I really do fear that I’m dying,
I really do fear that I’m dead,
I saw it in your eyes what I’m looking for,
I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

The 2007 Eden Sessions – the Eden Project.

I’d like to say hello to Nelson Galaxy. It’s been some time. Can’t wait to hear the music.

I recognise ‘In the sea’, obviously, very strange hearing it again.

Well they’ve been back for ages I just didn’t know. A strange place the past. Good to see the future could be stranger, could be enormous. I’m from Mansfield Town, as are these boys, but I’ve not seen or heard from them in a long long time.

Enormous the band (left to right): Steve O’Toole (guitar), Graham Boffey (drums), Davy Lawrence (guitar/vocals) and David Graham (bass).

They played up and down the country in the usual toilets and dives before releasing their debut single My Type on Beatific Records, a small independent label based in Mansfield.

Albums available: Almost Everything / Situation Comedy / Electric Baby Grand

‘Like being locked in a lingerie store with Anna Friel and Catherine Deneuve’ – Melody Maker

Like I say, the past is a strange place. It can rear its ugly paisley head when you least expect and make you feel good, make you smile, make you glad you were there.

So, Enormous are back, they’re full of songs, they’re full of spittle, and they’re full of themselves. Go listen to the music.

Showcases sites that push the boundaries of CSS coding technology, bringing together top-notch design and content with standards compliant and accessible code.

The 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards uncover the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow’s online trends, well that’s what they say and who am I to argue?

This is something else, isn’t it?!

This means that I (or Jadu rather) receive two complimentary registrations to attend SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Although there’s not a hope in hell I can afford to go to the US and take up the offer.

Winners in all categories will be announced at the 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards Ceremony, presented by Adobe on Sunday 11th March.

Some of his findings are startling but on reflection, not surprising.

More phones sold last year than the total installed base of personal computers in use. Out of the 950 phones sold last year, two in three had built-in cameras, 30% had MP3 players. Four out of five had colour screens. All 950 million could access the web (at least via WAP), and all 950 million could send and receive SMS text messages. Over two in three were high speed; while one in five phones sold last year was a 3G phone.

Read Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users.

Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King.

I worked a few years ago now for a large company designing and building web sites as though on a production line. Falling into the trap of clock-in – work – clock-out, leaving your interest in the pigeon-hole you work in with your passions faltering or completely doused by the powers is all to easy and in the end demoralising.

Applying Andy’s habits could well break you out. Either out the company altogether or more importantly out the box to make a real change to the giant you work for. Love what you do and never stop learning. Karma maintains if you show your work love…

“There is no business to be done on a dead planet” – David Brower

The 1% for the planet charter, taken directly from their website. Help market these people. If you’re in the position, something to consider?

Whereas, we do not believe our government, or any government, is doing enough to protect and restore the health of our planet, to work toward sustainable commerce, to exercise full cost accounting in our use of non-renewable resources, and to tax them accordingly.

And whereas, we recognize we do not have totally sustainable and harmless businesses, or lifestyles, and we have an obligation to mitigate the damage we cause, regardless of whether or not we make a profit.

Therefore, we have decided not to wait for any government to do the right thing. We are committing our businesses to donate at least 1 percent of our net revenues to efforts that protect and restore our natural environment.

Learn all about 1% for the planet.

1. Accept yourself. “You’re on the road to maturity if you can begin to appreciate yourself without trying to be what you cannot possibly be.” The CEOs who failed at Apple did so because they wanted to be another “Steve Jobs.” They couldn’t accept themselves and their own, different capabilities and shortcomings.
2. Accept others. “Your relations with other people are a basic test of your maturity. If you don’t get along well with others, it’s not because you’re not smart enough, or because you’re smart and they’re dumb. It’s because you still need to grow up in some vital centers of your being.” For example, there are companies in Silicon Valley that maintain a “tyranny of PhDs” where only the advanced degreed are held in high esteem and marketing, operations, and others are fodder.
3. Keep your sense of humor. “Your humor reflects your attitudes toward people. The mature person uses humor not as a bludgeoning hammer but rather as a plane to shave off rough edges.”
4. Accept simple pleasures. “The capacity to get excited over things even when they seem ordinary to others—this is a sign of a healthy personality.” For example, some tech entrepreneurs have yachts that can barely pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. (I’d just be happy if I could skate backwards.)
5. Enjoy the present. “Emotional grown-ups don’t live on an expectancy basis. They plan for the future, but they know they must also live in the present. The mature person realizes that the best insurance for tomorrow is the effective use of today.”
6. Welcome work. “Appreciation of work is a hallmark of mature people…. Immature people are constantly fighting certain aspects of their work. They resent routine reports, or meetings, or correspondence. They allow these annoyances to grate on their nerves continually. Satisfaction in doing a good job is blocked out by the dust speck in the eye of resentment over trivia.”

“Imagine a computer that never crashes, or gets infected by a virus. Imagine a computer onto which you never have to install any application.

Imagine a computer that follows you wherever you go, be it at school, at work, abroad, or back home. This computer does not exist today, but it will in the future, and this future might be much closer than you think.”

IT|Redux provides an introduction to the concept of Office 2.0.

The course was taken by Chris Roberts who with real enthusiasm gave me a fresh look into an area I studied many moons ago whilst the process was still analogue! It awaked interest.

Day One

• Working with the interface.
• Marking and Editing
• Drag and drop editing.
• Marking in the timeline, adding cutaways (B-roll material).
• Trimming edit points with dragging, rippling edits and the razor blade.
• Adjusting edit points using Rolling and Slipping.

Day Two

• Editing with Subclips, using markers, Replace edits, storyboard editing and keeping things in sync
• Browser basics and customisation
• Capturing footage
• Applying transitions
• Mixing Audio tracks

Day Three

• Changing motion parameters, inc. clip speed, freeze-framing and variable speed changes
• Applying filters, inc. video, corrective, audio filters and keyframes
• Multicam Editing.
• Adding text and graphics (this was really only touched on with time running out)
• Finishing and outputting (also only touched on with time running out)

The three days I enjoyed. No really. It was peeking through the letter box into a palace I’m sure, with the scope of FCP’s potential but well worth it.

Walter Murch edited ‘Cold Mountain‘ using Final Cut Pro 3.0 and a bunch of Power Macs, so I’m off to watch it.

(After note: Ten minutes in, I’d forgot that Walter Murch edited ‘Cold Mountain’ using Final Cut Pro 3.0 and a bunch of Power Macs)

To get away, spend some time thinking in a relaxed and buffed up manner on what we’re trying to do with ourselves. The web. It’s standards. It’s quality. To learn some stuff, meet some ingenious people and fingers crossed, get inspired as truth be told, I’m freakin’ done in.

I’m glad the programme takes into account the football. Will there be a screen at the party?!!