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May 06, 2009
FMX 09, Day One
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Films, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology
I woke up early. Too early. My room is located under the stairs to the third floor so it’s needless to say that it’s noisy. The day started off rather cloudy. But it got better along the way. The last two conventions where as sunny as California in any orange-juice commercial so it was okay this year that the weather took leaka break. -
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Jun 24, 2008
DVCPRO-HD-MXF-QT-MOV-FCUK!
Posted in Computing, Rants, Reports, Technology, Video
Working on bigger projects with people in remote places always is a hassle. Today 1 I received the long anticipated hard disk with the blue screen shots I should be working on. I popped it into the USB port but Windows thought the device was damaged and suggested to replace it. Luckily I remembered that the person who sent me the disk was a Mac user so I tried connecting the device on some Mac and it worked. Then my data-odyssey began…
- Well, in fact yesterday now ↩
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Jun 01, 2008
Digital Cinematography
Posted in Compositing, Films, Reports, Technology, Video
Another convention report, my apologies! I haven’t thought that I would be on so many (= two) conventions in the field of digital film in such a short span of time. But attending the Digitale Cinematographie convention this Thursday in Munich was something way out of the ordinary because a little dream never dreamed came true: Seeing my work on the grandeur of a real IMAX theater silver screen.
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May 09, 2008
FMX 08, Day Three
Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology
Today I was eager for a new Pixar poster. Who would’ve thought that I spent nearly one and half hour talking with the guys and gals from Pixar? -
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May 07, 2008
FMX 08, Day Two
Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, People, Rants, Reports, Technology
Recruiting day for me! Yesterday I was too tired and lacked of motivation getting some of my demo reels to the important representatives of Some Great Company. And I even shook hands with one of the people who got me into VFX at all.
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Feb 20, 2008
Format Wars
Posted in Rants, Satire, Technology
Just great! As soon as I settle for something in the great Format Wars it is the wrong thing. According to CRN Toshiba’s CEO Atsutoshi Nishida made a point a few hours ago and officially surrendered to Sony’s Blu-Ray format after many months of battling. -
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Dec 20, 2007
Neat!
Posted in Computing, Rants, Technology
“Neat!” — that was the first thing that escaped my mouth after installing the Second Beta of Mozilla’s Firefox 3. In fact it’s nothing so very special but the new Firefox features one little detail that I’ve been waiting for since my first contact with web-browsers about twelve years ago…
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Nov 26, 2007
Not So Kind(le)
Posted in Computing, Random Thoughts, Rants, Technology
Out of a spark of curiosity I attempoted to order Amazon’s Kindle from Amazon.com. Not because it is such a great thing that rockets human civilization to the next level, but because I am a helpless early-adopter and Gadgetinator. Now I only wish I was in an US prison. Because of that. ‘Nuff said.
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Nov 21, 2007
An Early-Adopter’s Odyssey
Posted in Computing, Dear Diary, Rants, Technology, Video, Vista Issues
Yesterday my HD-DVD drive arrived from Alternate. Bulk version, eighty bucks (Euros), no fancy-schmancy stuff attached like Pet-Print-Studio or crap like that. No, just plugged in and it works. Perfect! But I had no HD-DVD media at the time, so I thought I just go to the mall and get one. That’s when my odyssey started… yes, another one.
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Jun 22, 2007
Koeran Style, Pt. 1
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I’m just a nerd. My long anticipated gadget I purchased arrived today. Wanna guess what it is? Here are some clues:- It has a 2 GB built in flash memory.
- It supports the languages English, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
- It has an 128×128 OLED display
- It comes with earplugs
- It plays videos
- It plays mp3s
- It can perform voice recordings
