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Rip Terry Jones
As per John Cleese: “Two down, four to go”
edition.cnn.com/2020/01/22/entertainment/terry-jones-dies-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
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The modern phenomenon of the two days weekend break
www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200117-the-modern-phenomenon-of-the-weekend
“The idea of reducing the working week from an average of five days to four is gaining traction around the world.
“There are a number of parallels between debates today and those that took place in the 19th century when the weekend as we now know it was first introduced. Having Saturdays as well as Sundays off work is actually a relatively modern phenomenon.
“the weekend did not simply arise from government legislation – it was shaped by a combination of campaigns
“Religious bodies argued that a break on Saturday would improve working class “mental and moral culture”…. and greater attendance at church on Sundays.
“In 1842 a campaign group called the Early Closing Association was formed. It lobbied government to keep Saturday afternoon free for worker leisure in return for a full day’s work on (Saint) Monday.
“a burgeoning leisure industry saw the new half-day Saturday as a business opportunity… Perhaps the most influential leisure activity to help forge the modern week was the decision to stage football matches on Saturday afternoon.
“The adoption of the modern weekend was neither swift nor uniform as, ultimately, the decision for a factory to adopt the half-day Saturday rested with the manufacturer. Campaigns for an established weekend had begun in the 1840s but it did not gain widespread adoption for another 50 years…. it was embraced by employers who found that the full Saturday and Sunday break reduced absenteeism and improved efficiency.
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The Mill opens new offices in Berlin
www.themill.com/stories/the-mill-opens-new-studio-in-berlin/
Greg Spencer will lead a multi-disciplinary team of artists in his role of Creative Director.
Justin Stiebel will be continuing his role as Executive Producer at The Mill Berlin and will be managing client relationships as well as all new business enquiries.
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Use a USB keychain as a scratch disk on Photoshop
Use this at your own risk. ;)
The key is to change the USB from a “USB drive” to “local disk” type.Steps:
woshub.com/removable-usb-flash-drive-as-local-disk-in-windows-7/To force the driver update:
appuals.com/how-to-fix-the-third-party-inf-doesnt-contain-digital-signature-information/Zip file attached to this post.
Hitachi-Microdrive-x64.zip
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How to View Apple’s Spatial Videos
https://blog.frame.io/2024/02/01/how-to-capture-and-view-vision-pro-spatial-video/
Apple’s Immersive Videos format is a special container for 3D or “spatial” video. You can capture spatial video to this format either by using the Vision Pro as a head-mounted camera, or with an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max. The headset offers better capture because its cameras are more optimized for 3D, resulting in higher resolution and improved depth effects.
While the iPhone wasn’t designed specifically as a 3D camera, it can use its primary and ultrawide cameras in landscape orientation simultaneously, allowing it to capture spatial video—as long as you hold it horizontally. Computational photography is used to compensate for the lens differences, and the output is two separate 1080p, 30fps videos that capture a 180-degree field of view.
These spatial videos are stored using the MV-HEVC (Multi-View High-Efficiency Video Coding) format, which uses H.265 compression to crunch this down to approximately 130MB per minute, including spatial audio. Unlike conventional stereoscopic formats—which combine the two views into a flattened video file that’s either side-by-side or top/bottom—these spatial videos are stored as discrete tracks within the file container.
Spatialify is an iOS app designed to view and convert various 3D formats. It also works well on Mac OS, as long as your Mac has an Apple Silicon CPU. And it supports MV-HEVC, so you’ll be all set. It’s just $4.99, a genuine bargain considering what it does. Find Spatialify here.
