Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Artificial Intelligence driven image uprez has been improving dramatically over the last few years. There are already commercial products like Topaz’ Video Enhance AI that seem like they will inevitably lead to the “computer enhance” featured in so many science fictions shows, where it is used to pull some tiny detail out of an image,…

Now I’ve gotten over the surprise of the sale price, it really doesn’t matter what I think. What it comes down to this: To Adobe, Frame.io is worth $1.275 billion. Ultimately that’s the bottom line. Adobe invest in anything they think will add value to the company and pay what makes sense for them.

Up front I should state that I have been a fan of EditMentor’s founder Misha Tenenbaum’s work since he first founded EditStock.com. I was excited when he first hinted at what he intended with EditMentor, although I did not envy the challenge. You see, I have a little insight. For a large part of my…

In the back of my mind I always thought, if I had it to do over, I’d go into Visual Effects. The combination of creativity and technology that goes into VFX fascinates me. Then the reality of the industry that I read about and its financial woes, makes me rather glad my life took a…

When Larry Jordan asked me if I knew anyone who might like to review his new book, Techniques of Visual Persuasion I immediately volunteered myself. After all who doesn’t want to “Create powerful images that motivate?” Plus, I always feel I can learn more about marketing and motivating people. The first chapter of the first…

I do not immediately think about satirist Randy Rainbow as a Content Creator, but with a body of parody music videos that have hundreds of millions of views combined, he is obviously a successful Content Creator.

The discussion in this episode started with a recent article in The Atlantic Your Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think. Is it time to think of a career as an evolving series of “careers?” After listening to the show, what you you think?

When I think back to the days of editing tape to tape you had to both visualize how the series of shots were going to edit, but you also had to keep in mind and plan the current, previous and next edits at once. It was hard to go back and “trim” an edit! It…

I’ve long struggled with a good way of expressing the diverse range of work that’s done under the banner of “professional production.” Then inspiration hit me at last month’s LACPUG meeting when I discovered that Blackmagic Design Product Specialist Shawn Carlson used to be a chef in fine dining restaurants: What if we compared the…