March 2008
25 posts
Spotlight Plugin for RED raw files (.r3d) →
We just released our free Spotlight Plugin for RED raw files! Andreas Wacker has mentioned the new REDline command line tool and the idea of a Spotlight plugin a few days ago. Our experience with the DPX and Cineon Spotlight plugin helped a lot, and within two days the plugin was finished. The plugin now allows to use metadata from RED RAW (.r3d) file format such as various timecode information...
No Links Please! →
Too bad it has come so far that something like that is needed: A nice little drill sergeant for Firefox that helps focussing on a dissertation, article, book or thesis.
How to clean your mighty mouse with a strip of... →
For the records: Worked well when I was shortly before buying an ordinary mouse or taking the mighty mouse apart.
"STRUNG OUT ON SCIENCE FICTION" →
Gawker’s relatively new Science Fiction Blog covering stories from “Cloverfield Monster Is Free Willy With Pubic Lice” to “Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time”
Resurrection →
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: “Digg!!! Lazarus Digg!!!” ”Byron with irony, Hogarth with a Steinway and Hieronymous Bosch with a migraine” [monocle]
Lürzer's Archive Special: The 200 Best... →
A great collection of recent illustrations. I got mine at the airport’s book shop, but you can order online as well.
Title 4 - Unknown Artist
musicbrainz.org serves a huge database (over 6 million songs so far) of “accoustical IDs“ of songs. Together with a software such as the Jaikoz Tag Editor (ugly Java app, but helpful) you can create the same IDs locally from your unknkown files and let the software look them up in the musicbrainz online database. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work to correct the tags...
The Bible According To Google Earth →
“God’s Eye View“ by the Glue Society - not to be confused with Bible Geocoding. [Easter-post via monoscope]
64k that force me to boot Windows from time to... →
Valley of Zombies
By discovering the latest web movie of the BigDog quadruped robot, I stumbled upon the concept of the Uncanny Valley - a theory that tries to explain the different empathic to uncanny feelings toward human- or animal-like creatures such as stuffed animals, robots, zombies or animated movie characters. An article of the Australian TheAge describes the difference between “a still from Polar...
Awareness Test →
"Bad Movie Physics: A Report Card" →
“Sound in space, unprotected bodies splatting in vacuum, and alien planets that all look just like Calabasas.”
Read this: The Digital Photography Book 1 & 2
If you’re in (hobby) digital photography, get these books. They are bestsellers (so no insider tip here), but that’s no wonder. Scott Kelby has written over 40 books so far and is a successful publisher, trainer and photographer. See his blog for more daily fun with your SLR.
Super Attak Flex Gel in public →
Great idea for promoting a new super glue besides common billboard advertising. [adgoodness blog]
Eating in Burbank / Glendale
For the records: Mambo’s Cafe at 1701 Victory Blvd (Victory and Western) has no website but really good Cuban food and a great Thursday lunch special. It’s a little bit like a diner, but with caribbean flair… …for dinner the Granville Cafe at 121 N San Fernando Blvd Burbank offers fine sandwiches, pasta and salads with lots of different beers to choose from in a...
"Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine?" →
“In this article I will demonstrate Excel’s arithmetical facilities, the embedded rendering subsystems (there are two of them!) and the revolutionary approach which might just cause a paradigm shift.” Great work with a few sample movies and lots of explanatory screenshots: “Warning: Only for determined experts!”
Das Keyboard →
“Das Keyboard compares and surpasses the legendary IBM model M. Its tactile feedback makes it extremely responsive. The sonore feedback (i.e. the click) is not as loud as the original IBM model M but definitively louder than a membrane keyboard.” Old school keyboard with blank keys.
"I Don't Multitask" →
“Back at home, my favorite source of white noise is the coffee shop. It’s chock full of people, stories, and familiar, random sounds that fuel my creative forward momentum. No coffee shop here, so I need to create it.” [randsinresponse] I’m currently building my Cave in a hotel room in Burbank, CA and that article hits the spot.
BluePhoneElite 2 →
I’ve been annoyed by the missing Bluetooth button in Leopard’s Address Book and found an interesting replacement.
Don't forget: Apple is a hardware manufacturer
Comment on IT Broadcast and Digital Cinema: Apple: Let ProRes Go Pro: Such wishes (“[..] maybe a few development dollars towards a cross-platform, public release of ProRes [..]”) forget about Apple’s success-proven strategy of campaigning to offer “High-end Pro” software solutions (which are priced way under worth) but in truth aiming at hardware sales at the...
Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard →
Rails 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introduction on developer.apple.com