Shot on the RED One camera:

I finally got around to re-do my showreel, which I hadn’t updated in years. Thing is, it is already outdated again, but that’s just how these things go…

Anyway, if you have quicktime installed, have a peek.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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Looks like 2008 will be an exciting year for many reasons. It will be the year where more than 50% of households will have a 16:9 screen. In Norway they will start switching off the analogue TV distribution. Laptop sales will overtake desktop systems. Apple will likely start selling films in their iTunes store. Red will pump out the de-bugged Red One cameras in numbers. On NAB they will announce a small form factor 4k camera, code-named Scarlet. And I would imagine that the traditional video camera producers will come with their alternatives to the Red. There are also rumors that Red might introduce a 4k projector, making beyond-HD resolution an affordable possibility for the advanced hometheatre enthusiast.

Apple is said to introduce a thin and small palm sized laptop in less than two weeks. Featuring no movable parts, it is rumored to have amazing long battery times, and virtually no boot-up time.

When DV arrived, it was an exciting time, as it enabled capable film makers to own production equipment that would produce broadcast quality output. The internet made it possible to distribute these programs for little cost.

Cameras such as the Scarlet, affordable high-speed disks and solid state memory are about to enable capable film makers to own their own production equipment than can produce a technical quality good enough for the big screen.

Technology, if used right, can be awesome. Happy MMIIX to all of you!

What are your educated guesses of what 2008 will bring?

As I was listening to tonights fireworks, I thought that for my generation (i.e. born after the 1940s), the sounds of firecrackers have a totally different meaning. For us these sounds are solely connected to joy. To my parent’s generation, they could mean destruction and death.

Wouldn’t it be great if there could come a time where to every single person on earth “war” was only an abstract word?

Thank you, past 

I also had a moment of utter gratefulness to all those generations having lived and strived before me, making it possible for me to live in such good conditions.

Thank you, people of the past.

And a healthy, exciting, creative MMIIX 2008 to all of you.