iMovieFest launched for amateur filmmakers

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iMovieFest.com showcases amateur
filmmakers around the world

iMovieFest.com showcases amateur
filmmakers around the world 07/29/2004 01:53 PM
July 29, 2004 - iMovieFest.com, a new Web site community for Mac users, gives creative outlet to amateur filmmakers around the world. iMovieFest.com makes it easy for anyone with a video camera and a copy of iMovie or other Mac video-editing software to show off their movies online. The site gives everyone a chance to showcase their digital movies and receive ratings, reviews, and real-time movie statistics in return.

iMovieFest.com offers amateur filmmaking
showcase

iMovieFest.com offers amateur filmmaking
showcase 07/28/2004 03:18 PM
MNM Productions has launched iMovieFest.com, a Web site that offers a place for amateur filmmakers to show off the flicks they've created with iMovie or other editing software. Members can upload links to their works and receive ratings from other users as well as access iMovie tutorials, download free plug-ins, music and sound effects, participate in the site's discussion forums and more. While basic membership is free, VIP members get the added bonus of linking to more than one movie at a time, keeping their older links online while others are deleted, receiving private messages in the forum and more. VIP memberships are US$5.95 per month or $44.95 annually. iMovieFest.com currently boasts almost 600 members and 140 videos available for viewing, and in late August it plans to release details of its first filmmaking contest. Final Cut tutorials will also arrive in late summer, with video hosting being offered this fall.

iMovieFest winners online

iMovieFest winners online 04/12/2004 11:24 PM
Winning entries from the recent iMovieFest, held by the Washington University Macintosh Users Group, are now online...

Three Filmmakers, Three Visions, One
Platform

Three Filmmakers, Three Visions, One
Platform 12/10/2003 12:43 PM
A cross-country road trip highlighted by interviews with some of the most powerful people in America, including a former President. A Shamrock, Texas contest to see who can grow the best Donegal beard, complete with a "hairy outsider" determined to steal the crown. A walking tour of downtown Manhattan that covers not only off-beat trivia and observations but also a unique view of what should be done with the area currently known as "Ground Zero." Three wildly different events that resulted in three disparate documentaries: "The Journey," "Growin' a Beard," and "Live From Shiva's Dance Floor," respectively. All three, however, were made with Macs by filmmakers who love the platform.

Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance

Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Thomas sez, "Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers: A pair of researchers documented increasing barriers to documentary film production caused by the high cost of obtaining rights clearances from IP holders."

The study explores the implications of the current terms of rights acquisition on the creative process of documentary filmmaking in today's marketplace, and from them makes recommendations to lower costs and promote creativity. It focuses on the lived experience of independent documentary filmmakers who work primarily within a broadcast environment (sometimes with a theatrical "window"), in coping with the creative challenges created by acquiring and granting rights. Click here to read Untold Stories.

Independent documentary filmmakers were selected because their work regularly requires them to interact with a wide variety of rights holders, from archives for photographs and stock footage to musical performers to other filmmakers. This is especially clear when it is a historical documentary or one that comments on commercial popular culture, but it is an issue for most documentary filmmakers, no matter what the subject matter. When a trademark appears on a baseball cap, or a subject happens to be watching television, or a radio in the background plays a popular song, or a subject sings "Happy Birthday," rights clearance becomes a professional and creative challenge.

Link (Thanks, Thomas!)

Filmmakers hawk new technology to
convert films to 3-D

Filmmakers hawk new technology to
convert films to 3-D 03/19/2005 03:07 AM
SiliconValley.com Mar 18 2005 3:56PM GMT

"Iranian Filmmakers Return Home From
Iraq"

"Iranian Filmmakers Return Home From
Iraq" 11/05/2003 04:10 AM

Notes and Tips: Texas tax break for
filmmakers

Notes and Tips: Texas tax break for
filmmakers 12/27/2004 03:15 AM
Texas offers a tax break for people buying Macs and related equipment to be used for producing a video, film, informercial, or similar piece.

'Juneteenth' Fest Draws Black Filmmakers
(AP)

'Juneteenth' Fest Draws Black Filmmakers
(AP) 06/19/2004 07:26 AM
AP - Young black filmmakers are traveling to northern Texas this week as organizers of the Juneteenth Film Festival search for the next Spike Lee.

Microsoft tailors software for
filmmakers, broadcasters

Microsoft tailors software for
filmmakers, broadcasters 04/06/2005 07:28 AM
PC Authority Apr 6 2005 11:11AM GMT

FrameForge 3D Studio released; 3D tool
for filmmakers

FrameForge 3D Studio released; 3D tool
for filmmakers 02/17/2004 01:03 PM
Innoventive Software LLC on Tuesday announced the release of FrameForge 3D Studio, a hybrid Windows-Mac 3D previsualization product aimed at directors, filmmakers and other creative professionals. The software enables users to plan 3D visual design ideas for presentation or shooting live on set.

Gorilla 2.0 ships; production tool aimed
at filmmakers

Gorilla 2.0 ships; production tool aimed
at filmmakers 12/10/2003 09:11 AM
Jungle Software has released Gorilla 2.0, a new version of their production software aimed at emerging filmmakers. The software runs on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and Windows, and sports more than 50 new features.

Filmmakers Examining the 'What Ifs' of
Nuclear Power

Filmmakers Examining the 'What Ifs' of
Nuclear Power 09/08/2004 03:09 AM
Documentaries on the effects on children of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and the Indian Point power plant will be broadcast back-to-back by HBO.

HBO Emerges as a Mecca for Maverick
Filmmakers (Los Angeles Times)

HBO Emerges as a Mecca for Maverick
Filmmakers (Los Angeles Times) 09/19/2004 05:53 AM
Los Angeles Times - Independent filmmakers have complained for years that Hollywood's specialized film companies have grown from artistic gamblers into cautious corporations, as former art-house heroes like Miramax Films turn to $100-million epics and splashy star vehicles.

Yahoo! News - Filmmakers Showcase 'Tiny
Screen' Films for Phones

Yahoo! News - Filmmakers Showcase 'Tiny
Screen' Films for Phones 03/21/2003 10:19 AM
Filmmakers showcase 'tiny screen' films for phones

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New tackle for amateur phishers

New tackle for amateur phishers 08/20/2004 04:43 PM
Sympatico Aug 20 2004 8:19PM GMT

"is going to shift from amateur to
professional"

"is going to shift from amateur to
professional" 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio 06/14/2004 07:43 PM
People from all around the world get together via a technology medium that allows them to form relationships through a global, far-flung community even though they have never met face to face. It may not be the first thing that comes to your mind, but amateur radio is alive and well thank you very much.

Just ask any one at "This Week in Amateur Radio" which produces a weekly show devoted to nothing else. A 100% volunteer effort, a typical show will be at least 80 minutes. "You wouldn't think there is that much information week in and week out about a hobby," says George Bowen, Executive Producer of TWIAR "but other than Christmas and Thanksgiving week it's there." There are plenty of stories about government regulations in broadcasting but you are just as likely to hear stories like the one this week about the military radio broadcasting that is jamming garage door openers all over Florida.

Segment producers will record their own stories and then upload to one of the mirrored ftp sites which George then downloads and compiles for the show. The result is broadcast on bandwidth made available by commercial satellite feeds but according to George more and more listeners are simply picking up the MP3 version from TWIAR's website.

These MP3s and all the material on the site used to be marked with an "All Rights Reserved" copyright because "that's what everybody else was doing. Then I saw this piece on Creative Common on TechTV and I thought 'Hey, that's what we're doing!'"

Indeed, segments are regularly shared with one of the other six such shows produced around the world from New Zealand to Europe. They are now free to do so legitimately thanks to George having put all the shows on the web under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Amateur Radio Newsline

Amateur Radio Newsline 12/30/2004 02:49 AM
Technocrat.net Dec 30 2004 6:31AM GMT

Cool Amateur FX4U!!

Cool Amateur FX4U!! 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
While the site most regrettably hasn't been updated for quite some time, Space Battles is still the only site I've found where you can download some very good (and some very bad) fan-made movies of ... space battles! Hey, where else are you gonna see the Dominion and the Shadows taking on the Federation and the Rebel Alliance on the same screen? Fanboys set phasers and blasters to fun!

Internet Amateur Wins Top Poker Pot

Internet Amateur Wins Top Poker Pot 05/30/2004 03:22 AM
Los Angeles Times May 30 2004 7:21AM GMT

Amateur Radio Newsline MP3 for March 25

Amateur Radio Newsline MP3 for March 25 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Technocrat.net Mar 26 2005 7:21AM GMT

Motorola MPx220 Amateur Porn

Motorola MPx220 Amateur Porn 06/01/2004 09:08 AM

If you just can't wait to get your hands on Motorola's upcoming MPx220 smartphone, Modaca has an exclusive 11MB video of the Windows Mobile device; sort of voyeur vids for the phone lover, I guess. It looks hot, though, with fast menuing response and a bright screen. You watch it, though, and tell me you don't feel a little dirty when the cameraman sort of teases that card around the edges of the SD slot.
Read [Modaco via Mobile9]

Related
Motorola MPx 220 Cloaking Device on the Fritz [Gizmodo]

1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another
Explodes

1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another
Explodes 08/09/2004 12:53 AM

Microsoft targets amateur programmers

Microsoft targets amateur programmers 06/29/2004 07:32 AM
Among the perks the software giant will offer are lightweight development tools and a free version of SQL Server.

Amateur rocket fired into space

Amateur rocket fired into space 05/18/2004 07:27 AM
The first privately built rocket to get into space is launched from Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

Amateur Brickles players need not apply

Amateur Brickles players need not apply 06/21/2004 03:38 PM
Brickles Pro v1.0.4 (the successor to Brickles3000) has been released today. Professional Brickles players world-over know that this game is no wussy ball and paddle game. Brickles Pro features adjustable colors and patterns, adjustable ball and paddle sizes, stereo sounds, adjustable speed and window sizes, and more. Even the number of paddles in the game can be changed.

The Amateur Gourmet: The Carbohydrate
Manifesto

The Amateur Gourmet: The Carbohydrate
Manifesto 05/19/2004 11:54 PM
tomorrow is carb awareness day .. Save the Carbs

amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_gourmet/2004/05/the_carbohydrat .html
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World's baddest-ass amateur roboticists

World's baddest-ass amateur roboticists 03/29/2005 03:07 PM
Cory Doctorow: This month's Wired has a stupendous article on three kids from working-class Mexican migrant families in Phoenix who became amateur roboticists and took home the gold for developing a world-beating subaquatic robot using parts they bought with $800 they'd fundraised.

The Ralph's grocery store near the UCSB campus is done up to look like a hacienda, complete with a red tile roof, glaringly white walls, and freshly planted palms. The guys dropped Lorenzo off in front. It was his bright idea, after all. He wandered past the organic produce section, trying to build up his courage. He passed an elderly lady examining eggplant - he was too embarrassed to ask her. Next, he saw a young woman in jeans shopping for shampoo.

"Excuse me, madam," he began. He wasn't used to approaching women, let alone well-dressed white women. He saw apprehension flash across her face. Maybe she thought he was trying to sell magazines or candy bars, but he steeled himself. He explained that he was building a robot for an underwater contest, and it was leaking. He wanted to soak up the water with tampons but didn't know which ones to buy. "Could you help me buy the most best tampons?"

The woman broke into a big smile and led him to feminine hygiene. She handed him a box of O.B. ultra-absorbency. "These don't have an applicator, so they'll be easier to fit inside your robot," she said. He stared at the ground, mumbled his thanks, and headed quickly for the checkout.

"I hope you win," she called out, laughing.

Link (Thanks, Greg!)

Update: Greg points out that there's an online tipjar for donating to the kids' college fund

Amateur Rocket Reaches Space

Amateur Rocket Reaches Space 05/18/2004 12:02 AM

of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls

of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
Ever since I interviewed Dave about blogs for my book, Free Culture, I've been thinking a lot about his idea of "amateur journalists." It is a powerful concept, which rewards careful thought. To see its value, we must remember the original meaning of "amateur," meaning one who does something for the love of it alone. And when we think of journalism that is regulated by those ideals, it is easy to see why such journalism nicely complements commerical journalism. As he sa id to me,

"An amateur journalist simply doesn't have a conflict of interest, or the conflict of interest is so easily disclosed that you know you can sort of get it out of the way."

It is because I found Dave's view so compelling that I've been worried for sometime about the emergence of advertising in blog space. I'm not against it. I just worry about how it might put pressure on the "doesn't have a conflict of interest" norm. If the virtue of the amateur is to seek the truth, that virtue could be in tension with the desire to earn more ad revenue. The simplest way to get linkbacks is to say the most absurd things imaginable. But the more I've talked about this with observers and friends, the more I think the real fear is not bloggers tempted by ad revenues. It is instead the emergence of the equivalent of tabloids in blog-space: commercial entities whose sole purpose is to generate ad revenue, who do that by being as ridiculous and extreme as possible. The danger here is that the conflict has returned. Just as the British tabloids care little about the truth in their path to selling papers, commercial blog-loids care little about the truth in trying to attract eyeballs. And it is here that the cycle turn vicious: for the amateur space feeds the professional troll by careful and repeated efforts to show that claims made are false or outrageous. If you're paid by the click, who cares why people click. This creates a dilemma for open and honest disagreement about the facts. For here there is a conflict in interest: the interest of the amateur journalist is not the interest of the professional troll. Yet the only way the amateur can do his job -- by quoting and criticizing -- is to feed the troll. We either need a way to cite that doesn't reward bad behavior. (Copyright law restricts that (Google, for example, would be really angry if you started linking to caches rather than original locations).) Or we need a way to know when to ignore. In either case, imho, it would be useful to think more about this conflict in interest, if the nature of the amateur space is not to be displaced by something different.

Dahlia Lithwick will just come along and
kick my amateur ass to the gutter

Dahlia Lithwick will just come along and
kick my amateur ass to the gutter 03/23/2005 02:36 AM
Dahlia Lithwick sums up my feelings about the Terri Schiavo case .. rule of law

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DX Toolbox helps amateur radio operators

DX Toolbox helps amateur radio operators 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
If you're a professional or amateur radio operator you've probably spent time scouring the Internet looking for information on conditions that will affect the transmission of your broadcasts. Black Cat Systems provides some guidance with DX Toolbox, a US$19.99 software package for Mac or PC that provides real-time data on a variety of conditions.

American Apparel's amateur porn-styled
ads

American Apparel's amateur porn-styled
ads 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Am erican Apparel ads: Porn pushers or youth prophets? (Now, Toronto) Some believe American Apparel's amateur porn-styled ads using real models are retail brilliance – others say it's time for a boycott.

Phelps Named Nation's Top Amateur
Athlete (AP)

Phelps Named Nation's Top Amateur
Athlete (AP) 04/13/2004 09:04 PM
AP - Michael Phelps matched one of Mark Spitz's accomplishments without even trying. Now, it's on to the Olympics. Phelps didn't find out until after he'd won the 2003 Sullivan Award as the nation's top athlete on Tuesday night that Spitz won the award, too — 32 years earlier.

"10 Common Problems that Dismiss You as
an Amateur" Writer

"10 Common Problems that Dismiss You as
an Amateur" Writer 01/22/2004 03:14 AM

Are you a writer? Or maybe an aspiring writer? Maybe just a blogger that enjoys writing in your spare time? (That last one is me.) Do you have to write for work? Maybe you're not going to ever be a novelist, but if you write for any reason and you have to persuade people with the written word, then you have to read this article:

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

1. Repeats
2. Flat Writing
3. Empty Adverbs
4. Phony Dialogue
5. No-good suffixed
6. The 'to-be' words
7. Lists
8. Show, Don't tell
9. Awkward Phrasing
10. Commas

The point to the List above is that even the best writers make these mistakes, but you can't afford to. The way manuscripts are thrown into the rejection pile on the basis of early mistakes is a crime. Don't be a victim.

You won't be sorry if you do. Your readers might be sorry if you don't.

Amateur astronomers share in science
glory

Amateur astronomers share in science
glory 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:11PM GMT

Amateur Radio Mobile Internet Connection

Amateur Radio Mobile Internet Connection 12/08/2003 03:30 PM
Welcome to our newest project member.

India freaks out over amateur teen sex
phonecam video

India freaks out over amateur teen sex
phonecam video 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Snip:

The [oral] sex clip was recorded weeks ago and passed on by the bragging schoolboy to three of his friends and eventually made its way to video disc sellers in New Delhi. It did not draw much attention until an engineering student at a prestigious Indian college listed it for sale on [eBay's Indian subsidiary] Baazee.com... it's the talk of urban India, an obsession of newspapers and talk shows. (...)

Of greater concern to many in the business community is [Baazee.com exec Avnish] Bajaj's arrest under the Information Technology Act of 2000. The law makes a criminal offense of "publishing, transmitting, or causing to publish any information in electronic form, which is obscene." But it also says an Internet provider or Web site manager can't be held responsible if he acted diligently to remedy an electronic offense after learning of it. Baazee.com maintains it yanked the sex video listing as soon as customer service managers noticed it, and Bajaj had traveled to New Delhi to cooperate with authorities.

Pawan Duggal, a cyberlaw expert, said Bajaj's arrest has serious implications, especially when Internet usage in the country is rapidly growing and foreign investors are increasingly looking to India for e-commerce opportunities. "Ultimately we have to see bigger picture. We want to increase Internet penetration. All this will only happen if you allow service providers the freedom," he said.

Hehehe. He said "increase penetration." Link (via unwired, thanks John Parres, and Prion)

Update: Fleshbot picked up an interesting/creepy angle on the story as reported by Agence France-Presse: the incident is reportedly being followed at the "highest levels" of US government as well. Fleshbot's editor asks, "Yes, the manager of Baazee.com is an Indian-born US citizen, but still. Is this the sort of case the US State Department usually gets involved in? We'd have thought they were busy with other things, like ... oh, war and stuff." Link

And reader John McCarthy says, "According to today’s Salon, Condi’s on the trail of the India phone sex scandal."

[Condoleezza] Rice is understood to have telephoned the U.S. ambassador in India, David Mulford, about the case. The Bush administration's national security advisor and future secretary of state has let it be known that she is furious about Bajaj's humiliating treatment. He is, after all, a U.S. citizen.

Link. "Appropriately enough," says John, "I had to watch a premercial for a Verizon videophone to read the full text."
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