Sunday, April 06th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
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Gems from the Web:
FireWire Spec to Boost Data Speeds to 3.2 Gbps – Do I hear anyone mention HD / Red?
Shooting a live band – Great practical article on how to shoot a live music performance
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
12 Ways to Tap Into an Endless Well of Creativity – There is no reason to ever run out of ideas. The world, our minds, history, and the internet offer an infinite realm of artistic exploration. Consider the impact your habits, approach, organization, and internal rhythms have on your finished work. Find ou
Directors Edition Digital Alarm Clock – Perfect for movie-buffs; and alarm-clock that looks like a clapper board.
How I built my house for £4,000 – It is possible to build a roof above your head for little money
Sunday, March 09th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Vector Magic – Great on-line tool to convert bitmap graphics to vectors. Oh, and free.
Digital Rebellion – Resources – Tools – Great collection of tools for everyone working with film / video. Online, and also for the iPhone. Available: Footage, Film Rate, Aspect Ratio, DoF, Pixel Aspect. And a Final Cut Studio Remover, too.
Posting RED – DV magazine goes into the workflow of the Red One
RED – A journey begins. – Real-life problems with handling the (yet unfinished) RED postproduction work-flow. A RedAche….
Screen Cleaner – A phantastic openware screen cleaner, that keeps both your laptop and widescreen PC screen fingerlickin’ clean. Thanks, Doug!
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Web Collaboration Service, Free Desktop Sharing, video conferencing, remote control software, net  - includes screen sharing, works on Mac, Windows and even Linux
Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components – Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
Red full test – The Red as seen through the eyes of a 1st AC
Instant Expert: Optics Options – DV mag has made a one-page comparison of the lens choices available these days.
Dark Book Of Photoshop – Some great Photoshop tricks
BluRay too expensive for independent producers? – Producers of industrial and non-broadcast content are required to pay a $2,500 licensing fee to author and distribute Blu-Ray. Then, each producer is required to pay a $3,000 AACS license fee, plus a per-title fee for EACH replicated Blu-Ray disc.
Apple lures even loyal Windows users – Dean Takahashi at San Jose Mercury News is impressed with his new MacBook Air: “I’m starting to trust Apple to move faster, while I fear that Microsoft will lose itself in gigantic projects.”
16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts – Nice collection over at BittBox
Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Listing the last words of executed criminals. “I guess this is it.”, ends Richard. Many references to god, injustice, despair. “Let’s do it, man. Lock and load. Ain’t life a [expletive deleted]?” or “See you on the other side. Warden, murder me.”
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Lighting Food – Good tutorial on how to properly light eatables (which are even harder to get right than faces)
Planmäßig fiel das Gebäude zusammen – Video. Agfa was once one of the main players in the photography world. This week-end their skyscraper in Munich got blown apart.
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Moon River – Great visual blog
Zibri’s Blog – Unlock your iPhone. For free. On a Mac. Incl. 1.1.3.
Shootsac – If you are female and a photographer, have a look at these lovely camera bags. 50% off for this week.
How to play restricted YouTube videos – tutorial
Icon search engine – Iconfinder – Need an icon quick? Try this site.
Welcome to Nature’s Best Photography – More inspiration
Odd Couples: The New Yorker – Steve Brodner sketches Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in some surprising roles. Directed by Gail Levin.
24 Season 7: Good News and Bad News – No new 24 before 2009
Component vs. HDMI Comparison HD – Video comparing both input methods
Smokin’ Hot Business Card Designs – I love well designed business cards. Here are 18 of them
Floating Flame Balls – NASA’s experiments with fire in low gravity
Make Sturdy Snowshoes for Your Tripod – Homemade-style
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Audio Video Interiors: The Greatest Show on Earth! – Undoubtably, the most amazing home cinema ever
Vanity Fair. The Hollywood Issue. – Recreations of Hitchcock movies with today’s actors and actresses
OneMoreLevel.com – Spin the Black Circle – Flash game with only two buttons. Hard.
The Cast of Spongebob Redubs the Classics – Hilarious (and giving you english speakers an idea of the pain we feel when seeing dubbed movies).
Red Drive – 20 questiones asked and answered about the Red Drives
Pro Video Coalition – “The Power of Many” – Some of the pro video industry’s best writers, bloggers, and gurus have chipped together and started a new site.
TripIt | Organize your travel – If you do some travelling, this site will help you keep an overview over all itineries on your trip. Beta right now, but very promising.
The Bureau of Communication – Great, fun online forms to invited to a party, declare your romantic interest, and more.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Create Digital Motion: BBC Researches Projecting in Surround – BBC Research & Innovation is considering presenting video in surround. Just as audio surround assumes a still-central source, enhanced by additional material in the 360-degree audio field, the idea here is to capture ambient visuals using a fish-eye lens
Planet Earth – Lovely idea of inverting the world’s map
The Mother of all Telephotos – A custom built Canon 1200/5.6L USM lens. Just take a look at the sample photos. Amazing. Not cheap.
Friday, February 08th, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
24 fps – a photoset on Flickr – Collection of “The End” frames from old films.
Chung Dha Lam: Animated Businesscards – Using an optical illusion to animate business cards. Cool.
(mt) Media Temple » Move Us – My webhost is hosting a moving graphics event: “We are accepting entries from anyone with the skills and drive to get exposure to design agencies, entertainment execs and creatives internationally.”
Visual PageRank View – Great tool to check the pagerank of all the links on one page.
Random set photos – A peek behind the scenes of various film productions.
Computing the volume of a cat – not an easy feat to do
Sunday, February 03rd, 2008 | Author:
Martin
Gems from the Web:
Make Sturdy Snowshoes for Your Tripod | Studio Monthly – How to make your own snowshoes, with little money and a bit of effort.
Goodnews, Withoutabox – Withoutabox is being aquired by IMDB. Will be interesting to see where that leads to.
New Year’s Resolutions for Mediapreneurs : Capria.TV – Well, it’s February, but there is always a chance to learn new tricks
Stuck In Customs — Updated HDR Tutorial for 2008 – A Great tutorial has just been updated.
ThinkGeek :: TV-B-Gone – Lets you turn off virtually any TV set remotely.
Interactive LED table kits – You can build your very own table, with lights that react to movements, slowly disappearing in wave-like motion.
Top 10 Most Intriguing Gadgets Released in December 2007 – Finally – you can get the iPhone in Platinum, for a mere 2.700 dollars.
YEONDOOJUNG – Phantiastic site that turns children’s drawings into staged photographs. Beautiful, and what an idea!
Catcam Fritz – Photographs taken by Fritz, the cat from Germany. What I really wonder is: who would be the copyright holder for these pictures?
