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Alec Kinnear
Creative Director
Alec has been working with video since 1995. Before founding Foliovision in 2004, he worked as a Head of Television for Grey Moscow and a TV producer at Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia. Alec maintains a photography and culture weblog at uncoy.com. Alec holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literature.
Exciting day at the office
At a rally to support former Prime Minister Fico against prosecution for corruption, the focus is that Slovak social services should be first for Slovaks not for Ukrainians.
macOS support for HEIC
Since I have some files on hand and most of the relevant software installed, I decided to systematically look at iPhone HEIC and DNG support some of the major photo viewers/triage tools and RAW developers as of March 2022. This is an updated list from November 2020 where the situation was fairly dire. There’s much […]
How to make Nikon Z9 RAW files easily editable with any RAW editor
Photographers who use DxO PhotoLab 5 know the pain of not being able to edit RAW images from their new cameras for many months, even years.
Video of the Week: Pets by Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros “Pets” (1993) is a prophetic song, presaging a time when governments would seek to RFID not just pets but their human subjects.
VOW: New Year’s Eve Bratislava 2021 Street Music
Video of Jan Nedvědi’s “Máme jen sebe”. Happy New Year FV Player users and lovers of good music! Much love and good cheer to you in 2022.
Privacy: Iridium, unGoogled Chromium, Brave Browser face off
All of Iridium, unGoogled Chromium and Brave Browser make bold claims for privacy. Talk is cheap and fortunately the EFF is here to referee.
How to publish full size images in WordPress
There are two choices to disable the default nanny function which limits image size in Wordpress to 2560px. There’s no GUI but here’s how to do it.
How to customise OS X safely: TinkerTool and TinkerTool System
TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions.
Choosing a working colour space for photography: sRGB, AdobeRGB, Wide Gamut RGB or ProPhoto RGB
If you can’t see it, you can’t correct it. How to navigate a smooth path between colour spaces for web and print.
How to repair broken mp4, m4v and mkv videos with ffmpeg
Batch repair with no transcoding or generation loss! Since we are already on the command line, doing it in bash makes the most sense.
VOW: Russell Brand on Apple Surveillance
Ex-comedian Brand understands that a surveillance state, where security organs enjoy powers like the KGB and the Gestapo, is no laughing matter.
How to (re)enable QuickLook preview of XMP files on OS X
If you are having trouble previewing XMP files with Apple QuickLook you are not alone. Affinity Photo blocks QuickLook for .xmp file extension.
Overview of Code Editors for MacOS X in 2021: BBEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, Coda/Nova, Atom, Visual Studio Code
There are different categories of coders and there is a best text editor for each category of coder: cross-platform, Mac-only.
Mac OS X publishing tools for WordPress: MarsEdit, Byword, Drafts and iAWriter
What’s particularly striking about working with MarsEdit is how much faster it is to open and save posts than the WordPress web interface.
Getty Images Extortion Letters – and how to defend yourself
In this licensing war, for now there is only one winner, scammers like Getty Images. Time to lay down the arms and find a solution.
How to create great-looking hardcoded subtitles
Outputting perfect hardcoded subtitles for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter is not as easy as it looks. Here’s how to do it.
Setting Background Opacity for partially transparent FV Player Subtitles | New User Experience
By installing it your self and digging into your own software as a new user, you can better understand improve user experience faster and better than any user group testing.
Horrific iPad Pro user experience trying to make a simple weblog post
Instead of taking half an hour to post a simple post to my weblog via my iPad Pro it took an hour and a half. Here’s why and how to improve.
Video lenses for Mirrorless: How sharp should a lens be, how wide the aperture?
What matters more than resolving power for video are weight, quiet focusing, focus shift and focus breathing.
