Legislate that all phones can be "modified" if you enter a public space - allow the owners of theaters or restaurants to buy equipment that makes phones revert to vibrate mode.
My biggest worry about digital projection is the calibration - who is going to do it? The theater manager? Is s/he going to be trained to do it properly? Who is going to train them? This is someone whose main job is to manage a bunch of kids making 6 bucks an hour, not an image professional (and that goes back to the near-elimination of the projectionists' union). How often do you go to the theater now, and the film is out of focus? Can we trust that every morning someone is going to calibrate the projector according to specific standards, ie color balance, brightness/contrast, etc.? What I'd like to see is a digital projector that refuses to project unless it's calibrated once a day, but that won't happen. Even the most expensive fiery laser printers out there don't produce a constant output, where identical files printed hours apart have a significantly different color balance, and one can only assume that the identical thing happens with a digital projector - it must look different from the first hour it's on versus when it's on for 12 straight hours.
Maybe film has its benefits in that if film prints are timed and struck properly, it'll look pretty much how the director/cinematographer wanted it to to look. Across different prints in different theaters. Of course, there will be variations according to the film projectors, light bulbs, and films fading (but not new prints, since new film stocks are pretty rugged), but there's a constancy in film that you can't expect from digital projection.
With digital, there is so much potential for it to be seen incorrectly, that you can't trust what you're seeing on the screen. With digital, the image is in the hands of non-professionals.
Sometimes if you search for a director's name, only a handful of titles appear, when in fact there have potentially dozens by a director. Their database is screwy, and you need to use IMDB for better information. Also, it's difficult to find foreign films, since sometimes the titles of the movies are entered in either the foreign-language title or the english title, and never both.
I downloaded the 2.15 mb patch. I try to run it, and I get a prompt that I need IE5 Service pack 2 installed. That's it, it doesn't supply a link, it doesn't try to download it, nothing. Microsoft rushed this one out.
Pre-WWW:
Multimedia existed from early on this century: from the 1920s: look up the Futurists: George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique was one of the first orchestral pieces paired with mechanical sounds: it included bells, sirens, airplane propellors...
From the 1970s on: Nam Jun Paik is a good example, one of the first artists to get their hands on video cameras. His, and others' video art, are available to rent from Electronic Arts Intermix.
If you live in NYC you can just drop by and watch whatever you want.
Post-WWW:
(and don't dis it because these sites use flash, okay? Some of the most adventurous webart out there uses flash...)
Superbad, Praystation, Modify Me, and Y0UNG-HAE CHANG are interesting and completely different new media works.
Check out the anti-banner ads at Soul Bath.
And finally, a site that links to a whole lotta pages, with some adventurous, forward-looking design. (some good, some bad)
rb
Hold on a sec. When AOL 6.0 is released, it won't include IE, it'll include Mozilla based. Assuming that most of their 23 million users will upgrade (who doesn't like shiny things?), it'll be a whole new situation. 80% will quickly drop to 40%. I'm sure when you install AOL 6.0 you won't even have the option of using IE, it'll just disable it. IE only specs will mean anti-AOL, and thus definitely anti-consumer.
Early film, called nitrate film, was actually explosive under the right temperature/moisture conditions. Not only would it destroy itself, but sometimes the entire library it was sitting with. I don't really have hopes that CDs will last the 100 years people talk about. Case in point: I had a Maria Callas box set, and the red ink printed on the other side actually ate through the CD, making the CD unreadable. (This was after six months from release, so the company exchanged them.) But, I think we need to think less about the media but more about the inks on CDs decomposing over time. Especially CDRs and CDRWs. Writing on them with Sharpies is dangerous, since the Sharpie ink does actually decompose over time (Sharpie has noted this). Just wait.
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That you need more than one button on your mouse.
not click-throughs, but mouse-over-throughs.
I see that you don't use Photoshop too often. When was the last time you tried to run filters on an 8x10 300 dpi file?
Legislate that all phones can be "modified" if you enter a public space - allow the owners of theaters or restaurants to buy equipment that makes phones revert to vibrate mode.
I was worried there for a second.
My biggest worry about digital projection is the calibration - who is going to do it? The theater manager? Is s/he going to be trained to do it properly? Who is going to train them? This is someone whose main job is to manage a bunch of kids making 6 bucks an hour, not an image professional (and that goes back to the near-elimination of the projectionists' union). How often do you go to the theater now, and the film is out of focus? Can we trust that every morning someone is going to calibrate the projector according to specific standards, ie color balance, brightness/contrast, etc.? What I'd like to see is a digital projector that refuses to project unless it's calibrated once a day, but that won't happen. Even the most expensive fiery laser printers out there don't produce a constant output, where identical files printed hours apart have a significantly different color balance, and one can only assume that the identical thing happens with a digital projector - it must look different from the first hour it's on versus when it's on for 12 straight hours.
Maybe film has its benefits in that if film prints are timed and struck properly, it'll look pretty much how the director/cinematographer wanted it to to look. Across different prints in different theaters. Of course, there will be variations according to the film projectors, light bulbs, and films fading (but not new prints, since new film stocks are pretty rugged), but there's a constancy in film that you can't expect from digital projection.
With digital, there is so much potential for it to be seen incorrectly, that you can't trust what you're seeing on the screen. With digital, the image is in the hands of non-professionals.
duck hunt 2k2
what's wrong with lirr.org?
the mta itself recognized that www.mta.ny.nyc.us was too hard to remember, so now they promote mta.info
For a second, I thought it was an article about loving me. I know I can be difficult and high-maintenance, but it can be done, I swear.
how about
http://www.sun.com/sticksittomicrosoft/
Sometimes if you search for a director's name, only a handful of titles appear, when in fact there have potentially dozens by a director. Their database is screwy, and you need to use IMDB for better information. Also, it's difficult to find foreign films, since sometimes the titles of the movies are entered in either the foreign-language title or the english title, and never both.
picture: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/en/2002/02/0205met apad.jpg
article: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-830173.html
Just a 20 mb service pack is all you'll need.
I downloaded the 2.15 mb patch. I try to run it, and I get a prompt that I need IE5 Service pack 2 installed. That's it, it doesn't supply a link, it doesn't try to download it, nothing. Microsoft rushed this one out.
microsoft - we put the ass in passport
sun, err, uh, puts the bert in liberty alliance?
(I'm being serious, not trolling) Get a Mac. When you're in the minority, marketers won't waste their time with you.
The press release also says that you can now "remove" Internet Exlporer...
There's also the 7 kB web competition in Germany, and the winners have been announced.
rb
Pre-WWW:
Multimedia existed from early on this century: from the 1920s: look up the Futurists: George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique was one of the first orchestral pieces paired with mechanical sounds: it included bells, sirens, airplane propellors...
From the 1970s on: Nam Jun Paik is a good example, one of the first artists to get their hands on video cameras. His, and others' video art, are available to rent from Electronic Arts Intermix.
If you live in NYC you can just drop by and watch whatever you want. Post-WWW:
(and don't dis it because these sites use flash, okay? Some of the most adventurous webart out there uses flash...)
Superbad, Praystation, Modify Me, and Y0UNG-HAE CHANG are interesting and completely different new media works. Check out the anti-banner ads at Soul Bath.
And finally, a site that links to a whole lotta pages, with some adventurous, forward-looking design. (some good, some bad) rb
Replace Mulder with Boba Fett!
Hold on a sec. When AOL 6.0 is released, it won't include IE, it'll include Mozilla based. Assuming that most of their 23 million users will upgrade (who doesn't like shiny things?), it'll be a whole new situation. 80% will quickly drop to 40%. I'm sure when you install AOL 6.0 you won't even have the option of using IE, it'll just disable it. IE only specs will mean anti-AOL, and thus definitely anti-consumer.
Early film, called nitrate film, was actually explosive under the right temperature/moisture conditions. Not only would it destroy itself, but sometimes the entire library it was sitting with. I don't really have hopes that CDs will last the 100 years people talk about. Case in point: I had a Maria Callas box set, and the red ink printed on the other side actually ate through the CD, making the CD unreadable. (This was after six months from release, so the company exchanged them.) But, I think we need to think less about the media but more about the inks on CDs decomposing over time. Especially CDRs and CDRWs. Writing on them with Sharpies is dangerous, since the Sharpie ink does actually decompose over time (Sharpie has noted this). Just wait.