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10 mensonges d'entrepreneurs

Guy Kawasaki nous fait part de son expérience sur les discours que pourraient tenir certains entrepreneurs en mal de fonds pour leur activité.
Guy est tout à la fois un gourou (ancien executive d'Apple), un visionnaire passionné des nouvelles technologies et maintenant Investisseur comme Managing Director de Garage Technology Ventures.

Mensonge, le mot est d'ailleurs fort. Il s'agit plus en réalité d'un rappel à la raison, au sens de la mesure et de la réalité, et, plus difficile, au fait de ne pas amplifier les projections.

A bon entendeur...

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Salon du cinema 2008: THE January Paris event

Last year, 3 formers guys from Publicis Paris launched le salon du cinema (Gad Abitbol, Jonathan Bryant and Moïse Kissous). Their idea was simple: make an event creating contacts, chats and demos between aficionados and professionals. Make-up artists, actors, cameramen, producers, horses and lions tamers, costumers, acrobats and stuntmen, screenwriters, marketers, editors: the whole world of the cinema is there. Quite surprisingly, it had never been done before!

2007's edition was a success: 70.000 visitors and the presence of Nils Tavernier, Benoit Magimel, Claude Chabrol, Michaël Youn, Alain Chabat, Guillaume Canet,  Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and even Olivier Mathiot ;-).
Have a look to their site and watch the 5 mn trailer; it's worth.
2008's edition is sponsored by Jean-Jacques Annaud and is honoured by the visit of Christine Albanel, the French culture minister. It opens at Paris Porte de Versailles, hall 6, from Friday January the 18th till Sunday the 20th.

I am sincerely amazed by the size and the quality of the event Gad, Jonathan and Moïse have created. I am always happy when I see such moves: former wage-earners becoming entrepreneurs and succeeding. Bravo!
Gad, Jonathan, Moïse, next year in Berlin, London or… L.A. ?

Last thing (really important): HarryPotter's Owl salutes you!

Marvelous HDR images

Thanks to Accessoweb and HDR crème, I've just discover HDR images (High Dynamic Range Imaging) and I am enthusiastic about them.

Like Wikipedia says : "In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

HDRI was originally developed for use with purely computer-generated images. Later, methods were developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy-to-use desktop software, the term "HDR" is now popularly used[1] to refer to the process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range. This composite technique is different from, and generally of lower quality than, the production of an image from a single exposure of a sensor that has a native high dynamic range. Tone mapping is also used to display HDR images on devices with a low native dynamic range, such as a computer screen".

Watch the picture album below; these are a few HDR images. As you will see, they seem more colourful, better lighted (even the shadowed areas), almost unreel like some computer-generated images sometimes are.

Other examples on Flickr.

Enjoy!

PS: I know this post could be inconsistent to my previous post about beauty. I was talking of human models, accessibility of brands, and not landscapes or towns at night.