Monthly Archives: August 2009

Why Colour Grading In Film is Important

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Today we seem to be getting an awful lot of film that is artificially coloured or badly restored, and then the people who had this task, then fail to admit to such issues, and claim it as some clever part of the artistic process, for instance the bladerunner restoration was very good but the colour correction for film stock aging was done pretty badly.

here is a snapshot from an opening scene in bladerunner, the greenish looking areas, are the colour of the film as released, the normal areas are how I have colour corrected it through restoration, whos aim was to return the footage to a realistic colour scenario.

blade opening scene colour correction unsubtle heavy green tinge

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Un-manufacturing or Unmanufacturing ?

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Sooner or late were gonna have to get to round to the concept of enforcing manufacturers by law to also un-manufacture at the end of a products life, currently we can get away with not, because we live in a culture in which energy and materials, have been relatively cheaply raped from the earth, and twas always cheaper to take and make anew, rather than to un-manufacture. But in the future Un-Manufacturing plants will be more common place. As humans finally invent circular processes rather than linear ones.

Apple share mount now always calls certinfo.me.com

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Why whenever I mount a drive across the network it now communicates with certinfo.me.com Ive no idea ? According to an apple explanation its to do with mobileme, why the mobileme needs to know what drive I’m mounting I have no idea. especially as I only had a bloody trial account for a while, its precisely this kind of invasive cryptic background process bullshit that fucks me off, more and more coders are doing this stuff and they dont bother to inform what they are upto or doing, and presume on your approval without asking. If they were just upfront about what they were doing with a particular background process in plain english, and asked for your approval it would be bearable.

my advice get protected from this endless parade of unauthorised internet communication by purchasing this great peice of software.

Little Snitch

Then you will finally get a picture as to how much communicating your computer is doing without asking you.

Fat Cat Bloated OS X Leopard slow background process ridden

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fat os x box design

perhaps we should rename leopard : fat bloated kitty, snow leopard better be a massive improvement in this direction in terms of user control or these fuckers are just screwing us over again, with more hyper marketed down our throats cruft we get to have no control over.

Why is it only when i try and overwrite an application, I discover to my horror that it wont allow me to write over certain parts of the applications package, due to their being background running processes operating out of the application package with out my permission ? itunes has at least two processes
even when you have supposedly quit the application! Its this kind of cruft that programmers feel they have a write to put over us on us without offering us the choice or anything, because they think were to thick to notice, no wonder my quadcore feels like a 68020, this situation massiveley screwed me over recently when I tried to move a user folder, which had an adobe background process operating out of it from an acrobat reader install.

The software companies have got completely out of control with their use of background processes and presumptious use of the internet to keep a tab on users. The important thing is not whether they write this stuff this way, the important thing is they inform and give us the option not to run this crap, and don’t just presume well be happy with a zillion background process, after all I make a choice as to which programs to launch, I dont want them to be running without my permission ! At least in Macos 9 you had control over this crap via a GUI, ie extensions and control panels now it seems coders are able to run hundreds of bits of background code without ever asking my permission or even bothering to say what they do and what they are communicating with !?!

anybody have any idea why itunes 8.2.1 seems unbeleivably slow in comparison to older itunes ? I swear they have some count loop code they insert when they want us to upgrade to new machines just to make the kit weve got feel slow.

DG834G Good router : versions & firmware riddle ridiculous

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Netgear DG834Gv1
Ok dont get confused as i did as to what version you have, Your firmware version is not an indicator of which version of the router you have, if on the back it just says dg834g then you have a version 1 device, dont get confused by your firmware being say v3.01.29 or something thats just the version of the firmware and is independent of the model. This all gets very confusing the way Netgear does it, in reality V1’s have black aerials as an indicator, im upgrading to the DG834N hopefully there arent quintiple near identical versions of that ? Basically any hardware differentiation over time and they should change the product name such that it is recognisable, when sold they should be referred to as say a DG834GV3 or DG834GV4 etc and not collectively titled DG834G and then its left to the consumer to torture the seller to work out which version theyre selling. This could be done by an application of a sticker at the end of product title on the box etc. Netgears methodology couldnt get more confusing! could it ?
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ism’s sex and race being the least of it.

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I thinks its time to clarify that the two dreaded “ism’s” racism and sexism didnt get defeated at the end of the second world war, or even sometime after it ? Humans are inherently “ist” against people that are not in their immediate or familial circle, its a shortcut to save us having to understand people in a tribe, that is to large to comprehend. On a Daily basis we make thousands of little judgements about other people based on sight alone, most of the time unconsciously, and sexism and racism are the tip of the iceberg im afraid. These are just some of the types of unwarranted prejudice we are liable to use on a daily basis.

Prejudice against :

Race (No Law protects in this area)
Sex (No Law protects in this area)
Sexuality (No Law protects in this area)
Disability (No Law protects in this area)
Religious Groups (No Law protects in this area)
Minority cultures (No Law protects in this area)
Child rearing (No Law protects in this area)
Height (No Law protects in this area)
Weight (No Law protects in this area)
Intellect (No Law protects in this area)
Uglyness > “the big daddy” (No Law protects in this area)
A persons nature or personality (No Law protects in this area)
People by their financial standing (No Law protects in this area)
Class or social standing (No Law protects in this area)
People of limited power (No Law protects in this area)
The ill informed (No Law protects in this area)
The moral (No Law protects in this area)
Relationship Status (No Law protects in this area)
Hair lack of too much or in the wrong place (No Law protects in this area)

Now heres how you tell real racists apart ?

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The real triumvirate of power

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Media Noise x Democratic impotence x Consumerist Monetarism = inert population

The Human world is to large and complicated for the average human being to grasp, hence the vast proportion prefer to be ignorant and focus on themselves, in a way this kind of brainwashing is acheived through the noise of the media, which is like being drowned in a psunami of information about everything, but the shitty democracy we have means you can change nothing. No Wonder people switch off, its too stressfull to remian switched on, and mantain and improve a generalist sense of understanding a truly broad set of issues and their interelations. Thats why people focus on consumerism, money and their own well being which is what society wants you to do.