2008
Intelligent White Board
08:34 PM / 05 Feb 2008 Filed in: technology
Seam Carvning Coming to Photoshop Plugin: Courtesy of OnOne Software
06:12 AM / 25 Jan 2008 Filed in: photography
| technology
Earlier this week, OnOne Software announced it
has purchased Liquid Resize. This product uses
a technique known as “seam carving” to reduce
the distortion that typically occurs when
manipulating the aspect ratio of an image. If
you have not heard of or seen
"seam carving" in action, I previously blogged
about it several months ago.
To get an idea of what seam carving is all about, read the blog post link above and/or check out this YouTube video below:
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To get an idea of what seam carving is all about, read the blog post link above and/or check out this YouTube video below:
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Flickr and the Library of Congress: Tagging Public Pictures
05:45 AM / 21 Jan 2008 Filed in: photography
Flickr and the Library of Congress have teamed up to try and describe, tag, attribute as many photographs as possible currently held by the Library of Congress for which no known copyright holder exists. Read More...
Major Music Labels and Their Downward Spiral - We're all Thieves to the RIAA
05:46 AM / 09 Jan 2008 Filed in: marketing &
pr |
randomness
I came across an article on the Motley Fool last week which
does a great job of packaging up my feelings
on the major music labels and their thugs
known as the RIAA. To quote the article,
"As I've said before, a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather litigate than innovate, signaling a potential destroyer of value. If it starts to pursue paying customers -- which doesn't seem that outlandish at this point -- then I guess we'll all know the extent of the desperation. Investor, beware." Read More...
"As I've said before, a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather litigate than innovate, signaling a potential destroyer of value. If it starts to pursue paying customers -- which doesn't seem that outlandish at this point -- then I guess we'll all know the extent of the desperation. Investor, beware." Read More...
Major Music Labels Move Away from DRM for all the Wrong Reasons: The Apple Implications
08:38 AM / 05 Jan 2008 Filed in: randomness
| technology
As reported by Business Week yesterday,
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing
plans to sell songs without the copyright
protection software that has long restricted
the use of music downloaded from the Internet.
Since their whole rootkit thing
when so well for them, I guess it was only a
matter of time before they jumped on the DRM
free bus.
Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group, which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com's digital music store. EMI and Vivendi's Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.
The irony behind this move by all the major labels to step away from DRM has very little to do with accommodating the needs of their customers, but a feeble attempt to supplement distribution channels. Apple is a primary reason behind the labels shift to DRM free, but the labels newfound interest has little to do with customer benefit or even a business ploy that will affect Apple's digital music leadership position. Let me explain... Read More...
Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group, which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com's digital music store. EMI and Vivendi's Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.
The irony behind this move by all the major labels to step away from DRM has very little to do with accommodating the needs of their customers, but a feeble attempt to supplement distribution channels. Apple is a primary reason behind the labels shift to DRM free, but the labels newfound interest has little to do with customer benefit or even a business ploy that will affect Apple's digital music leadership position. Let me explain... Read More...
World Wide Panorama Events: Best of 2007, Wrinkle in Time Contributions
07:04 AM / 01 Jan 2008 Filed in: photography
The World Wide Panorama began in March 2004 and has
become an ongoing series of events. Photography
takes place on the solstices (longest and shortest
days of the year) and equinoxes (day and night of
equal length). Photographers all over the world are
welcome to participate. I have participated five
times in the last four years. And this year, I
managed to get two contributions included.
I really encourage you to check out the work of all the photographers that have contributed to these projects. Not only did nearly 300 panoramic photographs contribute to these two projects, but most of the images can be seen full screen and all are geo-located on a map of the world so you can see where each image was photographed. A special thanks goes out to the organizers of the world wide panorama effort, as without them these last 17 events would not have taken place.
Wrinkle in Time
19 December 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of this initial event. The original Wrinkle in Time project is considered the first major, collaborative immersive, panoramic photography event. To enter the original event, your panoramic photograph was to be taken at the exact same time as the solstice in one's local area. 10 years later, the original event was commemorated by 165 photographers from every corner of the world taking an immersive, 360 degree panoramic photograph within a 12 hour window before and after the Solstice in the photographer's locale.
Since the Solstice passed at 10:08pm local time on 19 December, I elected to take a picture of Christmas lights in the neighborhood. My contribution for the Wrinkle in Time 2007 event can be viewed on the World Wide Panorama website.
[ View: Mike Morper's Wrinkle in Time 2007 panoramic photograph contribution ]
And for your Google Earth users, all of the photographed for this event can be viewed in Google Earth. Read More...
I really encourage you to check out the work of all the photographers that have contributed to these projects. Not only did nearly 300 panoramic photographs contribute to these two projects, but most of the images can be seen full screen and all are geo-located on a map of the world so you can see where each image was photographed. A special thanks goes out to the organizers of the world wide panorama effort, as without them these last 17 events would not have taken place.
Wrinkle in Time
19 December 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of this initial event. The original Wrinkle in Time project is considered the first major, collaborative immersive, panoramic photography event. To enter the original event, your panoramic photograph was to be taken at the exact same time as the solstice in one's local area. 10 years later, the original event was commemorated by 165 photographers from every corner of the world taking an immersive, 360 degree panoramic photograph within a 12 hour window before and after the Solstice in the photographer's locale.
Since the Solstice passed at 10:08pm local time on 19 December, I elected to take a picture of Christmas lights in the neighborhood. My contribution for the Wrinkle in Time 2007 event can be viewed on the World Wide Panorama website.
[ View: Mike Morper's Wrinkle in Time 2007 panoramic photograph contribution ]
And for your Google Earth users, all of the photographed for this event can be viewed in Google Earth. Read More...