General Rants
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What is the future of photography – Still Photos or Video?
Photography has already gone through one mega trend already in the last 10 years. – the rapid adoption of digital SLRs, digicams, digital camcorders, and the explosive evolution of photo-editing software. The speed of the digital revolution left many experience amateurs and pros struggling to catch up. Is the shift to video another photography tsunami? [...]
YouTube Banned in Thailand
The Thai government has banned access to Google’s YouTube website after it broadcast material critical of the country’s King… reports the BBC. Thailand is everyone’s favorite destination for shopping, nightlife, beaches, etc. Easy-going Thais tolerate a wide-range of behavior from visitors arriving from all parts of the globe. There are exceptions, however, and the monarchy [...]
Resolution of the Human Eye in Megapixels
Deviantart.com has posted a very interesting article that calculates the megapixel rating, or amount of image data the average human eye can collect. It’s a lot – somewhere around 576 megapixels. Wow! The average human retina has five million cone receptors and also a hundred million rods that detect monochrome contrast, which plays an important [...]
Kim Eng Teochew Opera Closes Down
Once, they performed for thousands. Now, only a handful show up. … … … The Electric Paper Kim Eng (which means ‘Golden Eagle’ in Teochew) Teochew Opera, is one of Singapore’s most established troupes. A feast of sights and sounds, the Teochew Opera tells age-old stories and legends in dramatic form, with actors garishly made [...]
Singapore IT Show 2007 Wrap-up
The 2007 IT Show here in [tag]Singapore[/tag] is over and it broke all standing records. Both Saturday and Sunday saw roads and parking garages jammed in the Suntec City area. The crowds were so thick that at one point on Sunday that upward escalators in the convention centre were reversed to prevent more people from [...]
