The Tao Colorist

Sunday Morning Fun(nies)

• [Video] Fotoshop: The Beauty Regimen - Hilarious spoof of a beauty product guaranteed to make you look like the cover of a fashion magazine. (Vimeo.com via James Wicks)

• The Sketchbook of Susan Kare - She designed many of the original icons for the Macintosh interface. Includes an fun explanation of the 'command' symbol found on every Mac keyboard since... forever. (blogs.plos.org)

• [Video] The Muppets: Saw Trailer - Don't let the kids see this one. There are no happy endings in this Muppet movie. (YouTube.com)

• [iApp] Action Movie FX - Alien invasion, car blowing up, machine gun attack... all in your backyard (or happening to your neighbor's house) and all on your iPhone. (HeroComplex.latimes.com)

• [Video] Touch Interfaces Everywhere - If you can put a transducer and receiver on it, it can be a touch interface. (Kottke.org)

• [Podcast] Why Did Lard Fall Out of Favor? - Yes foodies, I've wondered this myself. (Kottke.org)

• Plunge Your iPhone Into Water, No Case Required - After coating it in some new polymer. I wonder if I could do the same with an FSI LCD for undersea grading while vacationing in the Caribbean? (MacWorld.co.uk)

Gear Heads

• [Video] CES 2012: Sony's 'Crystal LED' - Technology preview of a new class of LED display. It's not an LCD backlit with LED. Rather each pixel is made up of 3 LEDs - Red, Green and Blue and the LEDs are viewed directly. That's 6 million individual LED lights in a 1080p display and burns only 70 watts. (YouTube.com)

• Keeping Up With the Firmware - You know how every time you buy a product they collect your email address for 'warranty purposes'? You know how they never use that email address to alert you when there's a firmware update to aforementioned product? Apparently the folks at AbelCine noticed too... Here's an update on the latest Firmware releases for a few displays and cameras. (blog.abelcine.com)

• BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle with Thunderbolt - 10-bit capture and playback via HDMI from your computer's Thunderbolt connection. (ProVideoCoalition.com)

• LaCie Announces Latest High-Speed Thunderbolt Drives (StudioDaily.com)

• MOTU Debuts It's First Thunderbolt Capture Device - Looks like the Big Daddy to BlackMagic's Intensity Shuttle. Price is TBD... meaning it ain't shipping yet. (StudioDaily.com)

• Will 2012 Be the Year of Thunderbolt? In case you want more to read on this topic... (ArsTechnica.com)

• How to Properly Clean All Your Gadgets - Without ruining them. (LifeHacker.com)

Your Career

• How To Keep Your Home Office Professional and Productive - I really need to print out this article and keep it posted on the refrigerator. (DareDreamerMag.com via NotesOnVideo.blogspot.com)

• Understanding Tiredness and Self-Control - And understanding that your brain has a limited capacity for sustained, focused, directed concentration. Don't fight it. Take a break instead. (Psycotactics.com)

• Why Inspiration Matters - But first, how do you define inspiration? And how does inspiration relate to creativity? (blogs.hbr.org)

• The 10 Happiest Jobs - The key to these jobs? A sense of meaningful work. (Forbes.com via @hurkman)

• How To Keep Your Cool During A Performance Review - These tips also work for client reviews of your color grades. (blogs.hbr.org)

fYou

• Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages May Be Going to the Wrong Place - Yup. Apple's messaging service continues sends your iMessages to your stolen phone even after it's been wiped and you've changed your passwords. Apple's solution? Turn off iMessaging on your stolen iPhone. Gee - how simple. (ArsTechnica.com)

The Next Step Is A Doozy

• Someday, Writing Code Will Be As Common As Farming? - Might writing software code become as core and as basic a skill as growing tomatoes or learning the three R's? (PhilipHodgetts.com)

A Step Too Far?

• Magisto: Software That Edits For You - Lots of discussions around the InterTubes about this new 'cloud-based' service that lets you upload your footage and you'll get back a magically edited piece. It cuts out all the boring stuff. And it only runs on your iOS phone. (imNotBruce.blogspot.com)

Inconceivable

• Twinkies Maker Hostess Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Did I already say, "Inconceivable!"? I guess that word doesn't mean what I thought it did. (online.wsj.com via Papa Tao)