Must-Have mobile apps for Hipsters!

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https://www.facebook.com/notes/mahesh-ravi/must-have-mobile-apps-for-hipsters/10154495058159768

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Adventures of the Weekend: Recreating the Great Train Robbery!

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Sessions: Modelling Madness.

In 3D computer graphics, polygonal modeling is an approach for modeling objects by representing or approximating their surfaces using polygons.

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BMCC 2.5K : First Impression

Still toying around with my brand new Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera 2.5K 

I couldn't test the 2.5K or the 4K (which requires a firmware update) yet. This was shot in Pro-Res HD in Film Mode, so that its compressed but still gives you a lot of information to work with on post. This particular shot was a low-light scenario, but still I left the ISO at 200 and as you can see, BMCC performs really well in LowLight. The crop-factor of Lenses will make you disoriented for a short while if you are switching from a DSLR like 5D Mark 2, but once you are over it, you can use it to your advantage. I will be testing the RAW soon! And will post a video out from the camera as soon as possible. The below footage was corrected using Davinci Resolve Lite.

Nidra

Nidra 
Directed by Sidharth Bharathan
Design by Mahesh Ravi

Trash Talk: Coming Soon on MovieRecycle.com

Concept Art: Scenter

10 Must Play Free-Roam/ Open-World PS3 Games

1. Red Dead Redemption


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOpKJ6hjPIM


2. Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmares


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxfjuwd6WWI

3. Mafia 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkHraUDDpk

4. Assassins Creed - Brotherhood


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzNs4-kRLaE

5. GTA 4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlF6fbIFiCM

6. Just Cause 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjs-SC70Wg

7. Infamous


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NBsSfxH30

8. The Saboteur


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2gClnlzo4o


9. Prototype


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsUkUaJjYs

10. Saint's Row 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g7F7Pq-lh0

Teaser Poster Series: Nadunisi Naaygal

Nadunisi Naigal Teaser Trailer

Behind the Scenes: My Home Studio Hardware 2010

A sneak peek into my home studio. I use a 15" Macbook pro for most of my design and photo works. I have an iMac 20" mainly for Video Editing and Compositing Jobs. I run 3D Studio Max on a Dell optiplex 330. On my travel, I do carry my compact yet powerful 13" Macbook pro. The Camera I currently own is a Canon 5D Mark II.

Ps: The bigscreen tv and ps3 has nothing to do with work! And did I tell you that my 2011 resolution is *NOT* to buy any new gadgets! :D

5 Movies for the Christmas Weekend

1.A Christmas Carol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YAOYs3ObzI&feature=fvst

2.Miracle on 34th Street


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSzW6K9ZbA&feature=related

3.The Grinch


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYGOWQJBBA

4.Home Alone 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIRoNlPZeqk

5.Shrek


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37DlG1i61s&feature=related

Coming Soon: Thuppariyum Anand

Update:Photon Kathaas: An ambitious venture in cinema industry

Photon Kathaas Productions, an entertainment company which makes movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, is tapping the London market with a public issue to raise £6 million.

Photon Kathaas, promoted by filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon, is hitting the London market on October 15. The Singapore-registered company will be listed on LSE's Alternative Investment Market or AIM. AIM is the London Stock Exchange's international market for smaller growing companies. Other Indian film companies listed on AIM include Bollywood giant Eros and animation house DQ Entertainment.

Gautham Menon holds 29% stake and his friend and music director, A R Rahman, holds 3% in Photon Kathaas, according to a company filing with AIM. Other shareholders include Venky Somasundaram (29%), Reshma Ghatala (29%), Ravi Venkatraman (5.5%) and Madan Pandy (4.5%).

Rahman is Photon Kathaas' creative adviser. Michael Rosenberg, a co-founder of TV-AM, Britain's first commercial breakfast TV station, is the chairman. Former Channel 4 executive Nathalie Schwarz is on the board and Menon is the chief creative officer (CCO) of Photon Kathaas. The issue is advised by investment banker Seymour Pierce.
Photon Kathaas hopes to tackle the problems by establishing a studio-driven business model to produce films more efficiently and exploit them across a range of different media

mypaperbird in PSD Tuts+

A Great Day. One of our early Photoshop Tutorial was listed in PSD tuts+.
Take a look!

Article Link:
http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/captivating-and-amazing-out-of-bounds-photo-effects/

Tutorial Link:
http://mypaperbird.blogspot.com/2009/04/tutorial-create-out-of-bound-photo-in.html


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Concept Art: RedStic

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Coming Soon: Nadunisi Naaygal

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All Time Top 5 Movie Poster Count Down

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Movie of the Week : Life with Mikey (1993)

Directed by James Lapine. With Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane.

Synopsis:
Michael J. Fox stars as a child actor who has grown up, and grown out of his popularity. He now runs a talent agency with his brother, specializing in child acts, trying to discover the next child star. He gets more than he bargained for when he recruits a child pickpocket to be his next "star."

Verdict:
A warm and feel good movie which you can watch on a sunday morning.MJ Fox is amazing as always with some very funny/light moments.


Click here to watch the Trailer


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Video Lingo for the Dummies: Part 1

Remember the times when you had to nod your head to everything you hear even when you had no idea what they were talking about.Well,cant help you much in that area,BUT,Here's a list of Video Jargon you can use whenever you want,wherever you want.


R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 (Region Code):
A DVD gets released in a certain geographical area, or region. This was designed to stop people buying American DVDs and watching them earlier in other countries, or for older films where world distribution is handled by different companies. A lot of players can either be hacked with a chip, or via a remote to disable this. The regions are:

Region 1 - U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories
Region 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt)
Region 3 - Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong)
Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean
Region 5 - Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
Region 6 - Peoples Republic of China

Extended:
Sometimes movies are released again on DVD because now the movie is extended. They have put back deleted scenes. For example, E.T. was produced first in 1982 and years later it was brought on DVD again, but now digitally remastered and extended.

Digitally Remastered:
Digitally remastered means that an older not-digital movie has been re-editted, remastered and is released on DVD. Some really old movies look very bad compared to the new digital movies. Then they remaster it to make it look better, edit it, recolor it etcetera. Remastering generally implies some sort of upgrade to a previous existing product, frequently designed to encourage people to buy a new version of something they already own.

PAL / NTSC:
PAL and NTSC are two different video standards, the former being European, and the latter being American. PAL has a slightly taller screen (256 lines non-interlaced, non-overscanned) as opposed to NTSC (200 lines), so if you see the bottom portion of a program's screen getting cut off on your American machine, chances are the program was written for PAL, and is running on your shorter NTSC screen. PAL and NTSC differences are somewhat less important to European users; since their machines default to PAL, running an NTSC program is no more than a minor annoyance having the screen only appear in the top portion of the display.

DVB (Digital Video Broadcast):
The standard for direct broadcast television in Europe and the US Based on MPEG2 Compression.

DSR (Digital Satellite Rip):
Recorded from Digital Satellite, quality is similar to Pure Digital TV.

PPV (Pay Per View television):
Pay television programming for which viewers pay a separate fee for each program ordered.

HDTV (High Definition Televison):
Digital recording from a source stream at either 1080i or 720p at a bitrate from 19,39mbps or higher.

PDTV (Pure Digital Television):
Other resolution digital recordings from source streams at a bitrate of 10+mbps or higher. It is a label given to files that were ripped directly from a purely digital source, having less resolution than HDTV. This is accomplished by using a TV tuner card capable of receiving Digital Video Broadcasts or C-Band.

SDTV (Standard Digital Television):
Digital recording or capture from a source stream at any resolution with bitrate under 10mbps.This includes DirecTiVo but also captures from digisat or digicable with analog capture cards.



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