Yearly Archives: 2013

JJ Abrams to help keep +Kodak afloat with Star Wars Episode VII 2

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JJ Abrams to help keep +Kodak afloat with Star Wars Episode VII

While Peter Jackson and James Cameron are shooting all of their new projects on 4K digital cameras at 48 frames per second and in 3D, Abrams is continuing to use film to shoot Star Wars. As far as I know, even movies shot on film today immediately get digitized for editing, color correction and visual effects, so its not clear what the benefits are of shooting on film. Even for distribution the vast majority of cinemas have converted to digital projection, so the potential upside is archiving since people can still look at a piece of celluloid even if all the computers die.

Analog strikes back: next ‘Star Wars’ to be shot on film, not digital
Director JJ Abrams, who recently signed on to direct the next installment in the Star Wars series, has shots his movies exclusively in film — and it turns out that won’t be changing any time…

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*+Automobile Magazine takes a look back at the launch of the original 1965 +Ford…

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*+Automobile Magazine takes a look back at the launch of the original 1965 +Ford Motor Company  #mustang *

 You can get the full press kit here https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America/US/2013/08/Mustang50/1964_Mustang_Press_Packet_HR.pdf

1964.5 Ford Mustang: A Look Back – Rumor Central

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Why do republicans hate freedom and democracy?

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Why do republicans hate freedom and democracy?

Watauga elections board’s minutes changed at request of chairman
BOONE – Wide sections of a first draft of minutes for a contentious meeting on Aug. 12 of the Watauga County Elections Board were erased at the request of the board chairman, increasing concerns among some critics here about what in their view is an erosion of transparency.

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So the +National Rifle Association was right, there is a secret national database…

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So the +National Rifle Association was right, there is a secret national database of gun owners

The only problem is that it hasn't been compiled by the government, but rather by the NRA itself

NRA built massive database of gun owners while opposing national gun registry
The National Rifle Association has frightened Americans about the prospect of a federal registry of firearm owners, but the NRA itself has secretly created a database with information from tens of millions of Americans who do not hold a membership.

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Gawker takes down an often-sycophantic New York Times financial reporter.

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Gawker takes down an often-sycophantic New York Times financial reporter.

Andrew Ross Sorkin Is Such a Wall Street Bootlicker Sometimes
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the whiz kid-ish New York Times Dealbook reporter, sometimes gets unfairly characterized as a bootlicking Wall Street suckup who wants only to ingratiate himself with the powerful. Other times–like today–that characterization is completely fair.

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The government oppression of the media is only going to get worse unless we stand…

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The government oppression of the media is only going to get worse unless we stand up to the tyranny

Between detaining Glenn Greenwald's partner at Heathrow and then trying to seize data from the Gaurdian, the British and almost assuredly the American governments don't seem to be giving up on their media suppression efforts. 

UK officials destroy Guardian hard drives in misguided effort to stop Snowden stories
Officials from the British intelligence agency GCHQ raided The Guardian’s offices to destroy hard drives related to the newspaper’s stories about National Security Agency leaker Edward…

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