I have no idea what “post-experimental pop” means. But I was invited to take pictures of Taunuszweitausend’s gig at the Hanau Buergerfest. I believe that without knowing any of their tunes, you will get the picture. Literally. Click here or on the image below to get to the gallery. Find out more about their oevre at http://taunuszweitausend.de.
Taunuszweitausend doing their thing
It started with a “help! I need a picture for my job application, but not the stuff they’ll do at the corner shop studio” post on Facebook. Against the backdrop of Frankfurt’s Westhafen we got a few good shots – even though Conny’s choice of clothing may appear somewhat daring for a job application. But that’s product designers for you.
Shooting Conny at Frankfurt's Westhafen
Photographers are self-conscious people – and so am I. In search for some vague idea of “perfection”, I have had various gos at publishing my images, but except for occasional contributions to my social networks I have pretty much kept my collection to myself. But there is a time when one discovers great Lightroom web gallery plugins at Photographer’s Toolbox and suddenly there it is: “Liquid Stills“.
Shot from Liquid Stills Gallery
After using iTunes for some years, my library has become too fat even for my ever-growing disk sizes. I decided to move my videos to another drive and found there is an incredibly easy way to achieve this: use the Finder to go to your iTunes library folder and move the “Movies” and “TV Shows” folders to the new drive – done.
iTunes automatically (!) found the new location without any manual re-indexing or re-importing or fiddling with the library preferences. (I have not tested network drives.)
There is a catch, though: downloading new videos – e.g. TV show subscriptions – will recreate the folders in your iTunes library. If you find that confusing, I suggest you only move complete seasons/subfolders.
This may be a little off topic, but as it took me some hours to work it out and as I could find very few helpful resources describing the procedure, here is how I converted my archived Lotus Notes calendars to iCal. Mind you, this is specific to my settings and might not work for you. But if you have trouble importing Notes-created .ICS files to iCal, read on. Read the full article »
There is a number of reasons why it can be useful to have a 1:1 copy of a DVD on your harddisk, e.g. because you want to avoid wasting battery life when travelling, or because you own a MacBook Air and do not want to carry around your external DVD drive. However, there is one problem: Apple’s DVD player and iTunes expect a DVD to be read from an optical drive rather than the file system. I recently discovered an easy solution. Read the full article »