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James Cameron on TEDTalks

James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create an unreal world all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving — and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits “Aliens,” “The Terminator,” “Titanic” […]

FilmFellas Cast Four: The Artistic Wedding

The filmmakers discuss the definition of wedding filmmaking and the artistic expression of producing avant-garde wedding films. Along with the pressures of one-take, 12-hour shoots, they discuss the true realities of capturing the moments of that perfect day.
Steve Weiss (Director; Zacuto, FilmFellas)
Joe Simon (Filmmaker)
John Goolsby (Wedding Film Producer)
Kristen* (Couture Wedding […]

Frontline: Digital Nation - life on the virtual frontier

A PBS Frontline report on the digital revolution and how it’s changing our lives, with video stories, interviews, and user-generated video on relationships, information overload, education, the military, parenting, brain development, and more.
For more information visit Frontline on PBS.

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

“There’s a flip side to everything,” the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.
VIA: TEDtalksDirector

Precious Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher

After graduating from Harvard University and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Geoffrey Fletcher spent nearly a decade writing thousands of unproduced script pages while working at temp jobs. In 2010, Fletcher’s first produced screenplay, Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, was nominated for Writers Guild and Academy […]

David Lynch’s A Goofy Movie

This mashup by YouTube user Cody Richeson takes Disney’s 1995 flick A Goofy Movie and re-imagines it as a spooky and surreal David Lynch film. Goofy’s relationship with his son Max is even more disturbing than in the original movie.
VIA: CodyRicheson

Adobe Photoshop celebrates it’s 20th Year

On February 10th, Adobe Photoshop will be 20 years old. Lets look back at 20 years of graphics editing with the program that has become synonymous with photo manipulation:

…One of the most impressive things about the company is the fact that one gifted family, consisting of an engineering prof, a […]

China Renames Mountain after Avatar

Not only can James Cameron stand on stage and shout, “I’m King of the World” - he can now do so on a mountain in China renamed after that obscure art house movie that seems to be doing fairly well at the box office.

…The “Southern Sky Column” in Zhangjiajie in […]

10 Minutes and 100 Cheesy Movie Lines

Pop out the Pinot, sit back and enjoy 10 minutes of some greatest “one liners” captured on celluloid.

Star Wars for an Avatar-style Makeover

If his over-the-top personality and the stuttering cadence of his speech didn’t captivate your heart the first time you saw him, then wait till you see Jar Jar Binx romping through a bio-luminescent forest in eye-popping 3d. And if that doesn’t win you over - you have a heart of […]