Year: 2004

Olympics: Audience

AudienceI had an interesting thought while watching the Olympic games. It is about how audience differs today from the audience of the past and of the future. Take for example camera flashes. Every major sport event, when shown on TV, has lots of photocamera flashes in the audience. Think about it. Flash on the camera is to add some light to the subject of the photograph. In case of sport events, audience is too far away from the subject and there is no way a small flash can light up the stadium. People who are into photography know that. That’s why they either get closer or don’t use flash. Other people use point-and-shoot cameras which are automatic all the way and decide for themselves if the flash should be used or not.

30 years ago photocameras weren’t that cheap and popular. They were less automatic. Flashes were external. If you watch video recording from the 30 year old events, you will not see any flashes in the audience. Only from the media corner.

In 30 years from today, camera’s will be way too smart to attempt lighting up the stadium. They are constantly getting smarter. So, you will not see that much flashing from the audience of the future.

There are other examples of how audience changes. People weren’t putting team colors on their faces for ever you know. Flags and team scarfs weren’t always there too. Interesting, isn’t it?

Do you have any other examples? :)

Chasing Amy

Watched “Chasing Amy” on DVD. This is yet another film written, directed, and partially played by Kevin Smith. It is an OK movie, though much simplier than anything I’ve seen so far of the Kevin’s work.

The story is pretty standard – a guy falls in love with a girl. The girl is a lesbian. The guy tries to “turn her over”. And because of the true love and stuff like that he successeds. The problem turns out to be a big bigger though. Before the girl jumped into a lesbian camp she experimented a lot with all sorts of sexual relationships. The guy, of course, feels a bit akward. There is another small touch to it. The guy has a best friend who is trying to protect him from the lesbian. He tries so much, that the guy thinks that his best friend is actually in love with him.

All of this is pretty tough already. The guy is under a whole lot of stress and naturally he cannot think clearly. The solution he proposes is for all three of them to have sex. This way, he will get OK with his girlfriends past, he and his friend will have sex, and his friend and his girlfriend, he hopes, will get OK too. Fortunately, his girlfriend was smart enough to explain to him that this is a very stupid way of solving problems and that it will do nothing else except for complicating further.

There is a nice line up of actors in here. I just don’t like Joey Lauren Adams. She is not my type and she has all this artificial look around her. Everyone else is just in place. Dialogs are not as strong as they could have been and in places they seem overdeveloped. Soundtrack is nice. It is not my type of music, but it does fit pretty good.

I’ll rate it as 6 out of 10 for now.

Google AdSense progress

It’s been a while since I installed Google AdSense. Meanwhile I am getting closer to my first check. I have passed the $85 USD mark on the way to the $100 USD. I guess I should receive some money within the next couple of month.

Thanks to everyone who is clicking on the ads once in a while. I hope they are helpful. :)