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There have been a few threads recently about expanding storage/external drives, etc so I thought this might be of interest. Seagate has released an 8TB drive which sells bare for just $260! http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/12/seagate-ships-8tb-shingled-hard-drive/ That's a huge amount of...

Very interesting article on Universal's success this year with a full slate of relatively inexpensive films: http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/12/09/for-universal-pictures-zero-blockbusters-equals-record-profits/ This was a bit of an accident - for instance, Fast 7 was meant to...

This is a fun little short done by Jimmy Kimmel & Freddie Wong about a battle between tie enthusiasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvkBQukTgU I thought the behind-the-scenes was actually really good - shows a lot of useful stuff about how they dealt with the challenges of working in a...

I had my left ACL replaced yesterday, and I'm basically stuck in front of the TV for at least the next week or two. I'm realizing my Netflix queue isn't deep enough for the task - I'm looking for some recommendations of good indie or foreign films that are available for streaming. Basically...

This is a great time-lapse condensing a 30 minute color correction session - for a single shot from a beauty commercial - into about 3 minutes. Really shows what a trained colorist can do, what kinds of things are possible, and how much work can go into a single shot: https://vimeo.com/108466337

Just came across this today - haven't spent a lot of time writing with it, but I see a lot of potential for applications to screenwriting: https://draftin.com/ It's basically a writing tool based on the kind of features that are most typically found in code versioning tools like Git (I suspect...

It blows my mind that this has just been invented now... http://www.gaffgun.com/

If you've been on the fence about this camera, now's probably the time to buy - they've dropped the price to $500: http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61418 They say it's a temporary reduction for the summer, and that the price will return to $1000 at the end of august...

Just watched Philip Bloom's latest video, shot in Thailand on GoPros and Phantom quadcopters: https://vimeo.com/97455734 Watching this just really gives me an appreciation for the wondrous times we live in. There are shots in there that a decade ago might not have been achievable by any means...

Just thought thought these posters might be of interest to some people around here: http://candykiller.bigcartel.com/ I'm not connected to them in any way other than being a customer and a long-time fan of the artist - I started following him years ago when he was working on a project called...

Just saw that they're going to produce a new season of Project Greenlight: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-reviving-project-greenlight-ben-700165 Apparently Chris Moore (producer on the first seasons) also has a competing series coming out on Starz later this year. I thought...

Just got back from NAB last night. A lot of fun, but exhausting... probably walked over 20 miles in three days on the show floor, drank too much free beer and got very little sleep (it is vegas, after all). I think it's safe to say that 3D is dead, as it was almost non-existent on the show...

It's been a few years since my last visit so I'm heading out this year and meeting up with a few friends to hang out for the week. Any other IT'ers attending this year?

I just sold off most of what I own and moved cross-country, so I suddenly find myself in the market for a new TV. I decided to wait until after the move to get a new one (didn't want to have to ship much stuff) which turned out to be a mistake as the entire Panasonic line of plasmas that I was...

Thought this might be of interest, looks like panasonic is really doubling down on video capabilities: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1028453-REG/panasonic_dmc_gh4kbody_lumix_dmc_gh4_mirrorless_micro.html No price yet, but likely to be the least-expensive 4k option. Personally I'd be...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a land far, far away, digital filmmaking was a thing. Before we all had 4k phones and star trek computers that could write, shoot and edit our films for us, there was 'filmmaking' and then there was a bunch of weird kids and artists and other assorted ne'r do...

This is pretty crazy, he was supposed to talk about filmmaking for Samsung but when the teleprompter screwed up he just shut down: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5281542/watch-michael-bay-melt-down-onstage-at-ces Now I'm no Michael Bay, but if you walked up to me at just about any point in...

Just thought some of you guy might be interested in the event I'm working on this weekend, the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials - it's a competition with humanoid robots attempting to perform a series of disaster recovery-related tasks based on Fukashimi recovery efforts. It's streaming live on...

So this is our latest project, done for the 2013 Iron Filmmaker Challenge which is a 24 hour competition - it's our first actual 24 hour project (usually we do 48 or more). This is shot half on the blackmagic pocket, half on the canon C100, the theme for the competition was "Trading Places"...

Here's another recent short we did, this time for the 2013 Santa Rosa 48 Hour Film Project. Our genre was "Fantasy", and the required character was a former reality show contestant, so in our brainstorming session we got spun off into a discussion of reality vs. fantasy and somehow this was the...