Mike Rowe, of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs. A not-for-the-squeamish description of the value of work.
Year: 2009
Have a printer and a webcam? Then check this out…
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UWO Screening
If you’re out near London, Ontario, head on over to the Wolf Perfomance Hall tonight (Tuesday March 3rd) at 7pm for a screening of Rwanda: Hope Rises. Tickets are $5 at the door.
If you’re in the area and not able to make it, never fear… we’re arranging more screenings to happen soon in Toronto, Ottawa and a few nearby cities.
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Wallpaper – Scattered Trees
A fresh wallpaper to finish the month. Click here to browse a few others you may like…
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Tim Brown on Opportunities
Once again it was an example of the power of storytelling to open up opportunities.
— Tim Brown, commenting on The Girl Effect’s presentation at TED
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Seth Godin on Authenticity
Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not “being who you are”.
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Artisanal Labour
The rest of the day ticked by slowly, in a way that was a reminder that filmmaking may be the last vestige of 19th-century artisanal labor: hours and hours to capture what on screen would last just a few minutes.
(h/t to Mike)
Stu Maschowitz, of DV Rebel fame, and The Orphanage (may she rest in peace) is a leading expert on the ups and downs of the post-production tool-chain. In a vent of frustration, Stu posted a chain of comments to Twitter, a top-ten of the 15 worst things our beloved post-production apps are bad at. There’s still no great way to summarize a Twitter conversation, so I’m posting it here. Pretty great for all you post-pro pixel lovers/haters out there.
- Give Final Cut Pro a pixel, it’ll screw up the gamma.
- Give Avid a pixel, it’ll screw up the 16-235 thing.
- Give Motion a pixel, and as long as you leave it at that you’re real time all the way baby!
- Give After Effects a pixel and it will color manage it “correctly,” i.e. matching none of your other apps.
- Give Flame a pixel. That will be $2,300 please.
- Give Premiere Pro a pixel. Oops, wait, project’s still loading
- Give Shake a pixel. And put the new Sugar Ray CD in your 6-disk changer while you’re at it.
- Give Commotion a pixel. On that beige Mac you keep in the back room running OS9 so you can still use version 3.1.
- Give Photoshop a pixel. No, no, not Brightness and Contrast! Idiot.
- Give Aperture a pixel. Then do basically nothing to it using Aperture’s built-in controls, just fire up one of your $300 Nik plug-ins.
- Give Toxik a pixel. Feel lonely?
- Give Fusion a pixel. Look, your desktop!
- Give Nuke a pixel. And, uh, now what.
- Give Lightroom a pixel. Double click it. It becomes full-screen. But somehow you’re still not in edit mode. Did you read the five rules?
- Give Apple Color a pixel. Good luck getting it back!
The thread begins here if you want to read it from the source.
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Faustian Economics
From Harpers.org (h/t Matt)