the drivel of moritz mœller
Several blogs and mailing lists I frequent linked to an article investigating the validity of Apple’s claims that the iPhone 4′s display has a ‘terminal’ resolution for the application at hand: namely a human reading its display at an ‘average’ distance (which, being unspecified in Apple’s press release, offers quite a bit of latitude for interpretation).
The article ignores several important facts.
A while ago there was a thread on the 3D-Pro mailing list that diverged from its original subject and took a turn towards a debate about copyright.
The debate resulted when someone discovered that part of an image was being used as a backdrop for another image without giving proper credit. It is noteworthy that the latter work was not of commercial nature. The poster got very upset about this nevertheless. I think what upset them most was the fact that the creator of the derived work claimed copyright. The poster called that person an “artist” (they used quotes to express their disagreement with the use of that term) who had “the filthy guts to rip of another (real) artist’s hard work”.
I arrived in Tokyo last week but due to the sensory overload this city imposes on the brain, particularly on a geek’s brain, I needed some time to contemplate (read: process) my impressions before writing anything about it.
Let me start by saying that I feel utterly stupid, by now, for not having visited Japan earlier. My aunt is Japanese; through her I got to watch “Nauscaä of the Valley of the Wind” (in Japanese, w/o subtitles), when I was 11 years old, in 1985, the year after the movie came out. The images never left my head and I believe they were part of the reason I ended up pursuing a career in film.