Link roundup

Smashing magazine has a page of 50 Beautifl Movie Posters. Check out The Unforgiven poster it was my wallpaper for a bit. We sometimes under estimate the power of posters many movie-goers (including myself) have shown up to a theater and picked a movie that we may have heard nothing about simply off of the poster. Speaking of posters Warner Bros. released the poster for Gran Torino. Slash film has a good post on the movie. Eastwood as a salty old dog usually equates to a good movie.

Radiohead’s In Rainbows pay what you want download model was revolutionary. NME has an article on it’s profitiablity.

Maybe a bit old hat but Nikon and Canon have finally jumped on the CMOS/Video bandwagon. The announcement is a bit dated but the article does contain some points of interest. If it was big enough news to force a redesign/rethinking of the Red Scarlet it’s worth keeping any eye on.

A page on ten ways social media can change the world.

And finally IO9 has an small piece (Which could really use some expansion) on how Webisodes are the new direct to DVD. I can’t say I agree fully with the assessment, in terms of it being a good way to be noticed and the latest in aspirations for low budget content producers sure.. Direct to DVD though is another beast.

Edit: Gran Torino trailer has now been released, click on the image for link.

Juard Van Dijkhorst

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2 Responses to “Link roundup”

  • Ross Says:
    October 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    The Canon EOS had a short video called Reverie on its website. It was amazing, beautiful colors and saturation. They took it down because of the demand though. Too bad the camera is 2700 bucks.

  • Juard Van D Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    2700 is nothing! I paid 4700 for my DVX back in 2004, the biggest thing isn’t really the chip.
    CMOS has some problems with rolling shutter/flicker but the entry of Canon and Nikon into the video world. 1080 is nothing right now, it’s a step up from their usual low quality video options on cameras but shooting through those sweet sweet lenses well that’s just awesome…

    They’ve actually been promoting it pretty heavily as well. Half the Hulu videos I watched this week seemed to have Nikon pushing the video feature. Red made them nervous or vice versa anyway it seems the CCD is going the way of 8mm and CMOS is the up and coming big boy.

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