November 25th, 2009
Above: Bill Gates looking envious of Steve Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley movie . Today this situation is massively reversed, with Bill having much more money, and Microsoft still the undisputed leader in sales, and market share.
I recently watched the 1999 film, Pirates of Silicon Valley which is based around the creation of the personal computer. The plot is heavily focused on the rise of both Apple and Microsoft (and Xerox’s blunder) and the inspirational but flawed leaders, who set out to conquer the world with computers that are for everyone. The two main characters are of course Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I thoroughly recommend this movie, even if your not a geek it’s worth seeing, because there is no other movie like it. Oh and by the way, the trailer online doesn’t do the movie justice, and has a number of scenes, that were not in the final movie.
Read the rest of this entry »
October 14th, 2009
- An interesting read about Curious Film, a leading New Zealand Production company, which uses Autodesk Flame for High profile NZ advertising (Such as Tui), from Autodesk Area.
- “Introducing the bra that is meant to be taken off” (Bra that doubles as two gas masks!) , article by CNet
- Photoshop Cs5 preview of fast new algorithms for image editing here. Also it seems Adobe are finally are going to redevelop the brush engine, to be more advanced like Corel Painter. Hopefully once this tech demo is implemented into Photoshop, there will a wide assorment of specific brushes, grouped into logical categories, like the excellent collection of brushes and tools found in Corel Painter. This last link shows off redeveloped healing brush, patch tool, and content aware filling.
- Full length Toy Story 3 trailer now available, looks great at 1080p
Read the rest of this entry »