Backlog. Sunday goodies.

When I was a kid, our media players weighed 145 lbs.

Adobe Media Player, due next month, apparently will be bundled with other Adobe products/plug-ins.

We’ve confirmed that Adobe Media Player, which is almost certainly coming out in April, will be included as an update to existing Adobe software Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Flash and Shockwave. In some cases, users will have to opt in to adding the AMP download, and in others they will have to opt out, according to Ashley Still, AMP product manager.

Film+Video

Stream is an awesome new site/blog for film and video makers.

Cool video for Holy Fuck’s Milkshake:

Spout has an interview with Beautiful Losers director Aaron Rose.

Trailer for the Patti Smith documentary, Dream of Life.

Found. The giant cameras of photographer John Chiara.

Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience.  Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures.

KQED Spark segment on Chiara. (Real Video warning)

Mac goodies. Toast 9 hits the “shelves” with expanded Blu-ray (video) support (curious about that “new audio fingerprint technology fills the blanks for you!” stuff. Seems like that would make it easy to prohibit you from copying/burning as well. Ripe for conspiracies. Jotstick is an interesting-looking screen recording/demo recording app. VideoSpec is a utility for profiling and accessing info about video files (Codec, format, tracks/streams, bitrate, etc…).