Andrew Reid

Is there No Limit to our suffering. Locked in a race as to who can kill the arts first, we bear witness to a gargantuan dick swinging contest fought between haphazard bureaucrats in government and a deadly bat pathogen. The fight is escalating with no end in sight, but one thing is for sure – corporate America will profit endlessly. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/who-will-kill-filmmaking-first/

Hope things get better for all of us soon. I don't think I can cope with another 6 months in apartment jail. It's putting too much pressure on all of us and ruining too many people's motivation to work and socialise. Very dangerous. I totally get how it can exacerbate issues in relationships and that constant anxiety is always there with this bloody virus. Winter doesn't help either. Or Brexit. Or any of our silly clueless governments. I am just waiting for the worldwide economy to have its say in 2021, because we can always rely on a fucking American banker to make things worse when people are suffering! I think the key to the internet is to have a few key friends that you share online chat and activities with, like gaming, or work, or creative projects, people you get on with or know in real life... but then be sure to put some of the strangers at an arms length as much as possible, because these are not real connections and can always flip at any second into outright nastiness over differences of opinion. Facebook is horrendous and can even turn friends against each other for profit. Yeah, long live the open discussion on EOSHD. There are some peoples input and content I really value. Others not so much 😉

Very, very rude. It is everyone's right to write movie reviews and to have a personal opinion on a film. For some people, it is even a career! The irony of you coming on here writing a big internet diatribe about my cultural commentary and not liking a certain movie, is not lost on me. If you can't be polite in my house, you will leave it, little piggy. Be careful the wolf doesn't blow your fucking front door down.

Utopia? Communism? 🙂 M1 is manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC. Taiwan is a democracy.

New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/wonder-woman-1984-movie-review-crimes-against-men-and-children/

Here begins a series of blog thoughts from me on the state of the world and filmmaking in 2021, after humanity decided to go headlong into a full dystopia like you see in the movies. There will in the future be many great cinematic masterpieces about our plight as citizens in the year 2020. Anyone who has seen Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker’s “Death to 2020” on Netflix can see for themselves the historic plot twists and sheer lunacy of what we’ve been going through the past year. New blog post... https://www.eoshd.com/news/andrew-reid-on-filmmaking-when-the-truth-is-so-awful-only-liars-win/

I am really enjoying the M1, in the form of the MacBook Air. It isn't proving to be 100% reliable though. A few software updates away from that I think. The external monitor support is dodgy. I cannot get over 4K30hz out of the USB C to a USB C display, nor via USB C to DisplayPort. The monitor is 4K/60z, and the only way to get it to work is to go USB C to HDMI. That's not normal, and it has had a few Kernel panics as well with the USB C hub plugged in and charging via that. So not perfect, but it's just so damn fast. I have about 25 tabs open in Safari, and it never chokes. The memory management and multitasking is just another world away from Intel. Everyday tasks are a breeze. My MacBook Pro 16" 2019 just can't keep up. It suddenly feels laggy, hesitant, just little pauses and hangs here and there where the Air M1 is as responsive as an iPad, yet the full blown Mac OS. Amazing. It cuts through 4K 10bit H.265 like it is 1080p. Even Premiere, emulated Intel x86, performs admirably on par with a top of the range iMac Pro 27".

Here's my review of 2020 in cameras / filmmaking. Doesn't make for easy reading so take a stiff gin with you to this article... https://www.eoshd.com/news/a-review-of-the-year-2020-by-andrew-reid/

Only just got it and not done enough to test it yet. Everything feels solid and snappy so far. Got Resolve 17.1 beta on there. And LumaFusion iOS app runs natively in MacOS on it. Interesting to try that with a mouse and keyboard. I am sure there will be throttling. No fan. Not even a vent. But it's like complaining the car you use to do the supermarket run is only coming 12th in F1 qualifying rather than pole position. Shouldn't even be talking about high-end video tasks on this class of laptop 🙂

M1 goes back to the ARM1 in 1985 which is a chip I brushed shoulders with as a young kid familiar with the Acorn / BBC Micro computers at the time (and in the early 90's) in British schools. RISC architecture was showing some serious strengths way back then. When you take Moore's law and many years of Apple investment in efficient mobile silicon you get this... An actual 64bit CPU core occupies a tiny part of the die, and the integrated GPU about one quarter. The DRAM is pretty much on the same die and is accessed extremely effectively by both CPU and GPU. I took delivery of the MacBook Air M1 last week, from Amazon for £999... It is an ultra thin / featherweight class affordable consumer laptop. With a motherboard the size of a small TV remote control And probably only a little larger than what's in the iPad Pro. So I booted it up and put something very intensive and demanding on... Top-end PC game designed for Nvidia RTX cards and Intel CPUs. It runs via Steam, via an interpreter (Rosetta 2). Not even a native app. First signs this is not a normal fanless ultra thin laptop is I easily get 60fps with good looking graphics, nothing turned down all the way. The resolution looks so good, as if there's either upscaling, some A.I involved or some new kind of display scaling magic going on. Yet this is with the performance hit of Rosetta (about 20%), on a PC game port running x86 code with integrated graphics!! It smashes... demolishes... everything else in the same class. Intel, Nvidia and AMD should be extremely worried. When / if Apple scale up this architecture to 32 core high-end consumer territory with a fan and dedicated Apple GPU, the rest are in trouble. There is so much custom silicon in the CPU... video editing, encoding, image editing, all buttery smooth so far and this is the least powerful Apple silicon machine they will ever make.

The M1 has more transistors than Emanuel has YouTube videos in one thread

Another year over and what a shit one it was, to be quite frank about it. We all deserve a bit of peace and happiness at Christmas after this, to get our spirits up so that's my hope for all of you - have a good one, and cheers for your EOSHD-ing all year through thick and thin, keep the passion and let's keep our heads above water! And I hope all your front rooms look as great as this...

Take the size of the film camera market today That will be size of digital camera market in 10 years 🙂

I have three! One cost 290 euros body only. Bit battered though

Add up the total box office revenue for those 30 films. Streaming will not pay out. This isn't about streaming being evil and multiplex experience being great. Actually it has left a lot to be desired for a long time and is overpriced. Streaming is great. But it cannot come at the expense of cinema culture, independent cinemas, art-house cinemas, and millions of jobs. That's what is on the line now. As far as what's popular, of course it's all going to be comic book escapism and family friendly - that's what consumers want. You're not going to have dark, brooding 18 rated stuff dominating the box office! It doesn't dominate Netflix by view-count either! If you look at the top 100 of the music charts, that's 99% artistically shallow as well - you don't expect to find complex themes appealing to the mainstream, because most people just want some escapism or a family day out... most people don't care about cinema and craft, like we do. It's obvious every time you go to a cinema isn't it? Mainstream and popular has always been derivative and lowest common denominator stuff. Although I think Joker at $333m box office isn't to be sniffed at, for what's essentially an art-house movie... Albeit one that uses a super hero carrot to entice the general public! And you have the occasional Nolan, or quality popcorn movie doing well. 007. Lord of The Rings etc. But if we destroy those communal cinema experiences and box office revenue by making all new major releases come to streaming at same time as cinema, you really damage the entire movie industry financially, not to mention piss off a lot of talent who as Nolan said, went to sleep one day working for cinema, and woke up working for a HBO Max bait and switch. It's a great thing to have your work destined for the big screen and illustrious cinema-land. What would David Lynch make of it? Can you really experience cinema on a laptop screen?

$858m from 94m views. Try replicating that on streaming services. Not going to happen. So a lot of talent going to be cut back, budgets slashed and diverted, it all trickles down to the grass roots of the film and cinema industry - small guys will lose their jobs too. Does anyone really think smaller, indie musicians are better off from streaming compared to CD sales, financially? Not a chance. So a big correction on the way if they follow the trend to streaming and away from ticket sales at the box office.

Here's how the music industry is... https://news.sky.com/story/nile-rodgers-calls-on-mps-to-tackle-unfair-streaming-system-12155250 Big profits for Spotify but talent kept completely in the dark. We cannot have our culture controlled in this way and pimped out over the internet whilst live audiences become obsolete.

Merry Christmas and a happy 8th December 🙂 Nice film Grimor. Cheers

I can't see it myself. Those with an interest in cinema have already bought all of that stuff. What changes? Just because Matrix 4 comes to streaming first, and you can't go to the cinema - you are not, as an average mainstream ex-cinemagoer, going to spend $3000 on gear for that are you? I disagree with that too I'm afraid. What is the point of a director at all if the customer makes all the decisions? (Yes The choice of viewing device is a creative decision) Sure, and they can already spend their money on Netflix, or whatever. I don't care. But depriving cinemas of content at a time like this is a bad move for culture. We need the rousing blockbuster social experience like never before. New Bond film at Christmas. That kind of thing. Short sighted beancounters at the studios risk killing that future. It's short term thinking. The math and damn statistics are nothing to do with it. Emotionally I can tell the difference between a big cinema screen and a TV! It's a completely separate experience. sounds quite charming to me 🙂 Music streaming has killed music. They are not paying per film. It's a monthly sub, creative cloud style. Do you want to tie yourself into 10 of those all at once just to get the same selection of studio content you would at any one time in one cinema? Sounds fucking expensive to me! I can just see it following the music industry to a tee. Smaller artists lose out from Spotify in big fashion. The pirated copies of HBO Max streams will be full HD, 1080p, probably identical quality to what you get from the paid service.

Best blockbuster of the year!! https://www.eoshd.com/news/christopher-nolans-fury-at-warner-in-streaming-controversy-they-didnt-tell-anybody/ And perhaps after the crisis, a real chance to reinvent theater-going.

If all these influencers are buying professional gear, why is Nikon in dire straits? Part of it is because Nikon was late to the mirrorless market. Part of it is that influencers and content creators are just using an entirely phone based workflow from shooting to editing. Might be a tablet in there at most. How many D850 shot Tik Tok videos are out there compared to the number shot on smartphones? Maybe 0.00001%? The industry has fucked itself. They have not been in the game. It is the fault of elderly out of touch Japanese management in their 80's. They haven't even yet got proper touch screens and OS. Let alone a successful App Store and foolproof connectivity. Some companies quite frankly deserve to be swept away in the change. I just hope the better, more deserving ones survive. Especially Sigma.

Did you see how many shitty compact cameras Nikon used to make? Masses and masses of them, for the masses. The market has practically vanished. They did nothing about it. Of course the market is getting smaller. Professional tools are a niche compared to consumer cameras. It is only high margins and expensive price tags that keep them from being completely unviable. Now that the camera companies have backed out from bothering to compete in massive consumer markets, they have dug themselves an even larger hole. Also remember with Nikon it is not just cameras that are the problem. Their outdated chipmaking business is about to hit the wall as well. It has about one customer.

Yeah. I agree The Photokina management have a lot to answer for. Just because it is not quite the corporate cash cow it once was... Also the camera companies should have saved it. Or at least put on some alternative of some kind. It's early days yet... Maybe we can get the industry professionals meet-up on similar scale going in another part of the world. Like all the great cine shows in the US. If not short term due to corona, then certainly by 2022.

Great choice. Hopefully Sony stays mute about it.

Yes, that's a good summary of the situation there Time was, when a trade show was advantageous for publicity and a useful place to make deals, meet distributors, network. Apparently all that is online now too. Solution...turn off the fucking internet.