RE: Are You Ignorant About EOS, STEEM, and DPOS?

[mattclarke]

I think the green screen needs to fill the whole frame.
Love the enthusiasm.
Don't shy away from wealth and power.
Having them isn't the problem; loving them is the problem.
As long as your love is for your fellow man, and assuming wealth and power have to land on someone, better it be you than some other schmuck.

Comments

[lukestokes]

The green screen fills the frame, but the background image I had doesn't. I'll have to fix that. I may go with just a solid color background image as well or something. Definitely need to play with it a bit more to get it right. Thanks for the feedback.

Wealth, I'm all about as it creates new opportunities. Power is a bit concerning depending on how we define it. Is it power over ourselves? Power over nature? Power over others?

Love for our fellow human beings is, for sure, the key. I have some thoughts on that here as it relates to Maslow's Hierarchy: How to Improve the World

[winstonwolfe]

I might also recommend lighting your green screen separately, and - if possible - at more of a distance away from your back. Part of the problem with keying it when it's so close is color spill. You're getting a little of that green on you when the light bounces off of it and onto you. If you put more of a gap between it and you, then light it separately, you'll get a cleaner key.

[lukestokes]

Thanks Winston! I got this exact advice from someone else also. I played with it a bit more today and got it looking a lot better by lighting the backdrop: https://www.facebook.com/750870567/posts/10156116519175568/

[mattclarke]

If you're a Steem witness and you're instrumental in the EOSDac team, that's going to make you incredibly influential in the very near future.
Power granted voluntarily, (and withdrawn at will) is still power.
Don't shy away from it just because evil people have wielded similar in the past.
People want leadership, and I'd rather they found it in a voluntaryist than anywhere else.

[lukestokes]

Which definition of Power are you using?

1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.
2. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.
3. physical strength and force exerted by something or someone.
4. energy that is produced by mechanical, electrical, or other means and used to operate a device.

If #1, then I guess that makes sense?

#2 I don't like because it seems to drift away from voluntary interactions. #3 is fine as long as it's not over someone else. #4 is technical and doesn't apply.

I'm for leadership, vision casting, creating education that influences people because it's based on reason, logic, and evidence... but power? Well, power corrupts. I don't want power. I want people to think for themselves. I guess, in a way, I want everyone to have power as in the #1 sense of the word so that no one else could rule over them (including me).

[mattclarke]

As a witness you have power over the blockchain, where a great deal of my kids' inheritance is invested.
Those vests give me some power to pick and choose witnesses, but the witnesses can collectively make changes, increasing or decreasing the long term value of that investment.
Don't be shy to wield that power. Decisions have to be made somewhere.

[lukestokes]

The developers have far more power, IMO. They right the code. Witnesses just say "yes" or "no" when it comes to deploying the code.

[onetin84]

i tried that too and had mediocre success because i used amateurish lightning and setup. There are several things which you should take in consideration if not answered by others:

• even light distribution on the green screen with multiple lights positioned is crucial for easy filtering, one is insufficient
• separate lightning of yourself, also avoids shadowing of green screen
• a good distance to the green screen to avoid shadowing
• the latter needs also enough space overall like a separate room or area (i hadn't at the time i tried)
• the proper postproduction tool if you work on the footage (i prefere Premiere Pro, but also Final Cut Pro, Vegas schould work good) for green screen masking
• fixed exposure at the camera, because automatic can lead to different exposures with different brightness levels of the green screen -> harder filtering

-> i'm personally abandoned my intention because realized it needs a lot of efforts and money to produce high quality videos with green screen