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World Cup 2010
Jun 26th
Well, with a total event goal count of 145, the World Cup hosted by South Africa – the first African nation to host a world cup, comes to an end -with Spain emerging as winners!!
Soccer fans world wide look forward to the 2014 next World Cup in Brazil.
What a World Cup. Brazil/France/Italy/Nigeria/England/Argentina etc. are out! I cant really predict who might win the cup.
Quater finalists: Germany, Spain, Uraguay and Netherlands.
The West African nation – Ghana defeats USA 2:1, as they advance further in this years World Cup. I’m impressed by the effort and how far this Ghanian team displayed this year. Disappointing lose for Africa as a whole, but penaly shots can go either way.
Spain defeats Portugal 1:0
Brazil defeats Chile 3:0
FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa from christopher guinness on Vimeo.
Video compositing
Jun 19th
Just created my first good composite video using Adobe Premiere CS4, Adobe Media Encoder CS4 – for h.264 720×480 final media output, a video clip from ArtBeats, and a sound clip from The Nutcracker. Reference book l used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 – Classroom in a book.
Heres a picture of my workspace setup during the final stage.
Below is a web 360×284 Flash 2Mb version of the original NTSC DV 10Mb opening title video. This was also encoded using Adobe Media Encoder.
Start_Video from Steve M on Vimeo.
End video
EndVideo1 from Steve M on Vimeo.
End Video 2 – Black Backgroud
EndTitleBlack from Steve M on Vimeo.
Intense movie list..
May 25th
Friends usually ask me for my recommended movie(s) list. Below is my list of very intense emotional, strong message kind of movies, listed in the order of which movie moved me the most. I’ll update this list as l remember more. – 
Each of the movies below, l can relate to something in the flick and sometimes l hum the soundtracks daily or recall words/phrases used in the movies. Most of the movies below l either own and/or own also the soundtrack album. If l could wave a wand, l’ll wish these all were available in HD – high definition – but then again, they wouldn’t be classics in HD would they?
- The Champ – 1976
- Hotel Rwanda 2004
- Amistad 1997
- Crash 2004
- Million Dollar Baby 2004
- Rocky IV – 1985
- AI – Artificial Intelligence – 2001
- Tears of the Son – 2003
- Miracle at St. Anna
- John Q
- Anthwone Fisher
- Seven Pounds – 2008
- Jason’s Lyric
- White Man’s Burden – 1995
Sometimes you can make out a person by what movies/TV shows they watch!
Prince of Persia…
May 19th
Determined to play my old DOS classic game of Prince of Persia. I spent countless hours on the IBM x86 PC and/or British made Amstrad PC 1512 playing this game!
This game is available as an extra feature if you complete the Xbox version of Prince of Persia ‘sands of time”. Even though l own this game on the Xbox with all its 3D, top CG graphics – l miss the old classic.
Downloaded the DOS game – as an amazing little 339kb zip file from here.
Installed DOSBox from here
Below is a screen shot of DOSBox running on my laptop – Window 7 64bit
Below is Prince of Persia running on my Win7 PC !!
Next game to look for – the original DOS Lemmings!!!
By the way, the movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time comes out in USA on May 28th.
Fast Cars
Apr 26th
Nexus One – Android 2 – Eclipse
Jan 15th
Decided to revisit Android development due to the release of Google’s Nexus One Phone
Here are my steps so far:
- Download and install Eclipse Development environment from here [eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-win32.zip ]
- Simply extract this to say, c:\eclipse
- Run eclipse
- Install Google’s ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here
- Download and install the SDK from here – in this case – up to Android 2.1, API 7, revision 1
- Extract above and run SDK Setup.exe – l had to to to the settings on the left hand side and check “force http…”, then choose accept all.
Ham Radio…
Nov 23rd
Took and passed my General ham license examination today at Round Table Pizza, Barbur blvd, Portland, OR and l passed on 1st attempt!
Got my CSCE – Certificate of successful completion of examination – valid for l year until the arrl webpage system has mu updated class information posted. Same ARRL call sign – ke7geb.
Cant wait to be able to get a HF radio,powerful outside antenna etc. with which to attempt reaching people as far away as africa, and beyond.
This is k-e-7-g-e-b signing out [CN]….