This week, I’ve seen maybe a dozen articles about “Millennials”. What do they want? Why aren’t they buying houses? What brands do they like? Why don’t they vote? What’s their favorite color? They’re mostly all written by people from the Baby Boomer generation, and they’re mostly filled with generalizations and assumptions like “all Millennials care […]
I interviewed Danny Holland and Chad Jackson of Brain Farm Cinema about what it’s like to shoot 6K and finish in 4K. They have lots of challenges, from media management to bottlenecks, and the added hurdle of doing a lot of shooting in the deep wilderness. Read it at Creative COW >>
I wrote about Adobe’s recent updates at Creative COW. Read it there. The integration of a new family of mobile apps and new Creative Profile were among Adobe’s Creative Cloud updates at the Adobe MAX conference today. The new connections between 13 CC desktop applications and mobile devices will allow users to build, share, and […]
A break from regularly scheduled blogging and writing to bring attention to a fundraising campaign for a critically injured Los Angeles-based VFX artist, Michael Scott. According to the page, he was hit by a car that jumped the curb a couple nights ago and pinned to a column, which is horrifying. The last update I […]
Today, one of my favorite directors, Steven Soderbergh, posted a really great blog about “staging” in film, which is meant to mean how all the elements of a scene work together to tell a visual story. To illustrate his point, he took ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and remixed it a little: converted to black […]
I wrote two articles about IBC-related releases — Adobe’s new video app updates and HP’s new Z series workstations. You can read them both at Creative COW. I went to HP’s Ft. Collin’s location last week for a press event where these workstations were unveiled and it was lots of nerdtastic fun. I’d never been […]
I interviewed editor William Boodell about his path into the industry and story so far, of which a highlight has been editing the unexpected pop culture Sharknado. We actually met at a bar during AOTG’s Editfest Pub night a couple weeks ago and I asked to continue the conversation via Skype. Read the result on […]
I’ve been cutting a web series called Arson Dogs. The first episode premiered today. Watch it. Dogs are the best*. That’s pretty much all I have to say about that until I’m finished with it. Stay tuned, literally. *Except for cats but seriously do you see cats doing this stuff heck no.
Last week, I traveled to LA for the first time ever and spent a long weekend that centered around ACE’s Editfest, which was held on the Disney lot this year. It was fun and educational and heartwarming and I’m going to write something meaningful about it soon, but mostly I just wanted to recommend Editfest […]
I interviewed Trent and Isabella DP Paul Del Vecchio for Creative COW. We talked about his experience using the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and how the new firmware updates and ProRes debayer helped him achieve the looks he wanted for his indie film. So go read it.