It's amazing, the variety of attitudes and opinions on this thread. People don't spend this much energy arguing the fine points of war and yet, it really is just a watch.
The promotion is genius. Not sure about the watch, but if the chatter is any sign, it's already a success.
Heroku support options have always worked to shelter their employees from customers and as has been pointed out, despite the steep decline in costs, their prices have not changed. It's a shame because they were a trendsetter, but they are quickly being surpassed by players like DO, Linode and Poppup.
The company that $parent is the founder of. Which, if you google for, you discover that their page is titled "Blog Logo" and contains no content. Check back in a week or so, I guess.
A frivolous addition with no facts to check. Admitted. Give it twelve weeks. The point is that Heroku can do better. No offense meant to sales force or it's employees, just honest feedback based in real experiences.
I was recruited to work as editor on this project about two years ago. My reason for not taking the job at the time was that it would be hard to make the ending interesting enough to justify the effort. Two years have passed and now that I see the reproduction, I've changed my mind, it was impossible to make the ending interesting enough. Would have made a good magazine article in the Smithsonian though.
"what a sweep of vanity comes this way!" - Shakespeare
That's a pretty cheap shot - I think you owe it both to us and to the participants to say what you think the problem is. As it is, you comment comes off very much as sour grapes.
Just my humble opinion, but it doesn't matter how the artist achieved the results. The work speaks for itself.
Tim's Vermeer is probably a lot like watching a behind the scenes video. If you enjoy consuming information for information sake, you might find it interesting, but a lot of work and money goes into making a feature documentary and it should be a work of art itself. If it doesn't have broad appeal, it's referred to as a vanity project.
The Cove is a good example of a documentary that is also a work of art. The story has a beginning a middle and an end and they are all made big through the story telling. The same could have been true of Tim's Vermeer if the story was told differently.
I apologize if my original comment came across as negative. I sometimes feel let down if stories are told in lazy or inexperienced ways and the article makes the story play like an episode of this old house.
The article doesn't quite give the film justice. While there are certainly some "behind the scenes" like material, the documentary is more than just a "How to paint like Vermeer" type instructional video. It delves more into Tim's obsession with completing the project, showcasing both the "1% inspiration" and especially the "99% perspiration" moments. There is also some great subtext, it's a story of a man whose daughter goes off to college, and then he takes on this big project to fill the hole in his life (which also helps bring him closer to her, as she models the girl in the painting when she comes home for break). There is also an interesting scene at the end where Tim hangs his Vermeer on his mantle. Proud at his accomplishment, and yet it feels hollow, as Tim has not gained the artistic skill of Vermeer, he's only acted as a very, very slow human camera, taking many months to capture what a modern camera (even those used to film the documentary) could capture in seconds. I haven't seen Cove, and I don't know if this elevates Tim's Vermeer to your standards of art, but there's more to it than "an episode of This Old House".
I don't know if it will have broad appeal, but it only had a limited theatrical release, and I think it will be suited better to DVD and VOD like Netflix.
As far as vanity goes, I mean it certainly seems like Tim painted the Vermeer more to scratch his own curiosity than to make a big profit. Making the documentary might also have been a way to help him give himself incentive to finish the project, indeed in one part of the film he says "If the cameras weren't filming right now, I would just give up."
Thanks for the information. Sounds like they took the personal journey approach and it also sounds like you enjoyed it, which would indicate that they did a good job, including the ending. I'll look forward to watching when I get a chance, but thanks for filling in the blanks. I'm willing to say, I stand corrected.
Anyone who has seen a Vermeer painting up close, knows how hypnotic the experience can be. Is it true that in the movie Tim never gets to see the original and is reproducing based on a poster?
Tim gets to see the original Vermeer, but they weren't allowed to film it. However his reproduction is not based exactly on the poster or the original. Instead what Tim did was build a replica of the room Vermeer painted in, including all the props, and make his own painting by using his mirror device to observe this replica room.
It costs a lot of money to make a film. I don't know Tim and I suspect he's a nice and interesting guy, but movies that lack broad appeal are sometimes referred to as vanity projects. I'd like to know how much money was spent making the film, where that money came from and what the theatrical run took in. If I had that information, I could tell you whether this was a vanity project.
The problem is sufficiently complex and boring to favor Comcast. What I would like to know is this: It is already a regional monopoly in high speed internet because no on can touch their speeds, why would anyone consider extending their monopoly nation-wide?
Where there are banks, there will always be bank robbers. This will never cease to be the case and the banks will always lose money this way. It's inevitable.
So, the problem becomes one of scale. For example, a bank can survive a small unauthorized withdrawal, but large thefts are what kills the business. Limit the withdrawal sizes and shut down everything at a core level when that security is breached.
The ability to move massive amounts around securely is a pipe dream.
Being purveyors of good taste, leaders have to take action. Despite my karma score (73) I support implementation of a solution to a known problem, despite the risks.
It provides a motive to achieve a higher score, whereas before there was little to no reason.
Cloud storage is not going away. It's just getting massively cheaper and will continue to do so until the team at dropbox gets bored with running a commodity business and turn to conquer another big problem.
Creative people do not thrive in commodity businesses and their skills are in much higher demand driving massive growth as they have to this point.
Amazon will incorporate cloud storage into prime at some point and may dominate this market as they are very good at running long-term focused, commodity-based businesses.
