A mysterious killer is brutally murdering Europe’s most loathsome criminals.
When police discover that two of the victims have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it’s clear that somebody’s trying to send him a message.
As the body count rises, the evidence seems to point to a ghost from Joona’s past… the most terrifying villain he’s ever had to face.
Surprisingly, detective Saga Bauer is the main character in this book.
Joona Linna disappeared in order to protect his daughter from the bad guy.
I’d long planned to replace both my old GoPro and my Sony ZV1 camera with one action camera β and finally made the leap when the Insta360 Ace Pro was released December 2023.
My minimum gear for shooting video has never been lighter nor more compact.β
I like HDR (high dynamic range) and shoot the same on my iPhone.β Over-saturated video looks good to me on YouTube.βEspecially if watching on a phone.
4K30fps is the most I can shoot in HDR on the Ace Pro.β(Better would be 60fps in HDR.βThat would be my #1 request for future upgrade.)
I export at 1080p30fps so can crop / zoom down without losing resolution.β
Shooting in this setting I can quickly zoom 50% and yet still end up with 4K video whenever I want by double tapping the screen.βHow does 4K zoom to 4K?β… Some sort of digital trickery in camera they call clarity zoom.β
Their 8K is 4K with 4 small pixels replacing each normal 4K pixel.βSo far I haven’t been much impressed with 8K for video.
Ultrawide gives the widest possible perspective for outdoor scenery.βI’ll use that mode when shooting BIG outdoor vistas.
Most of the time, I’ll use Dewarp (minimal distortion) as it most closely matches a normal camera with almost no curvature to the image.
iPhone App and Apple Watch App
I’ll be using the Apple Watch app quite a bit.βIt’s simple.βQuick.βAnd intuitive.β
I might never use the phone app which is complicated.βAnd really not needed for someone who plans to edit video later on laptop.
Voice Command on the Ace Pro works most of the time, even in noisy environments.
This camera has Gesture Control β but it works inconsistently, as it does on every other product I’ve tried with that feature.
Downsides of the Insta360 Ace Pro
The AcePro has no GPS.β With iPhone photos and video, I sometimes look up the metadata to see exactly where and when I took the picture β very useful.
It’s possible to use the phone app βΒ or even the watch app βΒ to get the metadata, but that’s too much hassle for me.
The biggest problem now, however, is lack of much zoom on any of my cameras.βI’d love to have something with 10x optical, as well.β
Since I export at 30fps, in my normal shooting mode I won’t be able to slow down video.βIn reality, I don’t use much slow mo anyway, so it probably won’t be a problem.βBUT I’ll need to remember to switch to slow motion if I ever want some of those captures.
A concept for YOUR future series of speculative fiction.βYou can write those books during retirement.βπ
Human kind is going extinct on Earth.
Elon Musk and others launch as many long range space craft as possible.βTowards as many remotely feasible planets and moons that might be able to sustain life.
The ships are unmanned β aside from frozen sperm and eggs.βThis seems far more possible than sending folks cryogenically frozen.
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Those (few) ships that survive the trip after hundreds of years at sub-light speed are possible story plots.
After landing, Androids start in vitro humans growing.βThey attempt to adapt the planet for homo sapiens.
TheΒ music video written, directed and edited by AustralianΒ Russell Mulcahy, was produced on a budget of $50,000. It was filmed in only a day in South London.
The video is best known as marking theΒ debutΒ ofΒ MTV, when the US channel started broadcasting at 12:01 AM on 1 August 1981. Β It originally aired on the BBC’sΒ Top of the Pops.
Hans ZimmerΒ can be briefly seen wearing black playing a keyboard.
89% Rotten Tomatoes. That’s about right. I’d change a few things, if I could.
Intense. But skillfully done.
Unlike typical Agatha Christie, the dialogue is believable.
Emma Corrin is excellent as Darby Hart, a 24-year-old βGen Z Sherlock Holmesβ hacker who has written a true-crime book about her past as an amateur sleuth.
She’s Rami Malek‘s paramour right now IRL.
Harris DickinsonΒ as Bill Farrah is quite good, as well. They make a charmingly socially awkward duo.
Darby and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life. …
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman once told the New Yorker he estimates more than half of Silicon Valley billionaires have invested in some type of “apocalypse insurance,” like an underground bunker.
Rick McCharles 