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Streamlining the design around Center Camp
This year, several threads tied together my Burning Man experience: a resolution to create love rather than seek it, to tell those around me that I love them, and that for me, the burn is about learning and practicing to be a better human. Another theme presented itself over and over: bewilderment and frustration any time…
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Color grading is so great
Man I love color correction. I just finished a video, and it’s always remarkable how much a color grade can do. Check out the comparison below. The first image is a log image, so it’s meant to be flatter and capture more dynamic range. The second is the fully graded image. (Slide the slider across…
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The biggest 360º video ever made
On Tuesday we dropped the #Catquarium. Check it out, two hours in a 360º cat cafe which you can watch on just your cell phone. No headset required! Click to watch the #Catquarium • It’s a 360º Cat Cafe • It’s two hours long • It’s 1 trillion pixels big • It’s in 3D with a Google…
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Planning and Flaking: Can We Do This Better?
I’m hosting a discussion on Jan 7 at The Embassy in San Francisco called “Planning and Flaking: Can We Do This Better?” Here are some thoughts to start the discussion: The year is 1957. You’re sitting on the couch, eating a string bean casserole and finally getting around to reading the day’s paper, when the tele-phone rings.…
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Take Control of your Facebook: Search is Back
I love Facebook. Never before in the history of the human race have so many people been organized so well. Within seconds I can find reach out to almost everyone I’ve ever met, creating the start of a powerful hivemind. The UX of the site is generally well-done, and there’s almost no friction in using…
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Making Larry David happy
The Nametag Day Kickstarter ends today, and I’m experiencing a mix of excitement and relief. It’s not very much fun to be in a position of holding your hand out for money. I also would much prefer sending a single message: “Volunteer with us! It’s free!” rather than the mixed messaging of “volunteer and give…
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Lily in the Grinder released on Vimeo
Here it is! Free at last! After a year of work and over twenty film festival screenings, I am exhilarated to tell you that today, Lily in the Grinder becomes free on Vimeo and YouTube. Watch it again. Watch it for the first time. Ponder existence. Less than 5,000 people have seen the film so…
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Color Correction before and after: Lily in the Grinder
As part of the Lily in the Grinder release, I’m making available a before-and-after comparison which will give you a sense of the weeks of work that happened between the raw camera video and the finished product. Take a look: Broadly, the video went through several stages during this time: Reframing: During shooting, cinematographer Judy…
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Transparent JPEGs are within our reach. Can we make it happen? This month?
I built a website with a large image in the center and a CSS3 gradient behind it. It’s kind of silly that I’m spending 880kb on a PNG file just to get transparency, I thought. Transparency is just RGB channels plus an alpha channel. While JPEG doesn’t support it, there’s no actual reason that it…
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The Everythingis Film Festival: Eight Curated Short Films
(Cross-posted with The Huffington Post) Eight curated short films – an early holiday present! I’m looking for scripts, hard. In addition to developing two features with co-writers and a few myself, I set out to find and connect with talented writers and see what they have cooking. We’ve set out to watch nearly every short…