5 May 2005

I like the theme of Ars Electronia this year: Hybrid - living in paradox. For details, see www.aec.at/hybrid. Each year after all the entries for the Prix are in, they (creators of the festival located in Linz, Austria) come up with the theme and title. My entry happens to fit well, being a hybrid of movie and photo, of landscape and inner vision. Of individual and group. Of local and global. As an example in my life, I chose a hybrid car, a Honda Insight. From gas and momentum, it generates electricity and the car runs on both.

This week I had cataract surgery on my right eye, limiting time for web work on the computer. I did get QuickTime 7 for Mac OS X, a free upgrade from apple.com. Windows version will be available soon. QT7 includes an H.264 codec for better delivery of movies on the web. On first test, H.264 is better than MPEG-4 in terms of image quality and smaller filesize. I added it as an alternative to this movie: wdatfs Studies in Video.

Changes made to intro to Wholeo Dome.