I can understand why graphic designers would hate eBooks. After having spent years honing PageMaker, Quark or InDesing skills, you now have to re-shape that set into a Kindle or iBook format, or grow new skill limbs for even developing your own eBook reader apps…However, IMHO, a talented designer is a talented designer, and that sensibility is hard to come by…I would rather have design sensibility than Flash skills and I would cite, Jim Coudal/Coudal Partners, and they might disagree, as one of the best examples of a team that has evolved from that neighborhood of near straight-up graphic design, into something more.
Posts under ‘Film & Video’
Optical is Dead: I’m Talking to You Blu-ray.
I’ve been quietly responding to questions from friends, for about 3 years time now, that Blu-Ray was dead on arrival. The victim of at least a 2 year delay to market resulting from a Beta vs. VHS like industry dispute. This historic lesson having been apparently unlearned by the major manufacturers, it was compounded by increased broadband infrastructure and delivery of video content via stream or file either at no charge = Hulu.com…Or at no additional charge; examples include your Netflix subscription via laptop, other device like your Wii, PS3, Xbox, Roku or dare I say your Comcast/DirecTV/Dish set top box using on-demand or time-shifting DVRs.
Microsloth Leading the Sheep to the Slaughter – “Look, we have stores too!”
Microsloth, in yet another un-original move, has opened their own retail presence.
Congratulations, that’s 1000 stolen business plans! Most people who inhabit the spaces that will contain the stores may become confused when they purchase their computer from a Microsoft store, and then accidentally wander into an Apple store looking for support…oh well…
Apple + iTunes + The Beatles – Finally!
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that Apple will finally offer The Beatles catalog through the iTunes music store.
Final Cut Editors: Final Cut Users Groups Network – Super Meet Issue #3
Hey all you FCP editors out there…The Final Cut Pro User Groups Network has just issued the Super Meet Mag issue # 3:
http://www.fcpugnetwork.org/supermag/2009/index.html
Mashable Social Good Conference: Livestream
The Mashable team is streaming their conference in NYC today. Thanks guys…
Eric of Tim & Eric – Major Lazer “Pon De Floor” – Wow.
Ok, so I’m not a big Tim & Eric fan, but clearly someone is thinking about their material…and w/this video, we get a huge hint as to which of these guys is “the mind”…
iPhone Video: How to Type Faster on the Virtual Keyboard
Efficient parsing of the top tips for typing more effectively on the Apple iPhone virtual keyboard…thanks Howcast.
NYT: Gadgetwise: Blu-ray – Is Optical Dead?
[Rethinking Blu-ray - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com] Ok, the NYT is saying the indicators are that Blu-ray is on the upswing…personally, I’m don’t buy it…I don’t know anyone w/a Blu-ray player that didn’t come as a by-product in a game console and I don’t know anyone buying any discs? Do you?
