Wow, what a fucking useless thing to say. Do these vapid gems just pop into your brain all the time or is today a special day?
This is a comment I want to post to Facebook about once a day that I am instead posting on my blog because if I posted it to Facebook that would make me mean and I don’t consider myself a mean person. So here we are.
(sorry Krysten Ritter, some images are permanent)
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Hot lineup (Taken with instagram)
Griffith / Downtown (Taken with Instagram at Griffith Park)
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I’ve been following the insane Final Cut Pro X backlash since it’s release last week. I say insane only because I can’t recall a version of any software, let alone Final Cut Pro that was so controversial as to be late night joke worthy.
What I keep thinking about when I read scathing, panicked reviews is this: What post production house rushes to upgrade to the latest software the second it’s released? Maybe things have changed since I worked in post production (this is possible?) but when I was a full time editor the key to a good system was stability. You didn’t upgrade anything (the software, the hardware, the OS, anything) hastily. You waited. You read the reports. Only when you were between projects and the new versions had time to mature did you upgrade. I saw editors keep a system locked to versions of Final Cut or Pro Tools for months or years simply because it was stable. Editors are stubborn. Which is why I’m not surprised there’s negativity about Final Cut X. What surprises me is the lack of perspective. Editors are reacting as if they must upgrade today and will be fucked because of X’s limitations.
This is a classic Apple 1.0 release. They create the foundation for the future, often including radical new concepts, and then they wait and watch, and incrementally develop until they have a best in class product. This is exactly what Final Cut Pro did with version 1.0. Professionals laughed at it too.
I don’t see a single problem that Apple can’t remedy in terms of FCPX’s limitations for professionals. Everyone just needs to chill the fuck out and keep using FCP 7 until things settle. And last time I checked my FCP 7 install disks didn’t burst into flames the second X was released.
At first I wondered why they put ice cream on my waffle #butter (Taken with Instagram at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles)
Karbon West
My (dear god I need a chair let’s hope it’s extremely) temporary home office.
White people problems - when there’s a shortage of fun.
Having recently been to Catalina Island I can definitively confirm it is the capital of white people problems. What with the “casino” that has no gambling, the movie theater with one movie showing once a day, the “arcade” with no video games, the Cubs spring training facilities that have been unused for 80 years. Don’t even get me started on the Mexican place that requires they pick you up in a van because the road to it is littered with falling boulders.
So yes, get ready for a tropical island getaway only a privileged white person could find problems with. (That’s me!)