Yesterday, we had quite a scare. We had run CAT5e cable throughout the ceilings and walls of the office, but when we plugged them into the gigabit Ethernet switch, none of the link lights lit up. We were dumbfounded. All of this cable had tested fine. We tried shorter cable, different cable, none of it […]
I’m doing an expansion of the editing systems where I work, including setting up and entire new separate LAN for the metadata traffic for the new Xsan. I just figured out, if you cut the vinyl sheathing on twisted-pair ethernet cable (like, say, CAT5e) shorter, it actually leads to less twist-wrangling, and the connectors go on faster and easier. Wish I’d figured that out two days ago. 😛
Channel Craft makes great vintage-looking toys and games — they made the "Morgan’s Revenge" pirate gambling game I picked up in Roanoke Festival Park, NC.
Film speeds
Through the camera
Flicker flash
The light imprints
Scenes of life
Real or imagined
Burned into silver
Spun into gold
Light returns
Back to life
Reflected in faces
On the edge of their seats
This morning was the Apple “Special Event”, at which they reminded us of Tiger’s emminent release (with QuickTime 7, including 24 simultaneous audio track capture!), and announced the new versions of Final Cut Pro 5 (with Multicam and native HDV support), Motion 2 (whose most impressive new feature seems to be its ability to use […]
Well, it’s NAB time again, and that means Vegas, beh-beh! A short jaunt to Indianapolis and then a longer jaunt with my current client/boss out to Vegas, we met our third at the Vegas airport (another colleague), and proceeded to our hotel, the MGM Grand. Nothing much happening this night, so we grabbed some grub, […]
