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Empty America – A Timelapse of New York City with No People

Thrash Lab’s “Empty America” timelapse travel series takes you to New York City. All the bridge and tunnel people have been digitally sent home and Manhattan has been wiped empty! Penn Station, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, The Met and Fifth Avenue have never looked so vacant.Read More

Paid/Unpaid: What’s Your Value in the Film Industry?

Digital filmmaking provides everybody with the ability to tell their stories through moving pictures. But how do you stand out? What makes you unique? These are the questions you have to answer and prove if you want a career in this field. This isn’t an article about what rights you have, it’s an article about Read MoreRead More

The World of a Professional Naked Girl

New York City artist Molly Crabapple addresses her life spent as a nude model for amateur photographers and how that has shaped her view of herself and of women. “If you keep traveling, you’re going to get yourself raped.” Z. and I were sitting in a cafe on the edge of the Sahara. We’d been bumming around Read MoreRead More

How ‘Cloud Atlas’ is (a little) like ‘The Dark Knight’

I saw Cloud Atlas on its opening weekend. I don’t think it hit the mark, but it’s an extraordinarily ambitious film in the way it cross cuts 6 stories together into a nearly 3 hour epic feature. Steven Zeitchik compares the ambition to another mold breaking film, Nolan’s The Dark Knight in the way these films return to Read MoreRead More

Tropfest NY 2013

18 Facts of Life for Photography Students

Steve Giralt offers these pointers for photography students looking for a career in commercial photography. Though this article is aimed at photographers, it’s easily applicable to filmmakers and almost every type of creative professional. Every year, I go to my alma mater and give a lecture for 3rd-year advertising-photography students on the business of photography. At this Read MoreRead More

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