Posts by Russell Brown
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Sounds like you're accessorized to be a CEO. You just need a digital shave ...
I have my people do that in Photoshop. It's so much more convenient.
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Following Perigo sounds like the 'spank Monkey' option.
When he calls his website "Solo Passion", he's really walking smack into that joke, isn't he?
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Given his views on the Urewera 17, that seems just a tad hypocritical.
Calling for armed rebellion only seems to be a problem if you are brown, green, or red.
Clearly, I/S, you are unused to debating doctrinaire libertarians. They are never wrong or inconsistent, even when they are both.
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What pissed me off is that when I upgraded to the latest Quicktime (bundled with iTunes), my old QuickTime Pro is gone, and now I have to pay again to upgrade the latest version into Pro.
Yes, I was given fair warning that I would lose the Pro features on upgrade, it was the nagging by iTunes that finally made me give in. Still annoyed by it. It's not like the QT 6.x to 7.x (or whatever it was) is any great leap forward either, at least as far as I can tell.
Maybe it's a Mac thing again, but 7.x was a big jump from the 6.x line (that began in 2002). It was released alongside Mac OS X 10.4 and supported a bunch of the new APIs that are a key MacOS characteristic: Core Audio, Core Image, etc, and had the first mainstream H.264 codec. I upgraded in early 2005 and have kept my Pro registration since then, through three big OS upgrades. That's okay.
But I would say that. QuickTime these days is really an OS layer, so when you install it in Windows, you're really installing a chunk of MacOS X in Windows. Bound to end in tears.
Russell, your post was the first I'd heard of Cloverfield. Looks pretty cool, I usually wait for the DVD for any blockbusters I wish to see, but this one I might just head to the theatre for. Only about 8 weeks away too!
I like the look of it because there's actually a rationale for the crazy handycam style. It picks up a modern fact of media life: that all disasters are now televised because so many of us carry some form of camera. So you can convincing tell a story with footage that might even be shot by the actors themselves.
Plus, it has a monster.
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the porno, chopper reid style IS the least naff of the non "undercover cop" varieties....
Totally OT (__was__ there a T?), but that just provoked a memory flash of the early 80s D-cops we used to encounter in Auckland.
They stood out like dog's balls in their dorky leisure shirts, which I presume they thought looked cool and streetwise.
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Finn, thx 4 da warn-off. Got a look at it after dling 20MB of Quicktime updates and 20 mins installing, crashing Firefox again, finally IE shows it, but only in a little strip, no maximize button. I'm wondering if this movie is a metaphor for the huge rage that people feel against 'The Apple'?
I feel bad for you. QuickTime on Windows seems a bit of a pain. QuickTime on the Mac is life itself.
Even WMV is on the Mac is good now. the Flip4Mac components play WMV movies with the QT plugin, meaning you can save stuff you're not supposed to be able to save.
I'll have to try it out though. I installed a PR-blagged copy of Vista on my iMac on Sunday. Leo's games run beautifully (= iMac deprivation for Dad after 6pm).
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Hi Hamish,
Thanks for watching the show - like to make the point that there are no actors and no re-enactments anywhere in the series and I make the point - I hope - that there is NO substitute for standing in front of a work of art and having your own conversation with it. My big bitch about that is that the institutions that care for our culture do their best to get in the way.
I've really enjoyed you talking about this in the interviews. It's a bugbear of mine too.
For collectors of film trivia - I hope you spotted the Willhelm scream in episode one?
No! I'll have to watch again and listen out.
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Fixed file here.
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Is this the monster at 1.29?
If so, then there appears to be some preambulating on dry land occurring (although I wish more blogs included the phrase "angry alien whale theory." Especially those on electoral funding.Ah, but maybe alien whales can walk. Especially when they're angry.
Totally loving being the sole Google result for "angry alien whale theory".
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Thanks Stephen.
"Standard AOS proceedure" looks like one thing when they are responding to an armed offender. Not ok when there are no arms, and no offenders.Tuhoe Lambert was one of the two men who had been buying guns and military equipment on Trade Me, so they could claim an expectation that someone in the house was armed. It still sounds dreadful.
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