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Marcel Wichmann

Marcel Wichmann

Marcel is from Hamburg, Germany. You can find Marcel’s tweets at and website at uarrr.org.

Hej, I'm one of the four guys building this thing here.

Marcel Wichmann
Remarkably productive people also ask for help. They know asking for help is a sign of strength--and the key to achieving more.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
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    Marcel Wichmann !

    February 25, 2013 | 5
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Does this sound familar? Teenagers, amusing images, sharing only with trusted friends? In some ways, Tumblr is actually Facebook 2.0! As Facebook has become a real-life social network infested with parents, co-workers, ex-friends, and people you barely know, Tumblr has become the place where young people express themselves and their ACTUAL INTERESTS with their ACTUAL FRIENDS.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Marcel Wichmann Never thought of it this way. On the other hand: Everything is a a new Facebook if you say so. WhatsApp? Sure. Twitter? Why not.

    February 20, 2013 | 2
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Throughout my career, I’ve watched immensely talented designers waste a shitload of time creating fully fleshed-out comps of what a website could look like. Pixels get pushed, details are sweated, pages are printed out, hung on walls, and presented to clients. Clients squawk their feedback, then designers act on it. They repeat this dance until everyone is content (or until nobody gives a shit anymore, which happens more often than you’d think). Only then do those pristine comps get handed (more like shoved) over to developers to build.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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He pilloried me if any two articles had the same sort of introductory statement. For example, I made the mistake, once, of starting two stories with "If you're like most people [rest of sentence]." Shuttleworth stormed into my office quaking with anger. "Starting any story that way is idiotic!" he barked. "Doing it more than once is criminal. Don't ever do this again."
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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I don’t care for Timberlake’s music, but I’m not quite sure how to make him go away. Is the new Myspace just a giant ad for Timberlake? I wonder, while starting to look for other content. Or maybe Justin is just the new Tom. Everyone’s first friend. Tom seemed so much happier, though. More carefree.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Marcel Wichmann The new MySpace. A first impression. I don't even want to invest the time to write down everything that's wrong with it. It's just not right. They should have stopped at "Hey guys, let's revolutionize scrolling!"

    January 16, 2013
  2. Dennis Anderlach

    Dennis Anderlach It feels like it is the third "New MySpace" in one year.

    January 16, 2013
  3. Marcel Wichmann

    Marcel Wichmann Dennis Anderlach Something will certainly work. :D

    January 16, 2013 | 1
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Smith said that Humans rebelled at the ‘perfect’ matrix originally made for them. It turns out that the ‘perfect’ world is in fact the matrix that we’ve seen in the first three movies. It was never disassembled. The Zion level was created entirely for those minds that couldn’t handle the main level of the matrix. People like Neo and Morpheus who could see the glitches inherent in any large virtual world. The Zion level simply gave their mind an excuse to brush off any other inconsistencies they might notice.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Marcel Wichmann Somebody on Reddit describes what his perfect ending for "The Matrix 4" would be. Great story and great read.

    January 14, 2013
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The future doesn’t magically appear, people sit down and build it.
Estimated reading time: 10 min
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These fakeries were added to "correct" film so it seemed more like we saw. But now that 48HFR and hi-definition video mimic our eyes better, it's like we are standing on the set, and we suddenly notice the artifice of the previously needed aids. When we view the video in "standard" format, the lighting correctly compensates, but when we see it in high frame rate, we see the artifice of the lighting as if we were standing there on the set.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Marcel Wichmann On HFR and The Hobbit.

    January 13, 2013 | 1
  2. Florian Letsch

    Florian Letsch The comparison of "24fps vs 48fps" to "vinyl vs CD" is exactly what Peter Jackson has been saying in interviews as well.

    I agree that the interior scenes of Bag End in particular seemed very strange when watching the movie for the first time. However, I see the superiority of the technology and after these 5 minutes of getting used to the technology I've really enjoyed this impressive realism.

    I am eager to see what other directors do with the technology in the future and if changes in makeup and lighting can help improve the film look.

    January 14, 2013
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Some people will create team stores, some people will create Sony stores, some people will create stores with only games that they think meet their quality bar. Somebody is going to create a store that says "these are the worst games on Steam." So that’s an example of where our thinking is leading us right now.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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    Marcel Wichmann Gabe Newell on the Steam Box or however that thing will be called. The quote basically describes lists. Everybody likes lists. Maybe QUOTE.fm will get lists too. Who knows.

    January 9, 2013 | 3
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Of course your painting sucks. The vast majority of paintings suck. Even Picasso made lousy paintings. I went searching for a bad Picasso to illustrate my point and the article accompanying the painting I chose was about how some smart guy thought that this painting was Picasso’s best. That only goes to show that no one knows what they are talking about.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Marcel Wichmann An instruction to paint your first picture. A tutorial on how to mess something up. Having painted myself I know how much fun it can be. Go try it yourself.

    January 3, 2013
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I can’t forget that when those lights went down, when that screen went up, and when that twangy riff kicked in, there were audible gasps and cheers in the audience, and someone behind me yelled out “whoa, awesome!” I want to believe that there’s a business to be gotten into that capitalizes on “whoa, awesome”.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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I don’t know what Instagram’s ultimate plan is, and it’s very likely that they don’t know either. But it probably has nothing to do with selling or abusing your photos. Your photos just aren’t worth much.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Marcel Wichmann Neven Mrgan on survey companys, collecting data and what Instagram and Facebook possibly are going to do with your photos.

    January 2, 2013 | 1
  2. motech

    motech I think it might be more troubling for famous people and companies like national geographic.
    Of course no one cares about my photos. But they might about Justin beiber.

    January 2, 2013
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    Marcel Wichmann I haven't heard a word from Justin Bieber on this topic, but I heard everyone else screaming that they don't want to be part of something that sells their photos and whatnot.

    January 2, 2013
  4. kiki

    kiki Yet another one who thinks value equals price or money. Of course my photos aren’t worth much, if anything – moneywise. But my right to choose in which context I want to see them published is worth too much to me to leave it to Instagram.

    January 2, 2013
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    Marcel Wichmann Seems like you haven't the whole article, kiki.

    January 2, 2013
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    Marcel Wichmann Seems like I haven't the whole sentence.

    January 2, 2013
  7. kiki

    kiki Yes I have, several days ago and just now again, in fact. Why do you think so?

    January 2, 2013
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    Marcel Wichmann He's talking about how some may not be pleased with Instagram/Facebook using your photos for things like illustrating products but that that is not the same thing as selling pictures, like everyone claimed when Instagram updated their TOS.

    January 2, 2013
  10. kiki

    kiki In other words: he’s saying what I’m saying.

    January 3, 2013
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Merry Christmas!  You are now the proud owner of an iPhone.  Hot Damn!  You are a good & responsible 13 year old boy and you deserve this gift.  But with the acceptance of this present comes rules and regulations.  Please read through the following contract.  I hope that you understand it is my job to raise you into a well rounded, healthy young man that can function in the world and coexist with technology, not be ruled by it.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Marcel Wichmann A mother gifts her 13 year old son an iPhone for Christmas and defines some smart rules.

    December 31, 2012 | 1
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I haven’t spoken to my Dad in a year and a half. I haven’t called him, written to him or attempted to communicate with him in any way. I can’t. Each time I pick up the phone or pull up a fresh e-mail, I shiver. I break down. The idea of talking to him terrifies me. When I was younger, my Dad was my hero. I idolized him. My earliest memories were of a black monitor brilliantly lit up from within by a rainbow of Space Invaders, of my Dad sitting beside me as I wrecked havoc on large, pixelated aliens.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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Apart from this, people finally need to realize that free, ad-financed web services and social networks will always screw them sooner or later, and they need to act accordingly from day one by only sharing stuff where they don’t care what happens to it.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Recited from jfi
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    Marcel Wichmann Jep.

    December 18, 2012
  2. Jeremy Lonien

    Jeremy Lonien "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." ( www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046)

    December 18, 2012 | 6
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