Author Archives: Tal

u3 and OS X

By Tal | Published: August 3, 2007
I never thought that getting a brand-new USB key to work could turn into a configuration nightmare, requiring trips to four separate utilities and two operating systems. This is what happened last week with the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB USB Flash Drive. This USB key uses a SanDisk-developed technology called U3 (obnoxiously marketed with the slogan "It's what's next. It's what's smart.")
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Train and train station

By Tal | Published: July 26, 2007
Two shots taken during a recent trip to the south of France.
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Jugglers

By Tal | Published: July 24, 2007
Friday night on the banks of the Seine. Many thanks to performers Isabelle and Guillaume for their permission to post these photographs.
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Wayne Shorter in Paris : effects shots

By Tal | Published: July 20, 2007
I’m starting to add a few posts showing some of the work I did which involved shooting and special effects. The following clip shows some of the visual effects I created for Marie-Pierre Jaury’s documentary on Wayne Shorter. The idea behind all this was to present Shorter as an infinitely-wise alien bringing love, music and originality [...]
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A exterminatory state of mind

By Tal | Published: June 15, 2007
For multiple reasons, I've always been opposed to people attaching historically-charged terms such as "Nazi" to Israeli policy. However, this little gem published on the very popular Israeli news portal ynet (which also maintains an English version) is so dramatic that it made me question the validity of my traditional arguments.
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Guitar Tabs attacked

By Tal | Published: June 3, 2007
The assault of corporate copyright on the free circulation of information continues with the recent demand by the National Music Publisher’s Association to basically shut down Guitar Tabs, a site which offers free guitar tablatures of popular music. These tablatures are transcribed by passionate lovers and players of music, who listen time and time again [...]
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Beijing : Weiqi

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007
This is a short clip I shot of two people sitting in a street of Beijing and playing a game of Go (in China, the game is called Weiqi [pronounced, more or less, "way-chee"]). Although originally a Chinese game, Weiqi isn’t played very often by Chinese people (it has evolved into its current form after [...]
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Beijing : Night

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007
A few photographs of Beijing at night, mainly around the Forbidden City.
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Beijing : Day

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007
A short series of photographs from my recent trip to the Chinese capital.
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Cryptome shut down

By Tal | Published: May 1, 2007
Information is still sketchy, but it seems that intelligence-related website cryptome.org has been shut down by its Internet Service Provider, Verio (a company owned by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). The website, which has been given two weeks to find another ISP, has posted a copy of Verio’s termination letter. An article published today on Macworld [...]
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