As I mentioned earlier, Delicious Library ($39.95 for OSX from the minds at Delicious Monster) is a great application for you obsessive compulsive types out there with big media collections and an iSight camera. This app uses a very Mac-like interface to organize the books, games, CDs and DVDs you own onto virtual ‘bookshelves’. And by the way – it turns your iSight into a bar-code scanner, and looks up your stuff to fill your library. Anyway, a very good blog called 43 Folders has reviewed the app and started an interesting conversation about it. Several interesting tidbits therein, including someone mentioning that an iTunes to Delicious Library plugin is under development. A life saver! I bought it a few weeks ago, and I’m slowly scanning my collection. Nice way to remind yourself that it’s been a while since you’ve watched The Fifth Element, and to know that your deadbeat friend borrowed it in 2002 and still hasn’t returned it.
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Rob Schneider has more Money than Sense
The way I look at it, you can either be an actor and aspire to do great work and probably starve while doing it, or try to make a buck and grow a thick skin – the critics are going to (rightfully so) tell you how bad your crap is. Mr. Schneider responds to an LA Times column about how Deuce Bigalow 2 is an example of Hollywood not concentrating on quality film making in a full page ad in Variety. Expensive way to show you are more of a tool than we even imagined. Read on at Defamer.
Isometric Screenshots
Interesting project here. This project by artist Jon Haddock recreates important historical moments (and a few bits of movie magic) as isometric 2-D images like you’d see in older computer games. He does extensive research to ‘re-create’ the scenes. Interesting. Gallery here. Tutorial on creating one of the images here.
How-To: Converting Color to Rich B&W
This is a how-to guide for those of us who spend time converting color images in Photoshop to black and white. Simply selecting grayscale leaves a fairly flat insipid black and white image. This process, as detailed on Design by Fire, is much like a system we used to use back in the mid-90s as espoused by experts in digital imaging at The Associated Press. Anyway, it’s a good way to do this. Check it out.