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  • A Guide to Hollywood Unions
    In Hollywood, making movies is big business. And where there is big business, the workers unite to form unions. The following list is a sampling of the unions that every large production in Los Angeles will work with in the process of making a film. This…
  • The Myth of Simple (the Wrap)
    John Hess pulls back the curtain of simple explaining how something can be two things at once and why there probably isn’t an alternative universe where Hitler wins World War 2. Episode 61 Listen Audio Only Subscribe to our Podcast Feed Subscribe…

  • Samsung Threatens to Strand Indian Bloggers in Germany
    Brad McCarty writes an eerie, fascinating story at The NextWeb. Samsung allegedly flew two Indian bloggers to Germany ostensibly to cover a Samsung event at the IFA show in Berlin, but then threatened to strand the bloggers if they didn’t dress…

  • Nikon D800 vs Canon 5D Mk III
    Click here to view the embedded video. “The F%^&ing D800 vs. Canon 5D Mark iii Shootout” It starts like a regular camera comparison and then takes a dip into the absurd. Canon 5D Mk III: $3400 – 22.3 Megapixel Nikon D800: $3000 –…

  • ikan D5 – 1280×800 monitor review
    Tweet The smallHD DP6 monitor has been a quite successful product with filmmakers over the past year. At NAB many booths had cameras equipped with exactly this monitor. Granted there are not many alternatives in terms of size, quality and price. Another…

  • ikan’s D5 5.6 Inch Monitor Goes Head to Head with SmallHD and TVLogic
    The external monitor market has exploded in the last few years, and companies like SmallHD and TVLogic have a ton of new competition. As filmmakers we now have plenty of exciting options like ikan’s 5.6″ D5 monitor, which features HD-SDI and…
  • Sony Announces the $650 NEX-5R Mirrorless Camera
    In what was seemingly lost in the commotion related to another big camera announcement, the C100 (from a small company called Canon), Sony is replacing its NEX-5N mirrorless camera with a brand new model and another confusing name, the NEX-5R. The new…

  • ePubs and Seminars – Why Some Inspire and Some Don’t
    I’ve been working on an ePub about the “Business of Video”. I have one ePub selling now and ePub #2 another one at the formatter, and I finally had  time over the weekend to fill in, the middle chapters of the “business” pub.  I had…

  • Exhibition Review: ‘8x10’ By Impossible
    The discontinuation of Polaroid film in 2008 led to much despair among its fans. The Impossible Project, founded in the same year, set out to recreate the out-of-production films that Polaroid users had come to depend on. In advance of a new 8x10…