Ma.gnolia: Bookmarks in Film & Video

Summarized Cinema: Science Movies Explained in a Sentence

apartness — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:13:50 PDT

2001: A Space Odyssey - A slab of onyx and a singing computer get two astronauts in hot water.

Geo-Traffic today on Film Editing Schools World Map

purely_films — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:56:32 PDT

World Map Showing Locations to Film Schools and Links

Sydney Pollack, Director of High-Profile Hollywood Movies, Is Dead at 73 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

apartness — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:32:57 PDT

Mr. Pollack defined an era with star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa.”

Lowel EDU - a Lighting Resource Center

peter — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:12:54 PDT

A collection of lighting tutorials on the Lowel website.

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

apartness — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:13:39 PDT

AKA "An Andalusian Dog." The infamous first film collaboration by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel is a staple of festivals, retrospectives, and college film classes, and the silent mother of all music videos. Hat tip: Fred Gates.

Trapped: Video: The New Yorker

apartness — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:38:27 PDT

This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

Mr. B Natural Part 2

apartness — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:11:20 PDT

The notorious MST3K short (concluded).

Mr B Natural Part 1

apartness — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:09:17 PDT

The most notorious (and enjoyable) of all MST3K shorts. Enjoy!

The Qantas Experience...many thanks to Rain Man

apartness — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:42:27 PDT

Fun post, great clip.

GSpot Codec Information Appliance

peter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:51:02 PDT

A useful little utility that analyses a video file and reveals the GOP size, streaming rate, fps, audio format and various other parameters. Very handy if a) you have video encoding problems and b) you know what it's telling you!

After Effects CS3 Help

peter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:03:37 PDT

Online help files for After Effects.

BBC Editorial Guidelines

peter — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:40:30 PDT

The BBC's Editorial Guidelines, Online Services Guidelines, more guidance and information about Mandatory Referrals. The guidelines help BBC content producers resolve difficult editorial dilemmas.

Keylogger Video Contest

Anelly85 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:46:37 PDT

Make a video, post it on YouTube and win!

MPEG-4 AAC vs MP3 vs Ogg

peter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:30:52 PDT

Comparison of AAC, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio quality. Ogg comes out on top, closely followed by MP3 at 160kbps; AAC comes out poorly.

Olympus - LS-10 audio recorder

peter — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:07:05 PST

From the intro page: "Make high-end audio recordings no matter the time and place. Be it at a concert, a breaking news story, or out in nature, the LS-10 is the perfect accompaniment. With Linear PCM recording capabilities and sampling rates of up to 24bit/96kHz, this clever pocket-sized device captures audio in ultimate quality." Looks good.

BBC Training & Development > face to face training and online broadcast and new media courses

peter — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:32:26 PST

The BBC's training website. Not only paid courses (which are very reasonably priced, considering the BBC's expertise and standards), but plenty of free online resources too on everything from DV shooting to radio journalism and broadcast engineering. A veritable cornucopia of information! Oh yes, and there's a link to the BBC Jobs website, too...

Star Wars according to a 3 year old.

apartness — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:48:33 PST

Really wonderful short film. I had the same idea when our daughter was two: to film her explaining the stories of movies. Never did it, though. And now I don't have to. This is awesome.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 - Help pages

peter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:35:42 PST

What it says - the Help pages linked to from within the Adobe Premiere Pro 3.0 application.

Vanity Fair. The Hollywood Issue.

apartness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:34:47 PST

Hitchcock classics restaged as fashion (which, of course, they always were, anyway). Via Unstoppable Robot Ninja.

A Stallion Review: Southland Tales

kfugrip — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:29:25 PST

In 2007 I watched 104 movies (at least) and wrote about all of them on my blog.

BBC - R&D - Publications - WHP034: Colorimetric and Resolution requirements of cameras

peter — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:37:31 PST

Abstract: This document is intended to provide some of the background colour-science justification for the "BBC setup" conditions in some television cameras. Although aimed primarily at HDTV cameras and their use in attempting to mimic and thereby replace film usage, the colour-science applies equally to all forms of video cameras.

Technology Review: "You Don't Understand Our Audience"

peter — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:14:28 PST

To quote Ebonmuse on Dangerous Intersection: "a relentless, burning indictment of everything that’s wrong with the mainstream media today. In a future era, when historians look back on our time and ask how so many people could have been deceived into supporting the disastrous, nightmarish war in Iraq and ignoring so many other pressing issues, Hockenberry’s article will be Exhibit A." Hear, hear.

Canford Audio

peter — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:01:36 PST

UK-based pro audio dealers supplying the radio, television and recording industry.

Welcome to Battery University

peter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:39:32 PST

Battery University is an on-line resource that provides practical battery knowledge for engineers, educators, students and battery users alike. The papers address battery chemistries, best battery choices and ways to make your battery last longer.

everyday on Vimeo

peter — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:12:58 PST

Hit viral video by Noah K. "January 11, 2000 - July 31, 2006 a work in progress. Original music by Carly Comando"

Vimeo. Because everyone shouldn’t see everything.

peter — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:03:28 PST

A less juvenile-infested video sharing site than YouTube, reputedly with better video quality. From their introduction: "Use Vimeo to share your videos with only the people you want to. We have a bunch of privacy options so you can choose exactly who can see your videos, like just your friends or everybody."

YouTube - Women In Art

peter — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:38:17 PST

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm http://www.myspace.com/eggman913 (less)

Happy birthday, Martin Scorsese!

apartness — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:45:26 PST

November 17th in History at tnl.net.

Camera Review: The Canon XL H1 By Dirck Halstead / The Digital Filmmaker /

peter — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:35:41 PST

Ghibli Museum - Wikipedia

apartness — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:17:37 PST

Ghibli Museum is a commercial museum featuring the Japanese anime work of Studio Ghibli. I want to go there!