- Gizmodo – A Rare Tour of IMAX Cameras – IMAX cameras – Wow, this is absolutely fantastic – a rare look inside the IMAX camera department.
"There are 26 IMAX film cameras in the world today. At IMAX HQ, I got to play with 4 of them (and take plenty of photographs for you)."
- Why the second coming of 3D is overrated – "The majority of films conceived in original three-tone Technicolor would be seriously diminished in monochrome, and vice versa. Films by those masters who used CinemaScope creatively are drained of their aesthetic essence when shown on the small screen. [But], no film made in 3D, even those that rely wholly on objects sticking out of the screen into one's face, has lost anything by being shown "flat"."
Interesting piece by Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. He makes a point of saying it's things that make production cheaper, like digital cameras, that make a genuine difference, rather than more expensive, like 3D. I guess the obvious question is what happens when pretty much every little digital camera for indie filmmaking can be cheaply adapted to 3D (RED are in the process of doing this) – if cinema goers start to expect that blockbusters and horror films, both genres I think where the 3D effect does make a substantive difference to the experience, will be in 3d then who knows?
- By Ken Levine: If Aaron Sorkin wrote a show about baseball – More fantastic Ken Levine. I liked Studio 60 but there's no mistaking the Sorkin patter.
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- YouTube – The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations – Far too familiar.
- Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus trailer: what more needs to be said? – "All the way through the trailer, each one of those magic, sparkling, 60 seconds, you keep seeing tantalising glimpses of aeroplane seats and screaming passengers among the more expected ones of submarines being treated like bath toys and large landmark bridges being at least partially destroyed. And you ask yourself: "Really? One of the sea creatures is going to attack a plane? How?! Bollocks! They can't even vaguely be suggesting they'll do that… "
And in the very last few seconds it is confirmed. With a cry of "HOLY SH…", a giant shark is seen jumping out of the sea – jumping, we guess, somewhere up to 12,000 feet in the air, and threatening to take a bite out of a commercial airliner."
I couldn't be more excited about this film at the moment.
- The Believer – Interview with David Simon – "DS: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell."
My girlfriend and I are finally getting through The Wire. I can't possibly add to the huge number of reasons why it's consistently called the best TV show ever made, but for me personally the sense of what the creator's saying above sums it up.