[UPDATED 9/6/2010 -- "Porcelain Unicorn" was voted into the Top 5. Voting continues until 9/17 at youtube.com/philipscinema under the "Gallery" tab, where the video with the most thumbs-up votes wins.] Phillips' Parallel Lines, originally a 5-film series from RSA Films released this last April to promote a television, is in the middle of another line of online film. This go-round is the "Tell It Your Way" competition where 3-minute works from filmmakers all around the world keep the same 6-line…
Updated 6 days agoPhoto by Axel Bührmann. (Used under Creative Commons license.) Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend some testing time with a collection of Canon 5Ds and 7Ds that belong to one of my clients. I learned a couple of thing that others may find useful. Formatting cards The format of the cards is different in the 5D and 7D. Each of the cameras will read and write to a card formatted on the other model but it appears to be ill-advised. The differences slow down the write performance o…
Updated 9 days agoGreat work from Adrien Merigeau, Old Fangs is an animated short about three forest-friends going on a coming-of-age journey so one can confront the father he hasn't seen since he was a child. The film was an Official Selection in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It may be cute, but the story is adult and full of heartache and loss. Click here to view the embedded video. (Originally published on Space Pod Betty.)…
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