Vukster.com Comments http://www.vukster.com/wpress Technical Director / Compositor Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: admin http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=15#comment-11 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:33:38 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=15#comment-11 ahh BitTorrent..... the hydra of the movie industry..... If Hollywood really wanted to stop file sharing and illegal trading of copyright material they would go after the ISP's NOT the users. The ISP are responsible for providing users with access to the internet and they do absolutely NOTHING to filter the content. If you are trading files through your ISP they know about the content that's going through their servers. They know how much bandwidth you use each day. It would be really easy to police just based on bandwidth alone! The problem is that at the moment there is NO law that says if you are an ISP and you provide access that you have to monitor the content. If ISP had to start paying huge fines and were held responsible for their clients illegal activities you'd see a sharp drop in illegal file trading. They could simply block clients from sharing files through bit torrent. Or even more simple would be blocking websites that host torrent files!!! But then that would be bad for business.... So as I see it hollywood has two options, try to pass a law to force ISP to be accountable for their users illegal file activities.... or buy ALL the ISP worldwide, but maybe a witch hunt is cheaper??? ahh BitTorrent….. the hydra of the movie industry…..

If Hollywood really wanted to stop file sharing and illegal trading of copyright material they would go after the ISP’s NOT the users. The ISP are responsible for providing users with access to the internet and they do absolutely NOTHING to filter the content. If you are trading files through your ISP they know about the content that’s going through their servers. They know how much bandwidth you use each day. It would be really easy to police just based on bandwidth alone! The problem is that at the moment there is NO law that says if you are an ISP and you provide access that you have to monitor the content. If ISP had to start paying huge fines and were held responsible for their clients illegal activities you’d see a sharp drop in illegal file trading. They could simply block clients from sharing files through bit torrent. Or even more simple would be blocking websites that host torrent files!!! But then that would be bad for business….

So as I see it hollywood has two options, try to pass a law to force ISP to be accountable for their users illegal file activities…. or buy ALL the ISP worldwide, but maybe a witch hunt is cheaper???

]]> by: mugget http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=15#comment-10 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:28:00 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=15#comment-10 haha. :lol: sorry, i just had to comment about no one in Hollywood paying to see a movie... perhaps the MPAA should stop their bitching and moaning about BitTorrent and look in their own backyard. nice blog BTW, always good to see another VFX blog out there! :D haha. :lol:

sorry, i just had to comment about no one in Hollywood paying to see a movie…

perhaps the MPAA should stop their bitching and moaning about BitTorrent and look in their own backyard.

nice blog BTW, always good to see another VFX blog out there! :D

]]> by: admin http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-9 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:54:10 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-9 auto reflex...... I wasn't talking directly about your post but in general I think we both agree that it should never be a question as to WHY we should get credit.... I should stop using YOU in my posts...lol auto reflex…… I wasn’t talking directly about your post but in general I think we both agree that it should never be a question as to WHY we should get credit….
I should stop using YOU in my posts…lol

]]> by: demafleez http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-8 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:27:56 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-8 i hope i wasn't misinterpreted. i agree with everything you said. we SHOULD get credit. Editing IS most certainly an artform, one in which is often interpreted as "just cutting out the junk" (slates, bad takes, etc.) when in reality it's about pacing, timing, juxtapositions...each cut, each dissolve, each succession of shots advances a story in a very deliberate manner. what you don't show is equally as important as what you don't show. with that much intent behind it, with that much reason, yes, editing is very much an artform. i hope i wasn’t misinterpreted. i agree with everything you said. we SHOULD get credit. Editing IS most certainly an artform, one in which is often interpreted as “just cutting out the junk” (slates, bad takes, etc.) when in reality it’s about pacing, timing, juxtapositions…each cut, each dissolve, each succession of shots advances a story in a very deliberate manner. what you don’t show is equally as important as what you don’t show. with that much intent behind it, with that much reason, yes, editing is very much an artform.

]]> by: admin http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-7 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:20:12 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-7 Why should we get credit??? I'll tell you why. a GRIP gets credit for holding equipment, moving things etc... their job is not creative but they get credit. An editor or a CG artist working on a commecial may not have come up with the concept but they MADE the vision into a reality. That's creative and not everyone can do that! Like I said if it's so easy to just execute ideas that clients come up with then why is Apples new ipod campaign so similar in design to the Lugz commercial I worked on three years ago??? They couldn't THINK of anything visually!!!! And if you don't think that editing is just as much of an art form as painting or drawing then take a look at this: http://www.vukster.com/cmine/displayimage.php?pos=-65 Why should we get credit??? I’ll tell you why. a GRIP gets credit for holding equipment, moving things etc…
their job is not creative but they get credit. An editor or a CG artist working on a commecial may not have come up with the concept but they MADE the vision into a reality. That’s creative and not everyone can do that! Like I said if it’s so easy to just execute ideas that clients come up with then why is Apples new ipod campaign so similar in design to the Lugz commercial I worked on three years ago??? They couldn’t THINK of anything visually!!!!
And if you don’t think that editing is just as much of an art form as painting or drawing then take a look at this:

http://www.vukster.com/cmine/displayimage.php?pos=-65

]]> by: demafleez http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-6 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:03:05 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=28#comment-6 hey man, i hear you about the credit. having worked in at post houses as an editor and graphic designer for 6 years, i gotta say that, yeah, we as artists are shorted of the credit and recognition that we deserve. that's why i've got a love/hate relationship with agencies: they bring the cool work and opportunity to collaborate (that's truly what it is) on something rad yet we get shunned for our part. i think they see us as more production staff, dudes who push buttons than as artists (and for some the title production staff is rightfully earned). after all, the agency types are the creatives. they spawned the idea, why should we get credit? but hey we create, suggest, experiement, and refine the ideas presented to ultimately make a better product. so when they pick up their addys, where's our mention? or are we all button monkeys? hey man, i hear you about the credit. having worked in at post houses as an editor and graphic designer for 6 years, i gotta say that, yeah, we as artists are shorted of the credit and recognition that we deserve. that’s why i’ve got a love/hate relationship with agencies: they bring the cool work and opportunity to collaborate (that’s truly what it is) on something rad yet we get shunned for our part. i think they see us as more production staff, dudes who push buttons than as artists (and for some the title production staff is rightfully earned). after all, the agency types are the creatives. they spawned the idea, why should we get credit?

but hey we create, suggest, experiement, and refine the ideas presented to ultimately make a better product. so when they pick up their addys, where’s our mention? or are we all button monkeys?

]]> by: admin http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=24#comment-5 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:21:38 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=24#comment-5 AI.... well if you consider other people listening to and categorizing music AI.... This site is run by musicians!!!! I think..... software doesn't pick the songs it just randomizes and narrows down the list...actually the more you listen and make decisions the better the database becomes.... If you like BAD music it won't make you a better listener....lol AI…. well if you consider other people listening to and categorizing music AI….
This site is run by musicians!!!! I think….. software doesn’t pick the songs it just randomizes and narrows down the list…actually the more you listen and make decisions the better the database becomes….
If you like BAD music it won’t make you a better listener….lol

]]> by: demafleez http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=24#comment-4 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:14:04 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=24#comment-4 Thanks for posting this. Prior to this I was hitting up friends for suggestions, looking up college radio station playlists, reading mp3 blogs, browsing myspace music (great for discovering unsigned bands!!) and most recently subscribing to Rhapsody (yes, it's renting music, i know...;) This looks like it'll take the guesswork out of alot of discovering, but that can also mean taking the fun out of it too. It is nice to know that someone or something is doing the work for me and shows once again that humanity will soon be displaced by AI. Thanks for posting this. Prior to this I was hitting up friends for suggestions, looking up college radio station playlists, reading mp3 blogs, browsing myspace music (great for discovering unsigned bands!!) and most recently subscribing to Rhapsody (yes, it’s renting music, i know…;)

This looks like it’ll take the guesswork out of alot of discovering, but that can also mean taking the fun out of it too. It is nice to know that someone or something is doing the work for me and shows once again that humanity will soon be displaced by AI.

]]> by: Alan Demafiles http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=23#comment-3 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:01:21 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=23#comment-3 Finally! Some people with REAL creative sense have the reins to do some damage to this industry. Thank you John Lasseter for KILLING OFF TOY STORY 3!! I'm pretty sure this means no more bastardizations of timeless classics like Bambi III. Finally! Some people with REAL creative sense have the reins to do some damage to this industry. Thank you John Lasseter for KILLING OFF TOY STORY 3!! I’m pretty sure this means no more bastardizations of timeless classics like Bambi III.

]]> by: Brian http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=16#comment-2 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:08:53 -0500 http://www.vukster.com/wpress/?p=16#comment-2 <i>The idea behind this is something out of a Science fiction movie but apparently they have the technology to make it a reality all thanks to these carbon fibers which are stronger then steel!!!</i> Some minor points; you say 'we' but, really, the correct possesive there is 'we' as in 'we have the technology'; it belongs to all of us, or at least the benefits are going to be widespread. Carbon nanotech (CNT) as a technology is poised to change the face of our culture much as steel did at the end of the 19th century. Yes, tall office buildings but more than that - steel changed how things were done to a remarkable degree. Minor point the second; we're pretty sure (the we in this case is the company I work for Liftport) can be built but we recognize that there are several potential roadblocks. The unknown techncial problems, of course. Economics - if one can't be built for substantially less capital than a hevay launcher system (say a scaled up Delta IV) then it ain't gonna happen. Legal and political problems could easily derail the thing as well. B. Dunbar Liftport The idea behind this is something out of a Science fiction movie but apparently they have the technology to make it a reality all thanks to these carbon fibers which are stronger then steel!!!

Some minor points; you say ‘we’ but, really, the correct possesive there is ‘we’ as in ‘we have the technology’; it belongs to all of us, or at least the benefits are going to be widespread. Carbon nanotech (CNT) as a technology is poised to change the face of our culture much as steel did at the end of the 19th century. Yes, tall office buildings but more than that - steel changed how things were done to a remarkable degree.

Minor point the second; we’re pretty sure (the we in this case is the company I work for Liftport) can be built but we recognize that there are several potential roadblocks. The unknown techncial problems, of course. Economics - if one can’t be built for substantially less capital than a hevay launcher system (say a scaled up Delta IV) then it ain’t gonna happen. Legal and political problems could easily derail the thing as well.

B. Dunbar
Liftport

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