Aharon Rabinowitz published a nice tutorial showing how to create ocean using just After Effects CS4. No 3rd party plugins were used. Here comes the video:

Very interesting aproach to 3d stabilisation was published over the web. How does it work? Research team at the University of Wisconsin, partnering with Adobe, will present a new approach at the SIGGRAPH conference in August. They have developed some method of applying a 3D mesh to the image to warp your image three-dimensionally to make the stabilization even more seamless. Watch the video.

Source: http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/06/30/magical-3d-warping-techniques-steadies-your-videos/

Some people at DPreview.com says they can't buy this lens anymore. As a Nikon user, I'm personally waiting for a Canon 5D Mark II competition (I'm really trying to force myself not to buy that camera specially that I was the Canon user before and switched to Nikon some time ago). Anyway, I own 70-200, 2.8 and it's amazing lens, but I think Canon's 70-200 is just little better and sharper.
Does the DPreview.com conversation means that there is an upgrade coming? Maybe. I wish it's going to be 24-400, 1.4 for the price of 70-200, hahahaha !

Source:
DPreview
Nikon Rumors

I've found this video via Twitter today and I think it's worth sharing. "The births, marriages and deaths of London’s digital creative agencies of note 1994-2009" can be found in London's Design Museum and was created by Poke agency.

Cool ad promoting Brasilian recruting company showed around. Few milion clicks after half a moth :)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back at work, Apple says (source Reuters). I wonder how he feels and what impact or influence Steve will have on future of Apple's products. So far it's been huge success. Really, I'm so happy to be Mac user that I recommend it to everyone who asks me about next computer.
In the meantime, Harvard Business Scool Gives Steve an "F" (source: BusinessInsider) saying he's a bad manager. Well, I've heard and read a lot about him, but I'll tell you something: I think, in company like that there must be a man with iron stick and so beyond thinking. I personally wish him further successes and I hope future Apple products will be even cooler.

If you are looking for tree textures for your 3d/2d or video projects, you should try free collection from Michal Kotek, Czech artist at  http://www.michalkotek.com/download.html
Free is always good :)

So, I just came back from London and had a great time at Final Cut Pro Super Meet. It was a really great time, so I'll try to get some photos online soon.
In the meantime, my coder made some changes in the store and purchase module stopped working for last 2 days if you were not registered, but it's all solved now and you can get the templates without problems again.
So, I hope you've missed me a lot 

No much news this week because we are in London at first annual Final Cut User Groups meeting called SuperMeet.

See you guys there!

It's been productive weekend, so here is another great After Effects Template. It's 34th project already