Proving that comic hilarity can continue even after you’re no longer ’embittered’, or ‘hapless’, Ernie’s back online. the 10-sided die of ‘i don’t think so’
– now that’s classic.
For those interested, I’ve decided to go w/ a Powerbook 12″ (I’ve been lugging around a 1st gen 15″ TiBook for the past year and a half) for my new laptop. I have a PB12″ vs X31 excel spreadsheet outlining listing some of the why-fors. Basically, it comes down to the fact that though the PB12″ gets blown away in the hardware department (it is fast enough to be useful, but barely), OS X’s laptop handling and native *NIX environment makes up for it. The biggest things I miss when I’m on a Mac: TopStyle, Neat Image, WINAMP 2, ACDSee, and Trillian. (dealing w/ CRW files is much more limited on the Mac as well, but the next version of Photoshop will come bundled with Thomas Knoll’s kick ass Adobe RAW plug-in, so I’m not super worried about that)
On the flip-side, useful apps that are Mac only: iLife, AppleScript, Konfabulator, OmniGraffle, Final Cut Pro.
Most of the apps I use all the time: Mozilla, vim, and Photoshop, are on both platforms.
The Lemon: History Of The Internet (for a more serious take, check out ISOC’s Internet Histories or the various timelines and historical resources).
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness should pick up a digital EOS.
Interview with Brian Walski on PDN
Maybe I’ll be happy where I end up in a couple of years, but I’ll never look back on it and say it was a good thing. I hurt my reputation and the LA Times’ reputation, and that’s something I feel really bad about. And the Internet thing, that’s hard to deal with. I did a Google search on my name, and it comes up in about 25 languages. Every photographer wants to be known for a picture he’s taken. I’ll be known for this. It’s not something I’m proud of. The photographers who are covering Iraq—I’ve hurt them in a way. If I could apologize…People should be proud of the work they’ve done over there. I take responsibility for what I did.
I really feel bad for Walski. While what he did was wrong, he really got crucified, especially consider how much of the war coverage was made up anyway. Did anyone get fired for all the stuff invented in the press (try the Memory Hole for some examples)? Did anyone get fired for the completely staged statue toppling?
It’s been raining toys recently. Finally got my EOS-10D yesterday. After going to a friends house and borrowing some lenses, I filled up the half-gig CF card I had with me in a matter of minutes. I can see that that new HD I ordered should come in handy.
I’ve already taken over two hundred photos (maybe 1 or 2 good ones, mind you) in the past day, about 1GB of files. Maybe I should buy another HD?
Occurred to me I should be using the real Matrix screen font, since it’s installed on most systems.
Borrowing a couple of lenses from Jaime right now. Here’s a shot from Day 1 shooting. 1600 looks really good scaled down. I love RAW.
My process needs some work, but the IQ is spectacular: 12-bit linear -> 16-bit sRGB TIFF -> Crop -> White/Blackpoint General Curves -> 8-bit -> Color adjustment with image mask -> scale -> USM
Just got around to installing the new version of TopStyle. It has an interface to access the TopStyle Blog straight from the program. Cool! (Recently I’ve been doing most of my design/editing in vim, but TopStyle really is great – everything that used to be good about HomeSite (not surprising seeing as it’s by the guy who originally wrote HomeSite).