Uit het maandarchief: februari 2005
My potential to undermine any authority makes me a great leader.
Lees verder →There’s this great audio technology called MIDI. It’s very old and the principle is simple: in a midi audio file you don’t put actual sound, you just indicate “play this note on that instrument for so long”. That means midi files are very small: sounds are stored on the device you play the file on.
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Lees verder →Pool with the guys in Leuven, ex collegues, and I wander whether I’m better off working in Zellik. I wander how working this hard in a solid structure with art that will be seen compares to total lack of supervision, or playground, where little of my effords were spread.
Lees verder →Mamoru Oshii’s The Ghost In The Shell 2 features some overwhelming graphics; the makers learned from the The Spirits Within and steered clear from realistic humans. Yet the plot borrows from so many, that it’s almost too post-modern. Half the dialogue are quotes from Confucius to the Bible, the Matrix is in the [...]
Lees verder →Apple manages to squeeze out a computer the size of a stack of CD jewel cases, let’s hope some wintellers get curious and get one with extra onion rings. The bar will not be lowered, people. And a Mac Mini render farm is so much cooler than a cracked X-box render farm.
Lees verder →Some nice bloke from work knows a lot of nice blokes with downloaded movies. As he happened to have his gigantic hard disk with him, he gave it his colleagues, all nice blokes, who added their movies to the disk. And in the end, you guessed, this nice bloke hooked said disk up to my [...]
Lees verder →Noisy bars are great. I spend the day thinking a woman last night was wearing perfume called ‘Rash’, by Gucci. “Skin eruption“, I thought, how unique a name is that? It’s Rush, by the way.
Lees verder →I’m not claiming Jude Law is a bad actor. But seeing Michael Caine perform Alfie ages before Jude, I must admit Michael is natural. He’s an ass hole, but it’s natural. Jude is what men want to be. Is it, by the way, just me or are so many old movies more natural? If only [...]
Lees verder →Mum warned me plenty. ‘Boy‘, she used to say, ‘don’t meddle with them damn’ conceptual artists. They’ll bring you nothing but trouble‘. You may want to flip through Lucies happy famous artists (specially work) though. If a strong concept is visualised attractively in installation or performance, it’s very compelling. One might [...]
Lees verder →Anoyther working day tomorrow. Breaks over 2 days hurt like hell. Perhaps I should pack a small bottle of red whine for lunch, just to take the edge off the pain.
Saw movie “Alfie” earlier, with Jude Law. Makes me long for the original Michal Caine version Roger Ebert [...]
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