Archive for January 13th, 2010

Los Angeles, CA – (January 13, 2010) — FUEL TV commissioned motion design and production studio Royale to collaborate with commercial and fine artist Adam Haynes to create the latest station ID for the network’s popular Signature Series. Royale & Haynes delivered ID #24 of the ongoing series, which is slated to culminate into one hundred unique installments. Created as a way for athletes & artists to inspire the action sports culture, FUEL TV’s Signature Series was itself inspired by the concept of signature series deck designs popular in skateboard culture. more

RALEIGH, NC – January 13, 2010 – Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that AEG Digital Media has selected Inlet’s SpinnakerTM technology to power high-quality streaming of premium media and entertainment events from around the world. more

Manic Director and VFX Artist Nick Sasso shot, edited and handled all post production on a series of five web virals for the new mobile studio/beatmaker feature on the hit Beaterator video game for SonyPlaystation Portable (PSP). The videos, done in collaboration with Wax Poetics for Rockstar Games (of Grand Theft Auto fame), each feature known musicians, lost in a creative haze as they mix new tracks on Beaterator. more

SSL Releases Versatile Software Controlled Analogue Routing System at Winter NAMM 2010

LOS ANGELES — Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, is proud to announce the release of X-Patch at the 2010 Winter NAMM Show, Booth 6907, Hall A at the Anaheim Convention Center from January 14 to 17. more

World-renowned for their accurate, full-range sound, Blue Sky introduces its newest critical listening component: the SAT 6.5 EXR. The SAT 6.5 EXR is a 2-way, bi-ampliï¬?ed, 200-Watt, near-ï¬?eld, ported studio monitor, featuring two 100-Watt ampliï¬?ers, a single 6.5″ high-excursion hemispherical woofer, and a 1″ dual concentric diaphragm tweeter with integral wave guide for superior off-axis response. more

One of the most popular children’s toys of all time, LEGOs, were used in a new and innovative way when Barnaby Gunning Architects leveraged Luxology’s modern 3D software modo® to model and visualize a full-size house made entirely out of the building bricks. The LEGO house was created for the series finale of the BBC’s James May’s Toy Stories television show, where each episode focused on the creation of ambitious projects using classic toys. more

Debbie Reynolds, Stephen Schwartz, Lynda Carter, Gavin Creel, Billy Porter Among Stever’s Many Highlights

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JANUARY 13, 2010 – Actor-turned-filmmaker Michael Stever was a ridiculously busy man-about-town in 2009 with his mini-DV camera in tow and a Mac-Book Pro with Final Cut ready to shoot and edit some of New York City’s most noteworthy and interesting people and happenings that were almost as diverse as New York City itself. more

Melbourne, Australia – January 2010… In January 2010, HBO will air The Pacific, a new epic miniseries about the Pacific Theater of World War II. Filmed in Australia and produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman—who also created the ten-part World War II television miniseries Band of Brothers—The Pacific offers a daunting look at the Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Re-creating the chaos of the battlefield was extremely challenging for those tasked with capturing picture and sound, and keeping all the equipment operational created additional difficulties. That’s why Gary Wilkins, CAS, one of the two location sound mixers on the project, relied on his arsenal of Lectrosonics wireless equipment. more

New DJ controller features heavy-duty pitch sliders, large velocity pads/buttons, dual layer deck functionality and rugged chassis design

Espoo, Finland – (January 13, 2010) – EKS, creators of the world’s most innovative and fully configurable DJ controllers, is proud to announce the debut of their latest innovation – Otus RAW. Designed to work as a single or dual deck controller, EKS’ Otus RAW will contain many new features that were requested by professional DJs from around the world. Otus RAW is also designed to fully utilize the possibilities offered by today’s and tomorrow’s DJ software. more

In many ways, the advertising post production world is changing rapidly: Agencies are increasingly using in-house editorial facilities; VFX houses are starting to direct; editorial houses are creating finishing rooms and post shops are downsizing and relying more on freelancers. In an effort to adapt to the times, two like-minded, award-winning editorial vets, Adam Jenkins (formerly of Union Editorial) and Jeff Stevens (formerly of Final Cut) have teamed up to launch FEEDTHEWALRUS (www.feedthewalrus.com), a subtle twist on the existing post production model. Together, the duo have 20+ years experience cutting commercials, web content, music videos and feature films.

FEEDTHEWALRUS, a talent-driven company, is a unique collective of top-notch editors, producers, 2D/3D VFX artists, assistant editors and digital specialists that will evolve alongside the industry; working collectively or individually to solve a client’s creative or technical challenges. By vetting a large group of top talent, Jenkins and Stevens more