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July 07 2008
July 06 2008
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mzeltnerJuly 05 2008
Michael Bay’s Rejected ‘The Dark Knight’ Script
Excerpt:
We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the hottest woman in the world, but she wears glasses because she is also the smartest woman in the world.
“— derStandard.atRedeverbot im Stift
Erinnerungen an die Zeit des Eisernen Vorhangs im Stift Melk
Wer glaubt, der Eiserne Vorhang hätte sich nach seinem Fall in Luft aufgelöst, irrt. Mitunter weht er tief nach Österreich herein. Jüngst wurde sein Saum im Stift Melk gesichtet.Lehrer Karlheinz W. befand sich mit seinen Schülern auf Projektwoche. Ein Höhepunkt der Donau-Kulturreise sollte der Besuch des Barockstifts Melk werden. Als der gut vorbereitete Lehrer mit seiner Gruppe den Rundgang durch die Räume begann, geschah Erstaunliches: Man teilte ihm höflich mit, er solle sein Wissen für sich behalten. Wohl war er befugt, Eintritt zu bezahlen, nicht aber, in Konkurrenz zu den kostenpflichtigen Führern zu treten. Wenn ihm unbedingt danach sei, seinen Schülern etwas zu erklären, dann könne er dies auf Finnisch oder Japanisch tun, nicht aber auf Deutsch, Englisch oder Französisch. Nach deutlich vernehmbaren Worten zu einem Bildnis Maria Theresias setzte es die erste Verwarnung. Als der Lehrer erneut rückfällig wurde, bekam er Schweigebegleitschutz. Zwei Damen beschatteten die Gruppe und überwachten rigoros das Redeverbot.
PS: Noch ein Tipp für die tüchtigen Melker Stiftsvermarkter: länger als eine Minute auf ein Kunstwerk starren - 50 Cent extra. (Daniel Glattauer/DER STANDARD - Printausgabe, 5. Juli 2008) ”
fainJuly 04 2008
Behind-the-Scenes Photographs From ‘A Clockwork Orange’
Love the one with Kubrick drinking coffee with Malcolm McDowell. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin.)
Adobe 9
Mark Pilgrim on the latest version of Adobe Reader.
Adobe today reminds me a bit of Apple in the mid-’90s. Tremendous engineering and design talent in the company. A loyal base of users built over 20 years. But management that just doesn’t get it at all, and seems hell-bent on running the company into the ground.
Historically, Adobe has provided terrific user experiences. Now, they’re a laughing stock.
July 03 2008
TripLog/1040
Check out the UI on this upcoming iPhone app from Palm OS developer Stevens Creek Software. This is not a joke. (Via Macworld.)
The Cloud is Falling
Vincent Laforet about the future of photography and print media and more...Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
I don’t see how this will ever catch on with kids — there’s no dialogue.
Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
Miguel Helft, reporting for the Times:
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
The order raised concerns among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing habits of hundreds of millions of people could be exposed.
Nothing But Blue Sky For New Photographers
Vincent Laforet wrote a good piece about all the problems facing photographers today (here) but concludes that the possibilities are endless for photographers just getting started.
“ Digital is obviously a lot more than just camera design. But, folks, camera design is stuck. Think rut, think sticky mud. Think hysterical screams of I will only buy exactly what I've bought before only better. Camera design is stuck. And only as long as it stays stuck will the concept of "full-frame" continue to make so much sense. ”— The Online Photographer: Is Full-Frame the Coming Thing?
You've likely seen this by now but I've got to link...
You've likely seen this by now but I've got to link it up anyway because whenever I think about it, it makes me LOLL (laugh out loud, literally). The American Family Association automatically replaces words like "gay" with "homosexual" in the AP stories they display on their news site. When an American sprinter named Tyson Gay is in the news, the practice leads to hilarity.
Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.
And on it goes..."On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heats...", "Homosexual runs wind-aided 9.68 seconds to make Olympics...", "Close call: Homosexual barely averts major flop in 100..." Fox News has applied the same technique to stories about suicide bombers...they changed all instances of that term to "homicide bombers".
(link)An article from Animation World Magazine about the animation techniques...
An article from Animation World Magazine about the animation techniques used in Wall-E.
(link)Life is nothing but imperfection and the computer likes perfection, so we spent probably 90% of our time putting in all of the imperfections, whether it's in the design of something or just the unconscious stuff. How the camera lens works in [a real] housing is never perfect, and we tried to put those imperfections [into the virtual camera] so that everything looks like you're in familiar [live-action] territory.