News for April 2009

Matt and Kim

An original and aesthetic clip for the group being put Matt and Kim with the presence of two naked actors, while advancing towards the famous place Times Square in New York. Filmed entirely in idle, on the title “Let us injure Learned”.

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Posted: April 30th, 2009
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Ranjan MP (my professor) lecture on what is design?

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Posted: April 25th, 2009
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Facebook Group: World Leaders

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Posted: April 24th, 2009
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Hong Kong & Food

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Posted: April 21st, 2009
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UNKLE – ‘End Titles – Stories for Film’

Heaven is one of the standout tracks from the 2008 UNKLE album ‘End Titles – Stories for Film”, an eclectic collection of recordings inspired by the moving image.

Heaven was used in the acclaimed skate film ‘Fully Flared’ directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots that shows the Lakai skateboarding team demonstrate their considerable skills as they negotiate various exploding obstacles. With Heaven as the musical backdrop, the resulting marriage of sound to picture is quite extraordinary. No CGI was used and as far as we know no skateboarders were hurt while shooting this particular sequence, though that is hard to believe in some of the shots.

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Posted: April 16th, 2009
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HD Camera Trick Challenge

Director’s note: OUR CHALLENGE: GUESS HOW WE DID THIS. This clip was shot on an I8910 HD phone, a new camera phone just released by Samsung with an 8 megapixel camera that can actually record and output video in HD format. It was shot in one take, with no post production or special effects of any kind. Everything you see here was done “in-camera”. Our challenge to you is to figure out how we did it. Hint: it’s worth watching in HD…

Original post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8iVo5vc8o

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Posted: April 16th, 2009
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Stop motion with wolf and pig

Author’s note: At first I photographed stop motion animation. And I displayed the photographs in my room and photographed it again. Enjoy a connection with the world of the room and the world in the photograph.オオカミとブタのコマ撮り写真を撮って、それを部屋に置いてい く様子を再びコマ撮りにしました。2重コマ撮り。写真と部屋、2次元と3次元が織りな す、次元ハイブリッドコマドリエクスタシーー!!!!!!

Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

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Posted: April 16th, 2009
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How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It

"People think that the first draft is the big event and that revision is cleaning up afterward. But the first draft is really setting up the chairs, tables, and cups, and revision isn’t cleaning up after the party, it is the party."

"All first drafts are terrible. I don’t care if you’re Hemingway."

"What comes out unfiltered from anyone’s mind is mud."

The first two quotations come from writing professors whose names I’ve since forgotten (and they were quoting other people whom they’d forgotten). The last one is one I just made up myself. But regardless of the source, the advice is sound: no email should be clicked-to-send without revision.

I’ve found that for your average email, the number of revisions largely depends on the number of recipients. Here’s my experience:

1 to 5 recipients = 2 to 4 revisions
5 to 10 recipients = 8 to 12 revisions
Company-wide or to Executive Committee = 30 to 50 revisions

Even the simplest missive to one person benefits from a couple of extra passes, and if it’s going to the management committee, expect everyone to have changes (and changes to those changes).

Here’s a checklist to consider when revising:

1. Delete redundancies.
Say it once. That’s enough. If you’re repetitive, the reader will stop reading and start skimming. (Like you probably just did.)

2. Use numbers and specifics instead of adverbs and adjectives. "The project is currently way behind schedule on major tasks," is not as clear as "The project is 3 weeks late delivering hamburger buns to Des Moines." (If you don’t have numbers, still get rid of the adverbs and adjectives.)

3. Add missing context. Does your reader know that hamburger buns in Iowa are required for the company to collect $37 million? If you’re not sure, remind them.

4. Focus on the strongest argument. Should those hamburger buns get shipped because the delay is embarrassing for the company, because it’s costing children their lunch, or because it’s costing the company tens of millions of dollars? Maybe all three, but one of those reasons (and it depends on your reader) will be enough to get buns on the road.

5. Delete off-topic material. The best emails say one thing and say it clearly. One-subject emails also make it easier for the recipient to file the message once they’ve taken action, something anyone who uses Outlook to manage tasks appreciates.

6. Seek out equivocation and remove it. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" works for Dickens, not status reports.

7. Kill your favorites. Is something in your text particularly pithy, amusing, or clever? Chance are, it’s not. If it sticks out, it’s probably a tap-dancing gorilla in boxer shorts — hilarious when you thought of it, embarrassing when it gets in your manager’s inbox.

8. Delete anything written in the heat of emotion. Will this sentence show them who’s been right about the hamburger buns since the beginning? Yes? Cut it.

9. Shorten. Remember the reader struggling to digest your message on the run — a BlackBerry or an iPhone gets about 40 words per screen. What looks short on your desktop monitor is an epic epistle on their mobile device.

10. Give it a day.
With time, what seemed so urgent may no longer need to be said. And one less email is something everyone will thank you for.

Do you agree that even late-night emails sent from the bar should be revised before sending? (Have you ever seen one the next day?) Have you bravely sent something unrevised only to have it come flying back at you? What’s your best advice for revising?

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/04/how-to-revise-an-email-so-that.html

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Posted: April 16th, 2009
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Her Morning Elegance #fb

True very favorite for this stop-motion on the title of Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance. A work rich in ideas and carried out extremely well, collaboration with Yuval and Merav Nathan.

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Posted: April 14th, 2009
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Microsoft Sustainability

Incredible presentation of what could be the daily newspaper of the future and the technological future in 2019 according to the Microsoft manufacturer. A work prepared by the services R & D showing the association of tactile and numerical paper. More images and video in the continuation.

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Posted: April 14th, 2009
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Career Evolution

I am supposed to be the extreme right…yeah right!!!!career1-550x345

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Posted: April 14th, 2009
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Why do we need computers?

why do we need computers.

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Posted: April 13th, 2009
Categories: Internet, Jobs
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