Porto Cervo and the Maddalena archipelago, according to the pros who come here year after year to compete in the Rolex Cup be it on Maxis, TP 52s, 12ms or Swans as happened last week, is one of the world's most attractive racing venues. To follow the race without a boat or helicopter can be very frustrating, regardless of what glass you attach to your Nikon or Canon. The action is usually to far from shore. Unless you are lucky as I happened to be the other day as I went to the lighthouse of Capo Ferro hoping to see some of the 70plus participants in the Rolex Swan Cup of 2008.
October 11, 2008
August 30, 2005
Favorite podcast: Reel reviews
My favorite film podcast by far is Michael Geoghegan's "Reel Reviews - Films Worth Watching". He normally does one episode per week, either as a regular 10 minutes show bringing listeners up to speed on which films to check out from the video store or as a "Cinephile Series", a 30+ minutes in-depth analysis of his favorite movies. The best way to convince yourself that "Reel Reviews" is worth your time is to listen to one of his recent shows.
I particularly like the episode on "Scarface", Brian de Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, starring Al Pacino. This podcast includes an interview with Pepe Serna who offers his personal insights into de Palma's way of work and his experience in working side by side with Al Pacino. Check out the "Scarface" episode.
August 26, 2005
My fovorite Mac podcasts
Already there is a large selection of podcasts for the Macintosh universe. Among my favorites are the above three which provide an excellent coverage from different angeles and in different styles of what is happening in the Mac world. Inside Mac Radio has a weekly show, syndicated through terrestrial broadcast radio stations but also downloadable from their website. Anchorman Scott Shepherd and his buddies Ken Ray, Sam Levine and Laura Burstin are a lot of fun to listen to. Their show is a good combination of serious Mac news, entertaining interviews with industry personalities living the Macintosh digital livestyle and fun talk among the team members. You get the team's quite personal views on the latest products and news in the Mac universe. Nine on a scale of ten. Highly recommended.
Adam Christianson's eMaccast is a rich source of Mac information. Adam runs it more like a forum with lots of contributions from his listeners. I like the show for its broad and complete coverage of the Mac universe. But you won't explode with laughter while tuning in as you will when listening to Scott Shepherd's gang. Five out of ten. Recommended.
Machelp from Maui is more of a personal blog by Scott Waters a Mac salesman from Colorado turned into a Mac consultant, webpage designer and graphic arts illustrator. He lives in a nice old house and a couple weedable acres on the sunny side of Haleakala volcano on Maui. As he describes it, you will find him among his breeding herd of iMacs, tossing frisbees to his assistant or careening along the jungle roads leaving a trail of broken coffee cups and functional computers. Between customer visits he sometimes finds time to paint, mow the lawn, read too much and pay his library fines. He is much fun to listen to. A seven out of ten.
August 23, 2005
KCRW - Left, right and center
Since the release of iTunes 4.9, Apple (link) has greatly facilitated podcasting for the "rest of us", thus opening the gates for the "next revolution of radio". Featuring over 6000 podcasts in its Podcast directory, in a few weeks it has become the epicenter of podcasting, where you can subscribe in the iTunes podcast directory (link) to your hearts delight podcasts of your choice. All you have to do is to download the iTunes software (for Mac or Windows), install it and fire up iTunes from ABC, BBC, US public radio stations to the thousands of private podcasts which have mushroomed over the last 12 months, you can download individual episodes or even better subscribe to your favorite shows so that their are always updated and ready to be listened to. Anytime, anywhere (with your iPod) and not when the radio stations tell you.
Apologies for the lengthy intro. But in our part of the world podcasting is just about to be discovered. Having listened to quite a few podcast regularly over the last 9 months, bear with me in this and occasional future posts, what I consider to be my favorites.
Starting with political podcasts, I have a couple of favorites. Number one one my list is KCRW's - the Santa Monica public radio station (link) "Left, Right and Center". There is one episode per week. As the name of the show says, current US political issues and events are vididly discussed from the opposing viewpoints of the political spectrum. Go to their website, click on the icon of "Left, Right and Center" and check it out. I hope you will enjoy enjoy.
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