End of the line for Final Cut Studio?
According to AppleInsider, Apple is scaling back the Final Cut Studio apps to fit "prosumers". This sounds like an unfortunate disaster for the professional industry, but certainly seems to fit with Apple's trends the last few years.
I wonder if there's more to say.
Beavers and whales
Two animal-related news items reported by the CBC today to make us Canadians happy and/or proud: a grey whale was spotted in False Creek between the Granville and Burrard bridges, and an 850 km long beaver dam in Alberta that probably took 20 years to build!
Creative McDonald’s advertising
Some pantastic outdoor billboard advertising by McDonald's from around the joint. Many of these are absolutely excellent.
I think the most astounding revelation was that in Sweden they actually sell fresh carrots.
Record in H.264 and you can never publish your work?
Apparently most all consumer (and even some professional) photo and video cameras embody licensing encumbrances that strive to prevent profitable distribution of your own work: Why Our Civilizations Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA.
Since the posting of that a couple days ago several other analyses (CNET, Engadget) have been presented, including reaction from Lukas Mathis who concludes that H.264 is not viable for long-term use.
This is sort of a rough situation.
PIXELS by Patrick Jean
A fantastic short film (2:32) by Patrick Jean. If the 8-bit video games of yore came back to seek revenge on NYC...
Hollywood edits tend to follow a formula in cadence
Fascinating little piece here; excerpt:
Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span.
They found that the magnitude of the waves [created by a Fourier transform of the data] increased as their frequency decreased, a pattern known as pink noise, or 1/f fluctuation. (More…)
I guess this means that the editors know their audience.
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever
I'm a week behind the curve on this one, but it deserves to be re-linked – a very well-done satire in A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever (made by these guys).
Deliberate mis-editing by ABC in Toyota report
CBC: ABC admits tinkering with Toyota report. This is a first-degree fuck-up in news editing. (Filed under "film" because, well, apparently the editor thought he was doing a drama)
11 famous people who changed careers after 30
Well, this does make me feel better about myself and my potential: 11 Famous People Who Were in the Completely Wrong Career at Age 30.
30 pictures of goats being crazy
Just lke the title says. Awesome. (How could I pass up this linkage?)
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Twittage
- Can #Apple not produce a goddamn display anymore without a piece of shit reflective glass in front of it?
- Doug Stanhope at the Burbon last night: filthy, offensive, astute, mad hilarious. (Thanks to Tony's hangover for my last-minute ticket)
- Twitter search is utterly broken (no results even for a valid search), am I right?
- Words which disgust me: "biopic"
- http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html ...and not just one, but several.