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As of late, I write weekly posts at FWD:labs on film, web and design.
Top five posts (unique visitor count), to whet your appetite:
Top five posts (unique visitor count), to whet your appetite:
- Now Playing: peer-assisted, streaming mesh networks for video / March 19, 2007
At the OMMA conference today in Hollywood, the editor of Mediapost, Joe Mandese, told me the next big thing is “peer-assisted, streaming mesh networks.” Quite a mouthful of buzz; such a term seemly first appeared online in research (PDF) published by Microsoft in October 2005, but resurfaced in January with Shelly Palmer’s Media 3.0 blog. 
Anatomy of a Saul Bass title design / April 8, 2007
With Otto Preminger’s 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder, film critic Leo Goldsmith - a contributor to Reverse Shot and The Village Voice - describes part of the stark opening sequence: “Echoing the deliberate manner in which the film dissects the circumstances of a murder case, the credits also provide some witty juxtapositions of titles and images: James Stewart naturally gets the head; Lee Remmick a leg; Duke an arm; and Preminger’s credit comes once a disembodied hand seems to cover the lens.” Goldsmith elaborates on an inspiring tribute site for Saul Bass at NotComing.com, featuring stills and overviews of his title design collaborations.
- Business Cards for Artists Who Love Quality / May 30, 2007
Cool business card designs (creativebits.org)
“Combine different papers. Use office scrap. Write fun copy. Free one way ticket to the moon.”
Inkjet Printed Film Process (jemof.com)
“Video frames printed onto transparency film.”
Take The 2 Hours / August 18, 2007
It’s only playing at four movie theaters right now, so you might need to take your bus, subway or bicycle a little further than usual. Leonardo DiCaprio’s art-house film The 11th Hour, which premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in May, is causing quite the storm.- 5 Steps to Getting Your Film on Social Video Networks / March 21, 2007
In our first public resource, we introduce 5 steps to consider, within context to some base assumptions, and then chart them against 8 top contenders.