I can’t imagine how I survived before digital. The thought of not having my bright LCD showing my trusty histogram and composition sends chills up my spine. I used to live in Alaska, and shooting portraits back in the film era meant I would first shoot a Polaroid to check my exposure and lighting. Since […]
Imagine a future where humans are unable to access the data, literature, art, photographs, discoveries, and vital records of previous generations. That bleak future may be on the horizon! Learn how our fragile, rapidly obsolete systems of storing data could lead to a digital dark age. This video, from the Computer History Museum’s new exhibition: […]
Conversation Agent: Real Time and Attention. A couple of years ago we had an interblog conversation about free. Remember those? With links and all that. It was about relevance —right place, right time. Attention is very much about being relevant. Signal, on the other hand, is also about permission. Two sides of the same coin. […]
Spider Holster | WPPI 2011 | ProPhoto Coalition from ProPhoto Coalition on Vimeo. We wanted to get the first of several videos from WPPI live. More to follow, but pretty impressed by the Spider Holster. I think I want one… […]
Everything is Miscellaneous | [2b2k] Public data and metadata, Google style. I’m finding Google Lab’sDataset Publishing Language (DSPL) pretty fascinating. Upload a set of data, and it will do some semi-spiffy visualizations of it. (AsApryl DeLancey points out, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas now work for Google, so if they’re working on this project, the […]
Reinventing IT might mean rethinking the Business | Eric D. Brown. Daily Pic 25: Reinvent yourself By DailyPic on Flickr After my last post on the topic ofReinventing IT, I decided to think about the different aspects of actually reinventing IT and what it might actually look like in the ‘real world’. I’ve talked about […]
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Di-O-Matic Inc, a leading developer of 3D character animation software and plug-in for the entertainment industry today released Maskarad, a new ground-breaking automatic markerless facial performance motion capture software. With Maskarad, 3D artists now only need a video file featuring an actor’s performance to get started creating lifelike facial animations. Using advanced computer recognition, Maskarad […]
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This reader Quicktip comes over from Steve Sabban and it’s a follow-up to Quicktip number 7: changing FCP filters lengths partially applied to a clip. I thought that was a particularly handy tip but it didn’t go into any real timeline manipulation of keyframes. This tip does. If you’ve keyframed filter parameters or motion parameters […]
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Are you curious about what a television editor does? Are you a fan of Chuck? Then this video is for you. It’s about 25 days of episodic television editing and post-production distilled into one 3 minute timelapse. The one thing you can be certain of … we editors sit and stare at the computer screen. […]
Seeking a Semantic Web Sweet Spot AI3:::Adaptive Information. Reference Structures Provide a Third Way Since the first days of the Web there has been an ideal that its content could extend beyond documents and become a global, interoperating storehouse of data. This ideal has become what is known as the “semantic Web“. And within this […]
