Comments for Hatchomatic

Comment on Musical notation by jance hatch

jance hatch — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:47:50 +0000

Aww…. sorry it is so hard. stick to it, it is just another language, it will one day all be there for you. Just like one day you could read and now you cannot imagine not being able to.

Comment on Video ethics by Karsten Fischer

Karsten Fischer — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:31:14 +0000

I beg to differ. Or, better put, to differentiate a bit., and it’s a very, very fine distinction. Generally speaking: if you do commercials, you are lying every single frame (lying here implies also exaggeration, over-simplification and so on) and that’s it. But you, your client and your audience know that, but all pretend not to; like a dancing ritual from a 17th century king’s court.
And, as a matter of fact, we all do tell some lies in what we show – commercials are just a extreme case.
Telling the story truthfully would be my meterstick. I think we all know that a wildlife photographer who would let himself get filmed while doing his documentary wouldn’t have shot a second of footage worth using. Which I do know, you do know, the audience does know, especially nowadays with everybody running around shooting their holiday video. Pretending your audience is dumb as horse manure is as bad as outright lying.
So, in this example, the storytellers intention is obvious: shooting a wildlife documentary is not an office jo b and it is a single persons job – which implies that almost all takes from Gordon are what they are: specifically shots which were filmed for the purpose of seeing Gordon in action doing his work. Insofar there is no moral dilemma and I do think you never expected a second unit shooting a filmmaking in the wildlife, did you?
However, part of telling your story truthfully is indeed to do that without that blatant an edit. You simply don’t misstep while dancing a waltzer with your partner, that’s basic handicraft. Which is what I don’t like: bad handicraft, which always result in bad storytelling.

Comment on Siri, Kinect and other input methods by jance hatch

jance hatch — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:44:59 +0000

The 30 Rock spoof great. Had not seen it. ha ha

Comment on Can’t go home again by Tony Yuse

Tony Yuse — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:12:18 +0000

Thanks for the taking me back to a simpler time for a while. Delaware holds the same vignettes in my memory.

Comment on 1st Amendment applies to all by Tony Yuse

Tony Yuse — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:59:44 +0000

Josh, the erosion of First Amendment rights over the last several years has been horrible. I think that most of the nation has been asleep at the wheel. Congress just keeps passing legislation that protects us from “terror” threats but will clearly now target protest groups and American citizens that show too much dissent.

Comment on Wonderbread… a plumber’s best friend by jance hatch

jance hatch — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:27:29 +0000

Ha ha, you are my hero.

Comment on Insert iPad here by Signing PDFs in OS X Lion | Hatchomatic

Signing PDFs in OS X Lion | Hatchomatic — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:52:36 +0000

[...] Recently I wrote about signing PDFs on an iPad. It’s also gotten easier to do on the Mac, at least if you have OS X 10.7, better known as Lion. [...]

Comment on American Cornered by AE

AE — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:50:19 +0000

“So I added one more thing: What we are doing, having this debate, is the core of American values. We can say what we think, debate, and argue and that’s all ok.”

– Josh, that was your most brilliant response of all.

Comment on Tajikistan Taxis by Deb

Deb — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:00:09 +0000

Glad you’re there. Doesn’t sound like the book is helping much!! Keep blogging!

[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’0 which is not a hashcash value.

Comment on 2010 in Pig Latin by 2010 SOTU in Jive | Hatchomatic

2010 SOTU in Jive | Hatchomatic — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:23:15 +0000

[...] Pig Latin [...]