tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/links Duncan Davidson Links A collection of links curated by Duncan Davidson Copyright 2011 James Duncan Davidson James Duncan Davidson 2012-04-29T08:00:00-07:00 Finding Portland tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/finding_portland 2012-04-29T08:00:00-07:00 2012-04-29T18:04:35+03:00 Uncage the Soul Productions took 51 days and shot, produced, and edited together this time-lapse portrait of Portland for TEDxPortland. Reportedly, the video was greeted with a standing ovation when it was screened at the event.

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]]> Elgato’s new external Thunderbolt SSD drive tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/elgato_tbolt 2012-04-29T07:45:00-07:00 2012-04-29T18:00:39+03:00 Finally, a bus powered Thunderbolt external drive that’s ultra fast and quiet. It’s a bit on the spendy side, but it’s well reviewed by Bare Feats. Give it a bit of time for pricing to improve and more capacity and I’m certainly interested. I’m also excited to see that Elgato is releasing a shorter .5 meter Thunderbolt cable. This Thunderbolt thing is starting to come together.

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]]> A chat with Hans Rosling at TEDxSummit tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/hans_summit 2012-04-28T04:30:00-07:00 2012-04-28T14:34:10+03:00 On Tuesday afternoon at TEDxSummit, Hans Rosling sat down to talk with attendees. The What Took You So Long peeps were there, captured it on video, and cut together this awesome video.

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]]> Cesar Harada’s Protei written up in Wired tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/protei_wired 2012-04-27T13:00:00-07:00 2012-04-27T23:02:41+03:00 Cesar Harada quit MIT to develop an open-source, shapeshifting, ocean drone that could potentially help clean up oil spills and remove plastic from the ocean.

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]]> Hans Rosling’s shortest TED Talk tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/shortest_ted_talk 2012-04-25T01:30:00-07:00 2012-04-25T11:31:57+03:00 Hans Rosling was at TEDxSummit and gave this short little talk during an interview out on the promenade. Spontaenous moments like this filled last week. I’m so happy that somebody recorded this.

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]]> How to make a human arabesque tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/making_human_arabesque 2012-04-22T10:30:00-04:00 2012-04-22T10:36:30+03:00 The amazing intro film for TEDxSummit has an even more amazing backstory. Check out this behind-the-scenes view into how it was made.

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]]> What is TEDx in one minute? tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/tedx_minute 2012-04-20T10:50:00-04:00 2012-04-20T10:55:56+03:00 TEDxSummit attendees and TED’s Chris Anderson on what x means to them in this short one minute film by my friends at What Took You So Long?.

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]]> Watch the TEDxSummit introduction video tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/tedxsummit_intro 2012-04-16T23:45:00-04:00 2012-04-16T23:49:34+03:00 The introduction video for TEDxSummit 2012 is just simply gorgeous. Made in one shot with a huge purpose-built kaleidoscope camera assembly and set, it’s simply entrancing. I can’t wait to link to the behind the scenes video of how it was made.

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]]> Have you been ripped off by a Karwa taxi lately? tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/dohanews_karwa 2012-04-09T12:45:00-04:00 2012-04-09T12:44:55+03:00 Doha news reports on complaints about Karwa, the local Doha taxi operator. As part of the article, they include a quote from my blog post about my taxi experiences here.

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]]> AT&T will allow out-of-contract customers to unlock their iPhone tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/att_unlock 2012-04-06T23:45:00-04:00 2012-04-06T23:56:17+03:00 It’d be even better if AT&T simply trusted their long-term customers in good standing and unlocked the phones for those that do serious international travel, but it’s better than nothing. I may just be taking advantage of this.

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]]> Researchers find mechanism for bee collapse and recreate it tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/bee 2012-04-06T09:30:00-04:00 2012-04-06T09:39:41+03:00 The good news is it looks like scientists have cracked the puzzle of what is causing problems for the bees and it’s something very straightforward and actionable. What remains unknown is whether anything will be done about it, and how quickly.

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]]> TEDxSummit 2012 promo video: Elevator tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/tedxsummit_vid 2012-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2012-04-04T08:16:12+03:00 The Doha Film Institute and TEDxSummit are running several local campaigns to advertise the opening night event based around the conference theme: “Discover the power of x”. This is one that looks at what would happen if your elevator had more x.

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]]> Vissa d'arte on Celebrity Apprentice tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/vissa_darte 2012-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2012-04-02T14:02:33+03:00 Penn Jillette apparently caused a ruckus on Celebrity Apprentice when he asked the Blue Man Group to donate to charity in their own special way. I didn’t see the episode, but it sounds magnificent and Penn’s writing about it is spectacular.

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]]> Little by little, Apple products just get better tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/apple_improvements 2012-04-01T10:50:00-04:00 2012-04-01T10:51:46+03:00 Glenn Fleishman writes for TidBITS about one of the real secrets behind Apple’s success: steady incremental improvements that add up to real value for the customer.

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]]> A taste of TED2012 tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/ted2012_taste 2012-04-01T10:45:00-04:00 2012-04-01T10:48:48+03:00 Get a sense of what it was like to be at TED2012 in this four-minute video.

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]]> Bob Simon’s 60 Minutes segment on Qatar tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/04/60mins_qatar 2012-04-01T08:40:00-04:00 2012-04-01T08:43:17+03:00 The Arab Spring and Qatar’s influence on it via both their politics and their sponsorship of Al Jazeera is examined by 60 Minutes including an interview with the Emir.

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]]> Fuji X100 firmware v1.20 brings improvements tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/03/x100_firmware 2012-03-31T12:45:00-04:00 2012-03-31T12:51:28+03:00 Steve Huff reports that the latest Fuji X100 firmware brings improvements to autofocus as well as letting you assign the RAW button to some other functions. Both sound great, but alas I’m not going to be able to test that out for a while as I made an executive decision to only bring my Nikon gear to Doha with me so that I focus on shaking out the D800 as well as leaning on my trusty D3S bodies.

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]]> Debating hammers as if they were cameras online tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/03/hammers 2012-03-31T07:45:00-04:00 2012-03-31T07:45:18+03:00 Funny but true. (via @timbray)

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]]> Raw support for latest cameras in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/03/acr_camera_support 2012-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 2012-03-30T18:38:48+03:00 There’s quite a bit of version skew right now in the Lightroom/Camera Raw world that’s affecting early adopters of cameras like the Nikon D800 and Canon 5D Mark III. Lightroom 4.0 has support for the D800, Lightroom 4.1 brings support for the 5D Mark III, ACR 6.7 Release Candidate has support for both, but Photoshop CS6 with ACR 7 doesn’t have support for either.

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]]> David Wheeler about Condé Nast magazines on the iPad tag:duncandavidson.com,2011:/blog/2012/03/theory_condenast 2012-03-29T09:13:00-04:00 2012-03-29T09:14:27+03:00 David’s a huge fan of the New Yorker and was thrilled when it became available on the iPad. He wasn’t so thrilled by the Adobe publishing toolset that bakes images out of each page, and of course now that we’re in a Retina-display world, that’s even more of a concern.

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