10 years ago we spent a day in Amsterdam to act in the dutch movie Dropouts. We had to redo this scene several times because people were looking into the camera. We come out of the train and I walk in front of Zebi. You can see my friend Niels who walks just before me. I liked the filmmaking atmosphere and the team was really cool. The movie is also cool and well done. All music was made by one of the crew members. You can find out more about this movie at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176673

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And there is Elmer!! .... in a TV show, with cool shirt, shoes and chicks.
But the chicks didn't get it..

What's wrong with these girls to let him go?

Comment 35 by bart.burkhardt, Today (moments ago)

I'm also in the process of launching a URL shortening service.

I really would like to use GAE and I'm really am shocked to see that GAE does not support naked domains!

How can a company like Google just ignore the fact that loads of startups want short URL's to be used in Twitter messages.
It's just totally insane!! A bunch of people must be sleeping, really.

Everyone knows that redirecting from your own provider is not an option, and again it's really bizar to see Google mentioning this as an option, shame on you Google.

The strange thing is that there are already some url shortening services that run on GAE,  like http://ur.ly   
Read about this great opensource project here: http://adamstiles.com/2008/07/urly-dang-short-urls-powered-by-google-app-engine/

Please also read this great article: No nudity please, we’re Google (or why you shouldn’t mix naked domains and www on Google App Engine)
http://aralbalkan.com/1425/comment-page-1#comment-258336

Then there's  http://urlborg.com  another short url service on GAE

All these services probably just added a couple of A-records that point to servers that service ghs.google.com 
I could do that do, but as this is not officially supported I find it a bit scary. 

Also because ghs.google.com are servers that are load balanced and so, so adding a couple of ip addresses is not what I had in mind to put my short url service in the App Engine cloud.


SO PLEASE GOOGLE, YOU'RE MY FRIEND FOR SO MANY YEARS, WHAT'S GOING ON ? ? ?

HELP  !!!!!

I made this video last year end November for a video contest on Viddler by @djsteen. I didn't win anything, but is was great fun to do. I made the music long time ago on my Roland D70. Let me know what you think of the video, leave a comment and rate! I filmed this with my Canon A60 and edited it with Windows Movie Maker

Robert and I had planned to make a trip in the summer but we never came to it, so we decided to go in late October. It was very very nice, and I would like to do it again, it's not a problem that it's getting colder.

I noticed these zillion mushrooms so I filmed them today. I'm also experimenting with After Effects.

Keyboard Shortcut

1. Press Command - Option - Escape simultaneously. If you need more explanation on how to find these keys read on:
   • Command is the button with the curly clover pattern on it. In pre 2008 apple keyboards it also had an apple icon on it. It is in the bottom left of your keyboard.
   • Alt/Option key is located at the bottom left of your keyboard.
   • Escape (Esc) is located at the top left hand corner of your keyboard.
2. Select the application you want to force quit from the "Force Quit Applications" window that pops up. If the program has crashed, it will typically say "not responding" next to it in this menu.
3. Click the button that says "Force Quit".

Mouse Method

1. Direct your mouse to the apple icon in the top left of your screen.
2. Scroll down to "Force Quit" and close the application which is not responding.

Dock Method

1. Use a two button mouse such as the Mighty Mouse or a third-party two button mouse.
2. Right click on the application's icon in the Dock and hold Option. This will display a Force Quit option.
   • If you don't have a two button mouse, instead of right clicking, clicking and holding works too.

[edit] Tips

• Before you click "Force Quit", double check that the application is still frozen. Sometimes the application un-freezes while you bring up the "Force Quit" window.
• It is not possible to force quit Finder. If you select Finder, the "Force Quit" button will say "Relaunch".
• To force quit the application without opening the force quit window, just press Shift with the other buttons (Command+Option+Shift+Esc) and hold for about 5 seconds. This will close the currently active application.

[edit]Alternate Method

Sometimes, however, trying to Force Quit an application doesn't quite work the way you'd expect it to. If a normal Force Quit doesn't work, try these steps:

1. Open the Terminal application. By default, this is in the Utilities folder, located in the Applications folder (and this application should not be moved).
2. Type "top". The top command displays various information about currently running applications, including CPU usage, memory info, and some other stuff.
3. For this purpose, there are only two things you need to be concerned with: The Process ID (or PID) and Command name (or application name). Under the column titled "COMMAND", find thename of the Application you wish to quit. (You may not see the wholename, but a portion of it will be there).
4. Once you find the name of Application, find the number to the immediate left of it, under the PID column.
5. Type "q".
6. Type "kill ###". Replace the "###" with the number from the PID Column you just located. For example: If you were trying to quit iTunes, and found iTunes to have PID number 320, you would type "kill 320".

This should make the trouble application quit. Unlike previous versions of the MacOS, you don't need to restart your computer after force-quitting an application. You can simply relaunch the application and keep on working.

I forgot the key combination, so this is a note to self post

I am learning After Effects at the moment and I really liked the motion tracking stuff. I made a kayak trip last sunday where I filmed from the Kayak. This resulted in a shaky movie. Now with After Effects you can correct that, it's really amazing.

 

I want one!

You can make amazing movies, look at the short film "Nocturne" by Vincent Laforet

 

Also thanks to Garry Tan for posting about it

Altough the order form could only deliver the stickers in the States, it was a nice surprice to get them in our mailbox, so thank you @animoto !