“If you do only what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won’t fail. You’ll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that’s failure by erosion.” -Twyla Tharp Failure by erosion is a very real threat to all creative types. I have been guilty of succumbing to this. You fall into a “comfort zone”. You develop a “style”. Call it whatever you...

64 Bit Films is a small production company founded by student filmmakers Jared Rosenthal, Luca Repola, Cosmo Scharf and Kai Demler. Cristina and I had a chance to meet Jared and Cosmo, at a Philip Bloom DSLR meet-up in Brooklyn, a year or two ago. We were instantly impressed by how passionate they were about filmmaking. I could tell after talking to Jared, for awhile, that 64 Bit Films was going places. Here is the trailer to their latest...

Why Canon has not hired these guys yet is beyond me. Looks very,very interesting.The basic idea here is that it allows the user to record at two different iso’s and then in post the images are interpolated. While it is not perfect, as evidenced by some of the ghosting, it is nonetheless very impressive and in my opinion definitely usable for certain situations. What do you think? Magic Lantern HDR Video X-MAS teaser from...

As some of you may know, my Dad was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, which is a form of cancer. The doctors found 4 tumors in various parts of his body. The tumors are too far spread apart for radiation treatment so, next week he is going to start chemotherapy. They hope to knock it into remission and if it is successful they think he will have 10-15 years left. I’m not sure what to make of all of this but, I...

I had an idea to do a cooking show for editors. We all have been there. You start off editing in the morning and by the time you come out of the editing cave, it’s late and you haven’t eaten all day. When you finally do eat, it’s usually crappy delivery food or something that no one else would refer to as a “meal”. I’m on a mission: to help poor malnourished fellow editors the world over....