Remember Psystar Macintosh clones? (I'd forgotten.)
Well, now Apple, as one might have expected, strikes back at them.
I love Apple, but it would be interesting if Psystar could win this one, cheap clones would open up choice for Macintosh users, and put some pressure on Apple's prices.
Of course on the other hand they say Apple makes its profit on hardware, not software, and they need that profit to keep their interest in working on the platform.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Antoni Gaudi
So how come Gaudi was practically the only architect ever to have the balls to use colors and curves?
I'm not saying everything should look like his work, but it does demonstrate the dominating paucity of imagination.
Bert said:
There certainly isn't a single answer to that, but he somehow had to have a talent for sales, too. Architects build for clients, after all, and I suspect that audacity is much more rare with the clients than with the creators.
The Spaniards deserve quite a bit of credit for embracing his genius. And when you look at what's happening in architecture today, most if not all of the boldest creations are being realized in Russia or the East. The Western world seems to be far too conservative still.
Ah, yes, good point. I should have thought of that. I had a friend who made furniture, some wonderful designs like a coffee table with a big zipper in inlaid wood. Everybody loved them, but nobody bought them. (I was one of the first.)
solenostomus points out:
Well, he certainly wasn't the only one - look up Friedensreich Hundertwasser - it doesn't get much more colourful than his buildings and they are still looking for that single right angle that's rumoured to be hidden somewhere in his construction plans.
Hey, not bad.
I'm not saying everything should look like his work, but it does demonstrate the dominating paucity of imagination.
Bert said:
There certainly isn't a single answer to that, but he somehow had to have a talent for sales, too. Architects build for clients, after all, and I suspect that audacity is much more rare with the clients than with the creators.
The Spaniards deserve quite a bit of credit for embracing his genius. And when you look at what's happening in architecture today, most if not all of the boldest creations are being realized in Russia or the East. The Western world seems to be far too conservative still.
Ah, yes, good point. I should have thought of that. I had a friend who made furniture, some wonderful designs like a coffee table with a big zipper in inlaid wood. Everybody loved them, but nobody bought them. (I was one of the first.)
solenostomus points out:
Well, he certainly wasn't the only one - look up Friedensreich Hundertwasser - it doesn't get much more colourful than his buildings and they are still looking for that single right angle that's rumoured to be hidden somewhere in his construction plans.
Hey, not bad.
Monday, July 14, 2008
ED's Furry F***ing Guide To Metal
Warning: don't play if you don't like the F-word!
This is funny, and very professionally made.
Apparently it's a band named Stinkhole. I wonder if they are also puppets when they are on the road.
Ahhh, here we go, it's a brand new TV show, Fur TV.
Stinkhole rocks (audio only). Really f***ing good music, I wish I had it in higher audio quality. ... Aha, I can record from their MySpace page, that's better, and in stereo.
Update:
Chanelle Hayes - Sex Tape. Maybe it's better that Jim Henson is no longer with us.
This is funny, and very professionally made.
Apparently it's a band named Stinkhole. I wonder if they are also puppets when they are on the road.
Ahhh, here we go, it's a brand new TV show, Fur TV.
Stinkhole rocks (audio only). Really f***ing good music, I wish I had it in higher audio quality. ... Aha, I can record from their MySpace page, that's better, and in stereo.
Update:
Chanelle Hayes - Sex Tape. Maybe it's better that Jim Henson is no longer with us.
Dr. Horrible
[Thanks to Bert for this and the previous post.]
Joss Whedon's new adventure.
Notice what the green intro screen says.
Master plan.
Joss Whedon's new adventure.
Notice what the green intro screen says.
Master plan.
Western Spaghetti
I like that videos on snotr (though not when embedded) are scalable. YouTube could learn something.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Phase One 60MP
It's like the football matches of my childhood. Only back then the Swedes always crushed the Danes. Times have changed now, and not only in football.
Swedish Hasselblad (with a Danish CEO now, hehe) recently announced a 50 megapixel camera back, now Danish Phase One has announced a 60 megapixel one, which even is the first "full frame" 645 back.
Swedish Hasselblad (with a Danish CEO now, hehe) recently announced a 50 megapixel camera back, now Danish Phase One has announced a 60 megapixel one, which even is the first "full frame" 645 back.
Reva G-Wiz
I was considering getting a G-Wiz, but it's not getting so hot reviews, at least not when it's considered as a car.
The Best Of Times...
Mike Johnston writes:
"I have a secret belief that everybody's best stereo is the first good one they buy, and everybody's favorite camera is the one they used the most when they were the youngest."
I agree. I have noticed that film makers tend to make films about the things they loved when they were teenagers. The things they experienced and the TV shows they loved...
I think what we really hanker for is mental and spiritual expansion, and the times when these happened to us the most. What I really loved was the freedom and the rampant creativity of the summer of 1977 when I'd gotten my first serious camera, more than the camera itself (a Konica TC).
We love what things represent, also. We love the feel and smell of a book because of the stories we have read in books in the past, not because paper smells lovely. We love our hot sports car because it represents our virility and superiority over lesser men. Me, I love a "beautiful" camera, because it represents the thrill of making a good picture and the praise and prizes I've gotten in the past, and also the pictures I imagine and hope to make in the future.
"I have a secret belief that everybody's best stereo is the first good one they buy, and everybody's favorite camera is the one they used the most when they were the youngest."
I agree. I have noticed that film makers tend to make films about the things they loved when they were teenagers. The things they experienced and the TV shows they loved...
I think what we really hanker for is mental and spiritual expansion, and the times when these happened to us the most. What I really loved was the freedom and the rampant creativity of the summer of 1977 when I'd gotten my first serious camera, more than the camera itself (a Konica TC).
We love what things represent, also. We love the feel and smell of a book because of the stories we have read in books in the past, not because paper smells lovely. We love our hot sports car because it represents our virility and superiority over lesser men. Me, I love a "beautiful" camera, because it represents the thrill of making a good picture and the praise and prizes I've gotten in the past, and also the pictures I imagine and hope to make in the future.
Paranoia has taken over child protection
"Paranoia has taken over child protection", article by India Knight
"Why have we become such a horribly dirty-minded society when it comes to children? Like the salacious weirdos who pervert religion and use it as a tool to see filth and evil where there is none, we have come to view childhood not as a joyful and innocent state, but as one that constantly needs protecting from depraved attacks and abuses."
Update: I recommend reading the comments on this one.
"Why have we become such a horribly dirty-minded society when it comes to children? Like the salacious weirdos who pervert religion and use it as a tool to see filth and evil where there is none, we have come to view childhood not as a joyful and innocent state, but as one that constantly needs protecting from depraved attacks and abuses."
Update: I recommend reading the comments on this one.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Site: Serious Compacts
As you know, I have written about my desire for high quality compact cameras. To my delight, somebody has made a site devoted to them.
I found there this comparison of depth-of-field of two cameras, one of which has a sensor which is half the size of the other, linearly (and therefore half the focal length in corresponding lenses). This shows clearly how huge an impact format has on depth-of-field.
I found there this comparison of depth-of-field of two cameras, one of which has a sensor which is half the size of the other, linearly (and therefore half the focal length in corresponding lenses). This shows clearly how huge an impact format has on depth-of-field.
Power/liberty
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. -- William Hazlitt
Nekromantix - Horny In a Hearse
The psychobilly band Nekromantix has become pretty big on the US west coast. Fun for me, for I know the founder and cornerstone, Kim, from back in Denmark in the early nineties. Him and his then-girlfriend, super cute Pernille, published a magazine for which I was writing articles.
"We park by the cemetery thats our 'lovers lane'
That might be bizarre to some but not this here Dane"
Their music is quite narrow in style, but of course why mess with a working thing, and I did enjoy their first two albums back then, Hellbound and Curse of the Coffin.
I was visiting Kim and Pernille one day, and one of the early members of the band had just left in a huff, and taken his artwork (a big skull) for their tee-shirt with him, damned if they would be allowed to use this now. And Kim was drawing pupils in the eyes of the skull, figuring this would make it a different drawing so he could continue to use it.
We were discussing how art fares in the smaller size of the CD as opposed to vinyl covers, and to my embarrassment I kept humming Howling At The Moon, I did not want to seem like fanboy.
This was a couple of years before I got my first computer, and Pernille showed me their new Macintosh and how they could make drawings on it. Later she accidentally walked into a classical greek sculpture which was standing on her floor, hurting her shin. I helped her do a "contact assist", and she told me next day that she was surprised that she did not have a huge bruise like she normally would have. I said we needed to protect our beautiful assets.
"We park by the cemetery thats our 'lovers lane'
That might be bizarre to some but not this here Dane"
Their music is quite narrow in style, but of course why mess with a working thing, and I did enjoy their first two albums back then, Hellbound and Curse of the Coffin.
I was visiting Kim and Pernille one day, and one of the early members of the band had just left in a huff, and taken his artwork (a big skull) for their tee-shirt with him, damned if they would be allowed to use this now. And Kim was drawing pupils in the eyes of the skull, figuring this would make it a different drawing so he could continue to use it.
We were discussing how art fares in the smaller size of the CD as opposed to vinyl covers, and to my embarrassment I kept humming Howling At The Moon, I did not want to seem like fanboy.
This was a couple of years before I got my first computer, and Pernille showed me their new Macintosh and how they could make drawings on it. Later she accidentally walked into a classical greek sculpture which was standing on her floor, hurting her shin. I helped her do a "contact assist", and she told me next day that she was surprised that she did not have a huge bruise like she normally would have. I said we needed to protect our beautiful assets.
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