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Tonight over at Guillotine Post, a couple of Adobe reps went over some of the new features in Adobe After Effects CS3. I have to say, they did a lot better job of explaining the product in a way that I care about than a certain rival company that I’m not allowed to talk about. Looking at some of the new features gave me chills. I like production, though I’m more into interactive. I just want to do it all.

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The other night, I was talking about how I wished there was a way to pre-edit photos (changing orientation, mainly) before uploading to Flickr. Well, that very night, I found jUploadr. It’s got a great batch edit feature so you can edit multiple pics before you upload them. I would recommend giving it a spin.

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Oh yeah: Moustache Away.

Interesting article about how Paris residents are using Second Life to pressure the city to speed up redevelop a central city area. I know a lot of people are confused by Second Life, so I thought I’d share.

I heard about Second Life from a podcast almost a year ago. I decided to check it out. Essentially, Second Life is a 3-D environment where your digital character can live, play, work, whatever you want to do. It’s an entire community in and of itself.

However, I haven’t been able to get on Second Life a lot due to general lack of time, and the inability of my computer to handle the processing and networking needs of the Second Life app. Still though, it’s an interesting way to meet people from all over the world.

There’s going to be a meeting at PC on Monday night to discuss Second Life, and I highly advise all of you to come:

Monday evening Joe Corr will be giving a seminar at Portfolio Center around the topic of Second Life. Joe has a unique perspective as he is someone who sees the opertunity for the platform but also understands it’s limitations. The session is free, open to the public and should be allot of fun.

Overview of Second Life By Joe Corr, Sr Interactive Developer IQ Interactive

“Second Life is not a game, it’s not the 3D web, and it’s not yet ready for prime time. It is laggy, visually and technologically unsophisticated, and full of questionable and controversial content. So why should you bother with it? Because it has emerged as the first realized virtual arena that tackles the legal, financial and ethical questions that will eventually cripple it’s competitors. You should know the history of SL, the creative opportunities it affords, the current legal and business possibilities, and it’s potential future.

Joe came to Georgia for the Interactive Design & Game Development MFA program at SCAD in Savannah in 2005 and currently calls Athens home. While in the low country, he worked with Evoca.com on their flash app, SCAD as their Flash/Backend developer, and presently at IQ Interactive as an Interactive Developer. His Second Life character (Freedom Polonsky) was born in 2005, and he’s very interested in the future of all 3D networked spaces as they relate to media, entertainment, information and education.”

Here’s me in Second Life:

I’m broke, but atleast I can fly.

This is a pretty messed up situation. I’m against censorship, but this is one of those things that could get hairy, like Van Gogh’s murder. I don’t think anyone is really ready for the freedom that the internet carries with it, be it self-centered dictators, or filthy-rich record executives.

Garson Yu is a schoolmate of Kyle Cooper from Yale. His firm is yU+co. They’ve got some pretty cool motion stuff, and a freaky looking website.

Other links I picked up in L.A.:

C4D Cafe is a great resource for people who are into Cinema 4-d. I’ll be tackling that when I get some time.

tutorialized is a massive collection of tutorials for all sorts of programs, even PowerPoint. Wait, what?

Ask a Ninja is a podcast that I was made aware of sometime last year. It was pretty funny at first, then it went through a sort of SNLike suckie phase. Let’s face it: there’s only so much that ninjas can do.

But this last episode, which I didn’t watch for probably a week, was pretty funny, but it wasn’t talking about ninjas at all. It was a special episode about SXSW. It’s kind of funny to hear a ninja talk about nerdy things that we all remember. It makes it that much nerdier.

The episode: