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You may have heard of the term minimalism before. Essentially, it means giving up your physical possessions to concentrate on things that are more important, like family, friends, work, and activities. It doesn't necessarily mean living a simpler life, but instead prioritizing things that are important to living a happy life. There have been a number of scientific studies that show that "things" can provide a brief boost in mood that simulates happiness. Unfortunately, it's not true happiness and and quickly fades. We condition ourselves to keep pursuing that boost in "happiness" by buying or collecting more and more stuff. [Read more…]
Helpful Hints for Better Website Design
Whether it's a personal blog, a news site, or your businesses website, an easy to navigate design will add to the visitor enjoyment of your site. We've all been to sites that are cluttered and difficult to navigate and it usually results in hitting the back button on the browser to look for a new option. Most of us amateur web designers use wordpress to manage our sites which is easy to use and comes with a lot of bells and whistles. Maybe a few too many bells and whistles. We can add content to the header, both sidebars, the footer, and just about everywhere else on the page. What oftentimes happens is a page gets so filled with content it's distracting to the eye and takes away from the user experience. [Read more…]
Designing Bags
Everywhere you look around, in even the smallest of things, you will find design. Someone created that thing, whether it's in architecture or the computer screen that you are reading this on at the moment. That was created, designed, engineered, to achieve a certain look or function.
Web design pertains to the websites you visit, talented individuals have created and built out all of the places you go on the Internet. Graphic designers create the aesthetics of anything from those same websites to billboards, pretty much whatever the naked eye takes in with regard to hundreds of different items. It's prevalent in advertising, product packaging, you name it.
One of the things that has really piqued my interest lately is the time and effort that goes into designing military backpacks. The years I spent in design school, we had to create and build out all kinds of things, including bags, but the form and function of the military backpacks at this site are pretty impressive.
Spend a little time on the site and you'll see there are so many different types of military backpacks and bags. But there are a few things that they all have in common. The amount of pockets and pouches is the first thing that jumps out. Manufacturers of these sort of bags have designed them to hold a wide array of items, both large and small. These bags were built to help soldiers and servicemen survive for days at a time in harsh climates by carrying all of the essentials with them. Now they're available to both military and civilians as well.
I can think of a lot of different uses for these bags: camping, hiking, emergency preparedness. But they're also great for students, especially design students who have a lot of tools they need to bring to class. Books, drafting pencils, all of the things that are necessities for class. They can all fit into one of these military backpacks.
From a design standpoint, these backpacks are very complex yet simple to use. Pouches inside of pockets, numerous compartments, straps that help to make the bag less bulky by packing all of your belongings tightly. There is even something called "MOLLE webbing" that lets you add on more pockets and pouches. Genius idea.
So design students, take a look at these kinds of bags. They will inspire you in your own designs, by showing you how to be functional and practical. You will also find them very purposeful in your everyday travels through school and life!
Interior Decorating Tips
There are interior decorating tips that help homeowners achieve a certain look for their homes. Basically, these tips and tricks can easily be performed with minimal effort as well as minimal cost. In the interior design industry, even the smallest things or changes can actually make a great impact. Thus, if you want to achieve a certain look or make your home more inviting and cozy, you definitely should try the interior decorating tips.
- Mix and Match. Another interior decorating tip would be to try mixing and matching different things, patterns and textures. You can actually play with your imagination on this part. You can place antique items with modern things in a room. By doing so, you are actually ensuring that the room will reflect your own style and personality.
- Use Soft and Light Colors. For smaller rooms in a home, softer and lighter colors can make these rooms feel larger. With the use of the right colors, you can definitely maximize a small living space. In addition to painting the room with light colors, you can also incorporate large windows and mirrors. The use of such home additions will help reflect the natural light in the room from the doors and the windows. On the other hand, darker colors can actually make the room feel smaller.
- Go Green. Having a sustainable garden inside your home is achievable. To do this, you can add plants to your living space. You can add several small or large plants to every room in the house. Plants are actually inexpensive decorations that add color and texture in a room. Plants are not only beautiful but these are functional too as plants can actually clean household air and balance the humidity in a room. Plants can absorb pollutants and harmful gasses from the air.
- Instant Light Using Mirrors. Adding mirrors in a living space can actually add instant light to the room. With the mirrors, large rooms or rooms with limited light can actually have instant light. Mirrors can also be decorative additions to any room and these can fill up empty walls.
- Use Slip Covers to Reflect Your Mood. Slip covers on furniture can be a means to change the look of your furniture to reflect your mood or perhaps the seasons. Slip covers can easily be removed and these can definitely promote a sophisticated look on the furniture.
- Make Use of Readily Available Decors. When decorating your home, it does not necessarily mean that you need to buy everything new. You can actually make use of old trays, boxes, silver and other useful items that you already have. You can rearrange them or mix and match these items to recreate something appealing.
- Make Use of Rugs. When dealing with hardwood floors, one can make use of throw rugs to provide warmth and add texture to the living space. While hardwood floors are easy to maintain, this type of floor lack the comfort that carpeted floors offer. Thus, the addition of rugs on hardwood floors is both functional and visually appealing.
These are some of the tips and tricks that can definitely improve the look of your home. In addition to boosting the appearance of your home, these interior decorating tips will also improve your home's comfort.
Planting a Sustainable Garden
Gardening is thought of as a eco-friendly method of obtaining fresh and delicious produce. The eco-friendly and sustainable benefits of having a garden are easy to undertand when they are juxtaposed with the industrial farming methods that are currently in vogue. Industrial farms mass produce produce and use amonia and other chemicals to increase the yield to atypical amounts. Amonia adds an infusion of some nutrients to the soil but saps the long-term vitalithy of the soil. Farm produced items are then shipped around the country in a process that consumes gas, packaging, and often waste and food items rot on shelves.
A home garden is considered to be much more sustainable but there are certain steps that can be undertaken to grow a more sustainable garden. Reduce the need to buy fertilizer by starting a composting station in your backyard. A composting unit can be purchased and inside you can add odd vegetable skins, food by-products, and even newspaper. Over time these organic materials will decompose and will add to the overall nutrition in the soil. Composting is part of a sustainable garden in that it does not require the purchase of store fertilizer that is shipped around the country. Further, it reduces the garbage waste that you would otherwise be throwing away and converts that into a useful fertilizer.
Water management is another part of developing a sustainable garden. Some individuals will set up a rain catch that will store rain water and allow you to apply it to your garden without having to use water from your water system that can be expensive and needless. Selecting fruits and vegetables that are well adapted to the climate that you live in will also help to reduce the amount of water needed. Native plants have evolved to live in the climate and often require little to know maintenance and have natural resistances to pests which can remove the need to use any sort of pesticide.
If pesticides are needed, see if there are natural alternatives. For example, purchasing a colony of ladybugs or preying mantises can reduce the need for a pesticide as these natural predators will remove many of the insect pests that may harm the fruits and vegetables that you grow.
Maximizing space is essential in a garden and requries a gardener to identify the soil and sun needs for different plants that they are planning on growing and finding the right spot for them. Be sure to maximize space in your garden by planting items in a logical way that allows you to use the needed space, but still access ripe fruits and vegetables.
Maintaining proper crop rotation can also be an essential part of having a sustainable garden. This involves understanding the nutrient needs of the plants that you are planning on growing in your garden. Some plants leach many of the nutrients from the soil and planting the same plants in the same location can not only reduce the yield from your garden, but can also lead to the need for fertilizer. Rotating crops seasonally can reduce the need for this. Leaving some parts of your garden fallow with a cover crop that will improve the soil by adding nutrients can also improve the overall productivity of the soil and lead to a more sustainable garden in the long run.
Thoughts on Graphic Design and Computers
Rapid gratification from computer functions allow Graphic Designers to explore several ideas quickly and with more detail than they could explore by hand sketching or paper mock-ups. However, for the creative processes of the brain, the providing of several design options at once can actually diffuse the project with too many choices. The creative senses need room to expand upon their own and travel their primary creativity avenue of thought before re-evaluating the project and selecting another creation.
A graphic designer sketches by hand without being distracted by computer software demands. Creativity transferred from mind to hand to paper has always been the chosen route of artists and designers from time immemorial. This hand process saves time and money, as changes can be made and discarded from the sketch more easily. This hybrid process is especially useful in freeing the creative mind and juices from the electronic performance of a computer program.
Graphic designers in the past relied on computer techs called "production artists" enter the graphics designers' works into the computer. Desktop Publishing has, over 30 years of use, gradually initiated teaching computer graphics software in graphic design courses. Moreover, graphic designers new to the field are now expected to have proficiency in the most popular computer graphic design programs.
Graphic design career paths cover all types, and frequently overlap each other. The main job of a Graphic Designer is arranging visual prompts and ideas in media. Today's graduating graphic design students are highly exposed to all genres of graphic design and must become familiar with all of them to be competitive in today's graphic design market.
The job duty pecking order for graphic design involves the graphics designer reporting to the graphics supervisor, then to the art department head designer. Different countries may have differing titles for the positions, but the order is the same. After the work has been approved up the department chain of command, it can be sent back to the original graphics designer for completion and following through on any innovations required by supervision. Once the project is completely designed, it can be sent to Print for a finished mock up to be shown to the client. Sometimes the senior graphics designer is included in the client presentation, which is very beneficial to the designer in terms of experience and in terms of stature within the company.
Graphic designers can work in companies solely involved in graphic design or work within a company in a particular department providing graphic design to and for the main company. Since introduction of personal computers to this industry, graphic designers have been employed within organizations that are not design companies as in-house graphic designers. Graphic designers may also work as free-lance designers, working on their own terms, prices, and ideas. This is the first stepping stone toward a designer forming his or her own graphic design company and working for their own clientele on brand identification, logos, photographic displays and more.
Graphics designers have open job mobility since their job descriptions involve all aspects of art, photography, engineering design and brand identification. Achieving a Graphics Design education should prepare men and women for a future career in a thriving business field.
What I love About Tiny Houses
Have you heard about tiny houses? They are, as the name implies, very tiny houses, best suited for 1-2 people. They range from 100-300 square feet and have been getting a lot of press recently. My guess is that a lot of people are still stinging from the mortgage fueled recession and are looking for ways to spend less on housing. Having a cheap small house without room for many possessions is a great way to save some money.
For a lot of designers the tiny house is a dream. Because there's so little space it forces you to be really creative and think outside the box. Literally, every inch needs to be considered. While there are companies that will sell you a pre-made tiny house a lot of people are choosing to build them themselves as a way t ensure they get exactly what they want. You can buy designs on-line and then customize to meet your needs. I'm not sure I'm ready to make the leap to micro-living quite yet but I'm definitely intrigued by the idea.
Here are my top 5 reasons, in no particular order, for being interested in tiny houses:
- Low Cost: Less space means less cost. Utilities are lower, maintenance is lower, and your rent or mortgage is almost nonexistent. From the research I've done, the most expensive part of owning a tiny house is setting up the plumbing. Most tend to use a composting toilet which doesn't require full-on plumbing set-up but they can be pricy and usually cost around $2k. Depending on the materials you use and how much of the work you do yourself a tiny house can be built for as little as $10,000, which is was less than a full size home.
- Transportable: A lot of tiny houses are built on trailers so they can be pulled behind a pickup or SUV. I like this idea because it's kind of like having an RV but more personal and home-like. Of course, you'll want to be careful to make sure no one drives off with your house!
- Design Challenges: As mentioned above, figuring out the layout and design of a tiny house is just about my favorite thing about the whole concept. Every cabinet, step, outlet, nook, and cranny needs to be considered. Where will the bed go? Will it be a loft or a Murphy? One of the most difficult challenges is figuring out how the shower/bath will work. One really interesting idea I came across was a giant tub, that looked like a pretty deep sink, that you sit in and fill up with water to take a bath. It uses considerably less water than a conventional bath and doubles as a clothes washing machine. Genius!
- Helps Embrace Minimalism: As I mentioned in another post I am a budding minimalist, meaning I am attempting to live with a bare minimum of possessions. Living in a tiny house would ensure that you're only able to keep the absolute essentials.
- Just Looks Cool: This probably isn't really a very good reason to live in a micro-house but I just really think tiny houses look awesome. They're so small and cute you just want to pinch them.
While I probably won't be able to seriously consider building my own tiny house until I finish design school it's a trend I'll be following closely over the next few years.


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n. concept that a global human consciousness will form manifested as the nexus of all written knowledge on Earth and the inter-connectivity of that information through computer networks. This concept spawned the fictional Borg species on the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation which are a race of interconnected beings with a single mind.
Wikipedia is taking on a borgus quality.
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No other religion has emphasized in such a crystal clear way that knowledge is sin and that unless you become like children again, you will not become good: unless you drop all knowledge and you become innocent again, uncorrupted by knowledge, you will not be accepted back. The source will go on rejecting you.
Not that the source wants to reject you. But the way you behave, through knowledge, you create the situation for your own rejection. God had to expel Adam and Eve. Not that he wanted to - he must have wept because they were his children - but he was helpless.
Whenever you create the feeling in the whole of helplessness, you commit sin. And whenever you force the whole to reject you, you commit sin. And whenever you force the whole to throw you out of the garden, you commit sin.
Sin is behaving in a cunning way, behaving as if you know. Sin is being self-complacent, sin is thinking that you are enough unto yourself. A child is not enough unto himself; a child is helpless. A child does not know anything; he acts out of innocence. Then it is good. The moment you start acting out of knowledge, it is sin.
Try to understand the import of what I am saying: I am saying that if you live a virtuous life out of knowledge it is not virtuous. You can have character out of knowledge, you can have a quality of morality to you out of knowledge, but then it is no longer moral. Then you are still eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Your so-called saints are deep down, sinners, because they still go on getting their nourishment from the tree of knowledge. The real sage is innocent. He acts - not because of the commandments, because all commandments are sin. He acts out of his totality; he responds in this moment.
He does not act out of the mind. To act out of the mind is to sin, and to act out of the mind is to be thrown out of the garden, out of the kingdom of God. Once you accept the mind as your source of activity, you have denied God, and in your denial of God, you are denied.
Whenever you act out of the mind your act is going to be fragmented because mind is a split phenomenon. Mind is not one. It is many, it is a multitude. Its names are legion. Whenever you act out of the mind, only a part acts - against the whole. Whenever you act out of no-mind..
Sometimes you act.you know there are moments when you act out of no-mind. You are walking. You have gone for a long morning or evening walk and suddenly a snake crosses the path. You don't have time to think. Mind needs time; mind is a time process. You don't have time to think. If you think, you will be gone! The snake is there and the snake is not going to wait for you to think. The snake acts out of no-mind; you will be in danger if you believe in mind. But you will act out of no-mind. You will simply jump.


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Palace officials in London, England has announced that the Prince and the Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a baby.
Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William is expecting the couple's first child.
St. James Palace said Monday that the Duchess of Cambridge has a severe form of morning sickness and is currently in a London hospital.
As the first born to William -- who is second in line to the throne after his father, Prince Charles -- the couple's first child stands an excellent chance of one day becoming monarch.
Whether boy or girl, the child will be behind Prince William in the line of succession to the throne, Cabinet Office officials said.
The pair wed in a much publicized ceremony in April 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
Prior to the wedding, William gave Kate the same 18-carat sapphire surrounded by diamonds that his father had given Diana Spencer. Back in 1981, the ring cost $60,000 and many criticized Diana for selecting a ring that anyone could buy, rather than having one made for her.
~Kate Middleton's engagement ring.~
William said he wanted to give his mother's engagement ring as his own way to include her in the celebration.
He proposed to Kate on a trip to Kenya after "literally" carrying the ring with him everywhere for three weeks—in his rucksack, of all places—saying he knew he would be "in big trouble" if he lost it. In their first interview after getting engaged, Kate said she hopes she can "look after" the ring properly, to which William responded "she's going to be in big trouble if she loses it."


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Ultra high resolution ain't going to mean jack unless the dumb trend with the shaky cam comes to an end. I'm not going to be eyeing for details when I can't even figure out who is punching whom.
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Ultra high resolution ain't going to mean jack unless the dumb trend with the shaky cam comes to an end. I'm not going to be eyeing for details when I can't even figure out who is punching whom.
High-definition TV.Difference Engine: Ne plus ultra. The bit you look at is fantastic, but it will take years for the contents of the bit you look at keeps up with the technology. Until then it just selling refrigerators to the Eskimos.
The difference between 720p and 1080p is WELL worth the investment, even in a low-end smaller set. My desktop/office TV is the smallest 1080P I could find at 23" and I am generally about 36" or so away. The difference between 720p and 1080p is instantly noticeable on live sports or news events. Over the years I was in the high-end electronics business, I got to see some astonishing prototype products from a number of vendors: what we have here now in the US as "Full HD" was already being shown as a working template for the future back around 1980 by SONY, albeit with some real shortcomings in displays at the time, which were being addressed by RCA and their partner JVC with a technology that has only recently appeared on the market by other vendors in a very evolved form.
Frankly, the payback for 4K video would be in high-refresh rate presentation of fast moving action, like sports, action/adventure films and shows... the stuff that people enjoy in HD on Bluray.
Thanks to the lethargic molasses-like pace of the US FCC, it took 15 more years to get HD broadcast here than it should have taken, and now, with valuable TV Broadcast Spectrum being auctioned away for various purposes OTHER than TV, the prospect of doing to an enhanced 4K signal what NTSC did to color in the old analog system looms real. We could easily find ourselves with the worst "hi-rez" broadcast TV in the world, the advantages of the quadrupling of resolution compressed away.
The format will float or sink on yet another prerecorded video system beyond Bluray... which will make all the console makers delighted to resell everyone new components, and of course, there will be a whole new connector involved, so we'll all have to buy new cables, too.
Of course.
But the difference will be visible. There's what you can see as a test instrument and there's what you can see as a living breathing moving pair of eyes and a brain... and lemme tell ya, you will see the difference. Will the next up-rez make a difference? Time will tell, but this is a real improvement for right now... if it can be broadcast without ruining it, and about that, I have major doubts.
I decided to lay off the program-source misinformation in my comment thanks to the reply provided by nVhHNmeJab below, who answered or questioned some of the things that made my eyebrow go up as I read this less than well-researched piece. Since most people are concerned with what they put in their homes and view, I focused on that issue, and and thank and recognize the contribution of nVhHNmeJab to this discussion.
My concern is that 4K may take long enough to figure out how to broadcast effectively here in the US that it will be practically obsolete by the time that happens, and thus pointless, which is too bad.
720p resolution TV is good enough to enjoy good picture, 1080p is luxury for big screen size..who the hell in this world require a 4K TV that will cost them a bomb..these innovations are irrelevant and of no use for a consumer..Innovation of these kind are just a marketing tool to project or showcase Innovation credential.
Terabytes of data? I don't understand why a format that has just four times as many pixels as blue ray is on the order of a thousand times bigger. Can someone explain this to me?
We have wasted so much time on 3D TVs. 4K is the future. Its much better than the 1080i displays as well http://www.etechmag.com/2013/01/13/4k-vs-1080-hd.html
Can't wait to have one in my living room.
We have wasted so much time on 3D TVs. 4K is the future. Its much better than the 1080i displays as well http://www.etechmag.com/2013/01/13/4k-vs-1080-hd.html
Can't wait to have one in my living room.
This new fad has no utility whatsoever. It shall only start to becomee popular when the new generation of technofads, with a need for speed, shall be offerred to play two different video games at the same time, on the same screen. All this of course if very useful for the progress of humanity in general.
Most profound analysis, Sir, would Jeeves say.
I guess the middle classes cannot afford yet another upgrade of their tv sets, not until the old one is defunc. And even then, the old technology might still be the one affordable.
1080 is fine for me. You would need a huge home to fit a TV big enough to need more than a 1080 picture resolution. Many times the picture you are watching on broadcast TV doesn't come close to the quality that a 1080 TV can actually produce. Watch the drug commercials on the evening news. On my 55 inch, the image looks like you can walk into it, yet most other broadcast, even live ones, don't look as good. Why waste money on a super TV just to watch a few movies that contain WAY too much obviously computer generated make believe digital junk anyway? Right now I'm watching CNBC World live from Berlin in 480. When you shrink it to the 4X3 format to get rid of the distortion, it looks OK. The fact that it is a color picture is the big thing.
Pixels-schmiksels... People don't buy 3D, and they won't buy 18D or 4K as well, and everybody knows why: because the Hollywood and the rest of film industry continue to churn out same shit which doesn't deserve viewing. Can any amount of pixels or Ks convert garbage like Prometeus or Spider Man No 24 into something worth watching even through 8mm projector made in 1962?
That answers most of the questions !!
In light of detailed comments below, by nVhHNmeJab, is correction, clarification or amplification required for this article?
Why can't the industry understand that not everybody uses premium or wants a better TV when they are already satisfied with the product that they own?They keep them until they fall apart. My Mom won't part with a TV that was bought for her over twenty years ago. It's a real monster as far as size is concerned but it still serves her quite well and that's that.
Even today, most TV viewers cannot tell the difference between 720 and 1080P, so what's the point?
HDTV,, THAT WAS THEN,, WE HAVE,, HD,, Can all afford these? I doubt LG has come out with the new ones, now Toshiba , Sharp. Samsung, Sanyo and many will sing their own songs , "WE ARE GOOD" . The street vendors and the super markets will make the kill but selling with a bonus of a small gift like a battery operated torch and sell. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA
The elephant in this room is the growing piles of toxic refuse dumps around the world caused by constantly and rapidly increasing the luxury factors in digital technology. Obsolescence is IT's dark side, and it's very dark.
The marketing hype is what creates an artificial consumer demand more than the actual performance of current technology, which for most is simply "good enough", especially when there are more important things to spend money on, such as paying off debts.
This hype always uses sophisticated psychology to make people feel inadequate, like something is missing from their lives. In this case of UHDTV it may be true - for instance if you compare lying about in a stale indoor environment watching some nature show on HDTV instead of just taking a healthy, invigorating walk in the woods nearby and witnessing your own ecosystem's reality show, you will never know "ne plus ultra" in your lifetime.
I'm sad to say that this is the most ridiculously ill-informed article I have ever read in the Economist. Lets look at some of the more ridiculous points:
"So far, only a handful of feature films have been shot with cameras capable of 4K. "
A handful? Are you insane?!? Pretty much every single low budget film of the last couple of years was was shot on the (5K) Red Epic camera. The Red cinema website has a list of over ninety films 'shot on Red'.
"Insiders reckon making a full-length digital feature in 4K is equivalent to producing six ordinary 2K films."
Who? WHO?!? has the correspondent been speaking to?!? Who are these 'insiders' and what jobs do they do? Clearly nothing WHATSOEVER even vaguely related to a creative or technical aspect of filmmaking. As anyone who actually has even the slightest experience of digital film making knows that to be complete bunkum.
I suppose, to a small extent, if you are making a very effects heavy film there are some additional costs involved in doing 4K post: more data storage being required, a slightly longer render time for effects, perhaps more man-hours involved in creating some of the textures. But it is nowhere near SIX TIMES the amount of work.
Hell, it's generally excepted that shooting 3D only adds, at most, 50% on your budget - and 3D requires using twice as many cameras (a separate camera for each eye for each shot), extra kit (the 3D rig), an extra crew (e.g. the stereographer), more shooting time (due to the rig being a lot heaver and making lens changes more complicated), an extra step in post (3D grading) and requires you to render each SFX shot twice (again, once for each eye).
Honestly, it's a ridiculous statement, especially given that I own a '4K' Camera (The Sony NEX-FS700) that only cost me $6,000 USD (although technically I'll need to spend another $6K to get the 4K recorder to allow me to record the 4K images).
"if and when Hollywood upgrades wholesale to the new video standard"
To be honest, they already have, pretty much - both to future proof their product and because there isn't any appreciable difference in cost. Admittedly a lot of the high end movies are shot on the 2K Arri Alexa cameras, but that's because the camera's extra wide dynamic range means it produces very beautiful images - but as soon as Arri they bring out a 4K Alexa you'll find that very very few films will be shot on 2K.
"The biggest hurdle, though, will be getting native 4K content onto an Ultra HD screen. "
Not really.
"In raw form,"
Why would you want it in Raw form? You'd need to convert it to a viewable format (Raw being the raw output from the chip - not viewable on any screen anywhere without processing).
"the resulting video file would comprise a whopping 5.6 terabytes of data."
Which is why 4K cameras don't even record the 'raw' data. They compress it before recording because nobody needs that much data depth.
"Even with compression, transmitting such humongous files over the air or by cable would require more bandwidth, "
Well yes, but not really all that much more. The 'HD' footage on youtube is formed of video files that are about 30mb per minute. Admittedly they exhibited quite a few compression artefacts, but do you think most viewers notice? So moving up to 60mb/min (1MBPS data rates!!!) isn't going to kill the internet.
"A 2K film etched on a Blu-ray disc uses all 50 gigabytes of its two recording layers. A 4K film would require a third, or even fourth, layer."
Well now you're just being silly. A regular, 2K 3D BluRay requires exactly the same amount of image data as a 2D 4K BluRay because it needs to contain two separate 2K images per frame of screen action (one for each eye). Okay, if you want to watch 3D in 4K you might need two more layers... or double the compression.
"Even if it proves up to the job, it will take years for the new compression standard (H.265) to be adopted universally."
Not really. If that's the format the industry agrees on than all the manufacturers will just start building it in. At the end of the days it's just a Codec, a bit of software. It won't take long for component manufacturers to produce cheap chips to decode the format once the standard is agreed - and then it'll just go into the bundle of existing codecs that modern players can understand (MP3, MP4, DivX, Quicktime, etc etc - yes, I know Quicktime isn't a codec, but if you're picking me up on that, you know what I'm on about)
"By that reckoning, it could be 2025 before Ultra HD is likewise in half of American homes."
Finally, something sensible has been said: of course, now that everyone has just upgraded their TVs to HD, they're going to wait until they wear out before they bother replacing it with a 4K one - especially since a) there is very little 4K content available domestically and b) it's pretty hard to tell the difference between SD and HD as it is, so 4K is hardly worth bothering with.
Regards, Colin Elves, DoP.
Great points Colin! The author really should have consulted with more 'insiders' with broader knowledge. Even the adoption schedule 'reckoning' is totally off base. New tech adoption is always driven by value, not prior generation wear-out. Americans will retire perfectly good old tech devices and buy new tech as soon as there is a compelling upgrade available. If Ultra HD is compelling, few American homes will stay with their HDTVs until wear-out - no more than they did with tube TVs, VCRs, audio cassette players, etc.
Yes, but what's so compelling about being able to see Russel Crowe's black-heads, 'in your own home!'?
Colin, NHK Japan think investing in 4k is a waste of resource, their belief being that by the time 4k hits the mainstream investment will already be underway in 8k (7680 × 4320). For them, the logical step is to keep 1080p standard for the interim with 8k as the long term successor once the supporting technologies are in place. Purely from a R&D budgeting perspective it makes sense.
I'd be interested to know what you think...
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The only compelling reason for upgrade is gaming. Without an interest in it I see sales missing expectations. It's a genuine need for some people but will it be enough? The music industry really upset people with a jump from vinyl to tape to CDs. They were replacing collections once too often. The computer industry has done a far better job but people wanted these changes and recgnized the improvements. With TV's improvements the industry never found a market that thought the changes were cost worthy.
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I think NHK are wasting their time and money.
As the article points out (one of the few points that are right) you need to consider the maximum resolution of the entire system: capture-display-viewer. As it is 4K is excessive resolution given the size of the screens in people's homes and their distance from them while viewing.
To gain any appreciable benefit from 8K (or even 4K) the relative screen size will have to get substantially bigger (i.e. the screen will need to get a lot bigger or we'll have to sit a lot closer to them). For a small number of people, with entire rooms dedicated to their 'home cinemas' and giant screens, 8K may be of benefit. But as we are now an urban species, the number of people who have such domestic space available is diminishing.
Even then the screen is limited by the human eye's ability to resolve the detail. The iPad 3's 'retina display' (2048x1536) already reaches that limit at 264 pixels per inch, on a screen designed to be viewed only a couple of feet away. Taking that up to 8K then the screen needs to be over 32 Inches wide before you'll even be able to see the able to perceive the separate pixels no matter how close you get to it. At normal viewing distances you're talking about a screen, what, 140 inches across? Why would you want a 12ft screen in your house? And even then, why would you want to sit just 9 feet from it (as you do with a normal 32inch TV?) when it would be so uncomfortable to watch: since it would be too close/large to take in the whole image without having to make your eyes work overtime scanning across the whole screen. It's more likely that those lunatics who do get 140inch screens will end up sitting 18ft away from them, at which point 4K is more than enough anyway!
On top of that you have technical issues with the image capture system. To put it simply very few (very expensive) cinema lenses are able to resolve 4,000 lines of resolution as it is - and I'm not actually convinced NHK have been able to develop lenses capable of resolving 8,000 lines. So it is sort of irrelevant how many sensor sites their chips have.
Even then, creatively speaking, half of the cameraman's job is to dump resolution: ensuring only a small section of the image is actually in focus so that the audience's eyes are drawn to the bit you want them to look at. Plus, most people don't actually like the 'super-sharp' 2K images (let alone 4K or 8K) modern cameras produce. Nobody likes to see all the skin imperfections of our supposedly inhumanely beautiful film stars (especially the stars themselves). This is why many cinematographers prefer the 'slightly soft' look of (British made) Cooke S4 lenses over the 'super-sharp' look of (German) Zeiss Master Primes.
To be perfectly honest, the numbers game of increasing resolution is a complete waste of time at this point. 4K is more than sufficient as it is the effective limit of our ability to resolve detail.
Tech companies would be much better off investing in increasing the contrast characteristics of their systems since the human eye is capable of resolving a much greater range of luminance levels (from shadow to sunlight) than any camera can capture or display system can reproduce.
So, currently, the Arri Alexa camera has the widest dynamic range available of about 14 photographic stops (hence it's popularity with the worlds top cinematographers) - or a contrast ratio of 16,000:1, but this is still less than the 20,000:1 maximum contrast ratio of the best sets - which means that the camera technology already lags behind the display system's ability to display the images produced - and quite some way off the 20 stops (2,000,000:1 contrast ratio) of range the human eye is able to perceive.
It's this inability to capture that full luminance range of a natural scene that most obviously prevents cinema from recreating 'real life' - and where the skill of the cinematographer comes in: altering the image such that it looks like it has this full range (when it really doesn't).
So, really, if NHK actually want to invest their money in technology that viewers will actually appreciate (and therefore have a reason to invest in) then they should be looking at improving the dynamic range of their system, rather than its resolution.
But then, increasing resolution is easy (technically speaking) which is why they're doing it. While increasing dynamic range is fiendishly hard...
>>So far, only a handful of feature films have been shot with cameras capable of 4K
that is for films shot digitally. Thousands of films shot on analog film have an effective resolution greater than 1080P (many of these classic films have been scanned and remastered at 4K already).
Kind of. Technically the 35mm film negative has an effective resolution of 4K. When you go through the process of producing the Inter-pos, inter-neg, neg cutting, inter-pos, master neg process the effective resolution drops to below 2K: which is why the first 'digital cinema' cameras were 2K cameras.
Consequently, given that many/most older films will only be available as master negs for scanning, most older films are only available at a maximum 2k resolution. But then, who cares? They still look great!
I believe classic (3-strip) technicolor gives you some extra resolution. Then there's the few movies shot in 70mm (assuming proper negatives are still extant) or IMAX.
Oh, and of course all the pure CG movies (Pixar) are "easy" to re-render at a higher resolution.
Lawrence of Arabia was shot on 70mm, which is basically 8K resolution. Can't wait to see that on 4K (or maybe evenually 8K)!!!
Yes, I expect the Technicolor 'matrix' has a bit more resolution. As indeed does 70mm and IMAX. But those formats were all super-high end and therefore in effect quite 'niche'.
But, at the end of the day - it's what's in front of the camera that counts. The acquisition and distribution formats are largely irrelevant.
There are 2 things that can make use of UHD already.
1. Gaming.
With a fast PC, you can already play games at that resolution. (computer monitors commonly have more pixels than Full HD TV sets).
2. As mentioned, larger and larger TV sets. - i.e. Upscaling has come a long way and it can generate a far smoother picture on really large 4K screens than on a similarly sized Full HD set, even with the same source material.
The increase in size could also see them replacing regular sets for advertising / and for the departures board in airports, etc.
If they had made the UHD TVs match the cinema resolution, the black bars would be on the left and right for upscaled HDTV signals, not top and bottom.
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Mental Illnesses
NAMI Minnesota Creates Summer Camp for Teens
By Stephanie Dinkmeyer, NAMI Communications Intern
For one week this summer, NAMI Minnesota will be spinning the idea of a traditional summer camp on its head. Progression Summer Camp, the brain child of Andrea Lee, NAMI Minnesotas Transitions Project Director, is a new opportunity for local and out-of-state teens to learn about maintaining good mental health.
Held between August 12 and 16, the camp was grown out of a six-week class for teens living with mental illness, called Progression. NAMI Minnesota has been offering this course since 2011. Wanting to create a summer program for teens but concerned about vacation schedules, Lee created Progression Summer Camp. The classes provide the teens with tools to recognize and cope with anxiety, depression, stress, and other symptoms of their mental illness. It also gives them information about how to help their friends and loved ones understand what they are experiencing.
Lee notes, however, that the most powerful part of the class is the teachers. The two-hour classes are taught by a group of young adults living with mental illness, whom Lee calls near peers. These amazing and talented young adults have been through many of the same challenges as the students, and are now doing extremely well, she said. They can provide advice, share stories, and help the students understand that things get better and they each have a terrific future ahead of them.
The class also provides the teens with information about different treatment options. Lee intends the classes to be a safe place to discuss good and bad experiences and share tips on what has helped. Treatment options addressed range from traditional (therapy, medication, and hospitalization) to holistic (yoga, acupuncture, and meditation).
According to Lee, the response to Progression Summer Camp has been very positive so far. The program is being promoted on NAMI Minnesotas website, youth website, Facebook, Twitter, and in local newspapers. Most of the attendees, however, are being referred by their case managers and schools or discover it from a NAMI email. Lee expects 12 to 15 participants, most local to the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, though one participant will be coming from Wisconsin.
Lee has great hope for the program. She wants the teens to learn coping skills and effective communication skills so they can communicate how they are feeling with their families and other important people in their lives. When asked what she hoped for the teens lives after the completion of the program, Lee said, While the class offers terrific, very important education, my biggest hope is that the teens can walk away from the class feeling hopeful. I really want them to see that happiness is possible, they are not alone, and their future possibilities are limitless.