A FEW THOUGHTS

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Here is a good example of upper, middle and lower class in society…

More funny strips at Dilbert.com

Finally, after all the secretiveness (as usual) Steve Jobs from Apple launched the iPad today. Here you can have a look at some of the features.
Some specs:
* Full multi-touch
* 16 til 64GB storage
* 1GHz Apple A4-chip
* Wifi 802.11n
* 10 hours of battery
* Over a month standbytime on battery
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
* accelerometer and compass

This weekend I went to see the movie Avatar, which I had seen a lot of buzz about but not really looked into before a friend of mine mentioned that he’d seen it and thought it was amazing. Since I trust his judgment in movies I thought “OK, I’ll bite” and went to see it. First of all; don’t even think about watching Avatar in anything other than 3D in a big theatre! Those factors are at least half the experience, maybe even more. We did and I must say I was positively surprised by this movie. I don’t think the story is all that genuine and original. Some people argue it is the story of Pocahontas all over again and I can sort of agree to that. It is the story of mankind doing something stupid… again. Taking over other new worlds and cultures for the sake of money. No news there. The exciting parts of Avatar are really the computer generated graphics, the use of motion capture, the movie techniques and the 3D experience. WOW! What you maybe remembered as 3D movies from before, the ones you watched with red/green tinted glasses is really nothing compared to this. They have indeed taken the movie technique and experience to a new level.

My friend wo recommended the movie later commented that it reminded him about when the first Mission impossible movie came out sometime in the 90′ies and everybody was stunned by these incredible action scenes… After watching The Matrix and now Avatar he really couldn’t understand the hype of it. And I agree. The development in the movie industry and the technical possibilities we have seen the last 10-15 years are incredible. I especially remembers Jurassic Park which came out around 97-98, which had some amazing computer animation. But I guess it is all about having the right people and the right equipment on the team. Sometimes you can still watch TV-movies made recently with animation that looks as if from the 80′ies.

I hear that the director James Cameron have mentioned the possibility of two sequels to Avatar. Not so sure what I think about that though.. I think we have seen enough examples of movie sequels where the first was really enough. But I guess the smell of green cash is the element that rules..

Brian at CAIN MOSNI thought of a cool concept and coordinated a virtual “jam session” with musicians from all over the world!
It’s AMAZING what you can do nowadays!
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So Impressive, So Simple Tool, So Powerful…

Incredible !