Independent Film and Media out of Atlanta, GA

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The CMS Debate

Posted Sat, 07/11/2009 - 16:04 by Brian

WordPress vs. Drupal vs. Movable Type (and PixelPost)

This blog is published using a WordPress system. Likewise, the main sites I have built this summer have all been WordPress. I have customized my own templates (like on www.zejmedia.com) and quickly adapted free and easy to install pre-fab templates (like for Collaterally Damaged, which has since been adapted and altered slightly).

Jerks at Black Cat

Posted Sat, 07/11/2009 - 01:33 by Brian

Black Cat Sucks!

Well, I was going to go to the Handsom Furs concert at Black Cat in DC on 14th & U St. We had even ridden our bikes all the way there. We were about to get vegetarian food at their restaurant also. Since we had biked, I had brought a bottle of water with me. However, one of the bouncers decided they had to check my bag before I could enter the restaurant even though it was a separate room and floor from the concert. Guess what? Outside water was not allowed. So, we left & the guy called me a dick on the way out.

Fast Lower Thirds in FCP

Posted Fri, 07/10/2009 - 19:11 by Brian

Combine After Effects and FCP

First, a big thanks to DigitalProducer.com for posting this easy to find tutorial.
Making cool looping effects in AE, to use for things such as "Chyrons" or Lower 3rds is super fast, fun and easy. You just need AE (probably the biggest hurdle), but there are just things in AE you can't do in any other program.

Dan Deacon and Black Lips in Baltimore

Posted Tue, 06/30/2009 - 03:51 by Brian

NOISE!

We went all the way to BALTIMORE!

Video Montage by Brian Danin

The show was actually quite fantastic.

Red Line Collision

Posted Tue, 06/23/2009 - 13:39 by Brian

Asleep at the Wheel?

We may never know exactly what happened, but let's just say it was a strange end to another depressing story: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Taylor. The first screening of the year for National Theatre Summer Cinema was last night. It ended with the host announcing this terrible incident.

Sixty seconds in the life of ______

Posted Sat, 06/20/2009 - 04:07 by Catherine
I like the idea of filming very nearly still images, so it follows that I should like this:

Food Inc, A Depressing Truth

Posted Fri, 06/19/2009 - 18:31 by Brian

Food Inc.

An amazing looking film that details a depressing truth about the world food distribution system.

Dear AMA, Just Quit it Already

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 02:48 by Valerie
I was very heartened to see this article on the Huffington post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-chris-mccoy/dear-ama-i-quit_b_214318.html As a member of the legal profession I have always felt that the stereotype of lawyers being a profession full of the money grubbing professionals disinterested in actual good of the client was too weightily placed only our heads, its nice to see that the AMA is helping the rest of america realize that Doctors are even worse.

World Air Traffic: A Predictor of Emerging Infectious Disease Activity

Posted Mon, 06/15/2009 - 15:05 by Catherine
I wrote this a few months before the H1N1 emergence.

Bob Dylan in The Rain

Posted Thu, 06/11/2009 - 15:20 by Brian

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Most good stories start that way.
This is no exception.

Video Highlights from BZD Films

Photography by Brian Danin

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