In a stunning announcement yesterday, we learn that Q will be making a return in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard! This is certainly some good fortune! With this announcement, and the clear theme of time in the above trailer, I'd like to reflect on some possibilities for Season 2 …
There are many things I like about Mark Knopfler's work, both his solo albums as well as Dire Straits:
The way he weaves memories from his own life (even seemingly mundane things) brings a personal connection to his music. For example, taking the train in Southbound Again, remembering …
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Now updated to include the new functionality in darktable 3.4!
This post provides an overview of how to use the new scene-referred workflow in darktable. See this article and the manual for an explanation of what scene-referred means and why you should use it over the display-referred workflow …
Updated: 8/20/20
Below are some uplifting resources during this time of uncertainty and stress with the COVID-19 pandemic:
I recently purchased an AMD Raedon RX 570 GPU in order to accelerate Darktable processing operations using OpenCL. It looks like ROCm, AMD's open-source OpenCL implementation, should work. However, the process to install ROCm and enable image support on Arch Linux was not intuitive, so I'm documenting it here.
Before …
A new version of Web Launcher, 1.3.x, is out now with the following major improvements:
Mark Knopfler's latest solo album, Down The Road Wherever (YouTube), is perhaps his best work since Shangri-La. His other recent albums (even including Get Lucky, which I reviewed here), have felt too folky for my taste and lacked hints of Dire Straits rock. Down The Road Wherever reduces the folk …
I find myself frequently working in high-contrast scenes which makes post-processing a challenge since adjustments to the exposure wreak havoc with colors and I often want to only selectively modify part of the image. Fortunately, Darktable's deeply-integrated LAB support and powerful parametric masks make these difficult shots easy …
It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo. #StarTrek @cbsallaccess Photo: @shervinfoto pic.twitter.com/8Ynuj3RBNm
— Sir Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) August 4, 2018
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