Updated Look

I redid the site layout and design today. Dropped the horrific black header and went clean and mean. Something I should have done a while ago but work tends to get in the way of these ideas and schemes.

Additionally the plan is to keep up a little more with the site. There will be some exciting news soon on a film project (and the launch of a separate site for that) as well as some media reviews and a few articles on various bits and pieces of cinematic trash.

As always the twitter feed is updated a tad more than anything else and while it may not make perfect sense (due to replying to other people all the time) you can always roll on over to twitter and add iainnorman if you feel the need to clutter up your own updates just that little bit more. 

 
What I have open on my mac these days...

My desk setup is typical enough. A 2 year old Macbook Pro, a 22" external monitor, a 1TB hard drive. But I found that despite the 130 odd applications I use, only a few of those are used regularly. Some of those are open constantly and that's what I'd like to share.

Plex ~  Plex is a media player/media library/a lot more. The most recent versions included plugins to incorporate youtube, hulu, CNN and much more. This lives on my external monitor. To check the latest news on CNN I merely open that feed and browse the list of the news vids. It's clean, quick and free. On the media side it has some of the best HD support available for a mac player - in particular that love it or hate it MKV container.

Mailplane ~ Not free but useful. Essentially mail plane is a shell that allows you to run the gmail web interface as a separate application. This may sound like just another browser window but not having to flip windows to access my mail and the growl integration makes it worth it.

Adium ~ A well know client for aggregating various chat clients into one list for easy use. 

Celtx ~ One of the best screenplay editors out there. Best of all... free. 

 
Legend of the Seeker - Implications for future fantasy productions

 
Legend of the Seeker is a new fantasy series airing in the US market on syndicated television. Not the most common model these days. However the show has managed to achieve commendable success with quite decent viewer numbers (almost 6 million viewers for the pilot  and a sustained 3 million or higher for the rest of the series to date). While the show is from the producers of Hercules and Xena and many commentators and reporters have painted a picture of the show as a direct legacy of these two products - I feel the situation is somewhat different.
 
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