Bryggen
Some HDR pictures frustrate me with their over-wrought colour and saturation. Not this one: Bryggen is beautiful in its industrial, patinated, dusk.
Archive for December, 2006
Christmas Colors
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays to all, and hope you are having a great day. At least take the day off, even if your preferred holiday season holds another day dear.
Infinity Reflects
The artist comments that you should “[...] not shoot into the sun”.
For this, the exception proves the rule. The uneven balance and asymmetry lend an air of sophistication.
Stone Arch Bridge
Multiple textures, “fabrics” and tones butt up against each other in this majestic cacophony of an image.
…but I like it…
STOP
This was more like “START”: start imagineering my 2008 trip to Iceland.
Use of the 17-40mm lens intrigued me. I have been trying similar effects with my short lens, but have had issues with spherical lens aberrations.
The way to winter
Water that seems so still, so serene, and yet so obviously freezingly bitterly cold.
Why others over-use colour, or coloured effects, when the natural tones and beauty make their own seasonal palette: I don’t know.
Chronosynchronous release
The article pulls in too many directions for me to be able to form a strong view on the author’s, and subjects’, viewpoints.
I understand that each part of the value-chain has its own incentive, but if you look at the key “reasons” from top to bottom, you get a view on how fragmented the industry is.
In an attempt to bolster consumer interest in paid video on demand [...]
“[...] What we are really interested in seeing is whether this increases the buy rates.”
“we believe that they will be very cautious in introducing any new less profitable service that could be cannibalistic to the rental and retail channel.”
The experiment is a result of pressure by the cable industry to test paid video on demand so that it could get a slice of the revenues immediately after theater release.
Well, is it about consumer interest or business (self) interest?
The answer is both. Generally, it’s hard to find a consistent view on what on-demand means. What it provides, or what it produces.
It provides a method for producers to get closer to the audience, if the network agrees to carry the content immediately after completion/release.
It produces revenue streams that are less convoluted, if the rights-holder or “seller” can agree to take a revenue-share.
But it also means that release windows become less relevant. If people already check “vcdquality.com” (or equivalent) for “release” dates, why not knife the bootleg by providing low-resistance methods of seeing the real thing?
Leaks of new songs difficult to plug
…and some in industry don’t care | Chicago Tribune
In some cases, industry people are leaking music online, such as the recent incident in which tracks from a Mastodon recording were released by a retail worker, who was subsequently fired.
Or, as I experienced in 2001 to 2003: some label managers paid to have “studio burns” of albums released onto filesharing networks to gauge reaction in advance of the release.
You can use the community to your advantage; the corollary is that it is not piracy if it is endorsed by the label.
8 Things You Need To Know About PS3 versus Wii
Some of the language might be considered (mildly) Not Safe For Work, but this sounds just like the conversation two teenaged acquaintances had with me at the weekend.
Console supremacy wars roll around again!
Only one console will do this for you:
Speeds pace of evolution if touched
Read the article to find out which one.
Or read this post to see what might happen…uhh…to you…
Abandoned Explosives Factory
The commenters hit the mark with their notes on colour, geometry, texture and lighting.
This would make a great production house, with the original walls under perspex to keep the dust and dirt down.
