“The Onyx Project” is a lowbuget interactive movie releasing today on DVD. It seems like a media experiment from a Design School.
From NYT: “One idea behind the venture is that no two viewers may see the movie unfold in the same way, yet its basic facts, characters and message will permeate the experience.”
It doesnt play in […]

After a month long teaser campaign Nikon released 10Megapixel D80, a successor to its 2004 blockbuster D70.
At $999 without lens, it doesnt excite me too much. Nikon D70 was a pathbreaker when it came out in 2004, 2 years later D80 just seem to be a lackluster update. I was expecting at least a Full Frame sensor - […]

 
iStockPhoto which was everymans cheap $1 photostock agency, is now launching iStockVideo, and paying $35-$50 for every 30 second HD clip. You can shoot a 30 sec clip using ur fancy cameraphone or a HD cam and get paid (assuming its of good quality)
They pay:
Small (320×240) = $5
Medium (640×480) = $10
Large (720×486) = $20
HD 720 (1280×720) = $35
HD 1080 […]

Participated in the Seattle 48hour Film Festival. We made a short called “Folded”. The genre we picked was “Drama”. We have 3 items which we need to include in the short.

Prop: One Sleeping Bag
Character: Bonnie the Insurance Agent
Dialogue: “Prompt…I expect you to be prompt..prompt and courteous”

It was great fun to shoot - and made a […]

Séance is a age old tradition of communicating with the dead sprits through a medium. New Jersey based filmmaker Arun has taken this as a subject for his short film “Seance“. So when a young man tries to unravel his future by consulting a Seance practitioner, he gets more than he bargained for. The story […]

The July 4th fireworks was sure impressive. Spectacular display of synchoronized pyrotechnics coordinated with computer precision.. computer? Well, you didn’t think that little midgets set off the fireworks with such precision by hand, running around a carefully arranged maze of stacked fireworks waiting to be lit - did you? If so, sorry to burst your […]

  
An Italian Director has completed a full 90 min movie using his cellphone. Amazingly no post production work done to the footage to cleanup the aliasing or to bump up the resolution.
Shot with a Nokia 90 in the MPEG-4 codec with a miniscule budget of mere $1000+, this movie is an assimilation of interviews about love and eroticism […]

Sharp has introduced a 3D Lappie. Wow!
What are the big boys up to, a company roundup:

Philips has actual 3D consumer monitor.
Toshiba has a prototype 3D monitor that doesn’t require glasses.
Sanyo has come up with a prototype glasses-less 3D monitor that can simultaneously provide two different TV programs–one for a person on the left and one on […]

Finally! Its coming home next week…

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Jimmy the Tulip
 

HD100 when it was released last Oct - ran into rough waters with its split-screen issues and lack of 60P (for reality look & slowmo). Now it has updated its lineup to offer 2 more cameras based on HD100 design. The left column is the old camera, and the 2 right columns represent the 2 […]

RED camera has finally announced its price - $17,500. This is a true 4k resolution camera (equivalent of Super 35mm film camera).
The price includes a Super-35mm sensor (the CMOS CCD), S35mm PL lens mount (popular film lens mount), LCD, HD-SDI output (4:2:2 capability), dual HD-SDI outputs (4:4:4: capability), battery and charger. HD-SDI is the digital […]

How usable is Home Depot? These two frogs review it
http://snipurl.com/usability4homedepot

Waterborne, an Indie movie released on Google Video for $3.99, has been declared as a hit. The director Ben Reki, is an American Desi, and his interview appeared on rediff a last month. It revolves around a bio terrorist attack on LA, with Ajay Naidu (the neurotic software guy in OfficeSpace) in lead.
I haven’t watched it yet […]

I never knew that day will come so soon (read the last para of my last post).
Today, a super mega budget movie borrowed the soundtrack from our ARR’s score!! Nicolas Cage’s movie ‘Lord of War’ uses our ARR’s Bombay theme. When Nicolas cage gets arrested in Africa - the sun sets down, we hear Bombay […]

No no - don’t jump to conclusions - nobody ripped off the famous ‘Sex and the City’ tune.
Well, ripping off music, themes and tunes are nothing new in our side of the hemisphere. Our Deva dutifully copied ‘Primal Fear’ (Vaali), ARR from ‘Bewitched’ (En Swaasa Katre) and the list extends on and on. Even I […]

Just when I thought AR Rahman hit rock bottom with his lackluster score for Aamir Khan’s Rang De Basanti - I heard his endearing music for Deepa Mehta’s Water. Though it has some hangover from their previous collaboration 1947 Earth. Here he re-establishes his ‘born supremacy’ over Period music - period!

Poor direction, Poor Acting, Inappropriate music.
At 5.1 surround sound, AR Rehman’s BGM music does sound spectacular - but very inappropriate. I am giving the benefit of doubt to our madras maestro as Director ‘Ping He’ seems to be asleep at the wheel half the time. He is no Ang Lee, so if you […]

Sanyo has just released a sub-$1000 consumer pocket HD camera. Doesn’t have any indie shooting features, its purely a consumer pocket cam. Like my dream cam HVX200 - this one is tapeless solid state memory cam. Die tape Die!.
But it has successfully hit the magic under $1000 price tag - heck its not even […]

Currently listening to Paris based Music Director Niru’s debut tamil film score for ‘Kalabak Kadhalan’.
Fresh music.
But I am afraid to see who is the hero of the film is - I just don’t want to find out its ‘SJ Suryah’, and start hating the music… I hope its a ‘Farhan Aktar type’ of […]