Thursday, 28 Aug 2008

Wow.  That’s all I can say. Ok, that and “Imagine what the electric bill for this building would run/month?”

check out the other buildings to get a sense of scale of this almost completed fantastically unbelievably tall building in Dubai.

Sunday, 24 Aug 2008

Saw “Stranger than Fiction” and despite not being a Will Farrell fan I liked it a lot. Similar to how I liked “Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind” despite not being a Jim Carrey fan. I really liked that the song that won over Maggie Gyllenhal was a hesitantly strummed and falsetto sung “Whole Wide World” originally by Wreckless Eric. I have an EP by WE up in my kitchen, and I’ve always liked him as an icon of I am not sure what but of something - and he’s a snazzy dresser. And if I hadn’t already had a movie crush on Maggie G, her reaction to WF singing that song alone would have made me a convert. I was suprised to see how much of that film featured songs by Spoon - they are one of those bands I like when I hear but can’t name a single song by.

Speaking of movie soundtracks, I was suprised to see that Michael Penn (”Romeo in Blue Jeans”) did the music for Boogie Nights. The reasons I was suprised were because other than an occassional mention of him touring I haven’t heard of MP in years, and secondly because the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, created most of the movie “Magnolia” around songs written/performed by Aimee Mann (Michael’s wife).

On to the TV side of the world, raise your hand if you knew that the people scoring/playing the music for the show “Heros” are Wendy and Lisa, who were once the core of Prince’s ‘Revolution’ band? I sure didn’t.

Just to prove how different Japanese culture is from American, here’s a  Japanese animated Prada ad which has a soundtrack by Coco Rosie, one of the least commercial bands I can think of.

Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008

Take this test to see if  you can tell actual photos from computer generated images.

http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/fakeorfoto/challenge/

I got 9 right, and would have got all 12 had I not skewed my answers on 3 that I initially had correct then second guessed myself thinking they were probably tricks.

Sunday, 10 Aug 2008

> Command-Shift-3 [window to disk] OS 9, 10.1.x and 10.2
> Command-Shift-3 + then Control [window to clipboard] OS 9 and 10.2
> Command-Shift-4 [part of the display to disk] OS 9, 10.1.x and 10.2
> Command-Shift-4 + Control [part of the display to clipboard] OS 9 and 10.2
> Command-Shift-4 + Capslock [active window to disk] OS 9
> Command-Shift-4 + Capslock + then control [active window to clipboard] OS 9
> Command-Shift-4 + Spacebar [active window to disk] OS X 10.2
> Command-Shift-4 + Spacebar + Control [active window to clipboard] OS X 10.2

–

> Screen Capture has also been improved big time in Jaguar. When you use the
> interactive version (command-shift-4), the space bar will toggle between the
> regular marquee selection mode and a new mode to capture just a single window,
> the Dock or the menu bar. The cursor changes to a camera icon when you are in
> this new mode and as you mouse over different areas of the screen the screen
> capture target is highlighted for you.
>
> And of course, there’s more… Screen captures can be triggered from the
> command line (and therefore AppleScript, perl, etc.) using the new
> screencapture command found in /usr/sbin/
>
> usage: screencapture [-icmwsWx] [file] [cursor]
>
> -i
> capture screen interactively, by selection or window
>
> control key
> causes screen shot to go to clipboard
>
> space key
> toggle between mouse selection and window selection modes
>
> escape key
> cancels interactive screen shot
>
> -c
> force screen capture to go to the clipboard
>
> -m
> only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set
>
> -w
> only allow window selection mode
>
> -s
> only allow mouse selection mode
>
> -W
> start interaction in window selection mode
>
> -x
> do not play sounds
>
> file
> where to save the screen capture

From: Ken Bereskin’s Radio Weblog

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100676/