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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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Monday, December 11, 2006 |
DV Rebel's Guide. Mark Frauenfelder:
I'm looking into making some videos, and I just heard about this book: The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. It sounds great.
 Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book is a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets.
The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feature films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, to creating specific special effects (including gunfire, Kung Fu fighting, car chases, dismemberment, and more) to editing and mixing sound and music. Its mantra is that the best, low-budget action moviemakers must visualize the end product first in order to reverse-engineer the least expensive way to get there.
Readers will learn how to integrate visual effects into every aspect of filmmaking--before filming, during filming and with "in camera" shots, and with computers in postproduction. Throughout the book, the author makes specific references to and uses popular action movies (both low and big-budget) as detailed examples--including El Mariachi, La Femme Nikita, Die Hard, and Terminator 3.
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By noemail@noemail.org (Mark Frauenfelder). [Boing Boing]
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I've read several sources say that hydrogen has been a convenient excuse for the Oil and Auto industries to use in order to keeping extending the current petroleum economy. There is no big supply of readily usable hydrogen, we must convert it, then store it, then distribute it. I am of the mind to stay away from this until a few more discoveries can make this a more economic proposition. -Jon-
Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense. In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25% for practical use [~] an unacceptable value to run an economy in a sustainable future. Only niche applications like submarines and spacecraft might use hydrogen. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news]
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