Why more Megapixels aren’t always better

A good read about digital camera’s.

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Some parts of the site may start to look “broken” or not correct. This is not in anyway an error. It’s very difficult to convert over to the next version update without things being integrated into the version now. I rather not shut the site down completely so things may look a bit weird the next couple of weeks. Everything should work correctly though.

In particular at the current moment, the tutorials page has some new images added to the page. They are new images saying “Adobe Photoshop Tutorials” and what not. These are some images I will be using in the next version update. Take it as a teaser or whatever. This is the only page that I currently know of that is a bit odd at the moment. Thanks for understanding.

*EDIT*

An excellent project by a graduate student over at Art Center College of Design looks at how the credit crisis began and continues in the United States.

Click here for the website

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Liang Ge Photography has been revamped in the past couple of days. I’ve pretty much taken out the old, rugged, unappealing photos from my photoblog and re-installed Pixelpost to backtrack all the decent ones. Given that most of my time has been devoted to studying, my photoblog has not been updated recently. I’ve given the “1 photo every 3 days” approach, and seems like it might extend to 4 or 5 days. It’s just been that hectic for me but I’m trying my best here to post as much as I can. Below are some portraits I shot a couple of weeks ago.

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From NIN.com

Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane’s Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term “alternative” rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really fucking FUN to play and attend – truly the best times I’ve had. The shows were epic. So epic, they propelled NIN to the “next level” (whatever that means), but caused Jane’s to implode. The band broke up at the end of that tour.

Fast forward to the present. Corporate rock STILL sucks. A friend tells me they saw the original Jane’s lineup play a tiny show in LA that was unbelievable. I break out my Jane’s records and am amazed by how vital they sound. These guys were the real deal and in this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.
Emails were sent, phone calls were made, dinner was arranged, ideas were discussed and the next thing I know we’re in the studio experimenting. We laugh, we get to know each other, we cry, we yell, we almost quit, we record LOTS of guitar solos, we discuss, we actually begin to all communicate, we yell some more, we become FRIENDS, we laugh again and we do some great things. I get to see first hand why they broke up all those years ago but I also get the chance to see four distinct personalities that become an INCREDIBLE band when they’re in the same room.

In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I’ve been thinking for some time now it’s time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year’s “Lights in the Sky” tour was something I’m quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year – much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane’s to see if they’d want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.
Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.

Trent

What?!?!?!?! I hate when he goes subliminal on his messages. I don’t even know what the hell this means. I really hope that his “disappear for a while” is his message telling me that his new record won’t come out for another 5 years or something. I can deal with that. I’ve dealt with it before. But to think that NIN won’t go on during my life is just horrible. NIN has influenced me so much to the point that I believe a lot of the creative things I have done in the past won’t have surfaced without the existence of his music. Let’s think for a moment. Let’s back track. Let’s list the things that has been influenced in a core level with NIN:

Leaving hope movie: Wouldn’t have happened if this sound didn’t come out.
Deliverance 1 + 2: Wouldn’t have happened.
Alice: Nope
Infinite Synthesis //: Dawn: Won’t have surfaced
Execution 1 and 3: Wouldn’t have been ‘executed’.
etc.. etc..

To think that there won’t be any NIN music for me to do personal projects upon scares me. Like REALLY scares me. How will this change my creative charge? I listen to NIN all the time during my core production time of some of my personal work and I just don’t know what new thing will influence me. Ohhh… I am going to sleep. I’m a bit in disbelief.

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The blog will get an extensive amount of face lift soon. And when I mean face lift, I mean it is going to be an extensive overhaul. Here are some of the key features coming to this site soon:

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