Work in the Movies! Make Money!

Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:48 PM EDT

In 10 years the face of the film business has undergone a revolution of terrifying proportions—especially terrifying perhaps for those of us who depend on undemocratic media structures for our livelihood.

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business, film, rates, dslr, vfx, shooters

Lightworks to Alter the Landscape of Film Editing?

Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:02 PM EDT

There's a volcano just waiting to erupt underneath the market for production quality Non-linear Editing systems. For those that don't know, non-linear editing systems are the pieces of software that Filmmakers of today use to digitally cut their masterpieces.

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entertainment, film, open-source, editing, premier, final-cut, avid, nle, editshare, lightworks

3d Industries brings Graphics to the Masses

Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:02 PM EDT

3d modeling has many uses, from entertainment to engineering. 3d can be highly interactive, as in a training simulation or video game, or it can be completely passive—as in the case of a model for a billboard.

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technology, film, documentary, 3d, modeling, graphics, workflow

Where's your email going?

Thu Aug 7, 2008 11:12 AM EDT

Let me preface this by stating that as a simple and effective search engine I really do like Google.

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google, yahoo, technology, of, security, aol, internet, e-mail, email, service

Uglies, The Last Book in the Universe and Perfection in Young Adult literature

Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:38 PM EDT

In the Uglies aesthetic genetic and biological manipulation are utilized as methods of controlling a futuristic populace.

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Uglies and Orwell

Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:09 PM EDT

Uglies is one crazy cocktail of a novel. Part teenage coming-of-age drama, part adrenaline pumping rebel espionage adventure ala Jack London's The Iron Heel and garnished with a modest slice of Orwellian dissident political analysis thrown in.

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books, future, arts, 1984, science-fiction, george-orwell, young-adult, uglies, scott-westerfeld