The DTV transition is easy!
All kidding aside, it really isn't that difficult.
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A fun waste of a few minutes, The Eyeballing Game measures your ability to, well, eyeball shapes, distances, and other geometric attributes. I know, I know... "Math is hard!" But don't worry, all you have to do is click and move a box.
My scores tend to be in the 3.5 range. For come reason convergence and triangle center seem to be my weak points. I can get them right, but when I'm wrong, they're wrong!
[via metafilter, nod to core77]
Granted, the question is leading, but the answers given are very revealing. Now, I won't pidgeonhole all McCain-Palin supporters into this stereotype, but really?
Interviewer: [Obama's] a terrorist?
Woman: He's got the blood-lines.
Interviewer: What does that mean?
Woman: Just think about the name.
There's not really much more I can add to that.
Listen, I'm not going to tell you how to vote. That's a personal choice and I have no business doing that. But please, don't base all your opinions on one candidate or the other on soundbites, derogotory ads, or what you think you heard on the news that one time.
Wired has a piece up about the new breed of DSLRs with the ability to shoot HD video. Now, the main objective of the piece is to point out that new chip designs have lead to this ability, but I take issue with comments like this:
"The single biggest difference between still photography and a movie, aside from motion, is lens choice and depth of field," says Vincent Laforet, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who is part of a Canon marketing program, "Explorers of Light."
Okay, first of all, I'm not sure that Laforet is aware that professional film cameras, including digital cameras like the Red One, do have the ability to changes lenses and offer a shallow depth of field as well. Later:
Laforet predicts that this low-light sensitivity will lead moviemakers to dispense with expensive, bulky, and obtrusive lighting equipment, shooting their movies entirely with available light.
Documentary, maybe. But as a professional photographer, I would think Laforet would know that light use is not simply utilitarian, only to expose the shot. Light can and should be an artistic choice. This alone means the "expensive, bulky, and obtrusive lighting equipment" isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Laforet is correctin one area: these cameras will be a great asset to news photographers who can now get snippets of video.
Now, call me elitist ((Listen, I recognize that the democratization of technology is generally A Good Thing™, but it also leads to an ever decreasing signal-to-noise ratio.)), but while I am excited to see the potential of these new DSLRs unlocked by the tallented people who use them, these cameras will not turn photographers into cinematographers or filmmakers. Just as having Photoshop does not turn one into a designer. They need to realize film (both documentary and narrative) is not simply moving photography. There's story. There's sound ((Please, use a good microphone! I'm glad to see the Canon 5D Mark II add an external mix jack, the lack of one on the Nikon D90 is sad.)). There's pacing.
My predictions: at first, we will see a lot of beautiful moving photography. Then, once people get over that, we will begin to see the true potential of these cameras. But just remember: if the content isn't there, it doesn't matter how pretty the image is, it will still be boring ((I do sound like an elitist, don't I?)).
The enterprising individual at Mr.doob ((Or would you say Mr.doob is the enterprising individual?)) has come up with a unique way of using YouTube videos to present a higher resolution than normal. (Warning: semi-Rickrolling.) If you're interested in how it was done, the source code has the answers.
[via core77]
Andrew Kramer posted another tutorial in the Meteor Crash series. The best piece of advise from the tutorial:
Now, if you don't have Particular, what you can do is go in your back yard, and get a pile of dirt together. Put it in your hand, along with a grenade... No, along with like, a small firecracker. And then... light it. And when your hand blows off, what you can do is sue the company that makes the fireworks. Take the money from the settlement, and then buy Particular... so we can do this tutorial together.
Really, he doesn't get into Particular until part 2, though.
Best Ad blog has a collection of many corporate logos and their iterations through the years. It is interesitng to see the design trends over the decades and how they affected the different brands. Many of the original logos featured either complicated wordmarks or literal iconography. The one trend that seems to cover all the logo transformations: simplification (mostly).
There are many things you don't know about my fellow editor Dan:
- He is the drummer for local band Maritime
- He is one of the nicer editors I know
- He's also made of paper:
[via allABOUTFACE]
As part of Google's 10th anniversary, it is making available a search index from 2001. Apparently due to technical reasons, this is the oldest index it could use. It is still interesting to take a look at how much the web has changed in 7 years.
[via NY Times]
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