By way of Boingboing.net, my attention has been drawn to an amusing ’80s manga by Mitsuru Sugaya about the birth of Apple. Not speaking Japanese, I managed to get some gist of the artist’s commentary (though not the comic dialogue itself) from the Babelfish version. I particularly enjoyed their rendition of Mitsuru’s descriptions of one of Woz’s teen pranks. (See if you can guess what it does…)
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The campaign, in which Seinfeld & Gates just sort of hang out and shoot the proverbial breeze, was created by ad agency juggernaut Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
The ad takes a significantly different tack than the Mojave Experiment did, and is in fact very reminiscent of Seinfeld’s “Superman” ads for Amex.
See for yourself here.
on this postIt’s not been 8 months since the January 15 release of the MacBook Air, the much-praised and equally maligned ultra-portable offering from Steve Jobs’ crew of catured alien computer designers from the future. The notebook was an historic first: a practical laptop that sported a large screen and a full keyboard, internet connectivity, and video conferencing capability, that measured a scant .16 inches thick (at its thinnest point) and weighed in at a feathery 3 pounds.
The thing sold itself…all Jobs had to do was pull it out of an inter-office envelope and the world went “Wow” and opened up their wallets, with Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer reporting that the MBA launch was “Successful…Our Mac channel inventory this past quarter did increase by about 60,000 in the March quarter, as the result of the MacBook Air launch and accelerated sales velocity.”
Of course it didn’t take long for the novelty of an ultra-thin, super-sexy notebook computer to wear off, because as quickly as everyone exclaimed “ZOMG I WANT ONE OF THOSE”, the more level-headed of us began asking questions along the lines of “…um…where’s the DVD drive?”
Now comes a little new competition, the Samsung X360. When compared side-by-side to the MBA, it is a strong competitor, but in the race to create the thinnest notebook in the world, I have to ask, really: what’s the point?
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I have to say, when I wrote my first post on Apple’s attempts to soup-nazi new media spaces, I had no idea a sequel would be so soon in the offing. In this week’s episode, we have an actual App Store rejection letter from Apple, which is so galling in its casual application of censorship to a harmless fart joke app, that even in the unlikely event that it would be a good idea to let any one posse of techno-dudes carry the keys to the new media kingdom, it’s as clear as day the people at Apple are not those dudes. READ THE REJECTION LETTER.
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You knew it had to happen. The patronising 38-page webcomic Google had Scott McCloud pen in order to explain, with excruciating deliberation, Google Chrome, has been wickedly lampooned. In this case, by The Register and its readers.
This is probably just a small sample of the massive innoculations of irony we will all require if Google’s plans to lay claim to a platform on top of everybody else’s platforms, actually come to fruition. Buy more blue paint, indeed.
As some of you know (especially those who visited — thanks!) I had a table in Artist’s Alley at Fan Expo 2008 in Toronto. I took over 4000 photographs at this event in less than three days, and there are a lot of gems. Some of which I’m saving, of course, for future episodes of Hypothesis. But others, I’ve managed to assemble into a sort of photo journal of my experiences as an exhibitor, with commentary… VIEW PHOTO ESSAY
Outside the entrance to Fan Expo there was a table, a couple of guys in waistcoats and their crew. They were The Conventioneers, a show found on bitetv.ca that covers conventions of all sorts. A while ago, the irreverent commentators were banned from getting inside. Alex and Ryan ask them why.
**Please excuse the audio issues. Our mic was acting up **
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
Photographic manipulation seems to be all the rage these days, especially with the recent release of the initial version of Photosynth, the 3D environment building photo software from Microsoft. Some of the most useful techniques seem to come out of universities though. A few years back, the University of Manchester’s Advanced Interfaces Group released Icarus, which was an amazing piece of move matching software that allowed the user to remove objects from video, generate 3D camera positions to composite 3D characters in a real video and much more.
More recently, GRAIL (the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington) released the source code for it’s video enhancement project. Although there is no useable demo, what they’ve displayed is quite impressive. The software is able to enhance lower resolution video by interpolation with high resolution stills, as well as making user of HDR techniques and object removal and track/replace objects in a scene.
The aforementioned Icarus was fated to become a commercial application aimed at professional editors and animators after Pixel Farm purchased is about 5 years ago.
I hope that the fate for this project will be a little more consumer friendly.
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According to legionsofgotham.org, the Dark Knight will be released on December 9/08 in various collectible formats.
They include a DVD version packaged with a BatMask, and an exceptionally ornate version of a BatPod bust, the base of which acts as a housing for the discs.
These special editions apply to the DVD release. There appear to be no value-added extras for the Blue Ray version.
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