The Misfits, the Rebels, the Troublemakers
This is long, personal, rambling, and a week too late. There are so many better things your could read about Jobs than this. I’m posting it because I didn’t want to look back at this year on Prolost and see just a hole here. If you decide ...
Plastic Bullet On Your iPad And Your Mac
Plastic Bullet Camera 2.0 for iOS went live today, with new sharing options (like Twitter, and something called “face book?”), support for larger image sizes and arbitrary aspect ratios. And Plastic Bullet is now a universal app, meaning i...
What Adobe Should Do With IRIDAS SpeedGrade
SpeedGrade 2009
Earlier this month Adobe announced the purchase of “certain assets” from a German company called IRIDAS, including their SpeedGrade software color correction system.
In many ways, this is a lot like Apple’s purchase of...
Chasing Wildebeests
I had such a fun time talking with Kanen Flowers and Merlin Mann on Kanen’s Scruffy Thinking podcast. As Kanen puts it:
We discuss living in San Francisco, Star Wars, finding and doing what you love, trusting your grandmother’s advice, bei...
Netflix Doesn’t Care About Movie People
The bookshelf of Netflix’s highest-paying former customer
Netflix announced Sunday night that they’ll be splitting off their disk rental operation to a separate company, called Qwikster.
There’s been a lot of discussion about this on ...
Stripped-Down Blu-rays Selling Blu-ray Are Making Me Hate Blu-ray
I just rented Unknown from Netflix, on Blu-ray.
The first thing you see when you pop in the disk is a big, long, loud ad—for Blu-ray.
Hello. I own a Blu-ray player. I’m watching a Blu-ray. Why are you trying to sell me Blu-ray?
Skip.
Oops....
A Song For The Lonely
In 2001 The Orphanage was still a brand-new company, and I was not yet a professional director. The project that changed that was a music video for Cher’s A Song For The Lonely, which Cher had dedicated “to the courageous people of New Yor...
Test Drive SPMD
Martin Vilcans is in the process of updating Screenplain to use SPMD. You can give it a test run here. Try feeding it this sample file, or make your own. Any text file that contains anything remotely like a screenplay should work well.
This is a very ...
Movie Looks HD Free for Two Days
In conjunction with the Original iPhone Film Festival, Movie Looks HD is free for two days. Get it!
More info here.
Realistic Lens Flares
When technology and art intersect, its often the case that those who know how have no idea why, and those who know why have no idea how.
I can’t stop thinking about this SIGGRAPH video. It shows realistic lens flares being computed in real time ...
Magic Bullet Mojo for FCP X
Today Red Giant announced Magic Bullet Mojo for Final Cut Pro X. Hooray!
Mojo was conceived as a super simple effect for creating a sexy look quick, with a minimum of fuss. I designed it to be based entirely on sliders and other controls easily ported...
Screenplay Markdown Progress
The response to my Screenplay Markdown post has been wonderful. It’s a bit hard to follow the progress by reading the blog page, so here’s a brief recap.
I wrote about my recently discovered joy of working with plain text and Markdown, and...
