For the last two years Kelly is our guest when her owners are enjoying their holiday. A cross between a Pekinese and a Boomer, Kelly is cute, Kelly is lovely. I love to walk Kelly, because all girls smile at me, but Kelly knows what she wants. And what she doesn’t like! I haven’t got a clue why yet, but Kelly hates my Canon Ixus. Check out the video, and please push your sound settings to the max. Enjoy!
H.264 in every Mac?
After eighteen months of happy Maccing, I’ve become a Mac maniac, and I’m never going to use anything else but OS X. That’s the good news, at least for those who also use a Mac. The bad news is that one never knows when to upgrade. I know that I’m going to swap my 20 inch G5 iMac for a brand new Intel powered 24 inch , but the big question is: when? I’m not waiting for a 30 inch, because it wouldn’t fit on my desk under the open stairs in the living. But behind that bigger screen, a… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Hoezo, geen verstand van voetbal?
Waar een mailtje met een opmerking over een foutje in de VPRO gids al niet toe kan leiden. En nooit meer zeggen dat ik geen verstand van voetbal heb, want ik wist het echt nog uit mijn hoofd. Ha!
Revolution: (half) live or play back?
Hadn’t checked GoogleVideo for a couple of weeks on ‘Beatles’. Never seen this one before: performing ‘Revolution’ at the David Frost Show. Year? Got my doubts about whether this is (half) live or play back. According to one commenter on GoogleVideo: ‘many people think this is a lip-synced version, its not, its live vocals over the video’. However; according to Wikipedia: A product of the recording sessions for The Beatles (aka The White Album), “Revolution” featured distorted guitars and an electric piano solo by session musician Nicky Hopkins. This track is one of the loudest and most aggressive Beatle songs;… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Bitten by the Video Bug
Almost an old geezer, finally bitten by the video bug. Two reasons that it took so long: no bandwidth, no affection. Until recently useless to do something with video and Internet, like sucking Haagen Dasz trough a straw. I must admit the lack of affection was due to the fact that I left The Utrecht School for Journalism as a writer. In a paper past, when one could graduate without having done ‘Radio and Television’, as it was called way back in the late seventies. I visit my old school every once in a while, earned a certificate English writing… >> Lees verder . . . >>
The Real Origin of Spam
‘Spam’ is a very popular Monty Python sketch, first on television in 1970, 36 years ago. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every item. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, the Vikings (don’t ask what they are doing there) in the corner start a song: “Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Sweet Little Sixteen
Saturday night Oktober 21, 2006, @ Cafe De Beyerd in Breda, during the 32nd Belgian Beer Week: The Cyranose Live. Sound was a little bit to much for the poor Canon Ixus, but look and listen . . .
Bye bye house
No words . . .
Start (video) blogging, now!
Wanna see how two twenty somethings feel who just cashed a cool 700 million each? Check out this YouTube video. It shows the interview held on a San Francisco Street, minutes after YouTube, owned by Chad Hurley (29) and Steve Chen (28), is acquired by Google, that paid 1.65 billion in shares. No wonder the two video wonder boys are behaving like they’re leaving a Dutch coffee shop, where one can legally enjoy a big joint. They not only cashed, they also will receive a nice salary, because they start working for Google, while some small change – 300 mil… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom
No matter how deep you go, there’s always more. According to maker Dave Klimann this movie took quite a few days to calculate in 1993. ‘When i first made a poster of … all » the image i call ‘blue oyster spiral’, which is a zoom at about the 100 Billion X magnification level inside the Mandelbrot Fractal, it took 34 computers 3 days to render it. But today, the same poster can be rendered on one typical PC in just a few hours’.
New Numa – The Return of Gary Brolsma
Gary Brolsma, the Numa Numa Guy, is back in his return video: New Numa! With the video comes a $45,000 worldwide New Numa contest where you can make your own New Numa video for a chance at the Grand Prize of $25,000 cash and a whole lot of internet fame. Go to www.NewNuma.com to enter the contest, chat with Gary, check out the New Numa music and new music by Dan Balan (the producer/songwriter of Dragostea din Tei, the original numa numa!) Most importantly: Don’t forget to laugh and have fun.
Burning Man Festival
One of the trips we haven’t been able to do yet: The Burning Man Festival, every august in the Black Rock Desert. Check out this video at YouTube! I would love to make things like this one 🙂