April 2008
It's the little things
Dialed a number manually on the iPhone today - the old touchtone keyboard. Turns out the number was already in my phone book, which the iPhone informed me by showing the company name under the number as soon as I completed dialing. Simple and elegant.
March 2008
“The Mississippi River divides this land in two
Like the way we tend to think of...”
– People Look Around words and music by Catie Curtis and Mark Erelli c2006 I know I’ve blogged these words before… I like them.
Vignette
Aperture 2.0 added a vignette option… I thought who cares? I care. I am amazed how often a photo looks better with a slight darkening of the edges, nothing obvious, just enough to draw you to center. I am an over saturating, vignetting fool. I even vignette’d the toilet in the earlier post.
“Dance Party Friday spreads”
– Back in January I posted a link to a Cincinnati TV morning news show clip where they started playing music and doing Dance Party Friday with anchors dancing. It has now spread to LA on KTLA. Last week they added the twist of dropping the helicopter reporter off in the desert and filming her from...
What are these people so afraid of? →
Satellite radio is not oil, water, food… no one needs it, rather they can choose to pay for it. I understand those with a vested interest in free, crappy radio trying every maneuver to mess with satellite. I even understand the Jesse Jackson’s of the world looking for a money grab. But who is paying off these attorney generals? Seriously, we are to believe that two satellite...
Save "It's a Small World" →
Disney plans a makeover to add characters to classic attraction…
By the way I removed the post about the hacker hitting the digital Clear Channel billboards after Engadget found that he actually paid for the ads.
“Fifty”
– pounds lost since October.
CSI: Saturation
We have not watched CSI: MIami in a long time… the color is so saturated it is another cast member (and possibly the best actor).
New Orleans Jazz Fest Cubes are out! →
“The Justice Department has approved a merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. with...”
– Associated Press
There is an article in the LA Times about car washes and how the workers are often illegal and paid very little. Oddly, I know of only ONE car wash in the area (just below LAX) that is automated. It costs $5 - $10 instead of the usual $15-$30 with the big difference being it is 100% automated and you have to do your own vacuuming and the only drying done is by blowers. I have only seen 2...
Show Reels
Over at our training site, fxphd, as part of the Background Fundamentals class that all post grads enrolled have access to, Mike Seymour has done something brilliant. He took a show reel and got access to all the elements that made it up and cut an alternate version. He then sat down with two recruiters from Animal Logic and discussed the two reels and what they are looking for in a reel.
Photoshopped? Busted →
Someone is paying attention.
Mozza
I had business in Hollywood today and ended up having a great lunch at Mario Batali’s place Mozza. It was kind of surreal because it’s in the building right down from where Editel LA used to be (Highland and Melrose). Mozza is two restaurants actually - a nice one and a pizzeria.
This Week in Photography →
Great new podcast on photography.
“One of the primary potential dangers to free, over-the-air radio posed by this...”
– Clear Channel on the Sirius/XM merger. By far the two highest rated shows on Sirius are Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge. Clear Channel cancelled Bubba years ago and dropped Howard in their markets in 2004 with this statement.
The American Idol Cannibalization Of Music →
Excellent blog entry from KTLA weatherman Mark Kriski on the state of the music business.
“Someone here figured out that she’s getting $1400 for every hour they were...”
– Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News talking about the $50 million dollar Heather Mills divorce settlement from Paul McCartney.
Fry's takes Amex!
You know you are a nerd if that title made you read this. I was standing at checkout at Fry’s Electronics and there was an Amex logo on the register. They were famous for not taking it. I asked the cashier and she said it just happened last week.
“I must say, I’m a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not...”
– George Bush on a videoconference with U.S. military and civilian personnel in Afghanistan. Read more at Slate.
“What should I do? I am a grown man with red hair.”
– David Caruso OK, this is weird - I randomly found the video below and then Jenn sent me to Defamer which has been having a flock of on set stories coming in about the man.
Ashley Dupree (Kristen) sings on her MySpace →
Network executives are surely considering “American Idol - Prostitute Edition” You do have to love her profile quote: “what destroys me, strengthens me.”
“That would never be me. I’d be gone.”
– Silda Spitzer to a friend during the Clinton/Lewinsky days, according to the NY Post.
Online Confession →
Churches going tech… first ATMs for donating and now…
The FCC is finally getting a closer look →
No faith that anything will happen, but at least the heat is finally on.
“If we didn’t have so many clients, we wouldn’t be prostitutes.”
– best quote I found in articles about Spitzer. Also the obligatory YouTube accordion version of ”Love Client #9“ and the t-shirts have started.
“It’s like the Musicians’ Village, which I have a real problem with. And not just...”
– Interesting article in Offbeat about New Orleans musician Glen David Andrews
What happens in Vegas, gets in the paper →
A night out on the town finds a family gouged by a club full of tip hungry staff.
