[TaoColorist] Sunday Morning Reading (The Nikola Tesla Edition)
Published: Sun, 07/15/12
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The Tao Colorist
for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday.
Issue XCVIII Brought to you by: Tao of Color.com
It's the month-long blog series I've been doing for Eric Wise over at the editing and post-production blog, SplicVine.com. We're halfway through this series. Enjoy!
Week 1: Learn to See by Not Looking
- MON: Complexity of Seeing - Seeing is not passive, or objective
- TUE: The Mind's Eye: Tripping Up Colorists Daily - How our eyes are wired to deceive
- WED: Improve Your Grading Using 'The 60-Second Rule' - Bypassing our eyes for better color grading
- THURS: Why Color Correction Begins Much Sooner Than You Think - Much much sooner
- FRI: 'Bypass Your Brain' for Better Color Grading Results - Digging in-depth on tools that side-step our visual system
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Week 2: The Countdown to Color Grading
- MON: Optimizing Your Room For Color Correction - Plus, how your room setup can trick you into thinking you're not very good at color correction
- TUE: Selecting a Monitor - A topic where electrons go to die
- WED: To-Grade or Not-To-Grade In Your NLE? - Should you stay or should you go? How to make the decision.
- THURS: Prepping a Timeline, Part 1 - Steps to keep you and your colorist sane.
- FRI: Prepping a Timeline, Part 2: Roundtripping - Steps to take on how to survive it. Plus, my 'Savant Theory of Color Grading Apps'.
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Mac: v2.6.2 |
Software: v3.8 HUB v1.0 |
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Color Plug-in: v 1.0.5 |
PC: v2.6.2 |
Firmware: v1.9 |
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Sunday Fun(nies)
- [Video] A Taco Bell Hoax Gets Toasted - Cute. Reminds me of my dad's story of the first A&W Root Beer joint opening in his farming town in Minnesota in the mid-50's... Nirvana? Yup. (YouTube.com)
- [Video] Delite-o-matic: How Far Will You Go? - Do these people really get to vote in national elections? Funny. (YouTube.com)
- Comic-Con Once Again Marred by Increasingly Popular Bully-Con - It's the Onion. Need I say more? (theonion.com)
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The Next Step Is A Doozy Awesome...
- [Video] The Electric Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla - A live and terrifically told story of Tesla, using projection mapping and a pop-up book. Really, very cool. (TED.com)
- [Video] Behind the Scenes with Illusionist Marco Tempest - What he went through to create the pop-up story of Tesla. Nice. (TED.com)
Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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