The Tao Colorist

• WikiHelp: Autodesk Smoke 2013 - Useful. (wikihep.autodesk.com via @videoaaron)

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

The Business

• Running A Post House - Interviews with the founders of three successful post houses and their approach to the business. (PostMagazine.com via @post_vfx)

• The Filmmaker Who Beat Back Bit Torrent, By Embracing It - Nifty story on an indie filmmaker who accepts digital piracy and built a business model around it. Also - check out the trailer for his film at the end of the article. I think I'll be picking it up myself. (TechCrunch.com via @light_iron)

• Apple's Most Underrated WWDC Announcement - Apple has more than 400 MILLION active credit card accounts. If you're wondering what this means for Apple and how that compares to the leader in ePayments, PayPal, click through. (iDownloadBlog.com via @jasonmyres)

• Don't Mean to Be An Alarmist But the TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse - This article shows some astonishing graphics, including the literal collapse of ad revenue in newspapers and how TV is destined for the same fate. Lots of details in this article resonate with me. The one thing this article misses... how the internet is starting to feel like TV. Can you say: Pop-Up (BusinessInsider.com via Notes On Video)

• Chart of the Day: iPad Domination - Amazing growth. And if there's one mobile display platform that this colorist wants to see dominate... it would be the iPad's display. (BusinessInsider.com via Notes on Video)

• How Amazon Studios Can Get Free Options from Privately Submitted Screenplays - We've been following this story for two years. And just when it looked like Amazon Studios was starting to 'play fair' - it turns out they're still trying to screw writers. Obviously this division is being run by Hollywood types. (NoFilmSchool.com) 

• The AppleTV Business Model - Interesting analysis of AppleTV sales and profit margins. Being an AppleTV adopter less than 1 month ago... gotta say: I'm not impressed. If it weren't for 3rd party apps, the thing wouldn't have much value at all. (asymco.com)

Outside 'The Box'

• Some Thoughts on Events and Keyword Collections in FCPx - Philip Hodgetts is slowly making sense of these paradigms on a real-world project. It'll be interesting to see how his thinking evolves as he gets further down the editorial process. (PhilipHodgetts.com)

• Why Color Meters Don't Work with LED Lights - Are you trying to use a color meter to balance your lights on-set? Be careful - LED lights are tricky to work with. (ProVideoCoalition.com)

• Amazon's Markup of Digital Delivery to Indie Authors is ~129,000% - Yikes. Perhaps that deal with Amazon Studio isn't such an isolated incident. Maybe it's corporate philosophy? (AndrewHy.de)

• Woody Allen's Cinematographer Has 6 Life-Saving Tips for Low-Budget DPs (IndieWire.com)

• Depth of Field: Why Shallow Depth of Field Has Nothing to Do With 'Cinematic' - Tim Wilson reminds us that one of the biggest innovations in filmmaking happened with extreme depth-of-field. (magazine.CreativeCow.net)

Edumacate Yer'self

• [Video Training] Smoke 2013 Fundamentals - On the off-chance I forgot to put this in a previous newsletter, here it is. The only downside, project materials are not included. (FXPhd.com)

• [Video] The Smoke Learning Channel - A series of Getting Started videos for Smoke 2013. (YouTube.com via @videoaaron)

• [Networking] Assimilate and Escape Studios BBQ - If you're an experienced pro working in London... then eat great food while learning about Scratch and ScratchLab. Sounds like fun to me. Wish I could be there. (Techstore.EscapeStudios.co.uk)

• Adobe Shakes Up Premiere Pro Training and Certification - Why it may be tough to get the training you might want an PP CS6. (PremiumBeat.com via Notes on Video)

• [Webcast] Best Practices for Advanced Encoding and Transcoding Techniques - "Get details on delivering higher video quality at lower bit rates and how to prepare high quality video for delivery to any screen using multiple formats." Free. June 21 (StreamingMedia.com via @Noctylux)

• [Webcast] SMPTE: Laser Illumination Systems for Digital Cinema - I've been linking to articles about laser projection systems. Here's an opportunity to find out about how the technology actually works. Thursday, June 28. Fee for non- SMPTE members. (Eventbrite.com)

Your Career

• Position: Permanent Colorist, Tokyo - Commercial Reel Required. (tig.colorist.org)

• Position: Senior Colorist, Stockholm - 5 years feature film background. (UtopiaPeople.com via Jim Wicks)

• [Video] How I Got The Job Editing A Major TV Show - The editor from Burn Notice talks about how he got his big gig. An excerpt from a presentation at a LAFCPUG meeting. (YouTube.com via @BurnEditor)

• Why Boredom Is Good For Your Creativity - Why going into 'Airplane Mode' is essential to the creative process. (the99percent.com)

• Setting the Scene for a Productive Day - How to arrange your workspace with physical cues to keep you on-task. (the99percent.com)

• Why You're Broke and Other Video Professionals Aren't - Rules for running your business like, well, a business. (DareDreamerMag.com via Notes On Video)

• The Bad Economics of Bank Robbery - A statistical explanation of why bank robbery is a terrible way to make a living. Just in case you were thinking of switching careers... (ArsTechinica.com)

• Top Ten Reasons Why Filmmakers Screw Up In High Level Negotiations - (ChrisJonesBlog.com via FilmmakerIQ.com)

• Take Back Your Life in Seven Simple Steps - Simple to write. Some 'will' required. All about paying attention to what you need to pay attention to. (blogs.hbr.org)

Tweet of the Week

The Next Step Is A Doozy

• What's Next For Silicon Valley? - It isn't all iPhones and iApps. An interview with one of the driving forces behind Google Maps, the Google Car and the future of education. (online.wsj.com)

A Step Too Far?

• Joggobot: The Companion Drone That Makes You Run Faster, Longer, Harder - Soon, not only will drones be able to kill you with impunity and they'll be able to spy on you surreptitiously but they'll also harass you to get you into better physical shape. Please, oh please, don't send this link to New York City's Mayor Bloomberg. Watch the video at the end to see it in action. (Forbes.com)