Simone Brunozzi

Don’t you love, love, love this?
I did the interviews, and my friend Luca did the footage and the post-processing. Good job Luca!

Tribute to fiftypeopleonequestion in Rome from Luca Sartoni on Vimeo.

I’m good. Feeling good, doing good.
In the last few months, I didn’t really blog that much, right?
Hope I’ll find some time to do that in the future.

Cheers :)

In Moscow right now… It’s beautiful!
I need to fix a small problem with my wordpress… Be patient :)

Where the hell is Matt?

Very interesting: Story of Stuff.

I shot a couple of dozen pictures in Seattle yesterday, and I wanted to put them on Flickr. Problem is that Flickr has a monthly upload bandwidth limit, and my Canon EOS 400D creates 3382×2259 images, but for Flickr a 1200×800 should suffice; therefore I decided to resize them before uploading.
How to do that with a batch process, rather than by hand?

I came up with a nice solution using GIMP (for Linux Ubuntu, but it’s valid for other Linux flavors as well).
Here’s how.

Install the package gimp-plugin-registry, which includes also David’s Batch Processor (name says all).

Now open Gimp, go to Xtns, and then click “Batch Process…“.

Here you can configure the details, expecially:
- which images you want to convert (”input” tab)
- how you want to resize them (”resize” tab)
- the type and quality of output images (in the “output” tab)
- renaming (you can’t overwrite the original files; choose a different directory for output).

It works!

Check them out on my flickr page (pictures have a friendly CreativeCommons license, you can use them).