Friday, October 31, 2003
UI upgrades!
Discreet Closes Multi-Million Dollar Deal with Universal Images
Leading Post-Production Company to Standardize Facility on Discreet for High Definition and Standard Definition Television Production
[Suggestion: Leading Post-Production Company Standardize Facility on Discreet Solutions to Address Growing Number of Higher Definition Television Productions]
Montreal, Quebec-October XX, 2003-Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSK), today announced that Universal Images, a leading post-production company based in Southfield, MI, has signed a multi-million dollar purchase to upgrade and grow its production capabilities and standardize its entire facility on Discreet's state-of-the art visual effects, editing and finishing solutions.
Universal Images' High-Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) production capabilities will be given a significant boost with the addition of six new smoke¨ HD and SD editing and finishing systems, and upgrades to its existing two smoke systems, inferno¨ and four flame¨ visual effects design systems. Universal Images added backdrafttm to implement leading edge high speed networking, background I/O and archiving, and file sharing in an uncompressed media environment. Universal Images also expanded productivity in visual effects design with the addition of burn¨, Discreet's new background rendering solution, along with combustion¨ and 3DS Max¨, thereby fully leveraging the outstanding and unique performance of the overall Discreet solution. Universal Images will also be upgrading all of their hardware platforms and storage and have purchased 13 Silicon Graphics¨ Tezro(tm) visual workstations to deliver unprecedented levels of performance at any format and resolution.
Universal Images was particularly impressed by the performance of the new Silicon Graphics Tezro visual workstation and the powerful new creative tools of smoke 6, unveiled at IBC. These include Discreet's next-generation Master Keyer and Total Resolution Freedom: new capabilities that enable media of any resolution, aspect ratio and frame rate to be edited together in a single timeline and mastered in any format. smoke 6 on the Tezro workstation ensures that clients like Universal Images have a future-proof solution for the increasingly growing number of Higher Definition assignments.
The purchase was concluded after an extensive review of the latest solutions from a range of manufacturers at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) trade show last month and resulted in the elimination of all non Discreet editing and effects solutions.
"We are extremely impressed with Discreet's vision and direction. Few manufacturers understand the needs of both the artist and the facility owner so completely, and only Discreet creates the innovative post-production solutions that give our artists unsurpassed creative outlets, while providing a powerful workflow that differentiates our business," said Chris Laport, President of Universal Images. "No other systems come close to Discreet in terms of the sheer performance, workflow, creative capabilities, and therefore productivity. For this reason we decided to upgrade to smoke from our Avid DS|HD systems and remove our Quantel Edit boxes from our facility-and become a business with a complete Discreet workflow."
"We are delighted that Universal Images is standardizing on Discreet systems," said Paul Lypaczewski, general manager of Discreet and executive vice-president of Autodesk, Inc. "Our innovative and cost-effective solutions will help them to benefit rapidly from the growing need for high-definition content. Once again, this contract confirms that Discreet is the clear standard for delivering creativity and productivity to post-production facilities around the world."
UI provides visual effects and post production for a wide array of advertising agencies, creative editorial houses, and production and communication companies. Through these clients, Universal Images does work for all of the U.S. automotive companies, as well as a variety of retail clients. The company stresses its creative talent and has attracted and retained top Graphics Artists and Editors. UI recently built and moved to a brand new facility in Southfield. The space features a spacious, open, flowing floor plan and floor to ceiling windows. Universal Images has been in business since 1983, and has steadily grown its pool of talent as well as its customer base. To complement UI's offerings, Gold Sound is housed in the same building, and offers 5 audio post rooms as well as sound design. In addition, UI's sister company, Mediascape is located in the building and offers new media, presentation, and web based services.
About Discreet
Discreet empowers media professionals to realize the visual experience and transform their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Discreet's award-winning solutions are designed for digital media creation, management and delivery-across all disciplines from film and television visual effects, color grading and editing to animation, game development, web/interactive, and design visualization. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc, the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information: www.discreet.com
Leading Post-Production Company to Standardize Facility on Discreet for High Definition and Standard Definition Television Production
[Suggestion: Leading Post-Production Company Standardize Facility on Discreet Solutions to Address Growing Number of Higher Definition Television Productions]
Montreal, Quebec-October XX, 2003-Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSK), today announced that Universal Images, a leading post-production company based in Southfield, MI, has signed a multi-million dollar purchase to upgrade and grow its production capabilities and standardize its entire facility on Discreet's state-of-the art visual effects, editing and finishing solutions.
Universal Images' High-Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) production capabilities will be given a significant boost with the addition of six new smoke¨ HD and SD editing and finishing systems, and upgrades to its existing two smoke systems, inferno¨ and four flame¨ visual effects design systems. Universal Images added backdrafttm to implement leading edge high speed networking, background I/O and archiving, and file sharing in an uncompressed media environment. Universal Images also expanded productivity in visual effects design with the addition of burn¨, Discreet's new background rendering solution, along with combustion¨ and 3DS Max¨, thereby fully leveraging the outstanding and unique performance of the overall Discreet solution. Universal Images will also be upgrading all of their hardware platforms and storage and have purchased 13 Silicon Graphics¨ Tezro(tm) visual workstations to deliver unprecedented levels of performance at any format and resolution.
Universal Images was particularly impressed by the performance of the new Silicon Graphics Tezro visual workstation and the powerful new creative tools of smoke 6, unveiled at IBC. These include Discreet's next-generation Master Keyer and Total Resolution Freedom: new capabilities that enable media of any resolution, aspect ratio and frame rate to be edited together in a single timeline and mastered in any format. smoke 6 on the Tezro workstation ensures that clients like Universal Images have a future-proof solution for the increasingly growing number of Higher Definition assignments.
The purchase was concluded after an extensive review of the latest solutions from a range of manufacturers at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) trade show last month and resulted in the elimination of all non Discreet editing and effects solutions.
"We are extremely impressed with Discreet's vision and direction. Few manufacturers understand the needs of both the artist and the facility owner so completely, and only Discreet creates the innovative post-production solutions that give our artists unsurpassed creative outlets, while providing a powerful workflow that differentiates our business," said Chris Laport, President of Universal Images. "No other systems come close to Discreet in terms of the sheer performance, workflow, creative capabilities, and therefore productivity. For this reason we decided to upgrade to smoke from our Avid DS|HD systems and remove our Quantel Edit boxes from our facility-and become a business with a complete Discreet workflow."
"We are delighted that Universal Images is standardizing on Discreet systems," said Paul Lypaczewski, general manager of Discreet and executive vice-president of Autodesk, Inc. "Our innovative and cost-effective solutions will help them to benefit rapidly from the growing need for high-definition content. Once again, this contract confirms that Discreet is the clear standard for delivering creativity and productivity to post-production facilities around the world."
UI provides visual effects and post production for a wide array of advertising agencies, creative editorial houses, and production and communication companies. Through these clients, Universal Images does work for all of the U.S. automotive companies, as well as a variety of retail clients. The company stresses its creative talent and has attracted and retained top Graphics Artists and Editors. UI recently built and moved to a brand new facility in Southfield. The space features a spacious, open, flowing floor plan and floor to ceiling windows. Universal Images has been in business since 1983, and has steadily grown its pool of talent as well as its customer base. To complement UI's offerings, Gold Sound is housed in the same building, and offers 5 audio post rooms as well as sound design. In addition, UI's sister company, Mediascape is located in the building and offers new media, presentation, and web based services.
About Discreet
Discreet empowers media professionals to realize the visual experience and transform their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Discreet's award-winning solutions are designed for digital media creation, management and delivery-across all disciplines from film and television visual effects, color grading and editing to animation, game development, web/interactive, and design visualization. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc, the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information: www.discreet.com
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
remind me not to date any spiders
"The percentage of post-copulatory cannibalisms were certainly nothing out of the ordinary," she said.
Despite their reputation, not all species of female spiders eat their mates and suitors.
"Some may just see the males as food," Hebets said.
"Some incorporate cannibalism into mating. In some, the females are actually eating the male while he is inserting sperm."
Despite their reputation, not all species of female spiders eat their mates and suitors.
"Some may just see the males as food," Hebets said.
"Some incorporate cannibalism into mating. In some, the females are actually eating the male while he is inserting sperm."
Sunday, October 26, 2003
if i did wear a hat
i travel a lot. not enough, but a lot compared to some people.
there are times I will be in the south. when you are in the south, you NEED to be wearing a hat. really. so if i were to go and buy a hat, or receive a hat , i would really want it to look like this.
where does one find a sweet feather?
there are times I will be in the south. when you are in the south, you NEED to be wearing a hat. really. so if i were to go and buy a hat, or receive a hat , i would really want it to look like this.
where does one find a sweet feather?
Friday, October 24, 2003
go blogger!
I got a package in the mail from Google. It was a free sweatshirt with Blogger on it. yay! now everyone will know for sure that I'm a nerd!
thanks blogger.com
i.e. thanks google.com !
you guys rock
thanks blogger.com
i.e. thanks google.com !
you guys rock
Saturday, October 18, 2003
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! WE ARE GOIN TO PHISH BABY
No one we know got tickets. Except the Dan-Man. Sittin at my sister Chrissy's computer with my powerbook on my lap trying both computers simultaneously. I have this online ticket ordering thing down to a science. Everytime I got in within seconds of being on sale. The second computer would always have a 6-9 minute longer wait than the first computer (on the ethernet went faster than the airport laptop obviously.) and they were only sent about 20 seconds apart. i needed a backup computer in case the first order got screwed. (like boston which crapped out during my credit card processing..)
CONFIRMED TIX: All 4 sold out shows.
11/28/2003 - 7:30 PM
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
11/29/2003 7:30 pm PM
Wachovia Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
12/01/2003 - 7:30 PM
Pepsi Arena
Albany, NY
**20th Anniversary Concert**
12/02/2003 - 7:30 PM
FleetCenter
Boston, MA
CONFIRMED TIX: All 4 sold out shows.
11/28/2003 - 7:30 PM
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
11/29/2003 7:30 pm PM
Wachovia Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
12/01/2003 - 7:30 PM
Pepsi Arena
Albany, NY
**20th Anniversary Concert**
12/02/2003 - 7:30 PM
FleetCenter
Boston, MA
Friday, October 17, 2003
I am so mad at ticketmaster. they showed me 4 tickets on the balcony then they gave me an error.
** UPDATE ** midnight 10/18
well i just got a msg back from them.. my order is 'still processing' i guess when the server crashes it doesn't realize you ordered tickets, but if you do a search for you phone # and credit card # the tickets show up.. so i just may be in luck...
PHISH 20th ANNIVERSARY SHOW....BABY.. I AM GOING TO GAMEHENDGE!!!!
** UPDATE ** midnight 10/18
well i just got a msg back from them.. my order is 'still processing' i guess when the server crashes it doesn't realize you ordered tickets, but if you do a search for you phone # and credit card # the tickets show up.. so i just may be in luck...
PHISH 20th ANNIVERSARY SHOW....BABY.. I AM GOING TO GAMEHENDGE!!!!
Sunday, October 12, 2003
let's go to makeout point
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Phish Tour 2003
forget reality. i'm goin back on tour.
11.28 Uniondale, NY
11.29 Philadelphia, PA
12.1 Albany, NY
12.2 Boston, MA
11.28 Uniondale, NY
11.29 Philadelphia, PA
12.1 Albany, NY
12.2 Boston, MA
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
oh jeez
OK, either I can't date this girl or I have to figure out how to drive from Waterford to Farmington Hills without (a) getting totally lost (b) taking over an hour (c) inadvertantly setting my iPod to Japanese so I can't navigate the menus or (d) getting totally fucking lost.
Friday, October 03, 2003
MOT (mit out technology)
just got my laptop back. they said there wasn't a problem with it. however. it doesn't crash any more when i plug the ipod in. i reinstalled the system myself and that didn't fit it and i sent it to apple.
i also don't have my cellphone. motorola is fixing the battery.
about two weeks ago i didn't have an ipod. they replaced it when i took it in when it first started making my computer crash. they replaced it with a brand new ipod. there wasn't one in stock so i had to wait about 4 days. they wouldn't let me pay the difference and upgrade
now when my phone rings i don't know who it is because the temporary phone doesn't sync with my mac without a cable i don't own.
i also don't have my cellphone. motorola is fixing the battery.
about two weeks ago i didn't have an ipod. they replaced it when i took it in when it first started making my computer crash. they replaced it with a brand new ipod. there wasn't one in stock so i had to wait about 4 days. they wouldn't let me pay the difference and upgrade
now when my phone rings i don't know who it is because the temporary phone doesn't sync with my mac without a cable i don't own.
friday
a lot of people would tell you that monday is the day to up and change your life.
i think it's friday. friday is a perfectly good choice of day to make the most of your life starting now.
i think it's friday. friday is a perfectly good choice of day to make the most of your life starting now.
