Simone Brunozzi

Watch this (as usual) brilliant talk by Lawrence Lessig at TED:

I always wonder how these brilliant thoughts affect the mind and behaviors of couch potatoes worldwide. Couch potatoes that vote. That buy. That influence the world in which everyone else lives.

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).