Just got our new umbrellas (we make ‘em ourselves). This latest material gets 5.6+1/3 at 1000 fps at 8’ out at ISO800 burning a 2.5K HMI. Holy crap that’s bright for indirect light.
Another grueling day in the coalmines.
Lighting today is a 1.2K in one of our brand new DP115’s w/ 1/3 diffusion, 2x 4x4 kinos on the floor covered in cosmetic highlight, and a 1.2K in a sundish as kicker with a 26 deg. eggcrate and 1.2ND + cosmetic rouge.
Light test from this set-up. Brad is from the south. For some reason I’ve hired a bunch of southerners over the last year.
Canon 5D, 24-70mm L Series, ISO125, f5.6, 1/125
This is my new favorite (and signature) lighting set-up.
A large umbrella (in this case it’s a 220cm soft silver skin) burning a 2.5K HMI with a soft-finish sundish burning a 1.2K HMI. Ridiculously pretty and completely impossible to identify when lookin’ at the pics. It allows for a hard-edge shadow while retaining sumptuous definition within areas left in the dark (hair, folds and creases in clothing, etc).
FTA:
The abrupt halt to Friday’s proceeding, which followed a marathon-long, 11-hour hearing Thursday, was based on a motion from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). He urged Smith to postpone the session until technical experts could be brought in to testify whether altering the internet’s domain-naming system to fight websites deemed “dedicated” to infringing activity would create security risks.
Thank you, everyone.
In case you’ve never seen one, this is a standard-issue New York City food delivery scooter.
OK, so we’re trying to figure out why CAT-5 cable requires a centric and linear layout (one twisted pair is split outside the center twisted pair, the outer pairs are laid out in linear fashion) into an RJ-45 connector and they can’t just be inserted linearly, most specifically for PoE runs. I’m guessing it has something to do with the magnetic field of each twist but I can’t find anything definite. Anyone know the reason behind the inclusion of a centric layout for the center two twisted pairs?
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Single Serving Site of the Day: Stress Relief 2.0: Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button.
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I clicked this, a lot.
Yeah, this tab will stay open forever on every machine I use.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvyjm6Pi7V1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Single Serving Site of the Day: Stress Relief 2.0: Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button.
[mefi.]
I clicked this, a lot.
Yeah, this tab will stay open forever on every machine I use.
Today On TDW: Gossip —
- Above: Brad Pitt as Eraserhead’s Henry Spencer.
An embeddable version surfaces!
Here it is, the Brad Pitt video we shot that I mentioned earlier. I was talking to Paola about the shoot today (she worked DIT on it), evidently he was seething this intensity his whole time on set. Method actors, whaddya do.
We produced some really great stuff over the last two months.
I recently gaffed a short for the New York Times featuring Jessica Chastain. There’s a cool series of these videos directed by Alex Prager that we helped create. The Brad Pitt one is pretty awesome, the Gary Oldman one is perfectly creepy and you should watch those, too.
Most were shot in LA, but the Chastain short and the one of Glenn Close (on which my friend Joe Foley gaffed and I dolly gripped) were shot here in NYC.
time dilation
