Triad Color Looks - Colorist Aaron Williams walks you through the process of choosing a color scheme based on 3 colors. Click through for all the details. For this demo Aaron uses Colorista Free in FCP 7. (aaronwilliams.tv )

Grading Wide Shots - The opening line in this post sums it up nicely: wide shots are tricky. Click through to find out where to concentrate your efforts. 

A great Craft blog post. (blog.iseehue.com )

Anatomy Of a 4K Feature - The Director and Colorist in a recorded webinar discuss the challenges of creating a 4K workflow for their film - Path of Souls - graded on Assimilate Scratch. I almost didn't include this since the webinar is highly compressed and the audio got to me after a while. ( vimeo.com via @AssimilateInc)

The Case for Calibration -  Even (especially) in the Home Theater - Can uncalibrated displays actually change the way you feel about a movie? This blog post makes the case for calibrating all displays, be it HDTV, front projector, or reference monitor, "Light, contrast and color do more than inform our brains of an image's fidelity, it also helps to affect our mood." Send the link to all your friends and family! (andrew-robinson-online.com )

[Podcast] Getting Every Display in Your Studio to Match - Texas-based Colorist Tom Parrish, a friend of the Tao, in conversation with Derek Smith, from SpectraCal. Just in time for the release of their new software-based test signal generator. ( tomparish.com)

SpectraCal's Virtual Forge - MixingLight's Robbie Carman does a blog post on SpectraCal's brand new test signal generator... replacing multi-thousand dollar boxes, with a $400 software app - making seriously accurate and sophisticated calibration much more affordable. ( mixinglight.com)

Interview: Blackmagic Design on Resolve 10 - Stuart Ashton from BMD answers questions on his perspective about the upcoming features in Resolve 10, including end to end RAW workflow and Live on-set grading. (finalcutpro.es via @jonnyelwyn )

Introducing the MyTherapy Look Store - Photmetrically matched 3D LUTs for purchase. Use in your favorite color program, including Baselight, Speedgrade, Resolve plus LUTs with specific transforms for Alexa, RED, Sony F-Series .  ( mytherapy.tv)

Free, Free, Free Lens Flares - Well, almost free. Pay with two Facebook Likes and an email address. 3 sets of freebies for download: Quicktime Anamorphic Insta-Flares (1080 & 4K), Premiere Pro Split Screen Templates, and 720p Insta-Flares. ( flashbangfx.com)

[Video] Updated: DaVinci Resolve 10 - Includes a demo of FCPX roundtripping and some newly added features. At the LACPUG, demo'ed by Alexis Van Hurkman. ( fcp.co)

Prolost Presets For Lightroom - Filmmaker Stu Maschwitz is offering a set of over 400 presets for only $19.99. Watch his video to see what's truly interesting... how he's getting Lightroom to feel like Magic Bullet Looks. (prolost.com via David E. Bell)

Color Grading Overload - When is too much of a good thing too much? An interesting question when it comes to color grading. But is anyone really asking? Note: RedShark makes its point with a stylized trailer... which, in my opinion, is its own art form. (redsharknews.com )

[Podcast] The Coloristos: Under the influence - The Tao loves the Coloristos. In this Ep. Josh, Jason, and Juan discuss the films that inspired them to initially get started in color grading, as well as past and current movies that influence the work they do on their own projects. The first film that I noticed its 'Look'? It was back in high school: Dr. Strangelove. I close my eyes and the images still come washing back. ( coloristos.com)

DVDs still make money - "Here are a handful of reasons, nearly a decade after the peak of DVD sales, why the physical slice of the pie will stay substantial" ( forbes.com via @oric)

Pirating 'Lilith': One filmmaker's personal journey of coming face to face with a pirated copy of his own movie. Before it's even been released! (lilithfilm.tumblr.com)

HD Is 'dumbed down' to make 4K look good - Buried in this story is news that ARRI has a high-frame-rate, high-resolution and high-dynamic-range successor to the Alexa in the works. Oh - and it's 4K. Well worth the read. (hollywoodreporter.com via @AlphaDogsPost)

Is Post Heading Back To The Big Iron Model? - I was about to dismiss this article but then, "People are buying less and less desktop PC's and laptops, and buying more tablets and smart-devices instead. Call it the post-pc era, call it the end of the desktop, call it whatever you like, but it doesn't look good for us." This is kind'a my take on it too. Interesting read. (mynahmedia.com)

[Review] First Public Demo of Christie Laser Projection System - Two interesting write-ups about a two-week run in an Burbank AMC of Chritie's 3D laser projection system. The feedback is positive. At the end is an interesting comparison of Laser vs IMAX vs 4k and IMAX sound vs Dolby Atmos sound. (digitalcinemabuyersguide.com )

[iApp] iProjectionist: Barco's Digital Cinema App - Okay, how many of you will be downloading this and checking it at every theater you visit?? (digitalcinemabuyersguide.com )

How to Make Your Film Look Good - "If you look at behind-the-scenes stills shot during the production . . you'll discover [they look] quite a lot like [the film itself], Saving Private Ryan". A great post on Production Design. Which, as I'm fond of saying, is where color grading begins. ( redsharknews.com)

[Video] Leica Summilux C Prime Cinema Lens - Why would you spend $200k on these lenses? ( youtube.com via @CraftTruck)

[Video] Changing Colors in Photoshop - Hone your craft in a stills app. Nice tip with Layer modes that can be used in most color grading apps.  (youtube.com)

Why Yahoo's New Purple Logo Rubs Us the Wrong Way - "For thousands of years, we've been culturally associating purple with wealthy, out-of-touch dynasties." These guys have some serious problems with purple. But if you read to the end... look who's coming to purple's rescue! (fastcodesign.com )

Have gear, will travel - The pros and cons from a stills pro who has learned the value of traveling light. I love this line, "Committing to a 35mm field of view has saved my back and improved my travel photos. Nothing begets creativity so much as a healthy bit of restriction." Great read. ( strobist.blogspot.com)

Are you Tone Deaf? - You've GOT to click through and listen to the tone-deaf opera singer. But the rest of the post, about how our ears work and a possible cause of tone deafness - fascinating. ( johnthemathguy.blogspot.com)

'Straight Baller Fests': Film Festivals That Cover Your Expenses - Because festivals are notorious for being money grabbing schemes. This list is longer that I expected. ( nofilmschool.com by Laura Gamse)