So I watched “The Artist” yesterday…
…at Cinema Banque Scotia and there was no sound. Now, how’s THAT for irony?
But, seriously, they fixed the sound before the movie begun.
Nice and original movie about Hollywood’s silent era. I think it was sort of weird going to see a retro film like that just yesterday, when Kodak declared bankruptcy and Megaupload was closed by the U. S. Government.
Also, I watched a digital projection. I know there are still some old school cinemas out there, but I think most commercial theatres have gone digital.
I guess film as we know it is oficially dead. Where can I send some flowers?
Just returning from watching “The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo”…
It was good and all, even though it looked like an Apple commercial at times.
Also, it was hard to hear that “Immigrant Song” cover since I’m a Led Zeppelin fan. I’m also an immigrant, but that has nothing to do with it.
And what the hell is with that intro with the music and those graphics? It looked like the intro to a James Bond movie, specially because it has Daniel “James Bond” Craig in it.
On the bright side, I wouldn’t be surprised if Rooney Mara gets an Oscar nomination for her role as Lisbeth. Her performance was amazing.
To have more ground on this I should have seen the original Swedish version, or read the book… or learn Swedish and read the original book.
Anyway, I’ll try to catch the Swedish version to watch the whole trilogy. Tele Québec broadcasted it, but it was dubbed in french, and I’m more a subtitles kind of guy.
Linux distros for videomakers? Yes, please.
So it’s been a couple of years for me in the magical world of Windows 7. Also, I’ve been working on a Mac, so (apart from my Android cell phone) I’ve not been using Linux very much.
I started checking distrowatch to check what’s up with Linuxland and I discovered that besides Ubuntu Studio (which apparently failed to deliver in its latest version), there’s two recent Linux distros amied to the multimedia producers and videomakers: Dream Studio and AVLinux.
They seem to be able to run from a pen drive, so you can bet I’ll be trying both of them in the next days. Interesting fact: they’re both made in Canada =)
If EditShare get its act together, we may add Lightworks for Linux to one of these distros and have a VERY powerful Linux workstation for digital content creation… for free and open source!
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
