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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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HDR and Color
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/nits-and-bits-hdr-and-color
In HD we often refer to the range of available colors as a color gamut. Such a color gamut is typically plotted on a two-dimensional diagram, called a CIE chart, as shown in at the top of this blog. Each color is characterized by its x/y coordinates.
Good enough for government work, perhaps. But for HDR, with its higher luminance levels and wider color, the gamut becomes three-dimensional.
For HDR the color gamut therefore becomes a characteristic we now call the color volume. It isn’t easy to show color volume on a two-dimensional medium like the printed page or a computer screen, but one method is shown below. As the luminance becomes higher, the picture eventually turns to white. As it becomes darker, it fades to black. The traditional color gamut shown on the CIE chart is simply a slice through this color volume at a selected luminance level, such as 50%.
Three different color volumes—we still refer to them as color gamuts though their third dimension is important—are currently the most significant. The first is BT.709 (sometimes referred to as Rec.709), the color gamut used for pre-UHD/HDR formats, including standard HD.
The largest is known as BT.2020; it encompasses (roughly) the range of colors visible to the human eye (though ET might find it insufficient!).
Between these two is the color gamut used in digital cinema, known as DCI-P3.
sRGB
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