Category: misc

U2-3D

Yessssss…..

Shot during U2’s visit to South America on the Vertigo Tour, the film is directed by Catherine Owens, with additional direction from Mark Pellington. Owens, longtime collaborator with U2 on live-show visuals, says ‘this was the ultimate challenge in presenting U2’. The results, she predicts, will startle audiences.

‘There is no comparison with a traditional concert film seen in 2D. One minute you are on stage with the band and the next you are at the back of the stadium. ‘The best way I can describe it for the viewer,’ she adds, ‘Is that it’s like being on the wings of a bird flying around the concert stadium – it’s really something else.’

The 3D shoot took place over seven shows in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina in February last year and the film is being produced by 3ality Digital in Los Angeles, edited by Olivier Wicki with music produced by Carl Glanville, who has a long list of U2 production credits. Director of 3D photography was Peter Anderson and the Director of photography was Tom Krueger.

It’s about to get fun!

Ok… so remember some of my tech goals for this year?

How about this one: Find out how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one

Turns out there are multiple third-party sites that do this for you – but none seem to be backed by any big players. I know – I’m picky. I also couldn’t find instructions on how to build my own application with PHP or other code languages.

But then… (cue the Hallelujah chorus) … I found Yahoo Pipes! I’ve seen other people post about the site before but didn’t see a use for it at the time and ignored it. But I think Yahoo Pipes will be the answer I’m looking for – for now.

I’ve already created a new feed for all you RSS junkies. The feed combines my blog feed, my Flickr feed and my Twitter feed. I suppose I could include an RSS feed from my Wiki but by the stats on the Wiki site, I doubt many of you are interested in it.

I’m also building an RSS feed that combines all things Casa de Blundell. With this feed you’ll be able to see Laurie’s latest blog posts, my Flickr pictures, her Flickr pictures, my latest blog posts and my Twitter posts (as well the friends I follow) all from one RSS feed. The other cool feature is they (should) all be sorted by the order they’re posted. So if I post a blog at 8:03 a.m. about last night and Laurie posts a blog at 8:05 a.m. and a picture at 8:07 a.m. you’ll be able to see right away without having to visit multiple websites or scan multiple RSS feeds.

Overkill? Probably. But I figure if it’s there – why not make it available.

So if you’re dying to get started, simply click on the link below and subscribe in your favorite RSS reader. We’ll run these pipes for a few weeks and see how the interest is. Maybe we’ll keep it going, maybe not. Who knows.

Jonathan’s RSS feed
Casa de Blundell RSS feed
My Yahoo Pipes Profile
Learn more about Yahoo Pipes

Justin Farmer to leave WFAA

Uncle Barkey reports that half of WFAA’s (Channel 8 ) newly joined morning anchor team will be heading back home to Atlanta.

“Hometown girl” Cynthia Izaguirre returns to the city that raised her on the same day Justin Farmer decides to go home home again, too.

Except that Belo8 wasn’t planning on his surprise departure from the station’s increasingly important early morning Daybreak. The announcement came just a few hours after Farmer and Izaguirre had teamed for the first time on Friday’s program. They were supposed to be teammates for years to come.

“This isn’t about leaving WFAA,” Farmer said in an email sent early Monday morning. “This has been a great ride on many fronts. This is about going home to WSB in Atlanta. I learned to shoot and edit in that place. I was born and raised in Atlanta. My family and I thought long and hard about this decision and make it with conviction. With that said, I am glad to have a number of months left at WFAA. This place is all class and Cynthia and I have a lot of work to do.”

A proposal for nine new game shows

With the writer’s strike going on here’s some new ideas for network TV execs. From the funny guys over at Woot!:

* Tickle The Angry Scorpion
* Celebrity Dungeons & Dragons featuring Vin Diesel & Friends
* Who Took My Golden Arm?
* Toronto Squares
* Hedge Maze Full Of Cobras!
* Stop Hitting Yourself: The Endurance Challenge
* Thirty-One Seconds In The Wood Chipper
* Coconut Pie Or Millionaire?
* Do Calculus While We Poke You

They left off Aaron’s suggestion of a new reality TV show on Fox: When Rabbits Attack

Falling at Your Feet

I’ve heard this song over and over again but never heard it as a Gospel song till this morning – suddenly (after Sunday’s service) it painted such a great picture of Luke 7:36-50.

Falling at Your Feet – U2

Every chip from every cup
Every promise given up
Every reason that’s not enough
Is falling, falling at your feet

Every band elastic limit
Every race when there’s nothing in it
Every winner that has lost their ticket
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, falling at your feet

Everyone who needs a friend
Every life that has no end
Every knee not ready to bend
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, now I’m falling at your feet

All fall down
All the manic days
The faces that you pull
All the x-rays not under your control
The graffiti rolling down off of your tongue
And the compromise you make for someone

Every teenage with acne
Every face that’s spoiled by beauty
Every adult tamed by duty
Are all falling at your feet

Every foot in every face
Every cop stop that finds the grace
Every prisoner in the Maze
Every hand that needs an ace
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, now I’m falling at your feet

All fall down
All the books you never read
Just started
All the meals you rushed
And never tasted

Every eye closed by a bruise
Every player who just can’t lose
Every pop star hurling abuse
Every drunk back on the booze
All falling at your feet, all falling at your feet

All fall down
All the information
All the big ideas
All the radio waves
On electronic seas
How to navigate
How to simply be
Don’t know when to wait
Explain simplicity
In whom shall I trust?
How might I be still?
Teach me to surrender
Not my will, THY will

new techie goals

I’m working on a new Intranet site for work today. Last week I was working on new WordPress themes for a possible encounter website redesign (you may have seen them on my Flickr stream).
While working on the Intranet site I’m using CasadeBlundell.com for “filler text” and it got me thinking about redesigning that site as well. It’s gotten a little stagnant.
All of this led me to think about a few goals/challenges I’d like to figure out/complete before to long (some of them are personal, others are work related).

  • Finish a redesign of the encounter website
  • Redesign CasadeBlundell.com
  • Redesign our departmental Intranet site
  • Find out how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one – hopefully without using third party software. I’d love to be able to let people subscribe to one RSS feed and get the latest from my twitter feed, Flickr feed and of course my SSL feed. I’d eventually love to have an option to combine all my RSS feeds with Laurie’s RSS feeds as well so people can truly stay up to date with what’s going on.
  • Get a better grasp/understanding of CSS – this is coming slowly as I build these other sites
  • Learn PHP language – coming along even slower

I think those are the main ones for now – but who knows I may think of several more on the way home – you can check my Twitter feed for updates on the way home 😉