Luminoir

I graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore with a Diploma in Film, Sound and Video.

I went on to edit documentaries and long-form programmes broadcast on Discovery Channel Asia, Mediacorp and Mediaworks during my tenure at The Moving Visuals Company.

Following that, I spent 2 years as lead editor, then director/producer at Freeflow Productions, specializing in TV commercials and corporate videos.

I now work at ESPN/Star Sports Asia editing a video game review show (”Game”) for the Asia Pacific market and other miscellaneous sport related vignettes for the ESS website.

On google, I am one that writes for creative cow, not the actor on tv.com or the guy from the Hawaiian band the Hollow. Embarassingly, I am the climber that finished dead last in the Climbing Asian Championships in KL, Malaysia after injuring myself during the warmup.

I love cameras but can never bring myself to buy them for myself so I lust after them publicly until my wife buys them for me.

I steadfastly believe that computers should do all the grunt work, hence my obsession with process automation, scripting, cron jobs, VPN and VNC. I believe everything that can be done automatically by a computer should be done that way to free up human effort for things that require human intellect.

I am very organized with things in the digital domain like my filenames, folders, backups and window positions. Just don’t look at my workspace in the physical domain.

I’m a computer geek who loves building homebrew servers and networks and have been doing so since I was 16. I’ve overclocked my Pentium 2 120 to 133, my Celeron 300 to 450 with jumpers instead of the BIOS, used pencil shadings to overclock my Athlon CPU, played with Suse before they were bought by novell, loved BeOS, uncapped my Motorola Surfboard cable modem, and got burnt buying a Castlewood Orb removable diskette drive.

I am platform agnostic, because I’ve learned the hard way that the best platform doesn’t win, the one with the most third party applications does. My favourite OSs’ like BeOS and Solaris have all been brilliant platforms that asphyxiated in the lack of third party application development. I’m looking at you Palm, for killing WebOS by releasing your SDK so late.

Nice to meet you.

Dustin Lau