Spider-Man 3: Venom First Look
July 23, 2006 | 51 Comments
Here it is, the first image of Venom from the upcoming Spider-Man 3. It was released as a wallpaper on the official site. There is also another great wallpaper of Peter ripping open his shirt to reveal the black suit underneath.
The Venom shot is clearly Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) and not Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire). This image also shows him with really sharp teeth as we would expect Venom to be. In the background it appears the setting is a church. I would assume this scene is occurring just after Peter fights off the symbiote as shown in the trailer.
On another quick note, I’m very excited about the Spider-Man 3 movie blog they have created. Hopefully it is used well for intimate looks behind the scenes or direct communication with actors, directors, etc.
Tags: "black suit", "Spider-Man 3", eddie brock, image, peter parker, pic, spider-man, spiderman, symbiote, Topher Grace, trailer, venom, wallpaper
Merged Photographs
December 23, 2005 | 3 Comments
I came across a great gallery titled “50 people see…” by brevity on the Flickr explore page.
The artist was not surprisingly influenced by Jason Salvon. I discovered his amazing Every Playboy Centerfold image about a month ago. It’s part of a larger series.
As a sidenote, I was exploring on Flickr in search of the Andy Rosen - “London Punks 1976 -1984″ gallery which was featured on Rocketboom. Another set of stunning images that are a must see. Which in turn led me to find a set of breathtaking black and whites of New York City in Hughes 500’s greyscale & Cutouts gallery.
Tags: digital photograph, flickr, gallery, hughes500, image, images, jason salvon, new york city, photo, photograph, photographs, photos, picture, salvon
JPEG 2000, first attempt
July 11, 2005 | 7 Comments
I recently learned a bit about a “new” technology called JPEG 2000 (.JP2 or .J2C). I’m a little unsure how this missed me for so long, but oh well.
In a nutshell, JPEG 2000 is a way to store multi-resolution images which can be delivered in a streaming fashion at the desired resolution. It also sports greater compression rates than JPEG, with far less quality loss. It does this using what is called “wavelet technology.” Strange buzzword, I kinda hope it doesn’t catch on…
Anyway, from a practical standpoint, I poked my head into Adobe PhotoShop CS and JPEG 2000 is not listed as a file type I can save as. However, poking around a bit, I found a product by LuraTech called LuraWave which provides a PhotoShop plugin, but alas it only runs in OS9, which I don’t have. I then found Lead Technologies offering a free plugin, but it is PC only… I then decided to step away from PhotoShop and try out Graphic Converter. It’s supposed to convert everything, right? Well, it does, all built-in and functional in the demo.
So now I have one created. The next step is figuring out how to get it embedded in a web page. Luckily a google search turned up this how-to guide. Which implies that all you need to do is use an embed tag. This proves to be an oversimplification, and most likely only compatible with IE.
This is an immature technology, which currently only appears to have support in the PC/IE area. I’m going to try some more tests with this at work on my PC and I’ll post again if I have luck in that area. As a side note, JPEG has been around for 15 years, so I guess it is time for something new here…
More Info:
http://www.jpeg2000info.com
LuraTech: LuraWave - JPEG 2000 implementation
Pegasus Imaging: Compression
Aware: Compression Software
Whitestone CommunitY: JPEG 2000
Tags: adobe, browsers, compression, graphics, image, imaging, jpeg, jpeg 2000, jpeg2000, photoshop, plugins, technology