Author Archives: Tal

Shirts and boots

By Tal | Published: July 14, 2011

The use of National Socialist iconography in the admittedly more and more unsettling political debate in Israel seems to have conquered new grounds today, with the publication in Haaretz of this cartoon by Amos Biederman, depicting MK Ze’ev Elkin shining his boots after passing the vote outlawing calls for boycott of settlements. Although I subscribe [...]

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Turning an iPhone/iPad into a studio recording light

By Tal | Published: September 25, 2010

A functional example of OSC address rewrites: using TouchOSC and OSCulator to add a Recording Light behavior to an iOS device.

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New music showcase

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2010

There is now a separate website showcasing music I’ve composed for television, as well as some personal projects: www.talzana.com (in French).

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Using timecode in Excel

By Tal | Published: April 15, 2009

A extremely useful 20-kilobyte Excel macro, programmed in 1996, allows video editors to easily edit timecode spreadsheets.
TC.XLA adds a dozen of new and handy functions that are very simple to use. You can now easily add and subtract timecodes, convert between frame rates and even find the value of a timecode in feet for 16mm or 35mm film. The macro seems to support all standard drop and non-drop frame rates.

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Install Python 2.6.1 without trashing Ubuntu

By Tal | Published: January 22, 2009

Getting an independent Python 2.6.1 version running smoothly on Ubuntu 8.10 (“Intrepid”), without interfering with the system’s reliance on Python 2.5 and without breaking the entire package dependency system.

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Python and Leopard

By Tal | Published: December 14, 2008

How to fix a messed up $PYTHONPATH environment variable in Mac OSX Leopard.

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Bobigny, mémoires d’une cité

By Tal | Published: May 14, 2008

Directed by Marie-Pierre Jaury TV documentary (2007) 50′ Produced by Au fil de l’eau / France 5 Original music score

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Quand l’art prend le pouvoir

By Tal | Published: May 14, 2008

Directed by François Lévy-Kuentz TV documentary (2008) 2×26′ Produced by Les poissons volants / Arte Camera After Effects Animator

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Plugin-based photography section

By Tal | Published: November 4, 2007

I finally got to designing a unified photo gallery which exists independently of the posts. Some photographs are taken from the posts, while others can only be found in the gallery.

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Mourir pour la voiture

By Tal | Published: October 24, 2007

Directed by Paul Moreira TV documentary (2007) 52′ Produced by AMIP / Premières Lignes Camera AVID Editor After Effects Animator Watch the trailer

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