The nice people at Brand New School released their New Balance spot “Zip” online. They are a great company to work with. Very creative and still hands down and respectful to the matter. It was a pleasure to work on this job. A truly amazing team! Not sure why they wrote something about me in their copy for the spot: Everybody else deserves the praise that I got there.
Category: confessions of a pixel pusher
AT&T enabled the toll free number for Interdubs:
877 837 3827
Or -if you like- 877terdubs. I never fancied vanity numbers that much. OK< maybe with the execption of 800 800 4sgi ten years ago. But these days your cellphone number is almost impossible to change. So posting that in those internets is a total no-no. A toll free number is a nice and easy solution to this dilemma. Combined with Callwave it makes for a nice system for voice communication.
Danny Boyle and his manual effects. Overdoing something new that seems to work? People would never ever do that!! All the CG in all those tentpoles WAS really really needed. As well as the other half of a movie that got shot (since they could afford to) that ended up on the floor and that would have made those stories even work.
Wired writes a little about Nigeria’s film industry. It is nice that technological advances allow for local movie production to flourish. Might be also a little bit of wishful thinking on Wired’s side: Nigeria has allot of sketchy aspects in it’s economy. 419ers aside the country makes around fourty billion a year in oil revenue, but manages to keep most of that money away from it’s 150 million inhabitants.
Compared to those oil revenues the 250 million film industry dwarfs in size.
“Storage Mojo” is usually pretty scientific, this ‘analysis’ about consumer hard drives is a bit more creative. Counting google hits with BRANDNAME sucks is a bit of a short cut. However, the results seem to come up with a winner. And the margins are definite enough to have some meaning. And with this kind of result I like a creative way of using google.
It might have a weird looking name, but otherwise I like lsscsi
It gives you a good idea about the state of your linux scsi devices.
When you are planning on doing a buildout in Los Angeles, do not use Acco. They suck beyond believe. There are not many things you can do wrong with AC. One of them confusing in and out on a system. Certainly that’s what happened at a quarter million dollar job.
fxguide interviews Michael Bay
I hope for selfish reasons that many people will
digg it: I have an ad on fxguide right now.
The SE was great. 2,500 Deutsche Mark, even after buying it via a student friend of mine, was allot of money. But it was a computer that you could buy books about. It was actually documented. That I had only seen like this for a Sun.
The LC and Newton I bought in an impulse. I lived 400 Meters from a Mac dealer back in the day. Which there were like 5 or so in the whole god damn country. Played a little bit of Myst on it. Started to develop for the Newton. But it was so odd and different from any API I cared about that I declared it a waste or time. And money I might add.
Power Macintosh I got a work. Slow like hell.
Powerbook Titanium I got at work as well. My boss brought it in one day. And I was very very very happy. Then, after the while, the hinge just snapped off. Apple pretended that that would never happen. Machine got hot, but was nice otherwise. Miss it.
iBook I got for my wife. Old CPU rev, real cheap. Worked great. I think she made the mistake of opening and
closing it though: the backlight display failed
iPod 1st Gen. Failed by now. Was ok though.
PowerBook Al 12″. Nice. But hot.
PowerBook Al 15″. Smoothest Mac I owned. Had to leave it when I left that job. Which was a shame.
iPod 3rd Gen: Broken. Those 4 buttons in the row are such a bad idea!
iBook G4. Mac I bought in 1995 working on my own in the US again. (I had in Germany before 1997). Nice machine. Real nice. Would still use it, would it’s keyboard not have failed.
iPod Shuffle: refurb, started to listen to podcasts on that one. Not ideal.
iPod Nano: Nice. Refurb, which made it an awesome deal. Left the connection cable in Germany last week though. So I will probably pay alsmost as much for that then I paid for the nice.
MacBook Pro: Tis ok. First Gen. Get’s hot like hell. Disabled spotlight and it helped somewhat.
MacBook: For the wife. Unusable with 512MB or memory. With 1.5GB I have not have heard any complaints. About the computer. (joke that is not true, but was unavoidable in a way)
iPod Hifi: emberrassing. Only used it one day, scaring kids with it during Halloween. Expensive for what it is. Can not even find a tuner for it, which would make it a decent looking kitchen radio. Seing it in the store the other day I was shocked how much I had paid for it.
NTX: First laser I owned. And loved. Got it as part of payment in a job back in the day. Still runs and makes ozone. Is entirely yellow by now.
How odd that I can recount my life by Apple products I used / owned.
Will I buy an iPhone? Certainly not. I am looking forward to it’s release. So that I go publish with the Interdubs-iPhone features, and since Razr prices will go down. It’s an ok phone, that works and that I am used to. If I want more I use a computer. There is no room for an intbetween. I never used a PDA or Blackberry. And UMPCs still make me laugh.
My life in Apple. How weird.
Andrew Bell has made a website with a couple of in depth how-it-has-dones on projects of his. Very nice.