Sams Song
So… i built that new Apple and i mentioned i intended doing more video… well…. i have been working on some video….
Thomas McEldowney Photography
So… i built that new Apple and i mentioned i intended doing more video… well…. i have been working on some video….
orlton…. It was Feb 2008 when i first dabbled with apple macs, on a trip to NY my
aging dying laptop finally packed in, anyone who has ever been to the 5th avenue apple store will know that it is pretty difficult to leave without buying something “Designed in Cupertino, Built in China” from one of the over-friendly hipster types that are there… so i bought a Mac Book Pro, and…. well I never really became a raging Mac fanboy – there were somethings i loved… but there were also things i hated… like Aperture – i really really hate Aperture. But there was no way i was going to Vista
But over the years its just started to get clunky – i keep my 494gb of Raw photos off on a 1tb drive, but even indexing these in Lightroom takes up 11gb – and on a 120gb HD in my Mac Book Pro things were getting slow and clunky. Recently I have started to work a little with video in Final Cut Studio and, well things were bordering on un-usable once i had a few apps open.
Unfortunately my current situation does not lend itself to
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Interesting commission this week, to witness and photograph the final stages of construction of a wind turbine on the site of a chemical plant in South Wales…. yes, truly this is the real glamour photography, but it is quite interesting in a nerdy way and certainly very very impressive, check the slidesshow:
Helvetica is a great font – one of the best, it does exactly what is asked of it, and it does it damn well…. but… well it is everywhere, its default, it inspires rage in people who have too many things to worry about… only comic sans should inspire rage – anyway no matter how much you hate Helvetica, it’ll always be trumped by Arial… anyway – - business cards and site design – to use Helvetica or not?
For more on Helvetica, this is the best film about a font you will see: