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More Siggraph Madness….Is anything real nowadays?….
More crazy image-enhanced video rendering papers from University of Washington being presented at Siggraph08. I just can’t get enough of these new applications of combining crappy video and some still frames to produce eye popping results. Most of the experiments in this video were done using a standard video camera and a hi-res still camera.…
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Tiny Watcher…..Who’s watching your PC?
If you’re like me, you don’t like to install Anti-Virus software or any of the malware removing utilities on your system. The machine is sitting behind a firewall and I know what is running on the machine (most of the time). That said, I’ve always wanted to have the equivalent of trip-wire or rkhunter from…
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Control GarageBand’s transport functions via MIDI controller….
You can thank Murat Konar for this free application. GarageRemote is a OSX control panel app that lets you assign MIDI commands to those pesky GarageBand commands. No more using the mouse to press Play/Stop/Record and such. It gets even sweeter if you’ve got a MIDI controller with dedicated shuttle controll buttons.
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Quick Tip for Bloggers/Youtubers/Flickerites/etc……
If you’ve ever come across the email gateways of most social sites, you know that — in order to protect you and your account — they produce some very forgettable email addresses. I’m talking about those special email addresses you can setup where for example you can Email a picture to, which will automatically be…
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3D Auto generated scenes using Flickr hosted pictures….
Hmmmm……Ugggghhh…..Yet another MS research juicy fruit that no one outside of Redmond is gonna be able to play with. I guess this is a further development or an offshoot of PhotoSynth that MS presented at Siggraph in Boston. This one is much more polished and seems to actually have a purpose (see the end of…
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Photoshop of Video Editing Tools
Yep, Microsoft is at it again (actually MS research to be more precise). Show up at Siggraph, present a juicy paper, get everyone salivating and then, well…..not sure…..hide :-). I don’t get it, I’ll give you an example, couple of years ago a bunch of MS research guys showed up at Siggraph in Boston (I…
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Free Generative Music Composition Software for OSX….
Monash University team downunder has done it again. Nodal is their Free (for personal use) generative music software for Mac OSX. It’s a good looking application that I will be taking out for a test drive soon. From the website: Nodal uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This…
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MP3’s from a bygone era…
If you love(d) 78 rpm records, you owe it to yourself to check out Cliff Bolling’s website. Here he is continually digitizing and adding tunes from the first half of the last century in mp3 format complete with scratches, hisses, pops and all. It’s absolutely wonderful :-). He uses an old Garrard Model RC 121…
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Couple of pics from the TSG Album Cover shoot…..
Although this happened a little while back I’ve finally got around to posting it. These are a couple of concepts shots we had for the TSG (Toronto Strobist Group) Album Cover on July 26th. The idea behind it was to shoot using daylight as fill light and strobes as key/hair lights.
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New NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems Bring Visual Supercomputing To The Deskside
I’m gonna date myself here and ask….Does anyone remember the Agnus Chip? How about the Fatter Agnus or the Alice? For those of you who don’t know these were the original and upgraded OCS/ECS chips that did most of the amazing (for the time) graphics for the Amiga computer back in the late-80’s/early-90’s. Fast forward…