Last Friday, we wrapped two films on the same day. It’s been a heck of a ride, working on The Road and Happy Tears, and while I’m glad to be finished, I’m proud of my work and I’m going to miss both of them. I also can’t wait to put together some breakdowns for them.
Check it out, the new Dive web site went live: http://the-dive.net/.
I hacked up this script because I was frustrated with rendering in the Nuke UI, tired of typing out command-line render commands, and our renderfarm wasn’t alive yet. I’m posting it because I bet there’s other people in the same situation and I hope it can ease your pain.
This script launches a number of command-line render instances in the background and captures their output in log files which are saved to the same directory as the Nuke script. You are now free to keep working in the UI and have your renders happen in the background. You are also free to to launch 8 command-line Nuke renderers and squeeze every last cycle out of your fancy 8-core überbox.
It works in Nuke5.0v2 on OS X. Maybe it works on other versions and platforms. If so, I’d love to hear about it.
Last night I took an hour to watch Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye. It’s an interesting documentary about an amazing man.
The most amazing moment was a 15-second shot where Mr. Cartier-Bresson is beginning to sign a new edition of prints. He uncaps his pen, then decides where to make the signature. His hand shifts a little to the right, a little more to the right, now left. We can see that he’s as concerned about the composition of the signature as he is with the composition of his photographs. He shifts again, and then pauses. He starts to write in a confident, unhurried hand and we watch as that signature takes shape. I got goosebumps.
Such a simple thing, a masterwork.
Current murder and nonnegligent manslaughter stats for Philadelphia since 1 January 2008 is available here.
Pennsylvania has an interesting system for State Police stats reporting.
http://www.zazaziza.com/fornogoodreason/category/somethingscopes/
Wow.
First, Polaroid discontinues instant film and now this. It’s been an interesting month.