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    nice little light kit..

    $2995 Complete or $3295 for green screen setup http://www.saferseas.com/vsd/eye/csp.html aside from alot of light control hardware(scrims-flags-ect..), this really looks like a nice little package anyone had any experience with any of these units before. i was thinking about picking this up...
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    wm9 a new festifal standard

    just thought id let those who may not yet have heard that wm9 is now an accepted standard for digital projection at the prestigious Sundance film festival. pretty cool. that means you can do your own uprezzing, and dont even have to do an hd transfer to get it screen and projected at the best...
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    homenade minee 35 adapatator- ver 2.0

    i mad e a home version of the minee 35 adapatator. i used a sheet of saran wrap tightly around a styrofoam disc for the ground glass element, then instead of spinning the disc, i oscillated it by stringing a rubber band tightlty through the center of it, and putting a stick fro the outside of...
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    cheap track dolly alternative

    ive been looking for a nice little wagon like this to replace a track dolly for smooth surfaces will work on flat or near flat serfaces very well. 10" air tires http://www.homier.com/itemdetail.asp?i=04417&browse=no lol.. seems sorta cheap but works just as good + no setup. bed is steel mesh...
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    homemade lcd hood

    i built my own lcd hood last night for 2.00 i used some black foam rubber material from a hobby store, and some nice strap+ elastic  material for a strap to hold it to the lcd. fits snugly perfectly flat against the lcd letting no light in. cost me $2 and 1 hour of work looks nice and is of...
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    "homework"

    .. so im sure we all watch different types of films /tv or whatnot to study as our "homework". anyhow , i just want to recommend that one of those little study peices should be the animated show " samurai jack" . why? well .. the show is a great study for the art of storytelling through moving...
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    anamorphic...  can it do that?

    ...yada yada blah blah..here are some grabs that i felt like posting.. i havent posted any grabs in a while..so here ya go. nothing special .. just random stuff  i  thought was a slightly interesting due to the nature of the shot. the desaturated ones were color corrected . others are untouched...
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    ..computers....BAH!

    ...i hate computers.. it took me 4 hours to install another RAID drive yesterday.. its such a simple proceedure... it should have been 4 min. why cant they ever just work they way they are supposed to... why cant it go smoothly without any troubleshooting.. they are evil.. i hate them.. that is all.
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    hoilday post

    merry christmas everybody. have a warm and safe holiday! p.s. hope you get that cine alta 950 in the stocking!!
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    man.. i guess  its funny now..

    last week i was out a a park with the dvx on the glidecam. i was getting some stock footage of tennis courts- basketball hoops- playground equip...ect. so anyway right i got there this couple passed me by when i was near the tennis courts.. they just stared at me as they walked by. i gave the...
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    film review on "the last samurai"

    WOW....WOW............WOW...WOW..WOW........WOWOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOW....WO.....WOOOOOOOOW.... OK so after seeing that film all i can say is WOW.. i wasnt sure how Tom Cruise would handle the part after reding a review, but i thought he did great. WOW . if you see any of the films released as of...
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    film out resolution ?

    so ive been doing alot of thinking and testing lately(whats new?), and i would really like to have a project i did projected @ 2.35:1 scope . it was shot using the anamorphic adaptor, and then matted in post. i just fell in love with the framing soo much when i was playing around , that ive...
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    holiday post

    just wanted to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving.. we all have alot to be thankfull for. now go make some films!
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    some great links

    thought id drop a bunch of great sites that some people may not be aware of to bolster their cinematography skills/knowledge. these links are full of great info on film/video covering almost every aspect of the business, alot of DIY stuff in here too.. like making your own chinese...
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    i cant explain this...recording issue

    ive found that somtimes when i review my footage in vtr mode in the feild, and the tape stops right at the last timecode #, and i hit the button to switch to camera mode so the tape is still in the same position, i will record from there, and the timecode will continue as normal, but when i...
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    completely off topic.

    so i took my dvx to a local mall the other day.. the security officer was like "what is that".. so i was like "nun o yo bizzzzinazzz fooo" ..then he clubbed me. later that day i had the great idea to take the dvx to the same mall again.. i hid in the bushes and waited for the same security...
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    links to good info..

    thought id drop a bunch of great sites that some people may not be aware of to bolster their cinematography skills/knowledge. these links are full of great info on film/video covering almost every aspect of the business, alot of DIY stuff in here too.. like making your own chinese...
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    films today..simple opinionated review.

    I recenctly saw a couple of newre films in the theatre this week.. first i watched the film "no good deed goes unpunished" with samuel jackson. i was bored at first, because i didnt know what to expect, and the film is pretty slow.. my freind and i decided to see it simply becasue we were by the...
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    does this ever happen to you...

    yesterday i was at one of the 5 lakes here shooting a scene for my current project... of course its public property, and it was a nice 95 degree day so there were alot of people at the park. but it is a large park so i went along the lake and found my own little place to shoot about 2-500 feet...
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