January 2012
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“Reality is good. Interesting is better.”
– Stanley Kubrick on The Shining
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2011 Year End Popcorn Jockey Report
2011 Box Office, you were a strange mistress. Or at least the most easily forgettable mistress on record. I mean, even Pixar made a completely forgettable film this year. I remember being excited this time last year, and now I barely remember what I was so excited for this summer.
So what went down in 2011?
Dreamworks actually made two movies better than Pixar. Marvel set up the Avengers home...
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“Our only responsibility is to our readers. Being able to make business decisions...”
– Robert Khoo, business dude at Penny Arcade
December 2011
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“Find your thing and do that thing better than anybody else does that thing, even...”
– Chase Jarvis, photographer and mentor.
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October 2011
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“The chief enemy of creativity is safety.”
– Director Nicholas Winding Refn, via Jeff Williams
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September 2011
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“If everything feels under control, you’re just not driving fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti, quoted by Chase Jarvis in his “Get Used To Hearing NO” blog post.
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August 2011
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2011 Mid-Year Popcorn Jockey Report
Walking out of Rango earlier this year, my friends and I realized we were looking at a poster-filled lobby and were on the precipice of a jam-packed summer season. Talk about potential – almost every week for three straight months there was something one of us was mega-excited about.
Let’s see, we had 3 important Marvel movies plus a risky new DC entry, sequels to recent animated features,...
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“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or...”
– Steven Spielberg
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Red Giant People →
I’m a big fan of Red Giant Software. Between Magic Bullet Looks and Trapcode Suite from Peder Norby, odds are you’ve worked with something from Red Giant if you work in After Effects.
Have you heard of Red Giant People though?
RGP is the company’s community site, mostly known for paid presets like Harry Frank’s Video Rock or the various Magic Bullet Looks presets from...
July 2011
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Two Timing LA Movie Day
The Short Review
Two completely different sci-fi movies in one day – one a big bang summer blockbuster and the other a no-budget mumblecore affair.
Both miss the mark.
Cowboys & Aliens: 5/10
Stuff sure blew up good but who was I rooting for again? Murky character motivations and flat-line character arcs kept me from caring about anyone: did Daniel Craig’s character change or grow one...
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“Learning 3d is like learning 2 play music. If u cover a song w/o learning your...”
– @cgpov (Chad Ashley), via Twitter
June 2011
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“More than rich, more than famous, I wanted to be great.”
– Bruce Springsteen on the making of his classic record Darkness On The Edge Of Town