Hurry up and wait. Frantic Flims shoot.

Nothing else to do while waiting, but shoot behind the scenes of the shoot.

Rejected Movie Poster ideas

Posterwire is asite dedicated to movie posters. If you're like me, enjoy movies AND good design you will wanna book makr this site! This is a cool example of an entry.

Hidden AcesSmokin’ Aces poster designs

Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan’s official site features a weblog written by the film’s creator about the upcoming film. For the past few months, Carnahan has been posting Smokin’ Aces poster designs that didn’t make the cut. It’s a rare opportunity to see all the unproduced movie posters that never make it to your local movie theatre lobby. As most film advertising art directors and designers will tell you, sometimes their best poster design work never sees the light of day beyond their own portfolios.Carnahan has posted several rejected (or “killed”) movie poster concepts, along with his own commentary about each one sheet design, including info about why particular designs were not chosen to be the official Smokin Aces movie poster. Our favorite example is his blog entry about the “Franz Ferdinand poster” design:

Here’s another one guys. This one almost became the one-sheet. The problem for me was, I couldn’t get the similarity to the Franz Ferdinand Album cover out of my head! Is it just me? I like the images, even though they seem a bit crowded/jammed together.

The director has also been using his film weblog to run his very own movie poster contest, inviting his blog readers to submit their own Smokin’ Aces movie poster designs.

Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Black Rod's take on the leaked memo

It's a real shame the whole Crocus thing is such a tough read, otherwise it would be more of an issue. I can barely follow what's going on. But give it a try, here's the impact of the memo, according to the Black Rod (BTW The indentity of the Black Rod is unknown.)

Call Grissom: Crocus bullet matched to smoking gun

Manitoba's Opposition leaders are wasting their breath calling for NDP Finance Minister Greg Selinger to resign and the government to call another inquiry into the Crocus scandal.That's like asking the leaders of the Gambino Family to come clean on who killed Jimmy Hoffa. Could happen. But not likely.They still don't understand the importance of the "smoking gun" memo leaked to Liberal leader Jon Gerrard.If they did, they would know the only call they have to make is to the RCMP.

The Black Rod: Call Grissom: Crocus bullet matched to smoking gun

How to light a helicopter!

This behinds the scenes gallery is very cool. This guy shoots BIG things.

Aperture vs Lightroom day 4

One of the posters on O'Reilly's Inside Aperture is doing a week long comparsion of Lightroom and Aperture. I've been following along and downloaded he trial of Lightroom. As much as there is to like about Lightroom, his latest post spells out a fundamental difference of the two programs. I have to agree with him Aperture's UI is it's strength.

As I started sorting through my images in Lightroom, I began to notice a few details about the user interface. Let me preface this by saying that most of the problems with the interface are just things I need to learn, but as I have been saying all along, I think that intuitiveness is an important component of an intelligently designed and useful user interface.

For example, to rotate those upside-own images all at once I have to be in Lightroom’s Library module and in Grid view. If you are in any other module, or looking in another view mode in the Library module, you can only rotate images one at a time. On top of this, the rotate arrows that are present in the Grid view thumbnails aren’t present in the film strip or anywhere else. So, you have to use either the keyboard shortcut, or a menu option to rotate anything at all outside the Grid view.

In Aperture there is always a rotate left or right button on the bottom bar, and it can be used to rotate a single image or a set of images, regardless of where you are in the program. I suppose it might sound like I’m really nitpicking here, but I have to say, it just reinforces my main problem with Lightroom: the modules.I really don’t like having to think about where I am in a program in order to do something as simple as rotating a set of images. I will save most of my opinions about the modules for my upcoming summary article, but in a nutshell, I really think the whole concept of a step by step workflow is a tired and linear way of thinking. Am I alone here?

Aperture Vs. Lightroom: Day 7 - River Rotations - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Apple profile of Washington Post.com

This profile by Apple has me excited on a few levels:

* It's cool to watch. It's all stills but it's moving. It streams great as well.
* it shows a traditonal new gatherer keep up with the times and offer content, in whatever format you prefer
* it confirms the reasons WHY I bought a good video camera. Change is a comin'

Washingtonpost.com is a leading online news destination and an innovator in the online news experience. Its eight million readers are active and engaged web users who come to washingtonpost.com for more than just the latest headlines. They look for — and take advantage of — the latest in cutting-edge web technologies. World-class reporting and award-winning content remain at the heart of washingtonpost.com. It also provides the latest in online tools, enabling its readers to be more than just passive receivers of the news — they become a part of the news and join a national and global community of debate and ideas.

Apple - Pro - Profiles - Washington Post

Ciao behind the scenes

Ciao behind the scenes
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Today, at the Chocolate Shop, we shoot Ciao magazine feature and cover images. While we were there Shaw Cable came out and did a little story on the shoot. While I think the people behind the magazine were expecting lots of attention, there is nothing like some cool gear, and flashes going off to attract a cameraman! I knew what the guy was loking for so I set up a few things, etc. Made his job easier!

Last time Shaw did a little something on just me, people for months were mentioning they saw me. But apparently now, according to the reporter something like 1 in 3 subscribers spend about 10min a day on the channel this will be shown!

I'd be curious to see what it looks like. If anyone manages to see it , startng tomorrow, let me know!

This snap is all I can show of the shoot for now. The Ciao people don't like images being released before the mag hits the street. Sorry!

Watch

Watch
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Hamilton Doc

I was asked last week to participate in a documentary on Dr Thomas Hamilton. They wanted an opinion on the authenticity of some of the photographs. This is an example of a image. It's quite facinating a story, due to be a Manitoba Moment doc on CTV in June. Hit the lnk to leanr more about Hamilton.

The collection is primarily related to Dr. Hamilton's investigations of psychic phenomena spanning the years 1918 to 1945. The subject matter of the records includes rappings, clairvoyance, trance states and trance charts, telekinesis, wax molds, bell-ringing, transcripts and visions, as well as teleplasmic manifestations.

University of Manitoba : Archives & Special Collections

One more Twiggy style

4ft vinyl Balcar Umbrella
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Another example

4ft vinyl Balcar Umbrella
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

What's old is new again.

4ft vinyl Balcar Umbrella
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Sometimes it's as simple as dusting off some old gear. Monique wanted a 60's inspired headshot. I thought of all the great shots of Twiggy done by Avedon in the 60's. He didn't have softboxes, he had big umbrellas. So I dusted off the old 4ft Balcar umbrella I used to use years ago and I liked the results.
This shot BTW was a simple tweak of a Jpegs shot in B&W mode on my nikon D2xs. Like some curve adjustments and away we go. So the B&W mode as some use! The RAW file can be converted back to colour anytime.

Photojo Picnik raves

I tried this, works like a charm!

Picnik is The World’s Best Online Photo Editor. We Mean it.As great as it is, there are times when Photoshop is just plain overkill.

Maybe you simply need to nuke some red-eye before emailing a photo, or fix the exposure on a snap you’ve already put on Flickr. Picnik to the rescue!

Crop, rotate, resize, one-click fix, color adjustments, sharpening, saturation, even histograms. 95% of the stuff you’d do in Photoshop, you can do in Picnik more easily. Grab photos straight from your Flickr (and replace them with edited versions), from your computer, or the web; send your edited photos to your blog, to email, photo sharing sites, make a nifty slideshow, or even have them printed.

Picnik is fast. Better, it’s easy peasy, free, and filled with friendly features. (Example: Unlimited undo. Even for photos you edited months ago. Not even Photoshop can do that.)We’ve been on the lookout for a halfway decent online photo editor for a while, and we’ve test-driven more than we care to admit. We’re done looking. Using Picnik is nicer than lying on a blanket in a grassy field on a sunny day.

Photojojo

Stunt Software

The Apple developers connection has a showcase of several developers at Macworld. Dan Messing is a Winnipeg based developer who had a kiosk at the show. We felt like saying "Dr Livingstone I presume" when we found him at the show, crammed into the very crowded kiosk area. It's like a jungle in there!. I didn't even think we had anyone locally seriously developing software enough to justify a kiosk at Macworld! We interviewed many of the others featured here, including some who's 1st language isn't English. Once again Kev, for the record, he said " I don't Speak ENGLISH!" (inside joke)

ADC Developer Pavilion Interview: Dan Messing

New Music: Burial

Just got this from Amazon. The link is the Guardian's glowing review of this debut from Burial. The Wire also picked it as the top allbum of the year. Burial plays DubStep. It's a genre of music that's very popular in the UK right now. You haven't heard any of it over here, and I doubt you will. Several tracks of Dubstep were on the Chidren of Men soundtrack, which makes sense cuz Dubstep sounds kinda futuristic.

There's a simmering, suppressed violence bubbling inside Burial's music which conjures images of a city full of damaged people ready to inflict damage on others. But there's also a hovering grace and tenderness that makes me think of Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire - a quality that emerges most clearly on 'Forgive', a beatless ache of sound threaded with the sounds of cleansing rainfall.

This album actually comes complete with a concept (it's a sound-portrait of a near-future south London submerged under water, New Orleans-style) while the most compelling readings of its theme hear it as a requiem for the lost dreams of rave culture. But the non-specific sadness that shimmers inside this music ultimately transcends attempts to pin it to a place, period, or population.

You can imagine Burial's tremulous poignancy reaching out to hurt and heal all kinds of listeners - fans of David Sylvian and Harold Budd, Massive Attack and Boards of Canada, Radiohead and Joy Division. This music can go far.

CD: Burial, Burial | OMM | The Observer

Rob's Daylight savings fix!

Who knew something so simple would get so complciated. I like the no meetings idea. Though with year end for most gov't agencies, I can't see that happening!

A KB for DST.Anyone doing Windows desktop computer support work has probably read this Knowledge Base fix for the Daylight Savings Time Change that is coming up very quickly.

The problem is very complicated because it really affects meeting organizers who use Outlook and Exchange (separate fixes for those). Even if your company is patched, someone outside your company booking or attending a meeting might not be updated. Their calendar would be an hour off.

Recommendation: Put your meeting start time in the subject line.You really only need to do this for meetings scheduled between March 11 and April 1. Or better yet, don't schedule any meetings between these days.

The Redeye Complex

Kal Barteski's Blog

[i] LoveLife

Sorry,for the move

Well we're here now. I apologize for the blog moving yet again. I will spare you the geek speak on the why. Hopefully that's it for now. Blogging images linked from flickr should solve the storage issues.

Lightroom trial

I downloaded the 30 day trial and I am looking hard at it. It's pretty snappy on my iMac. Could I be switching from Aperture?

Adobe - Photoshop Lightroom

Nothing is new in the ad world, but make it your own!

This link is for anyone who's walked into the studio holding up a tear sheet saying "The client approved this, we have to replicate it"

coloribus » New 10 coincidences

Oblique Strategies, one of the few widgets I DO use!

Are you a musician/producer having a blank in the studio? Are you a writer with a sudden writer’s block? Are you an artist staring at a blank canvas? Are you a creative looking at an empty screen?In comes Oblique — a widget implementation of the famous “Oblique Strategies” card decks from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.

Oblique - Dashboard - Reference

Pixel Genie

Pixel Genie Home Page

If you need help with colour correction or closecutting or retouching,...and really who has time for that stuff these days!?

Pixel Genie is the one to go to!!

Liam at 2yrs old

Liam at 2yrs old
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

This past weekend was Liam's 2nd birthday. Hard to get a snap of him holding still and with a clean face :-)

Moo cards

No. 48 - 2007
Originally uploaded by thegoalissoul.emma.

This is someone else's cool idea. It's funny how something so simple, like tiny lil cards of your images, can ignite the creative spirit. check out more in the Moo Card Photostream for other ideas. A group of people are trading them with each other, all over the world.

Influencing the young minds

Influencing the young minds
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

New Music festival 07

New Music festival 07
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

How to fix your iPod

These tutorials are free and hosted by ifixipodsfast.com. We encourage you to post links to these videos on your blogs, eBay auctions, as well as share the videos with your friends!

ifixipodsfast.com iPod How To Video Tutorials

Diabetes Dialogue

Diabetes Dialogue
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

For a magazine about healthy living.

Blurb!

Blurb Home

Without a doubt the one single thing from this past Macworld that's impressed everyone who's seen it, is the Blurb hardcover books. It's one thing to read about them but to handle and see one up close is believing.

Recently on the Blurb Blog, they have posted the ICC profile for the machine that prints their books. So evern better quality can be achieved.

Match the logo with the service. Not that easy!

ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Logos

The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray.

Hit the website for explanation and proof

Checkershadow Illusion

Rob's NEw Music Shots

Rob was on the aisle and managed to grab some nice snaps of the performance we were at.

The Redeye Complex

Its the little things

This blog entry reminds me of one of my pet peeves. Too many shopping bags handed out at default. Everyone talks about the little things that might change the course we're on. Think of the petrochemicals saved by reducing the amount of plastic bags we take.

One of my other pet peeves? Straws, cup lids, and handfuls of napkins handed out without a second thought at fast food joints. Do we really need a 3 inch stack of napkins, a straw and a lid to consume our McJunk? Maybe we need to eat slower and avoid the need for all that "safety stuff"!

Noisy Decent Graphics: "Er no, it's fine, I don't need a bag, thanks"

That's six items from five shops. Every single shop offered me a bag. Every single shop assistant looked at me like I was mad when I said, "Er no, it's fine, I don't need a bag, thanks". They almost looked offended.

Nikon Canada Repair service SUCKS!

I have had a 28-70mm lens in repair since Nov 2006. In that time the following has occured:

-Nikon called with estimate, I approve and beg to give them my mastercard,they decline and claim they can't take my mastercard # till the repair is done

-1 month later I call to find out what's going on, they can't find the lens AT ALL,then do and claim I delcined the repair estimate, when I freak on that then say "Oh wait we're waiting for parts"

-1 month later I call, and it still waiting for parts, its now Jan 2007

-call last week and suddenly the lens was shipped "yesterday"

-Call today to get tracking number since I don't have my lens and I find out its sitting there waiting for my mastercard #, with no phone call from Nikon since Nov for the original estimate.
Granted I didn't give them the # last week, they told me it shipped. Since I can't even remember if/when I did give it to them I assumed I had already given it to them back when I flipped on them in Dec.

When asked if they track or keeep a file on a repair that includes the mistakes being made, the person I spoke to was completely unapologetic about the entire screwed up process, he just wanted my Mastercard number and to get off the phone.

In fact no one I have ever spoken to through this entire process seemed the least bit concerned that my entire customer experience was marred with mistake after mistake.

Also each of MY phone calls to Nikon was met with at least a 15 min hold and then several minutes of someone searching,papers rustling in the background, with some of the people having to call me back

I am mad enough right now to call and speak to a manager but I really don't think it would do me any good. I still wouldn't have my lens and Nikon still wouldn't give a shit.

In my search for a email address to forward this rant to I see they are adverstising for a service dept supervisor! ( Update I have been informed this is for a different div , not for Consumer cameras)

In hindsight I should have documented dates, names, statements made etc. But I had no idea it was going to be this confusing and screwed up. That's why I am warning everyone else.

-Now I am ranting on my blog, linking it to several forums I am on, and considering sell the whole kit for the Other Brand.(I'll calm down eventually)

Chalk this up to yet another incredibly bad customer service experience after the sale. It's just getting worse and worse these days.

Update: my email to the only address I could find on the website has yeilded results! I won't post the entire response (available upon request) but they address my concerns, and credit me for the cost of the repairs. I am impressed, I am completly surprised they've responded in a matter of hours. I just wish it didn't have to be this way. But with this small gesture, I am completly satisfied, see how easy it can be?

Amazing editing!

A run of the mill U2 song elevated by the amazing job of editing archival footage to appear like everyone is playing the song. Someone did a lot of work on this one. Also kinda scarey that I seem to recoginze just about EVERYONE in this video.

U2 "Window in the Skies"

YouTube - U2 "Window in the Skies"

A two year's energy

B&W Headshot

_IAN0437
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Container Heaven: The Big Metal Box Flickr pool

Flickr: Big Metal Box

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An upside to -40C

Those high-tech parking pay stations scattered around Winnipeg may be smart, but even they have felt the chill during the recent cold snap — and that's been good news for some lucky drivers.

There have been four days so far this winter when the machines stopped issuing receipts as they should, Dave Hill, chief operating officer of the Winnipeg Parking Authority, said Friday. When the temperature drops below -35 C, smart parking pay stations like this one may not give you a receipt for your money, and you may end up with free parking.When the temperature drops below -35 C, smart parking pay stations like this one may not give you a receipt for your money, and you may end up with free parking.

"Most of the activity of the machines are directed through the liquid crystal display … and what happens in the cold is the liquid crystals start to freeze and the machine slows down," Hill said.The City of Winnipeg has been introducing the solar-powered electronic pay kiosks since July, gradually replacing its 2,500 aging coin-operated meters.

But when they don't print out the receipts that drivers are supposed to place on their dashboards, Hill said, those drivers cannot get ticketed for it."Obviously if we can't accept payment, then we can't penalize anyone for not paying," Hill said."There are many modes that are offered for the machine — of course, we have credit cards and we have coin readers and everything — but if the machine can't physically process the ticket, we're not going to give you a parking ticket for that.

Winnipeg drivers pleased as parking meters freeze

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Pogue on Makeup and HD TV!

Sorry just one more from David Pogue. The best part of HD Tv is the clairity and detail. I guess for those who appear on it, it's the downside!

Wow, wait till I tell you about the makeup I wore yesterday.

Sorry, couldn’t resist that opening. Actually, they make you up when you go on TV, and I’ve made seven TV appearances in the last 72 hours to comment on the release of Windows Vista.

Anyway, I sat down in the makeup chair at a cable news network yesterday and was joshing with Sandy, the makeup artist. “So can you make me look halfway decent?” I said, grinning.

“Sure. I’ll airbrush you,” she said.

I laughed—but then I noticed she was *not* laughing.

That’s weird, I thought. Didn’t she know she had just cracked a joke?

Awkward pause.

Then I said: “Wait—you mean airbrushing, like airbrushing a photo, right?”

She goes, “No. I mean airbrushing your face.” And she pulls out this gleaming silver artist’s airbrush jet, six inches long, connected by a hose to a compressor that looked like a lawnmower engine.

“Say WHAT?” I said?

“Close your eyes and hold your breath,” she said. And she proceeded, yes, to airbrush my face, spraying the makeup onto every exposed inch of my skin. Afterward, she wiped off my eyebrows and lips.

OK, I’ve done a ton of TV, but I’ve never been spraypainted before.

When I mentioned that, she replied—and this is why this story is appearing here in a technology blog—“It’s because of HD.”

That’s it, then. High-definition TV is gloriously detailed and sharp—but it also reveals every pock and imperfection of skin, and reveals the caked artificiality of standard makeup. Airbrushing on the foundation instead produces finer, more even, less noticeable coverage.

As I left the makeup room a minute later, I asked the anchor, who would be interviewing, if she, too, was airbrushed by Sandy every morning.

“Oh, yeah, it’s fabulous,” she said. “It just stays on all day. I’m gonna have to get me one of those machines for home.”

And there you have it: One new technology begets another. It’s the circle of life, baby.

Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog

David Pogue challenges the megapixel myth.

(Interesting article. Keep in mind most people I know barely print half of their photos and then only to 4X6! Unless you're making transit shelter szie photos, 6 is plenty. Even with six, I have published to billboards & transit shelters. Pogue's point is concentrate on features or qualities in the camera that will help you make better photos, reagardless of file size.)

By DAVID POGUEPublished: February 8, 2007

For an industry that’s built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. Thousands of people believe that forwarding a certain e-mail message to 50 friends will bring great riches, that the gigahertz rating of a computer is a good comparative speed score, or that Bill Gates once said “640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody.”

But one myth is so deeply ingrained, millions of people waste money on it every year. I’m referring, of course, to the Megapixel Myth.

It goes like this: “The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures.”

It’s a big fat lie.

The camera companies and camera stores all know it, but they continue to exploit our misunderstanding. Advertisements declare a camera’s megapixel rating as though it’s a letter grade, implying that a 7-megapixel model is necessarily better than a 5-megapixel model.

Breaking the Myth of Megapixels - New York Times

What does 1Million dollars of laptops look like?

Seeing Macs in education always makes me feel good. As a result, 500 Macs at a school makes me feel even better. Danilo Campos shot this fine video of 500 MacBook Pros arriving at the Full Sail School. That's $1 million worth in one shot. Such a paradisical vision. Check it out.

Wired: Cult of Mac Blog from Wired.com

English Russia, a blog for 1/6 of the planet

Its still a weird part of the world, worth checking this blog from time to time.

English Russia  is a daily entertaiment blog devoted to the events happening in Russian speaking countries, such as Russia (Russian Federation), Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, etc. Everyday something interesting happens in the countries occupying 1/6 of the populated world. We are here to inform you about it

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This is how solarium spas for white-skinned people are being advertised on Moscow streets.

The sign on the guy’s chest/back says “I got my skin tanned in this solarium, go visit it too”.

What can you say about it?

Lenin and Leonardo Di Caprio

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Funny 80's spoof!

The 80's were just like this.

SNL- An SNL Digital Short- Body Fusion

YouTube - SNL- An SNL Digital Short- Body Fusion

The problem with Wikipedia

(The page is in lock down due to too many attempts to edit the content.)

Anna Nicole Smith's death sends Wikipedia into overdrive PDF Print E-mailBy Angus Kidman Friday, 09 February 2007News of the death of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith has led to a rush of activity at Wikipedia, with administrators at the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia on high alert to keep vandalism and libellous statements out of the entry for the recently deceased starlet.

iTWire - Anna Nicole Smith's death sends Wikipedia into overdrive

The Future of DRM, MP3 and JPG

Steve Jobs' recent letter about DRM has caused quite a stir, although people are still reading the tea leaves to determine exactly what Jobs thinks and why he's thinking it now. The RIAA's own tea leaf reader came away from the document with a bizarre interpretation: Apple wants to license FairPlay.

Infinite Loop: RIAA to Jobs: Thanks for the offer to license FairPlay

If you've been following this saga, then you might be as confused as I am. Seems there are powers that be, including governments who want any kind o restrictions on music bought from Apple, lifted. Apple says if it was up to them they'd do it, but the record labels want these controls in place.

The whole debate makes me feel conflicted. On one hand who doesn't enjoy having music free of any restrictions, allowing you to use it in any way possible. But on the other hand, as a creative professional who makes his living on a digital medium, the idea that some sort of mechanism in place to assure compensation is assuring.

Photography doesn't have any kind of technical restriction. We have no DRM in our files. I have to negotiate rates based on the likelihood of someone abusing the freedom that comes with my images. This attempt to be compensated flies in the face of the now ever increasing normal attitude that once some has a file they can do whatever they want with it.

So I am watching this debate closely. The attitudes toward MP3 can easly apply to JPG

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Another version

A bit less dark
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Hard to control the flourecents though. No dimmer, thats where the Kino's have this beat!

Flouro and tungsten combo

Flouro and tungsten combo
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Playing with cheap flouroecent lights and mixing it with tungsten.

Flouro and tungsten combo

Flouro and tungsten combo
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Playing with the use of cheap flourecents combined with the modelling lamps of my strrobes. Digital is almost too good at balancing theses. I kinda wanted the Fluro's to go more green, more industrial. Hand held at like a 1/20th

Every Bjork video, EVAR! part1

This is very cool. Bjork is a pioneer in ever aspect and her choice of video directors is insipired. Michel Gondry is a frequent colaborator.

In many ways Bjork is the most logical follow-up to Radiohead in our Depth of Focus series. Her growth as an artist nearly mirrors that of the band's, and as musicians they share some similar stylistic choices. But Bjork's videography, which includes many of the same legendary directors, is also on par with, if not better than what Thom Yorke and crew have put together over the last two decades.Yet of course there is a distinctive element to these videos which completely separates them from what Radiohead or anyone else has ever done - the unmistakable charm of the Icelandic star herself. If anything, reviewing the following videos will make you fall in love with her all over again.

Obtusity: Depth of Focus: Bjork

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Camera Toss Blog

Camera Toss (The Blog): Math is Beautiful

The great outdoors inside

Warmed up version
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

shot for NWC

Spring 2007 Warehouse One

Spring 2007 Warehouse One
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

An outake form yesterdays shoot.

Airport Airwork

Artwork
Originally uploaded by daf_newport.

Found this on Flickr. Its those weird cube thingy's at the airport. I think they are suppose to represent the city from the air. I hope we don't lose them in the course of the new reno's. As ugly as you make think they are, they are now part of our heritage. For better or for worse.

Cool street art

otherart5 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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weird ice formations

Frozen Tidal Wave / Melting Glacier

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Which is which?

Noisy Decent Graphics: Did Bill copy Jonathan?
 

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Cool Album cover flickr set

This guy put all his obscure album covers from his iTunes on a Flickr set
Album Cover Search - a photoset on Flickr

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Adium 1.0

One chat client to rule them all.

Adium reaches 1.0, Mac users feel the earth moveI... don't know what to say. Adium, the popular third-party chat client for OS X, just got released into version 1.0 tonight. This has happened after years and years (and years, and years, and years, and years) of development—always adding new features, always being way better than any other standard chat clients from AIM or Apple—and never having reached 1.0 status. I'm one of those oldschool users, too—the type who remembers chatting with the Adam Iser all the time back in the dizzay. This is monumental. Like... the seas parting. Or Gmail coming out of beta.Anyway. Adium 1.0 has been through a year and a half in development, according to the Adium blog, and has over 600 enhancements and bug fixes.

Among them are: * Functional direct connect and file transfer * New interface * Global user profiles * iTunes "now playing" integration * Improved privacy management * Grouping of saved status messages * Redesigned chat transcript viewer * So, so much more

Infinite Loop: Adium reaches 1.0, Mac users feel the earth move

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Well they STILL make'em like they used to

the Littman 45 Single 4x5 camera

This is one sweet camera. Not cheap tho.

Flickr photog tapped for Vista desktops

Interview with Hamad Darwish, Flickr photographer shooting Vista wallpapers

Published February 3rd, 2007 by Long Zheng

Hamad Darwish might not be a household name, but if you use Windows Vista, then his work is on your computer. In fact, it might be even on your desktop right now! Assuming IDC’s predictions are accurate, then before the end of the year, up to 90 million people will have the chance to see Hamad’s work, and all he had to do was upload it to Flickr.

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Reminds me of Winnipeg Drivers

Humvee Traffic Driving in Baghdad

YouTube - Humvee Traffic Driving in Baghdad

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JG Ballard Radio plays from CBC

In 1988, Canada's national radio corporation broadcast a series of 30-minute radio dramas, based on the short stories of JG Ballard, for its long-running program, "The Vanishing Point". The series was produced by Bill Lane in the CBC's Toronto studios. The writers commissioned to create the dramas included Lawrence Russell (A Question of Re-entry, The Dead Astronaut), Margaret Hollingsworth (The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D), Brian Wade (Low Flying Aircraft, News From The Sun), Paul Milliken (Having A Wonderful Time), and James R. Wallen (Escapement). Lauded at the time, these forgotten gems explore the dramatic aspects of JGB's early short stories within an auditory medium.

JG Ballard Radio Dramas

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Liam Laughs

The first Youtube movie I have posted. Featuring test footage with my new Panasonic DVX100B
YouTube - Liam laughs

UPDATE: I fix the link!

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Scanner Darkly your images

In case you wanted to try that technique made famous by A Scanner Darkly. Surprise surprise, you still need some ability to draw to make it work!

I expect to spend four to five hours on an image this complex. You can reduce the time you spend by limiting your colors and detail. Good luck experimenting with this new technique!
Aaron Sacco is a freelance illustrator who recently finished working as an animator on "A Scanner Darkly." He also works as a portrait artist and mural painter in Austin, Texas. Check out more of his work at www.aaronsacco.com.

Imitating A Scanner Darkly | Illustrator Techniques

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