Monday, April 11, 2005

A Plug for Porky

Master voiceover artist Bob Bergen is arranging a sea cruise for folks interested in joining his profession. Check out this page on his website for info. And check out his entire website for lots of good tips on the field, and demos of Bob's outstanding work.

• Posted at 7:18 PM · LINK

In the E-Mailbag...

Several of you have written to call my attention to this article on the use of Digital Video Noise Reduction. This is a handy process that cleans up the image when a live-action movie is transferred to digital format, such as is seen on DVDs. However, when used injudiciously on animation, it wipes out portions of the image that should be retained. We need to make more of a stink about this. (For further research, consult this article from a few years back by Amid Amidi.)

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Today's Political Thought

We are about to see a flurry of investigations of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay...a man who's in enough trouble that his Republican colleagues had to pass a rule that said he would not lose his leadership post if he were indicted by a Texas grand jury. I have no idea if he will survive or not.

But don't you get the idea that once all the inquiries are done, the real scandal will be not what DeLay has done that violates the law but all the things he was able to get away with that didn't violate the law?

When the Enron investigations started, a friend of mine predicted that no one of any importance would serve any real time behind bars. I asked why he felt that way. He said, "Because guys like that have done such a good job getting laws amended their way and working the loopholes that they could rob a liquor store and shoot the manager...and it still would not be, in some technical sense, illegal."

• Posted at 7:20 AM · LINK

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