PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.

Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard
SFX by Patrick Jean and guests
Produced by One More Production

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Freak’n cool!

This just sums it all up. Enjoy

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I came across a YouTube video showing the Apple Knowledge Navigator, a 1987 concept video produced by Apple. I find most concept videos to be so fanciful that they really never come to fruition (Beyond 2000 anyone?). But there was something quite simple and honest about this video – and not to mention that many of the pieces, while not all together as one, exists in some form today.

I couldn’t help thinking of Google Reader and Skype whilst watching this. The AI (Artificial Intelligence) is still a while away, but the insight Apple has shown here is astounding.

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For any one who doesn’t know tool, or the shear compleaxity of there music this might be a little lost on you, but this kid is ten and pulling out Vicarious with near Danny Carey percision! Did I mention that he’s only 10!?

For the most part, drummers these days are lazy and talentless – 4/4 drum beats with not too much in the way of ‘music’ to them. The same old and tried beats. Drummers like Danny Carey and TeddyZ (Youtube kid, not sure of his name) really make the drums an instrument of expression! I love it

Check out the video and comment on his you tube page, this is what music and drumming is all about!

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The Format war is over – Blu-Ray is the winner

The press release from Toshiba

Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

19 February, 2008

Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content

TOKYO–Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.

“We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called ‘next-generation format war’ and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,” said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. “While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.”

Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.

Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.

This decision will not impact on Toshiba’s commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.

Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.

Sony’s been relatively mum on its Slingbox-like PlayTV add-on for the PlayStation 3 since it announced it last fall, but it’s now finally starting to show it off for all to see and, thanks to the BBC’s dot.life blog, we now have a pretty good idea of what European PS3 users can expect.

Check out the video over at Engadget

Reuters has reported that Toshiba Corp is planning to stop and production and research-and-development of HD-DVD technology according to Japan’s NHK.

Following the latest kick in the pants for the HD-DVD camp when on Friday (15^th Feb) Americas Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would abandon the HD DVD format, becoming the latest in a series of top retailers (Netflix, Best Buy) and movie studios to rally behind Blu-ray technology for high definition DVDs.

Toshiba currently selling HD DVD equipment at stores for the time being but will not put resources into developing new devices, NHK said.

Sources : Reuters, engadgethd

We all know that Tim Cruise is a dick. Plain and simple. The shear number of Parody videos that have come out recently all but proves it.

This one though, by Jerry C. Minor featuring Jerroy O’Connell, is by far the funniest I’ve seen yet.

I nearly wet my pants!

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