Here’s an interesting article from CNN on the end of the “Kodakchrome” era. I was under the impression that Kodak had stopped making film some years ago, so it makes me wonder, since they are being secretive about when they run the film, whether Kodak has stopped production and the film that photographers are still buying is the last of a big stock pile from the final run. This article says nothing about people who develop film in their own labs. Anyhow, time passes and technology changes. It’s interesting to hear people talk romantically about film photography. The thing that piqued my interest, though, was the color stability aspect of the film for archiving and for documenting disease and research. Recreating that ability sounds like an opportunity for high-end digital imaging — both image capture and image processing. I imagine things get goofy recreating color and displaying the proper contrast from output device to output device — this includes both electronic displays and printing. And then there’s recreating the lighting … sigh …
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Cookbook Recommendation
It’s day two of cooking for me and feel like I’m back to my old self. I made myself a wonderful bowl of homemade ramen. Check it out.
(The trick is the sweet sake and dab of peanut oil to keep the pot from boiling over — yummy). Continue reading Cookbook Recommendation
Inspirational Interview with a Product Designer on NPR
Today while listening to NPR, I heard a wonderful interview with an Italian industrial designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro (I think that’s the name — although that name seems male and the interviewee was female — hmm???). I’m trying to find a podcast or a transcript of the interview. When I do, I will post a link to it within this entry. Anyhow, what was great about this interview was how much the designer enjoyed her job and how much thought she put into everything she did. She really thought about potential customers, how they act, and how what she designed would fit into their life. The Interviewer asked her about how she would design an alarm clock and she she said it wouldn’t go “beep, beep.” Instead she said she would do research to find out how people more naturally wake up and if she couldn’t come up with anything better than the beeping alarm clock, then she wouldn’t design anything at all because there’s enough stuff in this world. Hahaha!!! Thinking about the alarm clock myself, my husband leaves the blinds open at night so the sun will wake us up. I guess that’s the natural way since the body synchronizes with day and night — I think there are some chemical responses to the sun that happen that keep you awake. So I guess, a starting point would be to think of how to use light that is like daylight to naturally wake people up. Maybe it’s as simple as tilting the blinds or lifting the window shades so the sun can come in at an appointed time 🙂 If it’s still night, then maybe a light that is like the sun comes on away from the bed so you have to get up to deal with it.
Here’s a link to the press release for her company.
Rambling Continued
I have moved my Rambling blog to the outside world. About half the content was removed to get rid of any references to my previous job and the remaining content sanitized to protect my identity. Anyhow, I will be rambling here, so please enjoy.
Flash Assignment #4: Interactive Flash Website
Okay, here it is. Due to the constraints of the assignment, I had to add sound and animation. Without those requirements, I wouldn’t have added the bee’s movement or the butterfly noise — I think that stuff is a little much. Some of the pages are blank because they aren’t planned yet. I’m also impressed that with all the stuff going on, the file is only 70KB! Enjoy!
More Rambling 