Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

New rooms in the Big Trousers complex are nearing completion as plaster goes on the walls.

This piece from PhotoGeek on the new Drobo USB four drive storage unit. This could be a very handy bit of gear and we have contacted Drobo to see if we can get hold of a few of these for re-sale. The Drobo is unique in that it can have drives of unequal size inserted [...]

Engadget has posted a short piece on this photo of Al Gore’s triple 30 inch Apple cinema display. Do we all want a set up like this? Not so messy perhaps? Last line was a good one. ( thanks for the link-Ajay ) “P.S. -Yeah, fine, we’re creepy gadget stalkers, what of it?”

Just released the Elgato H.264 hardware encoder. Make Apple TV ready content from Elgato recorded HD Free to Air TV in a flash. No more waiting for video to re-encode as 720p for iTunes playback. This makes the AppleTV a much more useful device for managing Free To Air TV on your widescreen TV. Read [...]

And the renovation at Big Trousers continues as the bitumen driveway goes in.

From an article by Daniel Turner from Technology Review about Apple and the pursuit of great industrial design. The process employed and the reasoning for this as a productive investment for those who use their products. I have to say I have never thought of Apple products in this way but it is interesting to [...]

Released a week or so ago, USTREAM provides a method of streaming live video and audio to a worldwide audience. According to Cris Pirillo, this is indeed a revolution as it allows bloggers and video bloggers to go live with text chat to their audience. I suppose with Skype you could have live interview and [...]

Good to see the photogeek podcast is finally online. Cameron talks about the imminent release of the Canon 1D Mk3 along with other discussion and news. Check out the site and let them know what you think.

This is a little job for Ringo, an artist from The StKilda Esplanade market. Ringo wanted to know if we could reproduce from an original oil painting, a color accurate reproduction to canvas using the wide format Epson printer. The 4800 pro uses 100 year archive pigment ink and also is amazing at this sort [...]