15/Apr/2010 PA
12/Apr/2009 Sunrise Circus
15/Mar/2009 Lego
08/Mar/2009 Moomba
13/Feb/2009 Car Smokey Sunset
26/Jan/2009 Fireworks
26/Oct/2008 Synchrotron
07/Jun/2008 Model Trains
06/Jun/2008 Wedding
04/Jun/2008 Central Coast Trip
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03/Nov/2011 yuvvalues
03/Nov/2011 yuvrfps
03/Nov/2011 yuvdiff
03/Nov/2011 yuvaddetect
03/Nov/2011 yuv2jpeg
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The TRIP is the mental projection of my digital self. Including all areas of digital work I have been involved with, including Music, video, photography...
All good web pages must have the collection of absolutely useless pictures. Designed for no purpose other than to consume kilobits. And hopefully show off some of my Photographic skills. Web design skills, and uses one php script to drive the whole index. Also see the Photography section of the Silicontrip Website.
The Creative section of the TRIP is my imagination trying to run free. I have a fascination with sexual, spiritual and meta physical abilities, and these stories show it.
Part of the images directory contains some of my digital artwork. These images have been created or enhanced by myself, with the help of the 1s and 0s machine.
23/Feb/2011 Trace
17/Jan/2010 Food
30/Oct/2009 Airbrush
18/Jun/2009 Focal
01/Jun/2009 Transport
01/Jun/2009 Misc
31/May/2009 Artwork
24/Apr/2009 AirbrushScales
18/Apr/2009 Probe
10/Jan/2009 Scanimation
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27/Jan/2012 ZFS for OSX
14/Dec/2011 Scripting Bridge
02/Dec/2011 Core Audio Units
01/Mar/2011 A useful bit of code
22/Dec/2010 Larger than 4G files on FAT for OSX
08/Dec/2009 Time machine on non HFS drives
21/Oct/2009 My Strengths
27/Aug/2009 Train Hitchiking
11/Jul/2009 A litre of onions
19/Jun/2009 FSCK for NTFS
18/Jun/2009 Automated Focal Deconstruction
12/Jun/2009 Perl code to write BMPs
07/Jun/2009 More Lego
01/Jun/2009 Latest Airbrushing
30/May/2009 Happy Birthday to me
24/May/2009 Comments Engine
09/May/2009 Skills Matrix
24/Apr/2009 Airbrush simulator
19/Apr/2009 Ben 10 Board game
29/Mar/2009 How fresh is your fresh food?
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There is a constant battle between content producers and pirates. The cinema industry is implimenting technology to stop the Handycappers. (Handy camera capturers) But all this technology is in vain. As they are fighting against the most powerful force on the planet. The people.
Most of these handycap's end up on popular bittorrent sites. People want these downloadable movies. What does this provide that cinemas do not? A system of on demand download it now and watch it whenever you like. There is a negligable cost. Repeatable viewings. Watch it with your friends for no additional cost. OK so the quality sucks but this provides something else. Story? Is the movie worth seeing, in all it's bad visual quality? Does the movie have a captivating story or is it all just VFX? I admit that I had chronicle of riddick before the cinema release, (being in a country where cinema releases often trail the US this isn't difficult) however I loved the story. When it did finally come to the cinema, I went and saw it. I now also own a copy of the film on DVD.
Maybe this is what they are trying to stop. People finding out what is a rubbish film before they can make a bucket load of cash on it. Downloading becomes the ultimate review.
This also creates a type of film I like to call a big screen film. There are movies that have good stories but don't lose anything on the smaller screen. While there are films that want to be seen on the big screen.
People want to stay at home. Cinemas are too big. Cinemas try to cater for the masses, the new releases. They try to get as many people as they can into a theatre to make the most money per showing. They have a schedule and limited product availability. People are becoming more accustomed to watching what they want, when they want. Their personal entertainment systems are begining to rival the cinemas. Technologies that were once solely the domain of the cinema are now in the home. There is less incentive to go to the cinema. People like to stay at home.
The cost of a cinema ticket doesn't seem to reflect what you can pay for a new release DVD, why not wait a month or two, get it at a third the cost and watch it with some friends, thus reducing the cost even more.
I went to the cinema the other night, with my wife and father in-law. We stood in the queue for about 3 minutes looking at the board of available movies. We got to the front of the queue and decided that there was nothing worth seeing and left.
There once was a cinema, called the Valhalla, they would run all the cult films. They would run double features. They would show obscure and non mainstream new releases. They would run a night called 24 hours of Sci Fi. Where they would show some recent (6 months old) titles, some classic titles and during the early hours of the morning some absolute B-Grades. It was quite a fun night out, with a group of friends and a whole cinema of people screaming out "Let's rock" when Vasquez opens fire on the Aliens with her smart gun.
So what does the cinema represent to people? New releases (only). High prices. Fixed schedule. Limited titles.
The model that creative products are moving towards is a service based model. To make money from open source, sell skills as a developer or support team not an end software product. This service model is the way of the future. If cinema's were to follow this, they should no longer provide movies as a product but provide a screening system as a service. Would this model work?
Imagine booking a cinema to run what film you like. They have a large selection, like a video store. You contact them and make a booking, like a restaurant. You turn up and watch the film.
Why not represent the true running cost of a cinema. Say rent out the cinema for $60 per hour and maybe with a surcharge for new release movies. This is not something that I would pay for by myself but with a large group of friends to watch an old classic or something that we missed on new release or want to see again. The cost could become quite comparitive to current cinema pricing but with more flexibility. So I don't know the true cost of running a cinema but a model of cost to cinema being passed onto the end user is fairer and more understandable to the consumer.
This won't work with the current large cinema format, that seats hundreds, but more like the "gold class" cinemas that are being built. The tickets are more expensive, the cinemas seat maybe 40 people. They serve you food and cocktails (for a premium) There have been times where myself and a group of friends have booked out one of these cinemas to watch a new release (from memory we did this 3 years in a row with the release of Lord of the Rings)
People are becoming more individual, wanting things when it suits them, Perhaps this model can compromise between the big structured model of the cinema and the desires and demans of the individual.
Would this be enough to get you out of your home and into a cinema?