Click through to Vimeo in the videos below to see them in full HD.
It's almost discordant to see such amazing, high quality footage, but not attached to big budget, point-perfect productions. Yes, the music can be cheezy, and the cinematography is not always exactly right... but this is a nascent new technology that is putting the capacity to create truly beautiful motion pictures in the hands of all of us.
DSLR movies are going to be big in 2009, I am certain of it.
Hello and best wishes for 2009!
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Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong and Tony Leung are masterful in this classic Wong Kar-wai movie.
Wong made the film during a two month break from the editing of his wuxia film Ashes of Time. He has said, "While I had nothing to do, I decided to make Chungking Express following my instincts."[1], and that "After the very heavy stuff, heavily emphasized in Ashes of Time, I wanted to make a very light, contemporary movie, but where the characters had the same problems." Originally, Wong envisioned the two stories as similar but with contrasting settings: "One would be located in Hong Kong [that is, Hong Kong Island] and the other in Kowloon; the action of the first would happen in daylight, the other at night. And despite the difference, they are the same stories."
-- Chungking Express via Wikipedia
The clip above is a great snippet called Run DMZ (a play on
South Korea's DMZ and the eponymous rap group) from Planet
B-Boy, fantastic documentary I just saw about break dancing around
the world. Aside from the massively entertaining dancing, it's cool to
see how a modern art has evolved and changed in the past 30 years.
Must-see if you like hip hop.
Reminds me a lot of the Doug Pray documentary on DJing, Scratch.
Hope Golden Gate Butchers hasn't run out of standing rib roasts for New Years.
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I'm told that you can vote once a day. Tell your friends. =)
We don't want to be seen as incompetent or struggling with a task, because we are so competent in so many areas of our life. We do so many things well, so to start with something we don't do well is a real challenge.
--Never Too Late To Learn an Instrument via NPR
That's one of the great paradoxes of life. Fear of failure is often the thing that assures it.
The reviews are in, and they're not good. On the Apple.com product page itself, there are reports of major failures, which is especially pronounced for a device that a) costs $100, b) was 3 months late to market. The new MacBooks and MacBook Pros all now support mini-displayport, which is a different standard entirely and require adapters to the DVI and Dual DVI standard used by existing monitors. Here's what people are seeing:
- Flaky performance
- Flicker, sporadic issues...
- Doesn't Work with Gateway 30" Extreme Monitor
- significant drop in frame rate
- Very Disappointing
This is on top of 37signals's recent post "Every
Mac
I've owned has failed." I know of many Macbook Pros, including
my own and my brother's, have significant fan noise/overheating issues
that are chronically problematic.
What is it about Apple that makes their software so good but their hardware just a disaster? Is it a legitimate problem, or is it just that the computers are so close to perfect that any imperfection causes us to judge it far more harshly than computers that are inferior?
We hold Apple to a higher standard. I'd venture to say Every Vista Machine ANYONE has ever owned has failed, big time. And that's far worse.
I am addicted to Chef Boyardee beef ravioli. How strange is that? Ever since I was a kid, I could never get enough of the stuff. The obsession continues to adulthood. I know it's not good for me, and I know it doesn't actually taste anything like real ravioli -- indeed, it's a culinary travesty and a gourmand's worst nightmare. But marketing to kids works, both for Chef Boyardee and McDonalds. Sometimes when I just want to connect with my childhood, it's just a 3 minute microwave timer away.
Regardless of what level of success they may have achieved in their chosen field of work or study or what external proof they may have of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced internally they do not deserve the success they have achieved and are actually frauds. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they were more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.
--Impostor syndrome via Wikipedia via Hacker News Comment
via Dustin Curtis's blog post about The Rich and Powerful