I came across this video on Vimeo’s top videos group. Some of the others are interesting, but this one is a combination of excellent visual storytelling coupled with some basic human sensitivity.
Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
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Canon EOS 7D, Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D90 – if these models sound like a foreign language it means you weren’t paying attention. These are models of hybrid video and DSLR cameras called HD-DSLR. And they are changing the industry as we know it. Canon 5D Mark II, full frame high end Canon DSLR Camera, had one small feature, that looked like an after thought – the ability to shoot full HD videos. Like many other ground breaking products, this feature was severly crippled. In the first version of these cameras, the video mode was fully automated – which means that the photographer couldn’t control ISO and frame rate among other paramters – making it very limited for serious video shooters. But Canon released a new firmware with the ability to fully control all video parameters besides frame rate. And this is nothing less then revolutionary.
Why? Read More
So 2009 ended, and we’ve thought it’s about time to do some facelift to this blog. What’s your opinion? Better or worse than the previous one?
Would love to hear your comments
Films are an important part of my life. I am sucker for suspension of disblief, sotrytelling, and that unique feeling when the lights go out and the screen starts flickering. That’s why I see at least a film a week (though lately there weren’t so many good ones)
I was asked by my students to prepare a list of recommended films. So this is the first batch of films that I love. In this batch I concentrated on the ones with somewhat darker themes, the next batches will include additional angles… Read More
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Buzz, Blogsphere and Serial Killers
The blogsphere has more killers than American Maximux Secutiry prison.
Twitter would kill Facebook. Facebook would kill Google. Friendfeed would kill Twitter. And now, the latest addition to the new-product-that-only-geeks-use-and-bloggers-shout-that-it-would-kill-the-frigging-internet – Google Buzz. Last week the blogsphere was plastered with those statements, as if Facebook’s millions of users, Twitter’s proven power to create addiction with hyper connected individuals, and the need for many just to write emails, without sharing their photos all over the place, doesn’t exist.
It seems that there is a routine in our world:
1. A new hyper-connected-social-network-that-sends- your-pictures-and-status-all-over-the-place-but-is-not-exactly-Twitter-or-Facebook is launched
2. The echo chamber rejoices, and writing zillion posts, all quoting the same Techcrunch/GigaOm/Financial Times/Fox News article – competing with hysterical headlines.
2. Tons of users logging in. Scoble’s among them.
3. The homepage is filled with Scoble’s remarks about how great the tool is, and changing the way we think about communication.
4. All the cool kids logging in and saying – hey it is like Twitter. Err Facebook. Err something. But with pictures. Myself included.
5. Slowly people see that it is another network they need to maintain, another profile, and another level of noise.
6. Porn starts, Viagra merchants, and so called “power networkers” that are spending most of their days in friending total strangers, are taking control of the platform and start spamming everyone. And Kevin Smith.
7. Privacy/usability/stability are not what they seem, and users are starting to realize that it might not be the best thing since sliced bread
8. Scoble leaves the platform, saying it is useless.
9. A new hyper-connected-social-network-that-sends- your-pictures-and-status-all-over-the-place-but-is-not-exactly-Twitter-or-Facebook is launched
Yes, Buzz is awesome, but I left it after couple of days. I am still on Twitter and Facebook, cause they provide me enough value – and my friends are there.
Let’s stop diminishing user base, and actual usability of platforms, and wait a second before we hail a new online platform as the new king. Life is way more complicated than a headline in a blog post.
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