April 27, 2006
Aperture axed?
"Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others were transferred to different projects inside Apple, raises questions about the future of Aperture, Apple's most heavily criticized and bug-ridden pro software release in recent years.
Sources familiar with Apple's professional software strategy said they were not surprised by the move, describing Aperture's development as a "mess" and the worst they had witnessed at Apple. "
Wow, a lot of people agreed this was not a pro app and overpriced. Glad I did not invest in it.
April 17, 2006
April 11, 2006
I find your lack of faith disturbing
"At the end of the day, why do we write? We write to remember, we write to be remembered, we write to discover who we are, or determine it for others. Our words will always outlive us, immortalizing us if not always powerful enough to make us immortal. Although if we choose our words well, there will always be a way back to life, a way to and fro through time. Someone will always feel us like it was yesterday, someone will smell our skin again, if we choose our words well.
If we choose our words well there need not always be a last. If we choose our words well there will always be a way to find us.
I have chosen my words. They are:
There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane."
April 09, 2006
just another day
walking home from buying smokes
past the freshly sprayed bullet holes
one for the fence
one for the basement
one for the door frame
one in the body they took away
in no hurry and in silence
one more in today's paper
same street a few blocks down
planted in somebody's face
as he answered a knock at the door
rolling up a cigarette with police tape
and lighting it with smog
walking up my doorstep
past bullet number five
put the key in the door by bullet number six
another door frame shot
through 2 walls and laying on my studio floor
like a copper gumdrop
sprinkled with plaster dust
smoking in the backyard with helicopters above
drinking straight from a bottle of sake'
on just another day in the neighborhood.
Sunday April 9, 2006.
Lao-Tzu
"The ears of someone whose eyes are examining the tip of a fine hair do not hear a peal of thunder; the eyes of someone whose ears are tuning a musical instrument do not see an enormous mountain. Thus when there is a fixation of attention on small things, then there is forgetfulness of great things."
April 07, 2006
More retouching
So this is when I push a image as far as I can. I don't do it often but sometimes I get the call to do it.
April 06, 2006
Rentglass?!?!?
"1. Select a lens mount below and place your order.
2. We ship your package via USPS Priority or Express
Mail. Your rental period starts when your order
is delivered.
3. Use the packing materials provided and prepaid
mailing label to return your order to us at the
end of your rental period.
Rent Canon 'L' glass as low as $18/week"
Wow, that's kinda nuts.
April 05, 2006
whoo boy!
"More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today."
April 04, 2006
arty thoughts
"I wanted to share with you another way of looking at this which I learned from the artist Gord Peteran many years ago. Gord is an accomplished conceptual furniture designer whose work is like none that you've seen before. Over coffee one day the subject of "what to ask for" came up in our discussion. I mentioned I always have a hard time with asking for anything. Gord mentioned that when he sits down with a client he calmly explains his process. For every project he creates there is always a lot of blood, sweat and tears. He will have moments of doubt, frustration, and emotional exertion. So because he is going to hurt, then the client must feel some pain too. The way they can do this is financially, they must put forth energy in that way, ('feeling it in their pocketbook' so to speak.)"
new found blog through drawn.