Quite Possibly The Best Two Days of Photography and Learning Ever

At TFC we're doing a really cool 2 day workshop at Studley castle next month.

I have to admit that I just can't wait. There are so many cool photographers coming it'll be a great chance to catch up with them and introduce some of them to each other.

On the second day there will be a round table discussion which I'm very tempted to record.

If you're interested check out the flyer here or book it here.

Easy File Sharing Finally Comes to MobileMe

Yay!!!!!!
A long time ago, in a keynote speech far, far, away, a feature was shown.
That feature was part of the newly relaunched .Mac service, hitherto known as MobileMe.
A file, sitting on a server (that we now know as 'the cloud') was selected, a button was pressed and an e-mail was sent. That e-mail, it was promised, would let it's recipient download the file, regardless of their OS, technical expertise and even gender.
Limits could even be set on the amount of time the file would be available. For extra security, a password could be set.

This feature never made it to MobileMe. It languished for a while but eventually every trace was removed from Apple.com. It was as if the demonstration had never been given.

But somewhere the feature festered. Hidden in the drawer of a developer, in a minimalist cubicle in Cupertino. It waited, growing stronger by the day, feeding on the energy emmited by a thousand angry Apple discussion forum posts.
Until, one day....
Apple let loose this spawn of usefullness and productivity and e-mailed all it's MobileMe subscribers to announce the birth of an amazing new feature.

So if you have a MobileMe account, go to www.me.com/idisk , select a file, click 'share', choose a friend and hey presto! No more need for yousendit or any of those other weird services.

Simpsons - Mapple Store

The Simpsons finally get Apple!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9gvN241Z8

Sent from my iPhone

How to deal with Irate People

In retail we have to do this all the time (late deliveries, declined cards, DOA goods etc). Reading this, I realized it's exacly what I do, empathize, make sure the customer knows you're inconvenienced too, then, bring things down to a normal level of sanity.

Open Loops: How to Deal With An Irate Person

Motion Video Effects for the rest of us

just watch this.

More 5D MkII visuals from Laforet

As we're slowly finding out, it does take effort to get get good footage from the 5D MkII, but, when you exert that effort, it pays you back big time.

Check out the latest from Vincent Laforet here.

Indy film making is going to get very interesting this year, will it make it to the silver screen?

How the hell am I gonna convince myself NOT to buy one of these things?

5D MkII finally out in the wild

Well Dan Chung seems to have nabbed himself one of the first retail examples (jammy git!)

Check out his first video here

Just makes me want one more.

Oh, note the redrock micro DSLR cage, Mr Chung obviously knows the right people.

Update: another nice video here