Monthly Archives: September 2011
By now you've probably heard that two days ago Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos did a Steve Jobs-like intervention, introducing not one product but a whole series of Kindle, for an unbeatable price. Their top of the line product, the Kindle Fire, is already considered as the iPad most serious competi ...
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Hard to know who hides behind eleist, an avatar created 13 hours ago and through which was uploaded a video that should become viral anytime soon... on Facebook for instance. Besides the Winklevoss brothers, it would be presumptuous to rule anyone, but if hardcore fans are always capable of gr ...
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Every contest has its limitations and more often than I wish, if you want to get into a Festival it's more about who-you-know and timing than mere talent or work quality. But if the traditional way of doing it isn't perfect, it still leaves a small window to unknown and isolated filmmakers to f ...
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1- Awesome People Hanging Out Together. The title says it all, and this fairly new tumblr (november 2010) that really exploded this summer in terms of content, won't disappoint you. It talks to both the dreamer and the voyeur in us and offers a fair share of old and unknown pictures that always ...
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Best of the Tweets #6 is out and because this week was particularly intense between the Emmys, Netflix/Qwikster, and the beginning of the TV season, I have decided to create subcategories. Tweets cover from 09/18 to 09/25 BEST OF THE EMMYS TWEETS 1-Modern Family writer Danny Zuker did ...
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The Swedish company Ikonoskop just released a new camera named the A-cam DII and qualified by cinema 5d as THE 16mm digital cinema camera. They ran a video interview with Peter Gustafsson, who presents the camera and its configuration, and that you can watch below. The body costs 7,700 euros. ...
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A four-minute long trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo just popped on the Net and we, Larson's geeks, are very happy about it. It's a weird feeling to watch a long trailer of a story I've already read and watched and it felt like a 10 minute video, not in a bad way, but it just felt that ...
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If, as an editor, you've ever had a conversation with a low to no-budget production about music and clearing rights, this news should please you. After their Video School, Vimeo takes the lead on what seems like a niche sector before you start production but is really a key factor and a pain ...
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It's Apple's turn to listen to their unhappy customers and react, but in a more discreet way that differs from Reed Hastings and his Netflix gang. Since Final Cut Pro X has been released, the majority of the professional editors who did the switch (or tried to) haven't ceased to complain over ...
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Flickr co-founder and Vancouver based Stewart Butterfield gave a very interesting talk last week at the Creative Morning of his city about how the Internet radically changed our lives. The talk lasts 20 minutes and there is a Q&A of equal length afterwards that is, for once, a perfect comp ...
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