Smarter Commerce i IBM Client Center
Åbning af IBM Client Center Copenhagen
Pika Foto har været med inde over udstillingen i alt fra idéer, planlægning til udførelse.
IBM Client Center er IBM Danmarks kundecenter beliggende på deres hovedkontor i Lyngby. De servicerer et 5-6 cifret antal kunder årligt, og har som en central del af deres mødefaciliteter, et stort område til at showcase IBM’s visioner og produkter. Udstilling skifter en gang om året – og jeg har været med inde over de sidste 3 gange de har sat en ny udstilling op – Denne gang var ingen undtagelse.
Der har været knald på den sidste måned, og mange timer er blevet leveret til en veltilfreds kunde. Timerne har været fordelt over en vifte af arbejdsopgaver og der har i dén grad været tryk på “Medieservice” delen af “Pika Foto- & Medieservice”. Der har selvfølgelig været en del fotografisk arbejde også, men da mine kompentencer også inkluderer en stor viden omkring grafisk design, filformater, god erfaring i at sparre med de store trykkerier, en masse teknisk viden generelt så er det blevet trykket på alle tangenterne for at levere kunden en samarbejdspartner der har kunne rådgive og løfte alle de opgaver der skal til, for at sætte sådan en udstilling i verden.
Opgaven startede med brainstorming for nogle måneder siden, og jeg var med inde over fra starten af sammen med Rikke (der driver Client Centeret og er primus motor bag udstillingerne). Fordelen ved at være med, helt fra starten er selvfølgelig at jeg som konsulent på opgaven, kan for det første komme med ekstra input, men samtidig også kan konkretisere hvilke idéer der kan flyve, og hvilke der ikke kan – helt fra starten af. Det sparer selvfølgelig kunden en masse tid, idet de ikke risikerer at køre ned af et forkert spor med nogle idéer der ikke kan implementeres. Samtidig kan jeg komme med kreative forslag til løsningsmodeller de ikke selv havde set. Efter (mange) møder med en masse interessenter i udstillingen, begyndte vi at få et overblik over hvad udstillingen skulle dække, og kunne begynde at kigge på det grafiske udtryk, hvad der skulle laves og leveres.
Fotografisk er der blevet lavet to kæmpe fotostater på hhv. 2,60 x 2,20m og 2,60 x 5,70m. Udover det, har jeg håndteret al grafik – jeg har været med inde over selve designet, samt stået for at lave selve produktionsfilerne til trykkeriet – IBM er et stort multinationalt firma, der selvfølgelig har regler for hvordan deres grafik må bruges, i hvilke sammenhænge deres logo må vises, og generelle ting som sprogbrug, her hjælper at kende kunden og kunne navigere fornuftigt i de regler der er. Med i teamet var iøvrigt Helene, som er Rikke’s faste tekstforfatter og som jeg også har arbejdet sammen med på tidligere opgaver. Når vi så er kommet frem til grafikken, har jeg stået for at bikse det sammen i de vektorformater trykkeriet har brug for (Damgaard jensen – dgj.dk – som er fantastiske!). Her er en dyb viden om farveprofiler, dpi og skaleringer, filformater, tryk-teknikker guld værd. Trykkeriet kan typisk løfte opgaverne for deres kunder mod gebyr, hvis de eksempelvis sender en bitmap på 300x300pixels og tror de skal have forstørret den op til 1x1m… men det er dyrt, og hvorfor ikke levere det korrekte format fra starten af? Det er billigere for kunden, man undgår misforståelser og når man kører med hårde deadlines, er det rart at vide at trykkeriet kan lave det på den lovede tid (a.k.a. ASAP ;-) fordi man véd at materialet de har modtaget, er iorden. Vi leverer altid en produktionsklar fil, og det er meget sjældent der er rettelser til dem.
Udstillingen er iøvrigt rigtigt spændende, med en masse spændende demoer om hvad IBM kan gøre for retail branchen – og det er ikke så lidt, samt en demonstration af fremtidsvisionerne for den komplette shoppingoplevelse inklusive et virtuelt prøverum. Jeg skulle hilse at sige at en 2 meter høj fotograf, ser fantastisk ud i kjole – men jeg tror jeg holder mig til kameraet ;-)
Alt i alt, et rigtigt spændende projekt at være samarbejdspartner på – og en enormt glad kunde gør kun min dag bedre ;-)
Nu er det vist så også blevet tid til en smule fritid og sommer, sol og en kølig på altanen!
XfcpX – From Canon XF100 to FCPX – a working flow!
Please note: Canon has finally realeased their plugin. If you are still here for the XfcpX tool, please check out version 2 of it here: XfcpX 2
So, you are one of those happy owner’s of the Canon XF100? And you really want to work with Final Cut Pro X now that you’ve paid for it? You have banged your head at the wall, cursing at Apple, Canon and your dog over the fact that you could not import your footage in a manner that made any sense? If that’s you, read on – I may just have the solution you are looking for…and it’s Fast, Free and Lossless (Yeah, that’s what I said!)
UPDATE January 2012: Sorry all, I can see some of you had unanswered comments. My blog was spam-attacked, leaving me with some 8000 comments to sort through before getting to yours. I’ve installed a better spam protection now, so if your comment/question got lost in the clean-up please repost.
So, I too, have been in your situation. I’ve searched the internet high and low for a working solution that made sense. Sure, there are options – you could roundrobbin’ your files through FCP7… Well, that’s a no-go for me; even though I have my trusty FCP7 still installed, it’s on a another boot drive as I did not want to take the chance of messing up my production system. And booting to another OS to ingest my video, is not really an option for me, when I think in workflow terms. So, there’s the other option of the “Best video converter for mac” crap you see spamming all over the place. Is it Aunsoft? Foxreal? Whatever… are they even different products or just rebranding of the same code? Either way, they are $35 and reports claim that they are unstable, hard to do batch stuff in and they bloat the files… The bloating I could live with, disk space is cheap, but they do introduce a transcoding step – and we all know what that means: Loss of quality.
Also, the lack of any kind of workflow support just makes it a non-viable option for me. Daniel Houghton did a nice job of creating an Automator script to help with batch transcoding using Adobe Media Encoder. But I am not too fond of solutions that are too automated. I want options. And Adobe Media Encoder is more money out the window, unless you preown it ;-)
Considering that Canon claims their XF Pro codec is a “real” mpeg2 stream, wrapped in the MXF container, I am not about to accept a transcode of my master material, unless absolutely nessecary. It turns out, I don’t have to ;-)
So, after some investigation, edu-ma-cation and a few buckets of coffee, I came up with an idea of my own – and seeing as it does not look like Canon is going to step up to the plate in the near future, I took the liberty of going ahead and implementing the damn thing as well.
The proverbial tree does not grow into the skies though – read on…
The Good
So, is this the Holy Grail? The ultimate tool? Nope. Does it work? Absolutely yes. And it’s fast as well. Oh, and did I mention, NO transcoding. Basically, I am rewrapping the original mpeg2 stream in a .mov container that FCPX will play nice with – after which you can have FCPX transcode it if needed. But you have your original yuv422p/50Mbps footage going straight into the belly of FCPX – yummy yummy ;-) It’s all possible only due to the brilliant work of the guys doing the whole FFmpeg open source project. So yeah, don’t thank me – thank them… they did the hard work; my little utility is simply wrapping it in a nice UI that will enable it to be used in a decent workflow for us happy XF100 owners ;-)
The Bad
So yeah, I’m not really a Mac programmer. Neither am I a Cocoa specialist or anything fancy. I am also on a limited time-budget. So this is not a pretty program, very Mac’ish or really a nice package or anything like that. Update – I just repackaged and precompiled the whole thing… the installer should be alot easier now
…And the Ugly
And while we’re on the subject of time-budget – Any time spent on stuff like this, is time not spent making money from my customers. This means, that this program is as-is. Don’t expect support, don’t expect bugfixes and don’t expect it to get improved in regards to functionality. However, just below this paragraph I am providing you with a donate link so you can send me a little token of appriciation if you feel like it. Now, let me elaborate on this: Please, do not in any way feel obliged to pay anything for this little utility. I am dead serious – if you use it, and don’t feel like paying there’ll be no hard feelings from my part – I pinky swear; I am just happy you can use it to be productive. I made the code for myself – and it does not cost me a dime (or almost nothing) to make it available to you, so enjoy ;-)
But, if there’s enough funds comming in from this little Paypal link, I may find that I can afford to spend some more time on this program. While there will be bugfixes to whatever annoys me the most, a little funding can go a long way to make the product better. And it can get alot better – stuff like a nice installer, individual file conversion instead of just whole cards, previews of the video files, more options to split sound and video, maybe even a true Log&Transfer kinda thing with setting I’s and O’s on individual clips, better handling of metadata (big one for me) etc. etc. I make no promises though – Java programming for the Mac is not where I get my income from, and a man’s gotta eat you know ;-)
So, without further ado:
Installation
Yeah, so in short – this is what you are going to do:
– Check Prereqs
– Install Java (If needed)
– Install XfcpX
– In…joy! :-)
Check Prereqs
This is developed and tested under Lion – I see no reason for it not to work under Snow Leopard for instance… but I have no clue really. If you try it out, please let me know ;-) Anyways, make sure your Mac is fully up-to-date by clicking the apple icon in the top left of your screen and select “Software Update..” – if you see any packages inthere, install them all unless you have a good reason not to. In order for this guide to work, you should as a minimum have the App Store installed… but there’s other goodies to be had, such as the ProRes codecs that only comes as an update in there for FCPX owners.(But of course, you already did install those – right?)
Install Java
If you don’t already have Java installed, go to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1360 and download the latest version of Java – install it. Note: You probably already have Java and can skip this step – but this is the link in case you don’t ;-)
Install XfcpX
Download XfcpX, open the zip file and double click the installer – if all goes well, you should be able to find the utility in your Applications folder (Or use spotlight).
So, what’s going on here?
The utility is fairly simple. I made it in a way that made sense for my workflow. It assumes you used Canon’s XF Utility to backup the cards from your camera. These are your Master files, and should never be touched. I am importing all my cards using the XF utility to a single folder called “Master Files”. What I am saying is, that the Master Folder in XfcpX should basically point to the same directory as your backup location option inside the XF utility ;-)
Once you’ve located this, the right side “Cards to Process” should populate with the cards you have backed up. (They are listed by the date name that XF util uses to name each folder). The Destination Folder in the bottom is up to you. Some place all their converted files in one folder, and import them to FCP from there. I prefer to create a folder structure for each project and place the media there, something like /Media/Customer_name/Project_Name/ – the reason is, that if you use the “use folder names for meta data” thingie inside FCPX, you have prepopulated some keywords/metadata already…always nice !. XfcpX will use the destination folder, to create a single folder for each card processed (same name as XF Util used) and will place all the processed .mov files from the card inside this folder. When you have set the master folder and the destination folder, select the cards you want to process and click “1..2..3..GO!” ;-)
When a card has been fully processed, it will be moved to the Previous Cards list in the left side to clear up some clutter. If you need to reprocess it, you can just click it back to the process list on the right and select it for processing.
As with many of these things, you should not tamper with the folder structure/names of the cards that XF utility backed up – I am dependent on them ;-)
Final note
That’s it… you should now have full quality copies of your video, wrapped in a FCPX friendly .mov container ready to import into FCPX and let it do it’s thang!
You can, in your Event, just select “Import files” and it will eat it all up – but an even better option, if you ask me, is to say “Import from camera”, then click “Open Archive..” and browse to the Destination folder. The reason for this, is that it will display the import window where you can select individual clips with in’s and out’s to import ;-)
Depending on your system, you may experience a greenish flicker on the video when you play it back inside FCPX – don’t be scared, it’s not a “real” problem. The video is fine, will render fine and all that – it’s due to FCPX’s need for speed… if you go to the Preferences in FCPX and click “Playback”, select “Higher Quality” instead of “Better performance” and the problem goes away. This has nothing to do with the rewrapped files, just a performance issue in general – other formats does this too inside FCPX. If you can live with it, rest assured it will render just fine and it’s only a playback issue inside FCPX’s preview(Although, color correction might be abit more tricky :p ).
There you have it – now, forget about the tedious technical stuff and go be creative… shoo, come on, out in the real world and make some footage!
/Cheers
******************* Known limitations *******************
– XfcpX will not handle Interlaced footage (the 50i, 60i modes etc.). That is to say, it will handle it, but you will get the raw interlaced footage into FCPX with all the artifacts you’d expect. This is due to the fact that I am not converting it. I could probably make an option to convert interlaced footage, but there would have to be a high demand for that. In my mind, Interlaced footage belongs in the past and should be shunned. The 3 key points of this software is to fit in a nice productive workflow, be fast and leave the original footage intact. Converting files, to handle interlaced footage would go against the latter 2.
– On some systems, the resulting .mov files wont play in QuickTime. This has to do with the videos being tagged, improperly, with a FourCC of m2v1 instead of m2v. It’s just the tag though – and the files should play fine, once inside FCPX. It’s on the to-be-fixed list.
******************* Updates below *******************
25-08-2011 – (V1.1c):
– Fixed a bug introduced with the NTSC Audio fix ;-) It resulted in just the Left mono channel being mapped to a stereo channel, leaving right mono sound out of the file. This means any video you converted with the previous version, only have left sound in it – reprocessing of the files is needed, sorry :(
23-08-2011 – (V1.1b):
– Fixes a bug with that produces really small(~400Kb) and useless .mov files. (Due to faulty timecodes for audio in NTSC version of the cam)
22-08-2011 – (V1.1a):
– New version up. Handles directories with spaces now ;-)
– Fixed “Chance to hang when processing large MXF’s”
60 Portraits in 6 hours
Time for an english blog post! Now, why is that? Did I suddenly go all international ? No, not really – I did, however, create a BTS video of a recent assignment. A video which I figure may have a wider appeal than just the local suspects, so I chose to annotate it in english – and this video/assignment is what this blog post is about. So there – english it is :-)
I was approached to shoot the entire staff of the GBS department – a subsidiary division of IBM in Denmark. They wanted a new profile so they initiated a little project to boost their presence, and for this they needed new profile pictures of each employee. The key points were that they wanted something “business like”, something fresh, something coherent that signaled that they were all part of the same team – and they did not mind moving away from the traditional portrait on a white background.
There were practical limits though – I couldn’t invite all 60 people to my studio, so Mohammad had to come to the mountain. The mountain in this case, being a generic and boring office space, with white walls, fluorescent lightings and where the most prominent piece of decor was a whiteboard ;-) In my scouting session, I did however notice the office space had blinds to cover the windows – a semi dark grey kind. Considering the traditional 8-bar logo of IBM my brain started working something out. I figured I could tone down the background, making it all a blue’ish tone to, if not emulate the logo, then at least, hopefully, create a coherent look for the portraits that made sense in some way.
The day arose and I arrived early with an assistant, setting up in the office space. The lighting plan was all mapped out in my head – and to my delight, it worked out like a charm just as I imagined it would – save a few tweaks etc. of course. My contact person had arranged for a “flowing approach” where my little photo studio was open for business for something like 2 x 3 hours during the day, and people could just drop in and get the picture done as they saw fit. That worked out fine, at the busiest points I had a queue of maximum 4 people – noone waiting more than 10 minutes. I, on the other hand, had plenty of time to drink coffee in between – with planning, this could’ve been executed in something like 2-3 hours; but with this many people you cannot expect everyone being able to fit their schedule to yours – so all in all, it was a sensible approach that worked out well.
The shot it self, was very limited – in the sense that all the portraits had to be reasonably alike to achieve the goal of coherence. In order to keep the blinds filling the background, but not get the window panes in the frame, my camera was pretty much locked down except for the height, in which I had some leeway. That, unfortunately, meant that I had to order my poor subjects around, asking them to move slightly around to position themselves correctly in the frame – they were good sports about that though. I was shooting at 200mm @ f/11, enabling me to keep focus on them relatively easily, getting a pleasing amount of blur on the blinds and totally eliminating texture from the outside. Having the outside as a background, over a timespan of 6 hours was a challenge. I did count on it, so I made sure I had enough room on both sides of the shutterspeed to both keep a sharp image (Yes, the flash freezes movement, but having ambient light in the exposure can introduce ghosting on too slow speeds – an artifact I am not too fond of) as well as staying within sync speed of the flashes. There were *some* differences in the background brightness throughout the day, but nothing I cannot live with.
For the lighting part, I chose a big key light, gelled with a full CTO in an octobox. I moved it abit more to the side, to light primarily only one side of the face, letting the other fall into semi-deep shadows. Balancing for the CTO in camera, enabled the background to fall into the blue shades I was after. Then I added an ungelled kicker behind on the shadow side to prevent the dark part from falling into the background. I made an effort of “overdoing” this a bit, giving the kicker room to draw attention to itself. It gave the impression of light falling from the background outside (same temp) and helped modelling the face in 3D. All in all, this lighting gave me the edgy, contrasty look I was going for. Finally, I flagged off the Key so it would not touch the background (very small area @ 200mm, so easy to flag off) and added an ungelled hairlight for good measure ;-)
A breakdown of each light:
Exposing for the background
No lights, with a rough WB of 3000K'ish, notice the blueish tones on the blinds
Key Light
No diffusion material, notice how the blinds turn back to neutral, since the color-gelled Key now illuminates them.
Key Light
Now diffused properly (look at the reflection in the background window.. Shadows are more pleasing. (Also loosing a stop or so of light)
Kicker/Rim Light
Bare bulb, helping sculpting/modelling the face against the background
Key + Kicker Light
Now the background has been flagged off from the Keylight. (Almost, the white part in bottom right of frame is still exposed to key, will be tweaked later).
Hair-/Rim light
Alone, giving definition to the hair and rims out the shoulders.
Final Portrait
All lights on, background properly flagged.
So, there you have it – 60 Portraits in 6 hours ;-)
Equipment used:
Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed a/s
Elinchrom Octabox 135cm
Canon Speedlight 580EXII
PocketWizard MiniTT1 / MiniTT5
Canon EOS 5D Mk.II
Canon EF 70-200mm / f2.8
Lee Full CTO Gel
Lenovo W701ds
PhotoShop Disasters
Hvis man keder sig, er PhotoShop Disasters altid et besøg værd. Der er altid god sjov at hente og masser af inspiration.. eller; måske ikke så meget inspiration igen ;-)
Kort fortalt, er det en blog der hvor folk kan sende billeder ind, de mener er kikset i Photoshop på den ene eller den anden måde.. Der er alt fra “Lorem Ipsum” tekster, der ikke er blevet rettet inden en 20 meter stor plakat er gået i trykken, til kvinder, hvor det alt for tynde ideal er taget lige et skridt for langt som her, hvor også hele det stakkels pigebarns fysik har været en tur i centrifugen:
Klik for at se hele artiklen i nyt vindue
Personligt, bruger jeg det ivrigt, om ikke andet for at grine lidt, men også som en god træning for øjet som fotograf. Istedet for at læse teksten, er det en god øvelse at vurdere billedet uden at du ved præcist hvad der er galt og så prøve at spotte det selv. Nogle er åbenlyse, nogle knap så åbenlyse – men vi har alle prøvet at sidde så længe med et billede og arbejde i detaljer, at man kan glippe de helt store fejl fuldstændigt. (Det er så derfor det altid er en god idé at have een eller flere reviewers på sit arbejde ;-) – men måske lidt træning kan hjælpe, så kig løs – se hvor mange du kan spotte uden at læse teksterne til – og ellers få dig et godt grin ;-)
FStoppers.com: Kameraet ér ligegyldigt ;-)
FStoppers.com har lavet en lille video, der viser forskellen på professionalisme og know-how modsat den ivrige amatør, med lidt for mange penge til det dyre kamera. Som jeg har skrevet om tidligere, handler fotografi i langt højere grad om motiv, komposition og lys (at se det, finde det eller selv at lægge det) end det handler om hvilket kamera man bruger.
Selvfølgelig er der basale krav til kameraet, og som med alt andet handler det om finde det rigtige værktøj til det job man udfører. Når det så er sagt, så med på denne video, hvor de gennemfører et ganske fornuftigt fashion shoot med en iPåne – og nej, det er ikke fordi iPåne’n er lækker og fin at det spiller; det er fordi manden ved hvad han gør ;-)
Strobist: Using ND Filters to Kill Depth of Field
Strobist: Using ND Filters to Kill Depth of Field.
David Hobby har skrevet en lille artikel omkring brugen af ND filtre. Der er ikke noget nyt under solen; men han giver en god lille walk-through over den praktiske brug.
Hvis du ikke helt har forstået idéen med hvordan du kan bruge et ND filter til andet end at følge Digital Foto magasinets sædvanlige idéforladte forslag med at få “silkeblødt vand” så læs med her, og se hvordan fænomenet med at begrænse det indkommende lys ud over kameraets tekniske formåen kan bruges med flash til at opnå den kreative effekt du ønsker.
Süperfad: Sony “Eye Candy”
“Eye Candy” – Sony BRAVIA HDTV
De fleste kender, eller har set dele af Sony’s “make.believe” kampagne. De store, flotte, farverige og surrealistiske reklamer på tv, der har det formål at vise hvor realistisk et Sony tv viser farver… eller noget i den dur. Flotte er de som regel; det seneste skud på stammen er produceret af Süperfad og kjämpe fint hvis du spørger mig – check det ud og se også lige, den alt for sparsomme, Behind the Scenes video på dette link:
Manfrotto 055XPROB / 804RC2 kamera stativ – en anmeldelse
Manfrotto 055XPROB med 804RC2 3-vejs hovede
… Det absolut vigtigste stykke grej i den kategori der ikke bruger batterier, du kan finde på at købe som fotograf, er et stativ. Der er utallige scenarier, du kan risikere at skulle bruge det i – og der er ikke noget mere ærgerligt, end at skyde et billede du ved ikke bliver godt, fordi du burde have haft brugt stativ men ikke havde et – eller bare ikke havde det med.
Stativet er vigtigt til mange ting – det kan holde dit kamera steder, hvor det måske ikke er særligt sikkert du opholder dig, eller steder hvor din tilstedeværelse simpelthen ødelægger muligheden for at få billedet overhovedet (Dyre fotografi eksempelvis – sæt dit kamera på stativ med en fjernudløser, og chancen for du får et close-up af et egern vokser fra nul til ret høj ;-)
Men den absolut vigtigste egenskab ved stativet, er selvfølgelig at det hjælper med at stabilisere kameraet og få skarpe billeder – selv i scenarier, hvor lukkertiden er lang. Tommelfingerreglen for hvornår dine billeder stadigt bliver opfattet som skarpe af den menneskelige hjerne, ligger på ca. 1/blænden. Dvs. at skyder du på 100mm bør din lukkertid ikke være langsommere end 1/100s. God kameraførings teknik, kan give dig et halvt til et helt stop mere (her er Joe McNally’s Da Grip et godt trick at lære ;-) og selvfølgelig, billedestabilisering kan give så meget som 2 eller endda 3 stop mere. (Hvad er et stop ? Der kommer en artikel om det – men et stop, fordobler lyset der bruges til at lave billedet med. Det kommer fra at man i gamle dage ”stoppede blænden ned”. 1/50s er altså et stop mere end 1/100s). Du bør i øvrigt slå billedestabilisering fra, hvis du benytter stativ – de to ting arbejder ikke godt sammen – med mindre du bruger Canon, hvor stabiliseringslogikken opdager at du er på et stille stativ, og selv slår fra. Men nogle gange – eller ofte, har du bare brug for så lang lukkertid, at alverdens tricks ikke kan sikre dig et skarpt billede, og så er stativet uundværligt!
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The (Shallow) Rock Climber ?
Da Canon lancerede 5d Mk.II…
…var der en masse fuss omkring dens Video muligheder. Ikke at det var det første DSLR med HD video, for dén landede Nikon – men det var det første med Full HD. Det afledte at Vince Laforet, som den første – med et pre-prod kamera, fik bikset en lille film sammen Reverie der om noget viste os alle sammen hvad vi havde i vente. Det var smukt, teknisk imponerende…og en smule kedeligt ;-) Men flot var det (og er det stadig – check iøvrigt hans site generelt: Vince Laforet). Ovenover, ses så australske Simon Carters nye film, The Rock Climber, skudt på et Nikon D3s. (more…)
Big bucks ?
Når reklamegutterne laver lidt grin med sig selv…
.. kan der komme en masse spas ud af dét. Den nyeste Nissan reklame kører på det faktum at en bilreklame normalt koster ca. det samme som et lille parcelhus i Danmark at producere. Og det ér dyrt – alt skal være super polished, sharp og fejlfrit… kombineret med lækre kameravinkler der kræver sin fotograf og ikke mindst dyrt grej som kraner, helikoptere og lignende – så er det svært at holde omkostningerne nede :)
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We don’t need no stinkin’ sun
Hvem siger en teknik reklame skal være tør og kedelig?
…Og hvem har brug for solen med en 330cm reflektor og 12800ws ?!? Som en meget rig, gammel mand så fornuftigt en gang sagde: “Since the dawn of time, Man has longed to destroy the sun. I shall do the next best thing, block it out.”
Imponerende grej – når jeg engang bliver stor, sååeehh…. :-)
Counting down… 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, CS5 !
Så er Adobe drengene på banen igen..
..og har startet deres countdown til Creative Suite 5. Der er lidt guf at hente på deres countdown-side – især “Content Aware Fill” bliver spændende. Og kommer til at vække en masse diskussioner, som vanligt, om hvad der er etisk forsvarligt og al det bla bla der… Jeg har selv en blogpost i skuffen, der kommer til at berøre dét emne ;-)
Jeg glæder mig ihvertfald til at se mere til CS5 :)
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Der er et band, der i følge Youtube vinder mere og mere kult status – nemlig 8Ball. Midt 2009 debuterede de med en video, der præsenterede opskriften på et hit: Et fængende beat, en velproduceret lyd (med masser af auto-tune ;-) og en god portion humor i form af en tekst der måske ikke helt er så stueren som mange kunne ønske ;-) Jeg snakker selvfølgelig om “Klunker”, og hvis du ikke har set den endnu (og ellers ikke er for sart) er den et kig værd: Klunker på YouTube
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