You Should Stand Up for This News

To be honest, it's nothing surprising. Sitting = less activity = less energy used = more weight gain.

Interesting to know specifics regarding sugar metabolizing though. I tend to fidget a lot at my desks, so hopefully it's doing something.... As for sitting down, well, school and work unfortunately keep me in my seat quite a lot, but I get up when I can!
 
Yeah I fidget (shake my leg) a lot, especially during and right after eating. It's subconscious, but I heard some people do it subconsciously to burn calories.
 
Funny, I was just about to go Walter Murch with my software coding AND editing...in addition to health, I find myself more alert when I stand while working.

Batutta, are you still editing standing up?
 
Mark Harris said:
Funny, I was just about to go Walter Murch with my software coding AND editing...in addition to health, I find myself more alert when I stand while working.

Batutta, are you still editing standing up?
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Hell no, I only lasted a few weeks. Part of the problem though was where I was working, a small laundry room in an uninsulated house in Los Angeles. It just got too hot, and standing up just brought me closer to the hot air above. Might give it another try now that I'm in the frigid north.
 
Mark Harris said:
Funny, I was just about to go Walter Murch with my software coding AND editing...in addition to health, I find myself more alert when I stand while working.
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I've been standing or just leaning back on my chair while editing for about 7 years now. I'd never give it up for a desk. You just need to get the right height for your hands, a little too low or high makes it really uncomfortable. It's also great for audio for me because I seem to need to walk around while reviewing my work. It also makes it easier to work with a guitar stapped on. It's not slamming into the table top everytime you go to make a small adjustment.
 
rafikiwilliams said:
hmm never heard of people standing up and editing. might have to give it a shot
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murch

Murch started editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138, American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974. Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola's The Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the same year as The Conversation. He is most famous for his sound designing work on Apocalypse Now, for which he won his first Academy Award in 1979. In 1985 he directed his one film, Return to Oz, which he co-wrote with Gill Dennis.

Unlike most film editors today, Murch works standing up, comparing the process of film editing to "conducting, brain surgery and short-order cooking", since all conductors, cooks and surgeons stand when they work. In contrast, when writing, he does so lying down. His reason for this is that where editing film is an editorial process, the creation process of writing is opposite that, and so he lies down rather than sit or stand up, to separate his editing mind from his creating mind.[1]

Murch has written one book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye (2001).[2
 
rsbush said:
I've been standing or just leaning back on my chair while editing for about 7 years now. I'd never give it up for a desk. You just need to get the right height for your hands, a little too low or high makes it really uncomfortable. It's also great for audio for me because I seem to need to walk around while reviewing my work. It also makes it easier to work with a guitar stapped on. It's not slamming into the table top everytime you go to make a small adjustment.
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What do you use for a table? Any special kind of high-desk, or just a tall table? Was going to look for something adjustable, maybe...
 
I had a mission style table built by an Amish craftsman for less than I could find a shabby one at Ikea for. 38" H x 2'D x 6' L. Oak. It's a beauty and you could park an Electra Glide on it.

You should also consider monitor height. My first setup I had my monitors on a platform about 8'' higher than my keyboard & mouse, and that was comfortable for me. With my current setup I just adjust the monitor angle, but that took a little getting used to.
 
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