May 23 2006
The coming days I will (again) have the opportunity to improve my rotoscope techniques in Photoshop, because I will be busy digitizing and partially restoring 8 mm film for http://movies.ameanet.org.
About Rotoscoping:
http://www.digitalmediafx.com/Features/maxfleischerp.html
Using Adobe Premiere & Photoshop to Rotoscope Digital Video:
http://fcserver.nvnet.org/~martin_s/HYP2/handouts/rotoscope.html
It is a painstaking but effective way to restore damaged film.
May 22 2006
In the 12 years that I have worked on the Internet I have seen search engines come and go. I still remember the days when webcrawler was popular and I also recall the exact moment that yahoo linked to my second project Amea.
I was so happy! Thousands and thousands of visitors almost made our provider’s server crash. We were generating 2 Gigabytes data traffic a month! Today AmeaNet can generate the same amount of data traffic in an hour.
May 19 2006
A recent study in the Netherlands shows that the Internet is (again) a reason for concern. Why? Well, some men use the Internet to stalk women. I am always fascinated by studies that have an outcome like that. The difference between men and women is hardly noticeable for me these days. So, I am a little surprised that men are a reason for concern in their Internet behavior and women are not.
If I ever give stalkers a thought; then it is mostly women who are on my mind.
I have two exes and I know their IP-numbers. They never send me a birthday greeting but they do log on to my website every other day, many years after the relationship has ended. That is disturbing to me. What are they doing here? Is there a difference between standing on my porch and logging on to my website?
I do not think so.