Media
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Now that twitter has broken through it’s teething stage, how is it going to make money? According to the site there are 30 or so employees at the company, but no visible revenue. The site is not bloated with advertising, and they don’t charge for API access. The venture capitalist can see the potential, even I can…but when is it all going to happen. Maybe they are just waiting for Google to take over.
Blog dead?
Has twitted killed my blog?
In Bruge (2008)
Last night I watch the feature debut of short film Oscar winning writer, director Martin McDonagh. The film, on the outer, was about two Irish hitmen hiding out after a botched job. Predicatively, the themes are consequence and regret. I walked away impressed with the film, particularly after being told that is was a feature debut. But like many late eighties, early nineties creations, in these cases at hands of music video directors, In Bruges lacked truth. McDonagh is trying to convey a thin plot with a series of conveniences and hooks. These are classic techniques when working in the short medium, but are obvious and clumsy when applied to a feature. This art does have its masters in Guy Richie and Danny Boyle and we takes these films for what they are. Richie and Boyle have refined this art by using over the top situations and characters, while McDonagh’s attempt to create a more believable story left his film shallow and untruthful.
I guess what I am trying to say is….I liked the film (go see it)..but my snobbery has tainted its memory L
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Lightroom 2 and CS4 Launch
Last night was the Melbourne Adobe CS4 Launch party. It was held at a standard IT party location, only the crow was different. The normal IT party is a swarm of suited up sales crowds and distribution hawks…think…”I am a PC”. Last night it was “…and I’m Mac”. Everyone had a Mac…the demos where on Macs…many a lap was covered with a Mac…possibly the drinks where shaken with a Mac. As usual the bar was open…but I wasn’t drinking (maybe some more on that in another entry).
Apart from the Mac love fest the night was all about integration, easy and wow. Edit a video clip from Premiere in After Effects without rendering out. The changes made in After Effects are reflected in Premiere in real time…. Integration! Create a key frame in Flash, click and dragging an object creates a path…bend the path with the mouse…animation done…correctly with all the web friendly coding done….easy! A photo of a field with 4 cows…need more field…increase the size of the image..field grows (doesn’t distort) the cows remain 
unchanged (and trees)….wow!
I got home and had to break out the only current generation Adobe product I have, Lightroom 2. I hadn’t really played with it..but wow. Last night I did a 30 min shoot of some food..imported the raw images to Lightroom..created a set of modifications and copied them to a bunch of the shots. Fast…really fast..processing took less time than the shoot. The developed photos were on flickr within 40 mins of packing up the shoot. I am a convert…Don’t cry Photoshop…you can still play with the jpgs.
