Timing For Animation by Harold Whitaker & John Halas (Focal Press)

Timing For Animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas (Focal Press) reviewed by MC Rebbe The Rapping Rabbi in The Technofile. Jewish comedian, Jewish comedy, Jewish rap, Jewish rapper, Jewish Music.Timing has never been my strong point. It’s a Jewish thing…I’m generally late for everything…unless there’s food involved…in which case I’m early… But, like my music and my comedy, when it comes to animation, my timing is just like me…perfect! Continue reading “Timing For Animation by Harold Whitaker & John Halas (Focal Press)”

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Sony ACID Pro V5.0

Sony Acid Pro 5.0 reviewed in The Technofile by MC Rebbe: DJ, VJ, rapper, producer, remixer, journalist,  Jewish comedian,It’s not often that a manufacturer gets to claim responsibility for an entire genre of music and when they can, it’s usually by accident. The classic example is Roland, without whose 303 and 909 there would have been no Acid House…or trance…

Of course that was back in the day, since when, dance music has moved on and massive as it is right now, there’s something even more massive and that’s bootlegs aka mash ups aka bastard pop. In fact, Mash ups are such big news lately, that if you haven’t heard about them, chances are you’ve spent the last couple of years with your head buried in the sand…on Mars. Continue reading “Sony ACID Pro V5.0”

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Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner (Focal Press)

Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner reviewd in The Technofile by MC Rebbe: Journalist, rapper, DJ, VJ, producer, remixer, Jewish comedian, Jewish comedy, Jewish musicIn my recent review of ‘Spirits of Salts’ I talked (or should that be rapped?) about the revival of interest in historical aka alternative processes both as a way to create ‘orginal’ / ‘different’ photographic images and as a reaction against digital. Well that’s one way to do it, another is pinhole photography.

In a nutshell…as some pinhole cameras probably are…or if they aren’t, they certainly will be now…a pinhole camera is nothing more than a light tight container, with a piece, sheet or roll of film…or a sheet of photographic paper…or a CCD…inside and, instead of a lens, a hole (often made with a pin…hence the name) on the outside, that is covered by a piece of light tight material. When this material (the shutter) is removed, light passes through the pinhole, onto the film/paper/sensor and given a long enough exposure, creates an image (a long enough exposure being anything from several seconds to several hours). While there’s an optimal sized hole for every camera, as long as the hole is roughly correct, you’ll end up with a sharp or soft focussed image, with infinite depth of field. Continue reading “Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner (Focal Press)”

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Just One More Thing…

MC Rebbe The Rapping Rabbi. From his monthly editorial in The Technofile: Rapper, DJ, VJ, Producer, remixer, Jewish comedian, Jewish comedy, Jewish rap, Jewish music Like I said last month, January promised to be a big one with CES, Macworld & NAMM all taking place within days (and several hundred miles) of each other. But in the event…or before the events, January came early with an announcement by Yamaha that they had bought Steinberg, the makers of Cubase & Nuendo. Until a couple of years ago, Steinberg were an independent company, but shortly after Apple acquired Emagic (the makers of Emagic Logic…aka Apple Logic) video software company Pinnacle snapped them up…and despite lots of talk, did very little with the company. Steinberg & Yamaha are both audio technology innovators so what happens next should be something worth watching…though let’s not forget what happened the last time the Germans and the Japanese formed a partnership… Continue reading “Just One More Thing…”

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