Ever since the iPhone was debuted in the Macworld Conference last year our lives have never been the same again.
Ok, i know its not been such a revolution yet, but it has had a juggernaut run upto now.
It's intuitive user interface and multi touch features among other technological innovations have wowed many a people.
A simple phone device which weighes almost as much as a brick and was invented to make us mobile and in effect help people to reach us anywhere has turned out into this absoultely wonderful piece of technological marvel, not only helps us to be mobile, but is also a information device, a multimedia device and much much more.
Everyday, there are new innovations and new patents being filed in this field. Everyone wants more features, more ease of use all at their finger tips and this keeps the telecommunication industry to push the envelopes each and every day.
Blackberry and a majority of the Nokia models and to some extent the Motorolas and Samsungs had kepts us
interested before iPhone made its grand appearance. iPhone came, and it just conquered everyones hearts! Althought it has quite a far way to got to capture the market share and become ubiquitous.
This also leads us to the question that by the end of this year could there be an iPhone killer?
Its not such an absurd thought if you think how iPhone became the talk of the town in just about a few hours.
iPhone itself with its introduction has created a precedence of sorts and this could lead to more mobile and smart phone manufacturers trying to come up with their answer to the iPhone.
HTC launched its HTC touch which was dubbed the iPhone killer. Touch has performance issues and quite frankly can be dubbed the poor man's iPhone. The LG viewty could have been better if they had provided a much better camera and wi-fi support. But, it is still a very good product. OpenMoko the open source mobile platform was also launched and it managed to create a lot of hype in the open source world.
Now, Nokia which easily has the largest share in the mobile handsets market is seemingly on the verge of creating the iPhone killer and it is codenamed it "Tube". There is a lot of hype and buzz created around this and it will exciting to see how this
one goes.
Iphone indeed has been the trail blazer in terms of smart phones with excellent user interface and blending it with intuitiveness and ease of use. It is now upto the competition to push the boundaries of innovation and come up with a better and smarter yet simple and more importantly an affordable mobile phone as an answer to the iPhone.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Hottie and the Naughty!
I think that Paris Hilton is the sweetest, cutest and the most glamorous celebrity on planet. Its a pity she gets into a lot of nonsense.
On David Letterman where David quizzes her about her jail term and upsets her...
and here he is four months later making up for his rude behavior. She looks like a princess in that yellow dress!!!!
Love Ya,
Paris :)
On David Letterman where David quizzes her about her jail term and upsets her...
and here he is four months later making up for his rude behavior. She looks like a princess in that yellow dress!!!!
Love Ya,
Paris :)
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Placebo Effect
The past two weeks were really something. I with few of my friends decided to make a short film on the topic "Say No to Drugs and Yes to Life".
This is a serious topic yet we had to give it a new look and wanted to approach the topic in a fresh manner without much of the stereotypes attached to it. My only concern during the shooting and in post production was that, the film in no way should make the audience feel like they have seen this before. The way the topic had to be handled and the movie's treatment right from the beginning to the end was very important to me.
I had two very good scripts at hand. One of the concept was mine, with the script and screenplay all done by me. I was quite happy to go with it, as it did not require too many actors and could have come out quite nicely.
But, i decided to go for the more challenging idea that my friend floated, it was very challenging and it took me some time to convince myself that i will be able to do it.
We all now knew what we had to tell, but the problem was how do we tell it without being too explicit, or too cliched...
I along with Samprita, Nikhil, and Rahul came up with the script and screenplay. I knew we had quite a challenge on our hands, but i also knew if things went as planned, we could pull off an astonishing short here.
I have shot two other short films earlier of about 5 min duration each. So, i was hoping for a similar experience this time round. I was overwhelmed when i realized that it would not be as easy as i thought earlier.
I had to get all the actors around and since everyone had some or the other creative inputs, i had to take all of them and consider how i would put it across. I think my mistake during this short film was that i did not go with a set screenplay instead thought that i would improvise on the sets so that would make me open to more ideas. Bad idea!
All i ended up with was too much of confusion and too much chaos in the budding actors, leading to time crunches and all in all a chaotic weekend, which i may never forget for a really long time, although i must admit, the rush that it gave me while calling the shots was immense and i will take a lot of pleasure that i was a part of it and i am very proud of this short film. I just hope i can put it on the net so that i will be able to get more views and suggestions and comments and brickbats.
I would personally like to thank Don (film shot extensively at Don's crib), Samprita (story, screenplay, choreography, editing, voice over, and for a lot of patience throughout the making of the film), Santhosh (for keeping his cool while we shot his bits over and over and over again, plays the drug abuser), Nikhil (for arranging the cameraman, the editing studio, basically getting this project onto the launch pad, plays the musician), Rahul (plays the racer, for his creative writing inputs, his voice overs), Neha (plays the athlete, who stood under the sunday afternoon sun for long time and we unfortunately had to edit the scene in the studio), Priyanka (plays the dancer who just could not control her laughter for some reason and just would burst into peels of laughter - she looks quite a bit like Cameron Diaz - hmmm have i found my muse already!!!), Marion (expert advise on how the scenes involving the drug abuser could be shot to make it look more authentic), Chandru (cameraman), Girish (asst cameraman), Suresh (Video Editing) and above all Srivatsa for helping us out from beginning to the end and arranging for the cameraman and editing studio and showing the faith in us that we could come up with a good short film.
It has a been a great learning curve and all i have are positives to take away from this project.
I hope the movie gets selected, if it does i will not be able to upload it on the net due to copyright issues, if not i will post it on youtube and will be available on my blog here as well.
In the end, you might feel like you just had a mind numbing, spirit crushing boost to the head but its just
"The Placebo Effect"
This is a serious topic yet we had to give it a new look and wanted to approach the topic in a fresh manner without much of the stereotypes attached to it. My only concern during the shooting and in post production was that, the film in no way should make the audience feel like they have seen this before. The way the topic had to be handled and the movie's treatment right from the beginning to the end was very important to me.
I had two very good scripts at hand. One of the concept was mine, with the script and screenplay all done by me. I was quite happy to go with it, as it did not require too many actors and could have come out quite nicely.
But, i decided to go for the more challenging idea that my friend floated, it was very challenging and it took me some time to convince myself that i will be able to do it.
We all now knew what we had to tell, but the problem was how do we tell it without being too explicit, or too cliched...
I along with Samprita, Nikhil, and Rahul came up with the script and screenplay. I knew we had quite a challenge on our hands, but i also knew if things went as planned, we could pull off an astonishing short here.
I have shot two other short films earlier of about 5 min duration each. So, i was hoping for a similar experience this time round. I was overwhelmed when i realized that it would not be as easy as i thought earlier.
I had to get all the actors around and since everyone had some or the other creative inputs, i had to take all of them and consider how i would put it across. I think my mistake during this short film was that i did not go with a set screenplay instead thought that i would improvise on the sets so that would make me open to more ideas. Bad idea!
All i ended up with was too much of confusion and too much chaos in the budding actors, leading to time crunches and all in all a chaotic weekend, which i may never forget for a really long time, although i must admit, the rush that it gave me while calling the shots was immense and i will take a lot of pleasure that i was a part of it and i am very proud of this short film. I just hope i can put it on the net so that i will be able to get more views and suggestions and comments and brickbats.
I would personally like to thank Don (film shot extensively at Don's crib), Samprita (story, screenplay, choreography, editing, voice over, and for a lot of patience throughout the making of the film), Santhosh (for keeping his cool while we shot his bits over and over and over again, plays the drug abuser), Nikhil (for arranging the cameraman, the editing studio, basically getting this project onto the launch pad, plays the musician), Rahul (plays the racer, for his creative writing inputs, his voice overs), Neha (plays the athlete, who stood under the sunday afternoon sun for long time and we unfortunately had to edit the scene in the studio), Priyanka (plays the dancer who just could not control her laughter for some reason and just would burst into peels of laughter - she looks quite a bit like Cameron Diaz - hmmm have i found my muse already!!!), Marion (expert advise on how the scenes involving the drug abuser could be shot to make it look more authentic), Chandru (cameraman), Girish (asst cameraman), Suresh (Video Editing) and above all Srivatsa for helping us out from beginning to the end and arranging for the cameraman and editing studio and showing the faith in us that we could come up with a good short film.
It has a been a great learning curve and all i have are positives to take away from this project.
I hope the movie gets selected, if it does i will not be able to upload it on the net due to copyright issues, if not i will post it on youtube and will be available on my blog here as well.
In the end, you might feel like you just had a mind numbing, spirit crushing boost to the head but its just
"The Placebo Effect"
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