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Notes about festivals and Withoutabox
I’ll try to write here some notes about festivals and Withoutabox – having used it many times – as suggested by John Harrigan after a twitter conversation. Withoutabox is the leader of its market so, as usual, its service/software is not at the state of the art and the prices are not so low but [...]
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Milano calibro 9
I watched this film as requested by a friend of mine so let me add a few notes here while you can read real reviews on IMDB: the lap dance scene performed by Barbara Bouchet is still sexy forty years later: in 1972 it should have blasted the audience… there are even two very interesting [...]
When a master writes about sorrow
With a tweet, Letters of Note informed us about a letter by Henry James to his depressed friend Grace Norton, dating back to July 1883. IMHO, the core of his lucid and powerful prose is: consciousness is an illimitable power
Adding a text with ImageMagick
This one-liner might be helpful if you need to add a text over an image on its right-bottom corner, according to its EXIF data: convert your_original_file.jpg -auto-orient -fill white -undercolor black -pointsize 100 -gravity SouthEast -annotate +0+5 ” your_text ” your_modified_file.jpg Credits to Maurizio.
2nd
From the abyss, you seem like the brightest glow up there.
Shortening 17 years
Taking the idea from this post, I list here an unordered selection of nontrivial facts regarding the last 17 years of my life (1994-2011). Screwed up at least four relationships; got a MsC degree; established three companies; visited four continents (yes, me too); :) became father; wrote and directed a short film …and I still [...]
Déjà Vu
The website of Déjà Vu, my first short film, is online! Here, I don’t have anything to add to that. :)
Simple hints for novice directors
I’m not a real film director but life is strange and I have written, produced and directed a very short film – we’re still editing it, I’ll keep you informed about its next step. :) There is a lot of good advice on the Internet: let me add here a few naive hints. :) I [...]
36 hours
four flights; an interview for a TV channel; a speech during a street protest; another interview, in English, for a Swiss German newspaper; one more video interview for a web channel; a talk in a conference; a bunch of new friends and an incredible ghost town, among other things. :)
