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Rewind, undo, and buyer’s remorse

Expressions of regret and a desire to change your vote are very unusual immediately after an election. Why Bregret?

June 26, 2016 General, Life, Technology

Words or movies for telling stories

Is video “the best way to tell stories”? Is live-streaming the way ahead for social media? Or is this just marketing hype?

June 21, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Story Story

One reason for the continuing popularity of more traditional means of storytelling is their lack of explicitness, and reliance on the imagination.

March 29, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Story in Paintings: index of well-known narratives 4 literary

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Covers 35 well-known narratives from books, plays, movies, poems, and other literary sources, with example paintings for each.

March 27, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Making paintings popular again

Let’s face it, modern painting has all but disappeared into its splendidly jewelled navel.

February 17, 2016 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: New narratives

In little more than a century, narrative painting has been transformed from the moribund and shunned, to the innovative and exciting.

February 14, 2016 General, Painting

Telling the story: narrative across media

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From cave paintings to on-demand movies, narrative is one of the most pervasive and persistent features of humans.

January 18, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

Licensed to mow: paying to use CODECs

The commercial mower of lawns does not pay a royalty for each lawn that they mow. So why should a user of H.264 video encoding be expected to pay royalties?

July 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Movie Formats and Conversion

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There is nothing so frustrating as watching a great movie but being unable to save it, or watch it on your iPad or Apple TV. It all comes down to formats.

May 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Help me access my PNG movies

Q Many of the video files I had before upgrading to Yosemite have lost their custom icons, showing […]

April 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

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