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Telstar Logistics: Frank Stoltesz

Through the good offices of our distinguished associate Leif Peng, we recently discovered the remarkable illustrated oeuvre of Mr. Frank Soltesz. Steamship_2 During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Soltesz was commissioned by a company called Armstrong's Industrial Insulations to create a series of cutaway drawings about modern business. These were then published as advertisements in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post.

Telstar Logistics: The Intimate Industrial Illustrations of Frank Soltesz

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New geek Term: WAF

The Woman Acceptance Factor (WAF) – sometimes referred to as Woman Approval Factor or Wife Acceptance Factor – is the playful estimation of the acceptance or refusal of a new acquisition by the significant other. It relies on the cliché that men are driven by a certain geekyness when it comes to acquisitions like home theater or PCs, disregarding the female aspects of aesthetics, design and practical/financial considerations. The first known WAF reference was in a 1989 article about wives rebellion against 'oversized loudspeakers'.The Woman Acceptance Factor is inversely proportional to the possible amount of conflict resulting from the different points of view. The lower the WAF, the more convincing needs to be done, or the more conflicts arises from the acquisition. A WAF of 0 means complete refusal, whereas a WAF of 1.0 equals unison acceptance.

Woman acceptance factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I still like Mini's

Apple TV is certainly the talk of the town these days, but with its file format limitations and refurb Mac minis going for less than $500, it's worth considering the alternatives. Ever since its introduction, home theater buffs have been trying to squeeze a Mac mini between the receiver and the cable box to turn it into a multimedia jukebox (and—to a lesser extent—a PVR). But the key to this is an interface that allows you to access of this media from the carefully-crafted dent in your couch. And Apple seems to realize this, since every Mac mini now comes pre-installed with an IR remote and a 10' interface (an interface that can be used from 10' away, usually without a keyboard and mouse) in Front Row. But is Front Row really the best interface?

Mac mini: The original Apple TV alternative

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Tales of the Rat Fink

Tales ot the Rat Fink

I watched this just in time for Wolrd of Wheels this weekend. While the doc is ok, and a bit much at times, they do tell a great story with animations, stills and some cool cool cars. Ed Big Daddy Roth was the first guy who did graphic tees, before him t shirts were only white! Hard to believe eh? First guy to use fiberglass for a bidy, they banned his car cuz it was winning too much. And of course he wwas a visonary in terms of merchandising, the model kits the Tee shirts, everything.

The best part on the DVD is a home video of Roth and his old buddy Von Ducth handpainting a car in the 80's Pnstriping by hand is cool but Von Ducth did stylized lettering on the hood, backwards with no guides, all freehand! Woah!

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my fave game for the PS2: Katamari Damacy

Katamari Damacy (塊魂, かたまり　だましい^?, Katamari Damashii) is a Japanese video game designed by Keita Takahashi and published by Namco. It was released for the Playstation 2 in North America on September 22, 2004. It is followed by three sequels, We ♥ Katamari, also for Playstation 2, Me & My Katamari, for the PlayStation Portable and the soon to be released in late 2007, Beautiful Katamari for the XBox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii.

The game's plot concerns a tiny prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations and Moon, which his father has accidentally destroyed. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to schoolchildren to mountains, until the ball has grown large enough to become a star. The game falls under both the puzzle and action game genres, since strategy as well as dexterity are needed to complete a mission.

Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heavily stylized, rarely attempting any semblance of realism, though the brands and items used are heavily based on those current in Japan during the game's production.

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Maybe THIS is the digital Leica?!

Whoever provides all the attributes of an old Leica with a nice clean file will get all sorts of die hards ponying up the cash. Ricoh has been courting this crowd for many years, even with the high end film P&S. If anyone can win this high end customer, they can.

Ricoh GX100 - PhotographyBLOG

The Ricoh GX100 digital camera features a 10.01 megapixel CCD, fast 24-72mm wide zoom lens and a removable electronic viewfinder. The new GX100 is the successor to the popular Caplio GX8. The Ricoh GX100‘s hot shoe accepts an electronic viewfinder, an external flash, or an external viewfinder, and the optional hood and adaptor allow use of the 19 mm wide conversion lens or other 43 mm diameter accessories. There’s also a RAW and RAW + JPEG shooting mode. The Ricoh GX100 with electronic viewfinder will be available at the end of April 2007 at £399.99 inc vat.

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Can you do a movie about a type face?

You can when it's Helvetica. You see it everyday.

Helvetica

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Liam with his camera

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Untitled

Amazon.com: Director's Series Vol. 4 - Work of Director Mark Romanek:

Broke down and bought this, another in the series of DVD's that showcase music videos of a particular director. Mark Romanek has done several great music videos you know. Great stuff.

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Upstairs for Hair Photoshoot

All done in about 3 hrs within the same little salon. The challenge is to make the shots different for each look. It's tuff.

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Our house is for sale!

you can see the photos here Showings start Friday! Called our agent Joanne at 889-9500

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My Lil Brainiac

My Lil Brainiac
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Cult of Mac on QTVR: What Happened?

WIRED Blogs: Cult of Mac

QuickTime VR hit in the mid-'90s, and it was strictly a novelty for a few years. It was good at rotating 3-D visuals of new Apple products, and that's about it. The technology got better and better over time, but Apple never found the killer app for the technology. It stayed with interior design tours and product glamour shots.

Stuff like the Airbus cabin is nice, but people spend hours on Google Earth, scouring the globe and leaving tags, and the visual quality is not as good as what Apple could do here if they wanted to. A lot of the time, I think that the death of Apple's R&D group was one of the most important steps in Apple's recovery. But there are times where I truly do mourn what was lost in the process. Apple is brilliant at finding new business models these days, but there was an era when they really pushed us forward on the technology front, not just on interface and platform.

QuickTime VR should have been a contender.

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HotPotatoes

HotPotatoes
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

on the grill.

I've got some good news and...

hydro bill
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

My latest work comes with some bad news. It's stuffed in with your Hydro bill. Sorry.

Ricki's product shots

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Thanks for reminding me Sandy!

Hey Ian,

Your blog seems like the place to mention the CS3 Online launch. I've been
waiting for this day for months!

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/

Sandy

http://www.pixelgenie.net/

Woah, thanks for reminding me Sandy! To all you fence sitters wondering if now would be a good time to buy an Intel based Mac, what are you waiting for? I only hope the bugs in Photoshop CS3 Beta, are fixed, many plug ins I like to use weren't being read properly.

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Highrise conatct manager

Highrise: Early stats, Cases for all, the new Solo plan, and more disk space!

Highrise comes from the people who maek Basecamp and Backpack. They launched Highrise this week. They've already changed things around. 36 hours after launch, the developers have already restructured the pricing and disk space. Oh if all software developers responded to customer reaction like this!

If you have to keep track of a lot of conatcts and want to share them with you're cohorts, you should take a look at this web based app.

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Could THIS be the real digital Leica?

Further details have been released for the Sigma DP1. The DP1 will feature a 14 megapixel FOVEON X3, APS-C size image sensor (2652 × 1768 × 3 layers) as used in the new Sigma SD14 digital SLR. The size of the image sensor used in the Sigma DP1 camera is 10 times larger than in a normal compact digital camera. The DP1 has a 16.6mm f/4 Sigma lens, equivalent to 28mm on a 35mm film camera. The Sigma DP1 will be available in Spring 2007, price to be anounced.

Sigma have also launched a website dedicated to the DP1 at http://sigma-dp1.com/ (thanks to Bob van Ooik for the tip).Sigma UK Press ReleaseNew details released on the Sigma DP1 high-end compact digital cameraSigma DP1 high-end compact digital camera equipped with 14 megapixel, APS-C size direct image sensor.• 14 megapixel direct image sensor as used in the Sigma SD14 digital SLR.• Featuring Sigma’s new, unique ‘True’ image processing engine.• 16.6mm F4 lens (28mm equivalent).

Sigma DP1 Details Unveiled - PhotographyBLOG

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Cool graphic comparing the biggest aircraft

Telstar Logistics: Big and Bigger: Sizing Up the World's Largest Aircraft

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Good Joke!

Q: How many graphic designers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Does it have to be a light bulb?

Hazardous Logo « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

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Pinhole cameras

A couple weeks ago, all the camera makers gathered in Las Vegas to strut their latest. Amidst the bright lights, big screens, buttons, and megapixels, it was easy to forget that photography can be a very simple art form.

There’s no better way to remind yourself than to make your own camera. Out of paper, a tin of mints, or a can of spam.

You won’t get optical image stabilization or face-tracking focusing when you make a pinhole camera, but you will get dreamy, surreal, and ghostly photographs from a camera you made with your very own hands. And, we hope, fresh perspective on a favorite hobby.

Photojojo » Make Yourself a Camera Out of Paper, Mint Tins, or Spam — Pinhole Cameras

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Heaven and Hell, The Mob Rules!

Well Sunday's night metal extravaganza was great fun! It was good to see several cliches within the genre are alive and well. Down the first opener, was er, a downer. Megadeth was the band the room was here to see. The young metalheads still follow them quite avidly. They had everyone up and giving 'er!

Then came Heaven& Hell which is Black Sabbath with Ronnoie James Dio singing. Metal from a different era,  the riffs were slower, and with a bit of groove, hinting at the blues roots. Some of the kid were bored but us old metal gusy were impressed. Ronnie James Dio proved why he was considered one of the best voices in metal. He still sounded great! They managed to hit all the numbers I wanted to hear with Neon Knights as the encore. A great show and it was fun to be a heavy metal fan for the day!

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Captain Canuck in the attic!

Captain Canuck
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

The most dangerous part of sorting through all my "stuff" in the attic in preperation for our move is being distracted by stumbling across something I hadn't seen for ages. Captain Canuck is a perfect example! A Canadian comicbook hero, drawn here in Winnipeg, I have about 10 issues. The art near the end is SO much better than the first issue, it was really very cool! Capt.'s sidekicks, Red Coat and Kebec were Special RCMP agents! I had to google it and sure enuff there is an official webpage for Captain Canuck, read more about the history of this great comic here:
http://www.captaincanuck.com/history/history_main.html

Hellnback in studio

www.myspace.com/gunktah

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Analog Photo Users Group

APUG.ORG is an international community of like minded individuals devoted to traditional (non-digital) photographic processes. We are an active photographic community; our forums contain a highly detailed archive of traditional and historic photographic processes. We'd like to thank all of the photographers out there who have given us the encouragement to see this concept through.

http://www.apug.org/forums/home.php

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Aborginal Educators

Shot for the Province of Manioba. Spent the day at the Murdo Scribe Centre. Educators in the Aboriginal community are predominatly female are well connected. When they weren't laughing, getting caught up,, they were making me feel rather uneducated. A really smart and focused bunch, everyone seemed to be in some course, or working on their masters, or involved in other projects.

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Kodak films falling off the radar

This reminds me of the time when I worked at Sam's and could recite the Kodak line of films based on the three letter designation. EPP, EPN, EPT, EPW, etc. Sounds like it's a WAY easier list to memorize, and getting easier all the time.

Hello, Kodak?

I noticed lately that a few films I was playing with were hard to find -- most specifically EPT (Ektachrome 160T) and EPJ (Ektachrome 320T) -- and dealers were mentioning that they thought it was discontinued. However, there wasn't an announcement on Kodak's site.

Finally, I called Kodak and asked them.Apparently EPJ has been out of production for over a year. And EPT has been out of production for some months now. I asked the guy on the phone why there wasn't an announcement about the film being discontinued. He told me to go to a URL on the kodak website and that there should be a notice there... and then confirmed that the website didn't contain a discontinuation notice, even though the film was out of production.

Then, I found out something I didn't even realize I needed to ask about.UltraColor 400, one of my favorite films, is only available from now on in 35mm format. I really love shooting UC400 in medium format and now I can't.We have reached a new stage with Kodak, and I'm not pleased about it. With prior film discontinuations, Kodak gave advanced warning that a film was going to be discontinued, perhaps with a suggested replacement film.
Now, we're faced with films being discontinued without the courtesy of advance warning so we can calibrate our process for a new film or alternatively stock up to complete a project while there's still film to be purchased.
With EPT and EPJ, there isn't any stock left in the warehouse to purchase.I am very disappointed in Kodak. Even accepting that film is no longer the cash-cow for Kodak, this is bad business.

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This new thing called 'Fillm'

An article about a flickr-digi junkie who discovers the joys of 2 1/4 film. I think we may see more of this. One on of the groups I am on Flickr, someone had to be explained the whole negative/print process. "Those orange things? Don't throw them out! Those are "negatives" your gonna need them"

From digital junkie to a film freak

JPG Magazine: Stories

16 frames later i was afraid that i had broken it because it refused to wind. It took little panic, some Google and the manual to find out it`s just the end of the roll not the world.

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Highrise, from the makers of Basecamp. Coming Soon!

So what is Highrise?Highrise is a shared contact manager that helps you keep track of who you talk to, what was said, and what to do next. Like Basecamp helps you collaborate on projects, Highrise helps you collaborate on people. You can use it alone or with your co-workers. You can think of it as a company-wide, web-based, shared address book with a few twists.

Preview 1: An introduction to Highrise (the product previously known as Sunrise) - (37signals)

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Apple now one of the best retailers.

"Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work," BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001. "It's desperation time in Cupertino, Calif.," opined TheStreet.com. "I give [Apple] two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," predicted retail consultant David Goldstein.

Yet five years later, at 4:15 A.M., a light flickered on. Onlookers were bathed in the milky-white glow of the Apple logo, suspended in a freestanding cube of glass at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South in Manhattan. Dazzling in clarity and 32 feet on a side, the structure was likened variously to a temple, the Louvre Pyramid, Apple's G4 "Cube" computer, a giant button, and even - in the words of NBC's Brian Williams - Steve Jobs' Model T. But it was, everyone could agree, manifestly a store.

Why Apple is the best retailer in America - March 19, 2007

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Obscure Hand-crafted Daguerrotype gear

Lest you think film in all it's flavours is gone, I offer a link to a guy in Ontario who makes handcrafted tools for use in the Dauerrotype process. The first widely used photographic process is still being pursed actively by all sorts of people. If technology has done one thing to these old processes, it's the sharing of info and techniques that's helped them continue.

Mike Robinson’s Century Darkroom in Toronto Canada has gained a reputation in several alternative photographic processes. Currently, Mike’s photography centers on the Daguerreotype. His work combines a classical sense of beauty with the high level of technical skill required for success in this difficult photographic medium. His unique contribution to the modern daguerreotype has gained increasing recognition, with his work housed in many US and Canadian collections. Mikes work can be seen at www.centurydarkroom.com

Century Darkroom

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Paparazzi in the house!

Shot for the Arctic Ice cover required the vantge point of someone about to walk the red carpet in Holloywood. I enlisted the help of several shooters from the Wpgphoto.com website. These shots are some the snaps they gang took of me while photographing them! Great fun! I'll share the asembled final image when it's done!

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