happy to hear Panasonic and Sony announce their 4K displays at CES today. That allows us to finally announce that RED has been developing for release a 4K delivery system.We have been committed to 4K from day [...]
Posted in Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, high-definition on Thursday, 3 January 2008, 12:05 am | 1 Comment »
[UPDATE: 15 April: Scarlet specs and details have been announced.]
Jim Jannard has just announced on reduser.net that prototypes of Red’s new pocket professional camera, to be called “Scarlet”, will be shown at NAB in April ‘08:
The name is…
Scarlet. Our Pocket Professional camera.We know that the name has leaked out, so we want to avoid [...]
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