ManyChefsBroth Live presents KLLR.

KLLR perform a number of their tracks at the intimate venue ‘On The Rocks’ in Bournemouth. Check out a few tracks in the videos below.

‘High Times’

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We’ve all seen more and more of the software we use everyday migrate to ‘the cloud’. Spreadsheets, Word Processing, Desktop publishing and even whole entire operating systems are available to use via high bandwidth connections. But who would have thought the day would come so soon that we start seeing high specification computer games played via ‘the cloud’?  That time is now – well actually it was back in September 2011.

What exactly is ‘The Cloud’? Well, this post is about ‘Cloud gaming’ specifically so I don’t want to get too bogged down with technical nonsense – put simply ‘the cloud’ is everything your PC was previously required to process in order to achieve the same end result. But instead of your PC having to do all the leg work a super powerful server in another location does the number crunching. All your computer has to do is display the information received by the server. ‘The cloud’ also refers to data storage where all of the important numbers are saved away from your computers hard drive and backed up multiple times on remote servers. All of this wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for the constant increases in speed and bandwidth from the frequently pushed internet service providers.

So what inspired me want to write this blog post? It was a thought I had in the bath the other day while playing Dirt 3 on my HTC Sensation XE – ‘this is going to revolutionise the entire computer games market’. I realise that’s a fairly bold statement and I don’t take it lightly. To put things into perspective; according to Wikipedia:

…a survey conducted by market watch firm Jon Peddie Research,[28] Nvidia shipped an estimated 33.00 million graphics chips in the first quarter of 2010, for a market share of 31.5%. AMD and Intel shipped an estimated 25.15 million units (24.0% market share) and an estimated 45.49 million units (43.5% market share) respectively. Nvidia’s year-to-year growth was 41.9%.

In August 2011, Nvidia predicted the growth of its revenues would be 4% to 6%, instead of 4%, as analysts said.[29]

In September 2011, Nvidia forecast strong sales for 2013 in the region of $4.75bn to $5bn, which surpasses analysts expectations of $4.45bn.

Keep this in mind, a HUGE amount of high end computers are purchased and built for the majority reason of playing the latest computer games. These figures are from Nvidia alone – that does not include AMD or Intel. And that’s just graphics cards, not to mention the amount spent on high end CPU’s, super fast RAM, high spec motherboards…so on, so on. Imagine this – you can play the latest games in full quality, at high definition resolution, anytime, from (almost literally) any location and on any device. Not only that but your save games are stored on ‘the cloud’ too. You dont need a £300 graphics card or a high spec (high cost) CPU. You dont need any more than 2gb of RAM (in fact, minimum specifications do not even list minimum RAM so you could even get away with less).

Of course, a fairly healthy sized portion of the graphics card market will be on graphics cards required for local video acceleration for professional application such as the Nvidia QUADRO and AMD FirePro range of desktop acceleration devices. Video editing, 3D animation, graphic design, music production all require serious number crunching ability at the source. But who is to say this cant also be available on ‘the cloud’ at some point? (that post is for another day!)

So putting the professional market to the side for a minute and talking only about the consumer market – what happens to this massive requirement for high spec hardware? It all goes to the cloud too?! Computers will need only basic computing power to be able to play the latest games – local graphics cards and video acceleration will become redundant and unnecessary. As long as your PC can display a video stream from OnLive (or similar cloud’ gaming site) you’re good to go!

Consumers will no longer need to buy high end hardware to play the latest games, instead they can save their pennies and redirect that cash into buying more games to play via ‘the cloud’. Games they’ll be able to play on all of their devices – Desktop computers, laptops, smart phones, tablets and even TV’s (with TV’s coming preloaded with the OnLive service software ‘ready to go’).

Nvidia and AMD will have to rethink their products and branding – calling for a new approach in consumer components. They’ll be selling truck loads of super powerful hardware to cloud services like OnLive. But for consumers local video hardware acceleration will be unessential.

Exciting times are ahead, OnLive is incredible and works really REALLY well. And with the announcement of Adobe making some of their powerful professional software like Photoshop and Lightroom available on ‘the cloud’ – soon an internet blackout will mean our desktop computers are left utterly useless.

These are just my thoughts anyhow, but with a valuation of $1.8 Billion (OnLive alone!) I would say ‘Cloud gaming’ is well worth investing in – both time and money.

This easter we made some beautiful decorative easter eggs. Not only are they really pretty they were loads of fun to make. Watch the video below

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Thursday 22nd March; The people of Bournemouth woke up to a big surprise – in fact a 8.5 meter tall and 5.5 meter wide surprise.

The Giant deck chair was created by sculptor Stuart Murdoch and produced to promote the drinks brand Pimm’s

In a chat with the Bournemouth Echo; Emma Sherwood-Smith, spokesperson for Pimms said

“This year’s Great British summer is set to be massive.

“With the Diamond Jubilee and a certain international sporting event on the horizon, we’re predicting a huge summer of fun.

“We wanted to get the ball rolling and, as champions of everything that makes Great British summer so great, celebrate the start of the season in style.

“The world’s largest deckchair seemed to be just the ticket.”

The massive deck chair will be pack away on Sunday 25th March at 6pm – if you’re nearby make sure you pop down and see it!

Friday night and after a few glasses of wine I decided to challenge myself eat to one of the chili’s left over from our home made pizza evening.
More about Bird’s Eye Chili here

Cormorant diving for food – Poole Quay.

Buy prints of this photo here

Canon 600D
Tamron 70-300mm

F/5.6
1/320
ISO400

You can tell summer is on its way. Fresh flowers and a warm sun – the breeze may still be a little chilly but that shouldnt stop you from taking a walk in a nearby park. I did, and this is what I shot.

I’ll be covering as much as one man can manage. Keep up to date with the video and photos I manage to shoot over the Sunseeker event.

If you’re still not familiar with the Sunseeker Rallye event check out http://www.rallyesunseeker.co.uk/

Rallye 25th February 

Event Highlights and Champagne Finish Ramp Ceremony

Highlights from the footage I shot in Ringwood and Champagne Finish Ramp Ceremony

Evo Camera Near Miss

The driver of this Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution took this corner a little fast and wide resulting a very close near miss to my camera placed on a tripod. My self and the marshals jumped behind a few nearby trees leaving my 600D to capture the action.

Please excuse the swearing, we were pretty pumped after that!

Filmed on the moors valley corner (near the wigwams!), Ringwood South.

Rallye Footage Ringwood South

Filmed on the moors valley corner (near the wigwams!), Ringwood South.

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Scrutiny Friday 24th February 

Photos

The Beach at Night is the first of a new series of YouTube videos I’ll be filming and producing for my channel called #photo-op. It’s spawned from the love of just taking time out to go for a walk and take photos with nice people. Sometimes it’s a real challenge to take interesting or fun photos given the location and timing. These short videos will document how well me and friends get on when visiting places in the search for the best #photo-op.

See how me and Nova got on at the Beach at night in the beginning for February.

I shot this full moon Tuesday February 7th. I like our Moon – It’s pretty awesome.

Also, I used some Greenlandic folk track to make it seem even more awesome.

Camera

Canon 600D Tamron 70-300mm

HD1920x1080 25p x4 Digital Zoom.

Music
“The beautiful light of the full-moon” by Leq (Greenlandic)
Composed and sung by: LEQ
Arranged by: Ronny Becher

(Greenlandic folk tune by “Leq” on www.freesound.com user: juskiddink)