Film Genesis Launches the First Script-to-Film Screenwriting Contest and Puts Writers in the Director's Chair

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Oliver Stone's Twist - Is the director's
latest film soft on Castro? By Ann
Louise Bardach

Oliver Stone's Twist - Is the director's
latest film soft on Castro? By Ann
Louise Bardach 04/15/2004 02:22 PM
jaw-droppingly, fist-clenchingly infuriating interview with Oliver Stone .. "He let me run the tribunal, so to speak." .. Ann Louise Bardach does a much better job .. is not soft on Oliver Stone .. in-person Fisking .. horrible man

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Cult
film-maker Russ Meyer dies

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Cult
film-maker Russ Meyer dies 09/23/2004 03:14 PM
Cult film-maker Russ Meyer dies .. dead! .. RIP

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MSN Sponsors Anti-Piracy Film Contest

MSN Sponsors Anti-Piracy Film Contest 06/17/2005 04:37 PM
MSN UK is holding a contest for both youths and adults aimed at teaching the evils of intellectual property theft - an issue Microsoft is constantly battling to protect its software. The short film competition, aptly titled Thought Thieves, requires entrants to make a commercial-length movie about how IP theft affects society.

Film Industry Gets Challenged by
Bloggers First Film: Open Source,
Grassroots, Free, Remixable

Film Industry Gets Challenged by
Bloggers First Film: Open Source,
Grassroots, Free, Remixable 03/19/2005 02:59 AM
"What's a 'blog'?". "What do 'bloggers' do?". "'Bloggin' - what's that?". "Where's the 'blogosphere' exactly?". To find an answer to these questions, TheWeblogProject (http://www.theweblogproject.com) has come to the rescue: here is the first Film for, by and about Bloggers. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Third
Star Wars film gets title

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Third
Star Wars film gets title 07/26/2004 02:16 AM
Third (or is it sixth?) Star Wars movie to be called "Revenge of the Sith" .. BBC

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Full Sail Film Student Sells Script to
Touchstone Pictures

Full Sail Film Student Sells Script to
Touchstone Pictures 03/31/2005 03:01 AM
Amber Goerish, a current Full Sail Film student, has her original script purchased after a bidding war between Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Productions and Touchstone Pictures. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Digital outsells film, but film still
king to some

Digital outsells film, but film still
king to some 09/23/2004 06:06 PM
Many professional photographers still prefer to use film, thanks to continued advances in film technology, basic differences in how each medium works and artistic preference. But digital is gaining ground in the pro market as each generation of digital SLR camera improves resolution and features.

APL Launches Online Plastic Film
Recovery Resource

APL Launches Online Plastic Film
Recovery Resource 07/23/2004 06:38 AM
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Filmica: New collaborative bl0g about
film launches in Spain

Filmica: New collaborative bl0g about
film launches in Spain 12/26/2003 07:58 PM
Caspa.tv blog founder Antonio Delgado, who gave me a personal guided tour of all things geeky in Barcelona not long ago, sends word of a new addition to Spain's growing blogosphere:

Mainly composed of weblogs, Filmica project was born to become an open platform devoted to the present and future of the film and TV industries, collaborating the dialogue and extracting the knowledge from the information that is flowing on many spaces.

Each weblog is a personal site where authors freely write and comment about topics of their interest. Directors, producers, script-writers, journalists, proffessionals and fans will have their weblog installed and ready for them to write, freely. No computer skills required. At this moment, Filmica.com is at beta stage, finishing some adjustments and designs. The official opening is expected at the begining of 2004. People interested to open a weblog in Filmica should send an e-mail to weblogs@filmica.com, describing who the author is and what the subject of the weblog will be. The proposals will be reviewed.

Links: Spanish, English

Hollywood launches campaign to stop film
piracy (AFP)

Hollywood launches campaign to stop film
piracy (AFP) 06/15/2004 01:41 PM
AFP - The main trade group for Hollywood's movie industry announced it was stepping up a campaign to curb illegal downloading of films, but said it would take action in the courts if necessary.

Finalists in the DWR 2003 Holiday
Champagne Chair Contest

Finalists in the DWR 2003 Holiday
Champagne Chair Contest 01/16/2004 01:04 PM

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Un_Fold Chair Design Contest: 90 Days,
200lbs, and a FedEx Box

Un_Fold Chair Design Contest: 90 Days,
200lbs, and a FedEx Box 05/26/2004 04:38 PM
Oh, this is fantastic. Apparently British designer Phil Nutley sent a letter to 9 designers in 9 cities with a challenge: within 90 days, build a chair that can be made for $200 or less that can support the weight...

Contest to make a tiny chair out of
champagne cork wire

Contest to make a tiny chair out of
champagne cork wire 12/11/2003 03:41 PM
Design Within Reach holds a yearly competition to design a chair faishioned out of the wire that secures a champagne cork. Link (thanks, Justin!)

Microsoft puts bounty on virus writers

Microsoft puts bounty on virus writers 11/05/2003 04:46 PM
ZDNet Nov 5 2003 3:41PM ET

The Paris Review puts Writers at Work
interview series online

The Paris Review puts Writers at Work
interview series online 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
In its fifty-first year of publication, The Paris Review continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers. To that end, next month we’ll launch the DNA of Literature project: a complete online archive of the Writers at Work interview series. Available, it should be noted, for free. Years ago, when we first started discussing the archive, George liked to imagine a far-flung subscriber, who, for some reason, he placed in Bangladesh,…

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Film@PHP

Film@PHP 05/28/2004 04:58 PM
Dopo mesi di indecisione...

IMDB-Film-0.03

IMDB-Film-0.03 07/31/2004 07:06 AM

Five men arrested after BNP film

Five men arrested after BNP film 07/20/2004 06:02 AM
Five men are arrested after police study tapes of an undercover BBC documentary on the BNP.

A Film to Forget

A Film to Forget 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
mulling over the movies of mandy moore

Mac-made sci-fi film available on DVD

Mac-made sci-fi film available on DVD 06/28/2004 08:12 PM
K2 Films has released its science-fiction action film, "Radius," as a two-disk, US$19.95 DVD...

IPOs for Film

IPOs for Film 11/19/2003 10:24 PM
Taking it public. Ethan Hawke is looking for investors for his new movie, "Billy Dead". For $8.75 a share of preferred stock (and only in blocks of 100 - ticker symbol "BILLY"), Hawke hopes to raise about US $7.3 Million through his broker, Civilian Capital. According to a consultant with Civilian, potential investors will be able to "invest in a film maker, a story or a star."

Is this ushering in a new golden age of public media ownership, or an age of increased corporate hegemony? Also, for what other artforms would you like to see such investment opportunites? Finally, in what directors/actors/storylines etc. would you like to invest?

A film for those who read

A film for those who read 08/14/2004 12:57 AM
"Stone Reader makes you want to pick up a great novel and consume it in one long gulp. It’s a love letter to literature and literacy, a bibliophile’s dream film, dedicated to the joys of fiction and the passions of those who need books like they need food, water and air." (The Dallas Morning News)

An Act of Derring-Do, and It's Not in a
Film

An Act of Derring-Do, and It's Not in a
Film 06/29/2004 02:27 AM
In September, NASA will attempt to catch a capsule returning to earth with solar particles.

IMDB-Film-0.05

IMDB-Film-0.05 12/28/2004 11:29 AM

danny bot: the film

danny bot: the film 07/31/2004 06:58 PM
Boy sings tribute to his robot who’s off to war .. DannyBot

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Film Into Flash

Film Into Flash 08/29/2004 01:48 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 29 2004 5:21AM GMT

"Independent" Film. What is it?

"Independent" Film. What is it? 04/15/2005 06:29 PM
I don't know what "independent film" means. At a time when the W einsteins are trying to extricate themselves from Disney, it seems an appropriate question to ask. There are Indie films (non-industry money) that are supposed to imitate fancy hollywood films, there are new studios being opened outside of LA by Wealthy Christians in Denver hoping to convert through CS Lewis movies and there are Garden State, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine etc. which are like other Hollywood films: have stars, and studio money but are marketed as "Independent Films." What makes these independent? Finally, and seemingly too infrequently, there are privately financed and self-distributed unusual films like Assisted Living which despite their obvious merits and the critic's< /a> adoration are presumably ignored by the studios, blasted by the brain-numbing EW and distributed instead by the two young first-time filmmakers Why can't we see more non-hollywood and non-hollywood espousing independent ART on the screen? Why do we let every other multi-million dollar romantic comedy be sold to us as "indy" just because it has a quirky soundtrack or aesthetic sensibility. What can we do about it? I'm going to the movies. You?

IMDB-Film-0.04

IMDB-Film-0.04 09/09/2004 06:37 PM

Film ain't dead yet

Film ain't dead yet 01/22/2004 12:53 PM

A photo taken on New Year's Eve which we spent at a friend's house with several other couples and their children who didn't stop moving all evening. It was one of the very first shots taken with the Leica and a really old roll of C-41 process B&W film I happened to have around. I'm impressed that I captured her smirk in spite of the low light, her dervishness and my rusty manual camera reflexes. The picture would have been totally different had I taken it with a digital camera and I'm not entirely certain it would have been a presentable photo.

Recently, Kodak announced that it plans to discontinue a number of products including their line of APS film cameras which, if you believe a lot of the chicken little reports around the net, means the end of film photography as we have known it for the past century. Well, aside from the bias that people in the insular world of the internet tend to place on everything from Dean to the blog revolution, film is not doomed or otherwise obsolete even if all the kids who wouldn't part with their digital cameras say it is. The market Kodak is getting out of is one that has gone digital but there are plenty of film fanatics, film cameras and film processing labs out there to keep film in business for many more years.

I succumbed to the siren call of a digital camera about 3 years ago and, while I think digital has helped me to become a better photographer, I don't know that it has produced better photos than a film camera. I recently read Why digital cameras = better photographers which is a nicely done article on what makes digital attractive but, judging by a lot of the digital photos I've seen around the net in comparison to the film photos, I don't know that this is entirely true. Digital has produced a lot more photographers and photos so that the odds of there being more and better pictures is greater than before. I often wonder how many great photographers there would have been in the 1920s and 1930s had there been as many film cameras in the hands of people as there are now. A digital SLR gives you enough exposure feedback to get a feel for what the camera is doing which you can then take back to your film camera, but most digital cameras are completely automatic. People are taking more pictures and enjoying their cameras more so digital is a boon for getting more people interested in photography. However, this is not the death knell for film. Not yet anyway.

I'm getting back into film partly due to many of the inspiring photoblogs I've found at Photoblogs.org in which many of them have pictures taken on film that appeal to me far more than many of the digital photos I've seen or taken myself. Both formats have their strengths and weaknesses for me and, I suspect, they are similar for others.

Digital

• weaknesses
• DSLR is big, bulky, and heavy. Intimidates people at times.
• Trouble focusing in low-light.
• Batteries; aside from needing charging, they don't live long in cold conditions.
• It can crash at unexpected times without warning.
• Shutter lag.
• Lower light sensitivity.
• Archival concerns with digital format.
• Lots of equipment needed just to view and print pictures at home.
• An almost clinical perfection.
• strengths
• Instant gratification.
• Instant feedback.
• Easier to share photos with wired friends.

Film

• weaknesses
• Film can be expensive.
• Processing can be expensive.
• No instant gratification or feedback.
• strengths
• Small and light cameras.
• Fun.
• More creative.
• A Challenge.
• Film has the capacity to surprise in ways that digital never will.
• No batteries necessary.
• No shutter lag.
• Fewer buttons and gadgets.
• No CPU to crash at unexpected times.

The Elph is a fun little digital camera that I can take in my pocket anywhere and use for photographic post-it notes or fun candids to share. The 10D may gather some dust for a while since the Leica and the Lomo are a lot easier to carry around and they seem to capture more interesting images as perfection doesn't leave a lot of room for creative imperfection.

Film Heroes

Film Heroes 02/17/2004 02:19 PM

I noticed a poster for a photo exhibit in a camera shop window and decided to go have a look since the theme was interesting. Valkok ankaan Sankarit, Heroes of the Screen, is a provocative collection of photographs by Malla Hukkanen taken around Finland of tiny movie theatres that are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Hukkanen tells the story of these indie theatres in vivid colour on 35mm and panoramic film. I took my time looking at the faces of the people he captured so poignantly in and around their theatres and wondered if they were still in business. I'd love to see more of his work.

I have never really liked the giant 20 screen megaplex theatres that are so common in the US nowadays as they often show the same movies for weeks on end, have stale popcorn and they're as large and impersonal as a shopping mall. The small independent theatres have fresh popcorn, interesting films and often a small staff who remember your name if you're a movie junkie. It's ironic how the people who evangelise how the internet and social software are "revolutionising" our social lives when, at every turn, nearly every part of our daily lives away from the computer are becoming more and more impersonal and isolated. Hukkanen's photos will likely be a testament to the future of a time when people went to see movies and each other without the aid of a computer.

The Living Picture Museum [Elävän Kuvan Museo] is hidden away in a small warehouse in an out of the way neighbourhood, but it has an impressive collection of projection cameras and movie theatre ephemera, including an ushers costume from Kinopalatsi last worn in the last 1960s. It's a short walk from the Sörnäinen metro station and it's worth the trip if you wax nostalgic over old movie theatres or enjoy photography that tells a story.

Living Picture Museum: Heroes of the Screen
Vanha Talvitie 9, Verkkosaari, Sörnäinen

Open: 29 Jan through 28 Feb 2004, Tues - Sun 12-6pm
Free admission!

"Experimental Film"

"Experimental Film" 07/14/2004 10:18 PM

Why I made that film

Why I made that film 05/20/2004 10:17 AM
Why I made that film. The Guardian gets the first interview with the un known, female, 21-year-old American star of "the most explicit mainstream movie ever" (copyright all newspapers, everywhere).

a remarkable new film

a remarkable new film 01/19/2004 01:57 PM
latest movie .. "Big Fish,"

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Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11

Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11 04/14/2004 05:14 AM
People continue to mistake The Onion's stories as real news -- partly because the stories are so deadpan, partly because people are desperate to validate their twisted beliefs. Whatever the reason, the folks at The Onion just laugh and laugh. By Daniel Terdiman.

"Film Quotes"

"Film Quotes" 06/24/2005 09:46 PM

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"Cartoon-Film"

"Cartoon-Film" 07/12/2004 03:54 PM

They'll Stick With Film, Thank You

They'll Stick With Film, Thank You 12/25/2003 01:58 AM
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Interview: Sun Microsystems CEO Scott
McNealy (TechWeb)

Interview: Sun Microsystems CEO Scott
McNealy (TechWeb) 04/20/2004 03:16 AM
TechWeb - At the Sun iForce Partner Summit in San Diego Monday, Sun Microsystems CEO McNealy fielded questions from CRN Senior Editor Elizabeth Montalbano about how his company plans to grow its business in the midst of the current company environment, and how Sun plans to leverage its partners in the process.

Ritchie backs Grantham over internet
scandal

Ritchie backs Grantham over internet
scandal 05/12/2004 11:09 AM
Ananova May 12 2004 3:40PM GMT

Scott the Webmaster Returns to Scott the
Search Engine Engineer

Scott the Webmaster Returns to Scott the
Search Engine Engineer 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Scott the Webmaster Returns to Scott the Search Engine Engineer

Well most of today was spent on basic webmastering, content writing and CSS stuff (and I've munged a lot of CSS -- I know it won't validate any longer).  But I just caught my breath and put in a requested feature: RSS Filtering.

Here's What a Filter Does

If you've used Roogle at all then you're starting to see that your own posts show up a lot.  That's bad (well sometimes) so I implemented a new Advanced tab which has the advanced search form with the Filter option.

Let's just say that you don't like my blog.  Then you'd enter http://radio.weblogs.c om/0103807/rss.xml in the filter field and do the search.  And this is what you'd get:

• Before
• After

Other

Can there be more than one filter?  Not right now.

Does it remember my filter?  Not yet.

Can I filter from the search results?  Good idea (I just thought of it).  I'll get on that.

Who thought up this in the 1st place?  Well the filter concept credit goes to, well I can't remember but thank you for the idea.  Leave me a note here and I'll give you the credit and a cross link.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 04/06/2005 03:44 PM
Should HP spin off the printer business?

- Rise of Microsystems

- Rise of Microsystems 04/13/2004 09:02 PM
Computer Times Asia Apr 14 2004 1:37AM GMT

Sun Microsystems puts its weight behind

Sun Microsystems puts its weight behind 04/15/2004 01:10 PM

Sun Microsystems, a CEO's Last Stand?

Sun Microsystems, a CEO's Last Stand? 07/17/2004 09:43 AM

Sun Microsystems: The Java Problem

Sun Microsystems: The Java Problem 02/09/2003 11:48 AM
This document details the difficulties that keep our Solaris Java implementation from being practical for the development of common software applications. It represents a consensus of several senior engineers within Sun Microsystems. We believe that our Java implementation is inappropriate for a large number of categories of software application. We do not believe these flaws are inherent in the Java platform but that they relate to difficulties in our Solaris implementation.

We all agree that the Java language offers many advantages over the alternatives. We would generally prefer to deploy our applications in Java but the implementation provided for Solaris is inadequate to the task of producing supportable and reliable products.

There's no news like really shitty "air the laundry" bad news. Apparently this is an internal memo of Sun Microsystems that discusses the problems they are having with Java on Solaris.

"zeldman.ded"

Sun Microsystems Debt Cut to 'Junk'

Sun Microsystems Debt Cut to 'Junk' 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
New York Times Mar 6 2004 5:53AM GMT

Sun Microsystems Founder to Return (AP)

Sun Microsystems Founder to Return (AP) 02/10/2004 07:54 PM
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. is buying a privately held firm in a deal that will bring one of Sun's founders back to the company he helped form more than 20 years ago.

GENESIS

GENESIS 12/16/2003 10:09 AM
new version 1.1

"Genesis"

"Genesis" 09/09/2004 08:36 AM

Anesthetics spur sex dreams

Anesthetics spur sex dreams 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
David Pescovitz: The American Society of Anesthesiologists is warning physicians and nurses that patients might experience intensely vivid sex dreams while under anesthesia. From the Arizona Daily Star:

"Most physicians are not aware of this potential aspect of sedating drugs and anesthetics," said Dr. Robert Strickland, anesthesiologist at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. "In the patient's mind, such hallucinations can seem very real upon waking from sedation. In several recent, well-documented cases, physicians have been accused by patients of sexual misconduct, even though witnesses were present throughout the entire procedure."

Although it is almost impossible to verify how often sexual hallucinations occur, some studies indicate it happens in 1 percent to 3 percent of anesthetized patients, Strickland said. With some anesthetic drugs - such as ketamine or propofol - the incidence is up to 5 percent...

(Steven Barker, head of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona Medical Center,) was not alone the day he put a female patient under moderate anesthesia for a minor surgical procedure. He wanted her deeply sedated, but not completely out, so he could maintain verbal contact to check her breathing and other signs.

"At one point, I asked her if there was anything I could get for her, and she said, 'Yeah, a man,'" Barker said. "She then proceeded to describe the sexual characteristics of what she wanted, in a pretty direct way.

"I knew it was the drug, so I just sort of tried to change the subject. We all know these things can happen."

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SAP: Oracle bid will spur competition

SAP: Oracle bid will spur competition 06/24/2004 01:30 AM
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Worms Spur New Defenses

Worms Spur New Defenses 07/30/2004 05:42 PM
Administrators create own solutions to stop infected attachments.

Fed decision unlikely to spur rally

Fed decision unlikely to spur rally 09/20/2004 01:14 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sun Sep 19, 10:24 pm GMT

Sun Microsystems promises lower costs

Sun Microsystems promises lower costs 11/11/2003 01:20 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Nov 11 2003 0:11AM ET

Sun Microsystems Announces New Servers,
Services

Sun Microsystems Announces New Servers,
Services 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
Boston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:55AM ET

Motorola taps former Sun Microsystems
president as CEO

Motorola taps former Sun Microsystems
president as CEO 12/16/2003 05:20 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 16 2003 4:39PM ET

Motorola taps former Sun Microsystems
president as new CEO

Motorola taps former Sun Microsystems
president as new CEO 12/16/2003 11:11 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 16 2003 9:19AM ET

Motorola expected to tap former Sun
Microsystems president as new CEO

Motorola expected to tap former Sun
Microsystems president as new CEO 12/16/2003 03:13 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 16 2003 2:24AM ET

Sun Microsystems Posts 3Q Earnings Loss

Sun Microsystems Posts 3Q Earnings Loss 04/16/2004 02:26 PM
AP via Newsday Apr 16 2004 7:21PM GMT

Sun Microsystems Posts $795M Profit
in 4Q (AP)

Sun Microsystems Posts $795M Profit
in 4Q (AP) 07/20/2004 05:54 PM
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit Tuesday as the struggling server and software maker saw sales jump for the first time in three years and benefited from its settlement with Microsoft Corp.

Sun Microsystems Shares Fall on 1Q Loss

Sun Microsystems Shares Fall on 1Q Loss 04/16/2004 11:40 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 17 2004 2:43AM GMT

Sun Microsystems Opens Smart-Tag Plant
(AP)

Sun Microsystems Opens Smart-Tag Plant
(AP) 05/05/2004 01:15 AM
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. is opening a Dallas-area facility on Wednesday to test radio tags for tracking consumer products and improving inventory control in stores.

Film Genesis Launches the First Script-to-Film Screenwriting Contest and Puts Writers in the Director's Chair

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