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DIY Days
Saturday, July 26th
1745 North Spring #4
Los Angeles, CA 90012
How do we sustain ourselves as filmmakers and storytellers in this day of shifting film distribution systems? How do we monetize our film and [...]
YouTube has opened up a channel/section/whatever for long-form indie films, The YouTube Screen Room.
Check out Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody? written by Miranda July and directed by Miguel Arteta, from the Wholphin DVD series.
The YouTube Screening Room is a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. [...]
Via Prolost.
Opencut is an open source film competition where (for a $25 entry fee) you get digital footage shot on a RED camera and a shooting script. A description of the first project, “Susannah” is available at the website.
Forgot about this. The Bent Festival NYC is happening this weekend in NYC. Make has some highlights:
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interviews and performances from: Lydia Lunch, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), J.G.Thirlwell (Foetus), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Asheton (Stooges),
Torrent of iPod/iPhone [...]
I’ve switched from Greencine to Netflix, due to Greencine’s complete lack of customer service. Here’s the RSS for my Netflix queue.
Mac Goodies
Newsfire is now free. Best MacOS newsreader after NetNewsWire. Secrets is a preference pane to access hidden/secret prefs in the OS and numerous apps.
DIY
From Here to Awesome I’ll let them explain it:
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Besides the limited (or outrageously expensive) production tools available to non-studios for producing Blu-ray discs, the Finishing Line breaks down the costs for developing your first project:
_$2,500 : License Fee to author and distribute Blu-ray
_$3,000 : One-time fee to AACS. (I think this is billed per production company / individual)
_$1,585 : Per complete Blu-ray project
_$.04 [...]
Jaman, the online community for World-Cinema downloads, distribution and discovery, has released instructions on viewing/syncing Jaman downloads (supposedly including rentals) with AppleTV. This was rumored/announced back in June.
The hack/mod is explained in-depth at AppleTV hacks.
I’m looking forward to getting an AppleTV to hack/play with. Thinking about the possiblity of integrating it into a forthcoming project.
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture’s 2007 Conference is in Austin, TX, Oct. 17-20, 2007. Featuring a keynote by Richard Linklater.
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of [...]
The Workbook Project interviews Eric Bassett of Absurda, David Lynch’s interactive collaborator, discussing the DVD release of Inland Empire.
The highly-anticipated hack/patch to the AppleTV “diagnostic” USB port has been released. AppleTV Hacks has all the info, caveats and instructions. This patch enables the use of external storage—no word yet as to other uses.
AppleTV USB Patch
In NewTeeVee’s rundown of various P2P distribution options for independent producers, Janko Roettgers notes the interesting possibility of hosting torrents via Amazon’s S3 storage webservice.
Some documentation:
Using BitTorrent with S3.
Generating and Publishing torrents using S3.
Scott Kirsner of CinemaTech has posted his slides from his presentation at the San Francisco Apple store. The “meat” of the presentation begins around slide10.
Alan Quatermain has released the first version of his software development kit for “BackRow”—the name given to the pared-down version of OSX that runs the Apple TV. There are also some tutorials at his site.
More AppleTV hacks and discussion at AwkwardTV.