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Wishing you the very best, health, success, happiness and many exciting experiences for 2007.

Back in the 80s my favourite band was the British avant garde group The Art of Noise.

Art Of Noise are not a band. Never were. They are an organisation, a distinctly non-rockist creative, post-modernist collective. Starting out as a mysterious, Trevor Horn led experimental studio outfit, the primary contributors to the adventure were Royal College Of Music graduate, Anne Dudley; producer/arranger J.J. Jeczalik and songwriter, instrumentalist and engineer/producer Gary Langan.

When I first got on the Internet – at a staggering 9.6 kilobits – one of the first things I checked was naturally The Noise. I found a small discussion group where we talked about which records we liked best, etc.
After the internet came with force, and eBay a household name, I occasionaly skim both for further info on my ex-favourite band. That way I’ve come accross a number of special records that I didn’t know of in the 80s.
Now with broadband and YouTube, a whole new world opens. I came across all those videos I had heard of back-when, but never saw (we did have 2 TV channels to chose from at that time, and they showed a half hour of music videos per week. And none of them by The Noise.)
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…enjoy?

…is one of my favourite directors. About a year ago I found a list of 50 golden rules he has made. Very insightful.

My Golden Rules

by Wim Wenders

1. You have a choice of being “in the business” or of making movies. If you’d rather do business, don’t hesitate. You’ll get richer, but you won’t have as much fun!
2. If you have nothing to say, don’t feel obliged to pretend you do.
3. If you do have something to say, you’d better stick to it. (But then don’t give too many interviews.) more…

Speaking of YouTube, I came across this very cool pixillation video.

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Happy holidays to all of you, and especially you, my dear reader.
Of late I have been noticing a lot of YouTube videos popping up in blogs, webpages, e-mails and newsletters. Videos use a lot of bandwidth. YouTube gets a lot of hits. more…

I know, I should be politically correct and wish you a happy festive season. But I’m not. Either way, here comes a little greeting from yours truly.

I thought I had a lot of work to do before x-mas, but now 2 additional jobs came in. I have to cut on sleep and blogging…

Therefore, today just a quick link to a cool collection of on-line colour tools.

One day while filming outside in a park, we were all ready to roll. I had the shot lined up, the actors were in place, composition was nice. Except the sun wasn’t where I wanted it to be. I knew that moving the camera and resetting the shot would just take too much time. So I leaned over, and asked my gaffer if I could borrow his gloves, as I had left mine home. more…

Hop over to *manhattan for some amazing graphical skills, inspiration and slight jealousy.