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Top Gear, the new season starts, finally!

June 25, 2008July 25, 2009 drsquid Top Gear5 Comments

If you have any interest in great TV then you should be watching Top Gear, the British BBC produced weekly car show and yes even if you are not into cars. Three hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond drive fast cars, interview then make celebrities drive slow cars, perform crazy stunts, go to exotic locales perfoming crazy stunts (racing a sled dog team against a 4×4 in the Artic), all with a sense of humor and chemistry that is unmatched in any presenter line up on TV. The…

The New Hockey Night in Canada theme composer revealed…and it’s YOU.

June 24, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X CBC, hockey5 Comments

The CBC has launched Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenge, a national contest to find a new song for its weekly hockey broadcast. The network is currently without a song after Dolores Claman, the theme’s composer, sold the jingle’s rights to CTV last week for a reported seven figures. The song will now be heard before NHL games airing on CTV-owned TSN. Canadians have until August 31 to submit their entry online, which will be available for public review and rating. At least five semifinalists will present their songs to a panel…

Who is the Green Hornet?

June 24, 2008June 25, 2008 drsquid 3 Comments

A quick look on Wikipedia gives an overview of the slight convoluted history of the revival of the Green Hornet, suffice to say George Clooney and Kevin Smith were both involved in the project at one time, but today I noticed this bit on ign pointing to a teaser page for…Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet! I had heard that this might happen before but had dismissed it as a silly rumor. Now that it is official I am not sure what to think…but seeing as I have never seen more…

Symbian goes home to Daddy.

June 24, 2008June 24, 2008 Danny X 3 Comments

As quoted from today’s Macrumors front page: Seemingly in a response to growing competition from Apple and Google, Nokia is buying out Symbian Ltd and will open its mobile operating system for royalty free use. Nokia will pay $410 million to buy the remaining 52% share of the company that it does not already own and establish the Symbian Foundation. “This is a significant milestone in our software strategy” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia. “Symbian is already the leading open platform for mobile devices. Through this acquisition and the…

rgb Filter Episode 002 – Alex Hearts Apple – Show Notes

June 20, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 4 Comments

In the latest episode, Alex takes his (not so) secret love-hate relationship with Apple to a whole new level. We talk about Modo 302, Brad Bird’s comments on writing for animation, review Bell’s online video store, touch on self publishing comics using Kablam.com and yes, the iPhone. Of the top, we discuss the Metallica (or Metallica’s management) vs. the blogs story. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080610-metallica-to-bloggers-dont-review-our-music.html Brad Bird on misconceptions for animation writing, from both sides of the fence… http://www.cea1.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=361&Itemid=3989 Check out the Modo 302 demo for PC or Mac at.. http://www.luxology.com/trymodo/ Doug reviews…

Canadian Internet Updatepalooza.

June 19, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 5 Comments

There’s a few points of interest regarding the issues facing Canadian internet access this past week, which actually makes for some good reading, so here we go. With regards to the Bell throttling issue raised by the CAIP, the Globe & Mail has an article that suggests that despite ruling against the CAIP’s request for interim relief on the issue, the CRTC is leaning towards the CAIP’s position. Part of the CRTC mandate is to ensure that there’s no interference with the application and development of information technologies, and Bell…

rgb Filter Episode 001 – Wii Did It – Show Notes

June 19, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 0 comment

Still working on getting the show notes thing happening. In any case, here’s the link to the full sized file. rgbFilter Episode 001 720×480

rgb Filter Episode 000 – Show Notes

June 18, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves episode, video4 Comments

Here’s a link to download the first “test” episode of rgb filter in AVI format. We talk about the X-Files movie trailer, the Watchmen, and much more. rgbFilter Episode 000 720×480

We Launch The rgbFilter Podcast!

June 18, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves episode0 comment

It’s finally here, and I’m proud to announce the launch of the first episode of the new rgbFilter podcast. From the time we started this website, doing a podcast has been one of the main goals. The ‘we’ are myself, Alex, Paul and Dave. So, over the past few months, we painted a green screen, designed a set, did some test shooting, had a camera stolen (which really sucked), did some more tests and false starts, but now it’s out in the wild. It’s still a little rough around the…

AMD’s Next Gen Graphics Card

June 17, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 2 Comments

Shortly after the details of Nvidia’s new chipset leaked out, AMD’s demoed their new RV770 chipset. The short clip above is real-time game play using their Ruby character and was rendered by a single PC equipped with two “RV770” codenamed graphics cards powered by an AMD Phenom™ X4 9850 Processor and AMD 790FX Chipset. AMD is planning on introducing the RV770 ‘this summer’, along with a more detailed demo of it’s capabilities. Though the ‘consumer-level’ card is clearly aimed at gamers, I can’t help but wonder how it’ll perform when…

NVIDIA: GTX 280 News, Pics. Plus: Gelato GPU Render Software Freely Available

June 6, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia0 comment

It seems every day, more information about NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series cards is coming out. And pics… The cards will be manufactured using a 65 nm process, with a die size of 576 mm2, which is almost double the current G92 series (9800GTX et al), which have a die size of 330 mm2. The GeForce GTX 280 will have a core clock of 600MHz, and the 1GB of GDDR memory will be running at 0.8ns, on a 512-bit memory bus. It’s no small potatoes, either as it’s a full-size 10.5″…

3D Movie Created Entirely with Open Source Tools: Big Buck Bunny

June 3, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves open source3 Comments

Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo. Blender.org and the Peach open movie project recently released it’s animated short Big Buck Bunny, which you can watch above, and is available under a Creative Commons license… Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge. (c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org Besides…