… a work in progress

Watched the documentary “A Map For Saturday” last night, great little film. It’s about a young man who leaves his job in New York City as a TV producer to backpack the world for a year on his own. It documents his travels and encounters with other backpackers. It would be nice someday to take a large amount of time off and buy a Round The World (RTW) airline ticket. The film reminded me of another documentary called “Long Way Round” with Ewan McGregor and his friend Charlie Boorman. In “Long Way Round” the two ride motorcyles around th world, the long way around. This year I plan to go to Europe hopefully twice in the fall when things slow down for work. Rent an apartment for a few weeks at a time and live with the locals.

I was impressed how light the guy in A Map For Saturday packed since most of his gear was for the making of the film. Here is his packing list. I’m not sure if this is the device he used, but it seems like a nifty lock. I’m gonna have to pick up one of these next time I go train traveling. PackSafe w/ Exomesh.

PS. The DVD version is “double” the length of the TV version that aired on MTV. The DVD also has a deleted scenes section.

This is a funny video I found on YouTube about the Downfall of HD DVD. It uses a clip from the movie “Downfall” with Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler. Great movie about the fall of the Third Reich, go check it out sometime. A couple of other German movies to go check out if you haven’t seen them are “Run Lola Run”, “Das Boot” and “The Lives Of Others” Brilliant films

Have been trying to update the iMac with 10.5.2. It’s been hanging on reboot when running the update, so I’ve just been putting it off. Well today I received Aperture 2 and when I went to install it, Aperture 2 required Mac OS X 10.5.2. So I had to figure out how to install 10.5.2 upgrade without it hanging on reboot. I’m a total newbie to Macs so figuring out stuff is a challenge. I finally found a link to a standalone download for the 10.5.2 upgrade rather than using the “Check For Updates”. The standalone installation of 10.5.2 worked like a charm and I was finally able to reboot the system to 10.5.2.

So now that I have Aperture 2 up and running I need to figure out how to use it. This past year I shot in RAW format in the hopes that I would eventually get a Mac. I’m excited to see what I can do with Aperture 2 and my RAW image files.