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Dartfish rose to Olympic glory quicker than Marion Jones. In 1997 Serge Ayer, a graduate student at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute, and his professor Martin Vetterli developed the SimulCam blueprint. Ayer and his brother Jean-Marie, then a Swisscom executive and now CEO of Dartfish Europe, spent Sunday dinners discussing potential applications for SimulCam. They sensed an opportunity on television. Says Serge: "What we saw happening on TV during sport competitions, such as split screen and instant replay, wasn't good enough." Their idea was to layer the positions of two athletes at the same point...
Adams, F., Jr.; Adams G. C.; Adams, W. W.; Andrews, R. K.; Arnold, E. A.; Ayer...
...Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain flown in to a remote region of Western Australia, and the photo is untouched...
Advertisers and marketers spend millions of dollars trying to get inside women's minds--for good reason. Female consumers are responsible for buying or influencing the purchase of 85% of all goods and services nationwide. Now Mary Lou Quinlan, former CEO of ad agency N.W. Ayer, has produced Just Ask a Woman, a breezy distillation of 3,000 "listening interviews" about women's purchasing decisions. Among her insights...
...control it have always been a hot topic. The issue is visited once again in Warner Brother’s film Training Day, a new morality tale exploring the substantial gray area that sits astride undercover law enforcement and the streets. Written by South Central Los Angeles native David Ayer, it is no coincidence that this film connotes the Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, whose misbehavior has been chronicled in recent years by Rolling Stone and other publications. It is also no coincidence that the dramatic Denzel Washington is the star of the film, exercising his considerable...