March 2009
45 posts
Cheesy movie, but it makes my dad smile. Up next: Iron Man on Blu-Ray FTW.
My dad just helped me run 50ft of cat5 for gigabit to the PS3 & AppleTV. Champagne & Man From Snowy River on the new 46” as a thanks.
February 2009
16 posts
So I’m assuming the 2006 exemptions from the DMCA for film/media professors cover Blu-Ray clips. Here’s hoping those get extended after Oct.
Back to My Mac worked from my school for ~3 weeks. I think “they” discovered the network might be set up correctly and have since “fixed” it
*Tried* to add a Netgear 802.11N router as a bridge for my Airport Extreme (5GHz) network. I’ll, uh… wait here until you’re done laughing.
FYI: Installed Safari 4 beta yesterday. My AE CS3 now crashes w/ OpenGL error when scrubbing the timeline. Adaptive resolution preview works
Did I really just fail 1/3 of my students for midterm? Sigh. Tomorrow’s classes are going to be fun…
Procrastinated grading yesterday by doing taxes (I know, right?). Best refund in ~10 years! Hello HDTV/PS3/HTiB…
Finishing up fxphd meetup at d4. Has been a blast. Still gotta walk 10 blocks to my car…
Heading out for Chicago fxphd meetup. Stopping by DK on the way in to harass former students.
Had a nice chat with @SEANFX and @DShelleny early this morning for Midwest Media Now! podcast. Nerded out on favorite films, video & keying.
Looking at budget-concious but quality LCD HDTVs, 46” range. Mainly looking at Samsung and Toshiba. Thoughts?
Looking forward to removing all doubt about my idiocy on the Midwest Media Now! podcast tomorrow morning with @SEANFX and @DShelleny
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” — Mark Twain
Recent Transformers designs are like bad tone mapping: Too much is vying for attention and you don’t know where to look. No visual hierarchy
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We chatted about this briefly in Fundamentals of Video Production yesterday. Popping lenses out of glasses is cheating; learn to light.
