Fluff Filter

There must be a more technical name for this.. I mean really? 'Fluff filter'?

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Reverse Liposuction by The Klaxon Institute!

Reverse liposuction to help third world countries?! Watch the video to find out more!!!



See how The Klaxon Institute are helping the world :)

Asus SonicMaster Music Box!

I love a bit of music, playing guitar / bass or just listening to it.. which is why I had to give the new flash game by technology company Asus a go!

Asus have just released their new laptop, the SonicMaster, which they say..

"The SonicMaster is a new laptop with great sound quality, which makes it really good for music

lovers."

To promote the laptop they have created this cool flash animation where you choose a music star, upload your picture, record a message and see them jumping around on stage with some music overlayed on top of your voice! Pretty cool, especially with your own face on there :)

The flash website is really simple to use, and can be emailed to friends and family! I recorded myself playing guitar, and it ended up going along quite well with the music they put over the top - an almost eerie classical / rock duet.

In fact.. I think I may go and try again just to get a nice little animation with some singing (or what I call singing anyway, ha!)

http://www.sonicmaster.asus.com/event/2010/musicbox/

Give it a go, and check out their musically enhanced laptop too!

Website!

After a number of years now, I have finally set up a website for myself and my photography business that I run. I have thousands of images to go through and organise a proper portfolio of my top work, but so far I have included a few of my favourite, and recent, images.

The site domain names I have bought are

www.daveitz.co.uk

and

www.itzdave.co.uk

They both link to the same page, it is nice to have both variations though as the 'itzdave' has a slight worldplay on it. When someone asks, "what is your website", I can say "itzdave.co.uk"! :)

I plan to set the photographical images into different category subsections, such as Interiors/Exteriors, People, Landscape and Product.

In the future I also hope to create a site based purely for my video work, as I vary between both media practices for work and enjoyment.

I used wix.com to create the site, a decent flash based website creator that allows a lot of control over content without having to program it yourself. It was up and running within a few hours of creating it, having linked the domain names through the process too! Awesome!

Snow

Yes. It snowed today.. and the country seems to be obsessed!

I didn't actually venture out of my house today, due to my motorbike riding during other weekdays giving me enough opportunity to be in the freezing cold - but I still got a little bit creative with capturing the snow on digital form.

I hope it does not last long, I want the summer back where I can go out in a t-shirt! Motorbike riding in sub zero temperatures would not be so bad if it were not so dark, so early in the afternoon. Car drivers just cannot see us.

69 Officer?

Well I'm not really quite sure what to make of this one, but I'm sure it will capture the minds and attention of many men up and down the country!



As a young male who has been caught speeding by the police, I'm pretty sure if I had tried the tactic displayed in the video it would have got me nowhere - if not into more trouble...

'Silly Sensei'

My latest film project for University.

Big thanks to Jeff Pelta.

Enjoy!

Blackberry Bold 9700 OS 6 Firmware Upgrade First Impressions + Issues + Surprises

I finally took the plunge and decided to install the leaked version of OS6 for my Blackberry Bold 9700.

First impressions, issues and surprises in my video here:


Blackberry Bold 9700 OS 6 Firmware Upgrade First Impressions + Issues + Surprises from David Itzcovitz on Vimeo.

A few things I noticed soon after making the video, and didn't include, were:

- Main menu, no longer opened with menu button, but by clicking on 'Open Tray' after clicking Menu button..
- Much faster bootup time, around 20-30 seconds.. instead of 2 minutes as previous!!
- Contact history log, in the phonebook under each contact it has a history of your contact with them.
- Tabbed browsing, hurrah!!! self explanatory, can open multiple tabs in the internet browser.
- Videos in gallery have preview thumbnails.
- Calendar icon now updates according to the actual date. 
- Camera options (flash, focus, scene settings, video camera mode) all easier to access with single clicks on buttons onscreen rather than through menus.


There are probably lots more to mention but I am still discovering them.

Thanks for watching!