Jacken’s Blog

Best music right now? 50 Foot Wave. This voice is too much. Best songs on the album, Clara Bow and Long Painting.

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I just came home from a dinner at Kalix. He showed me a first cut of the music video me and my wife acted in. And it looked good. Very dark and gritty. Everything was lit by fluorescent light, so you get this nice green cast. It was much darker than I imagined. [...]

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More and more you get to read about the poor software industry that looses billions to software pirates. And how the police try to crack down on big rings of software pirates that distributes software all over the world. I’ve been in the computer business since the early 80’s. I’ve met some big software pirates. [...]

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Mats sent me a mail with this link. They must be kidding? One of the best comedy shows ever, and they have to remake it? I thought that they spoke English in America? Why not show the original instead? I tried to watch the trailers for this production, but it requires a plug-in that is [...]

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So yesterday I went to the shooting of the video for the band Search & Destroy. Ylva and I arrived there at one o’clock in the afternoon and thought that we would have to do our scenes in an hour or two. But we learned the first lesson in film making, there’s a lot of [...]

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A lot of people don’t like that you see the content of pictures and pdfs in Mac OS X Mail.app. I’m certain that there used to be an option to select that in one of the menus, but not any more. Today I finally found how to do it at macintouch. Just hold down ctrl [...]

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Problems with your boss? Don’t get mad, get even.

Source: ScreenHead

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On sunday I’m about to be in a rock video. In preparation for that I thought that I might watch some videos for inspiration. One wonders if this is the style they are looking for? Or maybe this? Only time will tell…

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The use of DRM by the music industry to control how you can use the music you buy is already a fact of life. And it’s Apple who showing us how things are going to be in the future. You buy a product, but the usability of it changes afterwards depending on the paranoia of [...]

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Today I went to a meeting for the photo shoot I’m doing next week for a book cover. It was productive. I have an idea of lighting, but I need to construct a new reflector so I’ll go and try to find thin plastic tomorrow. It’s going to be a straight forward high key portrait, [...]

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