As I type this, Lightroom PM Tom Hogarty is en route to Florida, preparing to talk live with Scott Kelby on The Grid tomorrow at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific. Scott writes,

Feeling like photographers have been left out of this whole “cloud” discussion from Adobe?

In this special live episode you can go right to the source and ask Tom Hogarty from Adobe your questions about their story for photographers and their photography roadmap. Also, Tom will sneak peek some future products and give us a look into the roadmap for photographers.

I think you’ll like what you see.

A treat for robots’ eyes:

They had me at “Marshmallow Laser Feast”:

I would sure like to unleash some Micronaxx on this bad boy. [Via]

Full-body, mixed-media free-for-all: That’s how I’d describe the Russell Brown at MAX sessions I’ve had the pleasure to experience over the years. This year’s in LA should be no different:

Seven reasons to sign up for RussellBrown@MAX

1. Classic Movie Monsters
2. Amazing Photoshop Instructors like Julieanne Kost and Joel Grimes
3. Meet the Wolfman and Frankenstein’s Monster in person!
4. Print directly on to a t-shirt with a Brother Garment Printer!
5. Print 60X40 inch Epson GIANT movie posters
6. Learn cool things about Photoshop that you have NEVER been shown before!
7. Photograph with a RED Epic camera!

What are you waiting for?! Sign up here.

Hmm—interesting concept (reversing what we normally see, i.e. PSD to HTML):

The app costs $28.99 on the Mac App Store. [Via Stephen Nielson]

Bob Zelin writing for Creative Cow:

Adobe Anywhere was the most important product at NAB 2013 – more amazing than the Blackmagic 4K camera, or anyone else’s product. The reality that “one day soon” (and “one day” right now for CNN) that you can be in Iraq with a WiFi Connection and can access your company server’s 4K media and edit it over WiFi, and don’t need any other equipment – well that just makes me sick.

Anyone that can afford it will buy Adobe Anywhere, and anyone that has Adobe Anywhere will never use any other editing software other than what Adobe provides. […] As this product becomes more accessible to the regular production and post production companies, the only products that will survive will be the ones that tie in with Adobe Anywhere.

“If people say it’s impossible we have to prove them wrong.”

Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.

[Via Maria Brenny]

Last month the design team of Jessica Walsh and Stefan Sagmeister locked themselves away for 24 hours to create a new logo for Adobe MAX. Here’s a time lapse of what happened:

From your lips to the Adobe brass’s ears. (And yes, there’s a sort of cheesy “push” aspect to the early set of questions, but there are legitimate questions and a free-text entry field at the end.) Thanks for your help!
[Update: I’m sorry that I didn’t read through the whole survey before posting it, and sorry that it comes off as self-promotion masquerading as a real invitation to dialog. I believe that the creators’ intentions were good, and that people really will listen to the answers you supply.]

Wow—talk about rapid iteration & being close to customers. In this short piece, Nordstrom’s Innovation Lab team shows how they conducted the 1-week experiment of building an iPad app that helped customers (and sales reps) pick the best sunglasses for them. The team set up workstations inside the Seattle flagship store so that they could tweak designs and code immediately based on customer feedback.

[Via Molly Ruf]

High praise from Filmmaker IQ:

This. Changes. Everything. […]

While every product being marketed out there was about making the image better and more beautiful, or the workflow easier and more automated, Adobe Anywhere was the only thing I saw that enables better collaboration and communication on a fundamental and crucial part of the filmmaking process. Although I’ve been a die-hard Adobe fan since I started editing, I’m trying to say this as best I can without bias – this idea of collaborative editing is one who’s time has come. Even though the current Adobe Anywhere may require be a little too much for small shops to implement right now, I have no doubt Adobe or whoever will find a way to bring this idea to everybody.

It’s only a matter of time for this paradigm shift.

[Via Todd Kopriva]

A little bizarre fun from Russell Brown:

[Via Ammar Al Midani]

If you’re not an administrator responsible for deploying Adobe apps, you can skip this one. If you are an admin, however, you may well be excited. According to PM Karl Gibson, “This new tool lets admins download all Creative Cloud products & updates; define custom installation behavior; and at the end have a native MSI or PKG that you use with your deployment tool.” See Karl’s post and product docs for more details, and check out the demo below:

I’m so proud that my wife Margot gets to help deliver the next generation of collaborative awesomeness. Adobe Anywhere helps editors, VFX artists, and other video pros simultaneously access, stream, and work with remotely stored media. As the product site says, “There’s no need for heavy file transfers, duplicate media, or proxy files.”
Here’s how it works, in under 3 minutes:

And check out how CNN & others are putting Anywhere into action:

It’s fun for me to see some of these customers at last. Many are based in Europe, so I’ll often wake up to the sound of Margot dialing into early morning conference calls. One day Finn, age 4, asked me, “Dad-O, is Mom-O talking to Germans?” Yes, I told him. “No!” he said, “Nein nein nein nein!” 🙂

Hmm—I’d never heard this metaphor when discussing the quantity vs. quality of pixels on a sensor, but I like it. Here’s HTC’s Symon Whitehorn talking about their move from 8 to 4 megapixels:

This debunks the so-called “megapixel myth,” which says that more megapixels equals a better image. “The old analogy that the industry uses is called pixel rain, so you can imagine photons coming down as rain—with photon rain being collected in buckets with the buckets being the pixel,” says Whitehorn. “Now you could put a lot of little cups out and try to collect the same amount of rain and you wind up getting noise between the cups as opposed to it all falling into one big bucket.”

Of course, now I kind of want to see some cheeky artist take this idea to its absurd extreme, producing a sensor that’s just 1 pixel in resolution—but oh man is that pixel’s quality ever high.

The special introductory price of $19.99 is good until tomorrow, April 7. Grab it here.

Frivolous, silly? Possibly. Cool, impressive? You bet.

Here’s how they did it. [Via John Dowdell]

From CNET:

Martin Cooper changed the world when he made the first cell phone call 40 years ago.

The former Motorola vice president and division manager made the call on the company’s DynaTAC phone while standing in front of the New York Hilton on Sixth Avenue. His first call: to the head of research at Bell Labs, a company that also was attempting to build the first cell phone.

Check out the rest of the article for a fun (albeit sadly Gekko-less) infographic.