I had a great weekend visiting with my girlfriend’s family in Ottawa. Highlights include the snowshoeing, the Academy Awards ballot/pool, and of course getting to see the new baby. I tried to make my girlfriend’s little sister win the pool but her brother beat us all. There’s a snow storm coming here tonight so it will be nice to get back to Vancity. I’m almost better now so if I’m lucky my head won’t explode on the flight home.
Anybody checking out the linklog?
I’m still ill
(Antibiotics)
dry mouth
soar throat
throbbing cranium
must get better…
Most of the items I post on this site are just links that I think people should check out. So I’ve decided to just use the rss feed for my Del.icio.us tag "blogworthy" as a sidebar on this site. In other words, from now on the links I’d like to share (without commentary) will show up in the "LinkLog" on the side of this site.
How does this work? When I see something worthy of posting I use the del.icio.us bookmarklet to post stuff to my del.icio.us feed and I simply add the tag "blogworthy" to it. This separates my research and other unrelated material from the links I’d like to appear on this blog. Feedroll does the actual work of displaying the del.icio.us rss feed on my TypePad blog.
This just means that I can have a link appear on my blog in two mouse clicks.
We’ll see how well it works…
Also, I disabled comments on the "gmail" related pages on the site. I really just got fed up with people asking for accounts… Especially when they can get the invites here.
My brothas blog be killin it yo. His blog be da new hotness fo shiza my niza.
(Rap Punker speak for "I enjoy my brother’s Internet web page. His weblog is absolutely engaging.")
PvrBlog has a good breakdown of this "Apple buying out Tivo" rumor.
I think it would be sweet to have a Tivo/Apple media hub in the living room. I could toss out my PVR and just get a Mac Mini Tivo edition… PVR + iLife + iTunes…. Are you pickin up what I’m puttin down?
This also gets interesting for those of you that know what I’m working on right now. (You know the sharks with lasers on their heads thing, hint hint nudge nudge wink wink…)
Go ahead talk amongst yourselves.
Being sick sucks when you have to fly. When your sinuses are clogged and the cabin pressure changes you feel like your head is about to explode/implode.
Sorry for not responding to phone calls, emails, voicemails…
I’m out of town and I’m ill.
Want to see all of us nerds at Northern Voice? Check out the Flickr tag "Northern Voice"
My new favorite Google Search: bad pr.
If you’ve seen Koyaanisqatsi,
Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi or Baraka you know just how spectacular a motion picture time lapse can be. More contemporary timelapses are seen on "reality television" intros such as the Apprentice and Survivor. You know, the shot where the sun sets in a matter of seconds…
If you’ve ever tried to re-create this look you know that it’s quite difficult to do properly. Shooting a real time lapse on a large format motion picture camera is prohibitive in terms of equipment and cost.
My friend’s solution is to shoot high resolution digital images on a digital slr camera and then animate the images in After Effects. This technique uses the same persistence of vision concept that films are based on to create movement. Here’s an example of a time lapse he shot out the window of my apartment. It’s a big file (~15mb) because I wanted to keep the quality alive. That and I don’t know how to use good codecs properly…
More of these to come soon.
Video interview with Milton Glaser by Hillman Curtis. VIA Kottke (I don’t know how Jason does it)