Morning rituals start taking on a familiar pattern and so I usually begin each day getting to the Marche du Film at opening, grab a café au lait and the Festival Daily to see what parties I was not privvy to the evening before and read the buzz on what films are breaking out from the pack. I listen to (eavesdropping while recounting my previous day's events) what others are talking up for the day and all I hear is Scorsese, Scorsese, Scorsese.

It's a beautiful cerulean blue setting between the sky and a hundred yards from the Mediterranean where interested industry and media gathered for the panel discussion on the Future of Media in the digital age.

Tuesday morning I arrive at the center of film universe with a map and the Festival "practical guide" explaining the lay of the land, the do's and don'ts. Outside the Palais des Festivals and the Riviera there's the Festival Zone that includes the Village international - Pantiero as well as the Cinema de la Plage (a huge screen on the beach where I saw HONDO with John Wayne dubbed in French).

The biggest reason I am completely psyched to be in Las Vegas right now (and there are many other reasons, they just start stacking rank right under this one) is what tomorrow brings. It's Apple's big morning to-do: The Lights Camera Apple NAB Keynote.

Well my talk went great today @ PodcampNYC and I'd like to thank everyone who attended for their questions and comments. Hopefully they enjoyed it as much as I did. Since so many people were talking about the process of making a video podcast, I stuck solely to the topic of video compression for the podcaster - talking about the concepts of compression and offering some ideas for improving the quality.

It's the weekend and for some strange reason,I'm not sitting on my couch with a cup of coffee. Nope, I'm at PodCampNYC - the unconference for podcasters.

Its a day long event full of sessions ranging from production values to social networking idea, to plenty of niche podcasting genres (I saw puppets, knitting and sports all accounted for on the schedule).

Paravue just announced a new image masking tool called Turbo Mask, a plug in for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended that significantly streamlines the process of cutouts. Turbo Mask will be available in late May 2007 for $249 USD. The product will be available for Windows and Mac Universal.

Submitted by Todd Howard  April 4, 2007 - 6:08pm

Adobe is announcing the official release of their brand new Creative Suite 3 offerings this afternoon, and the announcement can be seen by anyone with an internet connection via the live webcast from New York City -- Today, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 3:30 PM eastern time -- just a reminder to tune in and see all the cool new features with live demos by Adobe gurus and all that good stuff.

I'm planning to attend these events next week. They are part of a pretty exceptional event series put together by the Center for Communication, and attendance is complementary if you sign up at www.cencom.org.

Behind the Image: Graphic Design
Wednesday, March 28
6:30 to 8:00 pm

Adobe announces plans to make its unveiling of the long awaited Creative Studio 3 easy to catch - no matter where you live. If you aren't going to be at the live event in New York City, you can choose between a live webcast, or hitting one of the live presentations at one of five Apple retail stores.