Red buys Ren-Mar!?

01-20-2010 

Today I thought I would share some links that I was impressed by.  First is the news of Red buying Ren-Mar studios.  Here's a link to the story:   Red Day

This one is just cool because it's so ridiculously futuristic.  But you have to put futuristic in air quotes.  It's sort of Wii plus Final Cut Pro divided by Hollywood movies like Minority Report.  If you watch the video, you'll see they have done some things in advance, sort of like a cooking show.  I would assume that those things they did in advance took WAY more effort than the demo but it makes the demo look pretty cool:   Crazy Editing Software

There was one other thing that Timm Rourke sent me and it was so cool.  He's a big remote control helicopter fan and this is the coolest toy I've ever seen:   iPhone Chopper

What else can I link to?  How about myself?  I shot this silly video with my friends at the BUNKERS up in Palos Verdes and I've been editing it.  I've got a long way to go, but it's getting there.  Probably only funny if you grew up with me:  BUNKERS III

Last thing I can link to on my own site is a Twix commercial I shot with Bryan Buckley down in Brazil at the end of summer last year.  It was a pretty amazing bit of digital effects to get this guy's face to look like this:   Twix

This week is a down week for me.  Not really down because whenever I'm not working I'm training.  Last week's job at Furlined was cool, a very nice group of people.  We actually shot in a building that I lived in while I was at Art Center.  It's downtown next to the first street bridge.  They cut off part of the building so they could widen the bridge for a metro train line.  I think my old loft was either cut in half or gone completely.  Also on Sunday I saw an early test screening of Fred The Movie and got to bring Eli.  It was so awesome!  Eli loved it.  I think the target demographic is going to really enjoy it, everybody else can stay home and watch TV.