Media Services recently caught up with another one of our alums, Colin Foster who has written and directed this short film entitled, The Funeral. Not only does this look like a really great film (you can see the trailer and synopsis below), but clips of it were also used in a Lynda.com tutorial created by […]

Check out this great post from Flavorwire, which highlights early interview footage of the following directors: Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Wes Anderson, Jane Campion, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard.A keyword search from the Media Services homepage will bring up tons of great […]

                                                          A photographer named Timur Civan attached a brass 35mm lens from 1908 to a digital camera and got what you see above. Read more about it […]

To read about what went on at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, check out the Hollywood Reporter site. Award results excerpted from Cannes Film Festival site.IN COMPETITION :FEATURE FILMSPalme d’OrAMOUR (LOVE) directed by Michael HANEKEGrand PrixREALITY directed by Matteo GARRONEAward for Best DirectorCarlos REYGADAS for POST TENEBRAS LUXAward for Best ScreenplayCristian MUNGIU for DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)Award for Best ActressCristina FLUTUR in DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS) directed by Cristian […]

Iron Man – HU DVD 2763Watchmen – HU DVD 6080Watchmen – BLU-RAY DVD 6080X-Men 1.5 – HU DVD 1441 X2: X-Men United – HU DVD 1442X-Men: The Last Stand – HU DVD 1443Spiderman – HU DVD 7121 Spiderman 2 – HU DVD 7122Spiderman 3 – HU DVD 7123Batman – HU DVD 4701Batman Returns – HU DVD 4702Batman Forever […]

Here’s an interesting article from Gizmodo about the history of Yahoo and Flickr: Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can […]

Here’s a useful tutorial on the 3D text shatter effect using Cinema 4D and Photoshop. Check out the whole tutorial at MediaMilitia.Here’s the intro:I’m going to show you how to make a 3D text shatter effect. This effect is made in two programs, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.If you haven’t heard of Cinema 4D before it […]

That’s right, Playing Dead: A Documentary About the Zombie Subculture met its funding goal! Stay tuned for more info on this great project from Media Services alum, Eileen Keegan. In case you haven’t seen it:

 Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. […]

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