• [Podcast] Interview: Colorist Alex McLean from Colorflow - Discussing a wide range of topics. Very good information. (SpliceVine.com Part 1 | Part 2)

• [Podcast] Interview: Colorist Warren Eagles - He talks color correction, panels and grades. (fstopacademy.com)

• Train your eyes to see impossible colors - A guide to seeing impossible and imaginary colors hiding in the shadows between the colors we see everyday. The blog article is based on a Scientific American article, which it links to ( but requires subscription). (io9.com)

• Questions About 10bit Log to 8 bit Lin - Math nerd alert! This Telecine Internet Group thread is all about the math moving between log and lin. There's no 'thread' view so you'll have to 'next message' through the emails. ( tig.colorist.org)

• Early Film By Orson Welles Is Rediscovered - Originally thought to be lost in a fire, it was recently rediscovered and is being restored. Learn why this film has historical relevance. (nytimes.com via Rob Lingelbach)

• [Video] David Fincher on the Responsibilities of the Director - This is from the video commentary track featured on his movie The Game. I'd say that many of these responsibilities also fall on colorists, DPs and editors-as agents of the director. (youtube.com)

• Grading the Blackmagic Pocket Camera - Australia-based Colorist Juan Melara with some before and after shots from the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. (juanmelara.com.au)

• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Footage: First Impressions - Also using the same footage, Dan Moran posts several examples of popular looks... and offers his feedback on the quality of the images and how he liked working with them. The link to the download of the source footage is included. (MixingLight.com)

• Building Color and Textures In 'Pacific Rim'  - A case study on Filmlight's website, but with enough interesting details to make it worth the read. (filmlight.ltd.uk)

• [DaVinci Resolve] Vintage Looks: Sepia,  Aged Blue and Dark Cross -Processed Looks - If you're looking for ideas on how to build looks, this series is worth your time. The end of each article includes the Resolve 'PowerGrade' to import into your system. (ArronWilliams.tv  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)

• Aspect Ratios Re-dux - This newsletter has featured a bevy of stories, blogs, and videos about aspect ratios. The peeps at RED have given us another good resource. And it includes a section on how to choose an aspect ratio when shooting one of their cameras. Good read. (red.com)

• Avid Pulls the Plug on DS - A finishing tool that languished under Avid's stewardship is finally put to rest. It was their only editorial tool that supported both 2k and 4k outputs. Read the story for full details and quotes why existing users think this is a terrible decision-for them and Avid. (studiodaily.com)

• Apple's Evolving View of Pro - "In recent years, many pros have started feeling like Apple's jilted girlfriend. Through no fault of their own, the love just seemed to fade. Apple might claim otherwise when confronted, but the telltale signs have been hard to ignore." Click through to read the thoughts of a Creative Director (who sat in meetings with Steve Jobs) about Apple's current relationship with its Pro user base-and where it might be heading. Or not. (kensegall.com)

• Blockbusters Struggle To Sustain Fanbase Amid 'Summer Of Doom' - "They have to kick their dependency on $300m blockbusters. If they don't, they're going out of business." (theguardian.com)

• The Digital Revolution Is Completed - For the first time ever, Americans consume more digital media than television. ( fastcompany.com)

• [Video] Photoshop 'Trojan Horse' Shames Photo Retouchers -  Beauty, eh? Dove Canada creates a Photoshop action that doesn't do what it says-to prove a point to the people who alter physical reality and morph their female models into the 'ideal' human form.  Be sure to watch the embedded YouTube video at the top of the page. ( fastcocreate.com)

• [Video] Digital Necromancy: Advertising with Reanimated Celebrities - Your favorite celebrity may be dead, but that doesn't mean they have to stop working for a living. This is an eerily interesting video that details a business trend of reanimating the deceased. (youtube.com)

• Digital Domain's New CEO On Exporting Hollywood VFX to China - From the new CEO, "We saw this as a wonderful opportunity to combine the creative side of Hollywood with the Chinese market". Full story at the link. (thewrap.com)

• Google Glass Goes to School - Five film schools are granted the pleasure of shilling for Google to explore first-person filmmaking. (variety.com )

• Shocking Discovery: With FCPX 'No Complex Timelines' - Back in my FCP 7 days, there always seemed to be a group of people who experienced luma shifts when rendering out of FCP 7. In 10 years I was never one of those people and could never figure out what I did differently than them. Reading the comments to this post... seems to be something similar. It's maddening to the people experiencing the problem-and baffling to those who don't. (hdwarrior.co.uk via @ronsussman)

• Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X: How They Work Together - Sort of. (blog.alex4d.com )

• [Video] The History and Science of the Slit Scan Effect - Stanley Kubrick famously used this effect in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And he did it without After Effects. How was it created, and how can you recreate it (without AE)? Hint: Lego blocks are part of the solution.  (vimeo.com via @FilmmakerIQ)

• [Videos] The Rise and Fall of Katherine Hepburn's Fake Accent - "Learned in aristocratic finishing schools or taught for use in theater to the Bergmans and Hepburns who were carefully groomed in the studio system, it was class for the masses, doled out through motion pictures." Solid article with a few clips from classic movies embedded. ( theatlantic.com)

• Dragon: It's The Real Deal - An initial impression of REDs new rig. (reduser.net)

• Video Editing Is Becoming An Important Skill Set For Ad Agency Rainmakers - Interesting. (fuelingnewbusiness.com)

• [Webinar] How to Profile Your Monitor Using CalMan Studio - The Tao Newsletter's awesome new sponsor SpectraCal has a paid webinar on understanding why and how to calibrate your monitors, walking you through their ColorCube workflow. August 14. (studio.spectracal.com)

• Adobe Creative Cloud: Books and Videos - Peachpit is running a promo on all their warez related to the Creative Cloud apps. Follow the link to save some money on these titles. ( peachpit.com)

• Interaction of Color: Revised Edition - I was recently recommended to read this book... a classic treatise on color and the way we perceive it. (amazon.com)

• Tao of Color 3-Day Workshop: Grade A Film, Learn DaVinci Resolve - Intensive workshops offered by the Publisher of this newsletter. Put theory into action grading a real-life project. And we'll be moving to Resove 10 just as soon as it's released. September we're in Washington DC, early October we're in New York City. (TaoOfColor.com)

• Southeast Creative Summit : Make your plans now. The Tao and MixingLight will be doing a half-dozen workshops on color grading plus a few on business. The overall agenda is much broader than our craft, from pre- through post- production. Some very interesting workshops. Save $100 with the code: tao2013  (southeastcreativesummit.com)

• XFR STN: Inside The New Museum's Totally Insane Digitization Project - "We're doing 5.25-inch floppy disk, 3.5-inch floppy disck, then there're zip disk, jaz disks, IDE hard drives, and with the video: U-Matic, VHS, Betacam, MiniDV, Hi8..." Kind'a fun. (theatlanticwire.com)

• [Video] Van Gogh, Renoir and e-David the Robot?  - Yup. A robot that paints and decides independently where to add new paint strokes. Very cool. (vimeo.com)

• The Nerd Who Was Batman - A lot of actors have played the caped crusader in the movies and on TV, but we're guessing that you never knew about the nerd who was Batman for an entire generation. (badassdigest.com)

• How much caffeine is in your coffee? - Take a sip from your cup of joe, and then click on the link to see how your favorite coffee rates, from weakest to strongest. (thrillist.com)

• Photos Of New York City Inside The Grand Canyon - Very nifty visualizations. ( petapixel.com)

• Guitarist Randy Bachman Demystifies The Opening Chord Of 'A Hard Day's Night' - (openculture.com)

• Rare 2012 ATV, Low Mileage: Calculating Curiosity Rover's 'Blue Book' Value - How much would the Mars rover fetch in today's market, one year after being driven off the lot... and onto the Martian surface? ( wired.com via @wiredscience)

• Newton: The Greatest Flop of All-Time - "The Newton inspired the PalmPilot . . . Palm's work inspired Windows Mobile, and the idea finally evolved into the iPhones and iPads we love today." A very cool article on the birth, life and demise of the Newton, with links back to contemporaneous product reviews. ( tidbits.com)

• Hydrate Your Dog On Long Walks With A Syrup Container - Because here in the Northern Hemisphere we're in the dog days of summer. (lifehacker.com)

• Keep Your Drinks Afloat With A Pool Noodle Barge - Because this is what summer is all about. (lifehacker.com)

• A Ding Dong Venture Capitalist Wants Well-Lit, Wired Movie Theaters - A seeming narcissist wants to turn movie theaters into living rooms... and a movie-lover reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place. ( badassdigest.com via @kanendosei)

• 4K Monitors: Requirements and Usage - An in-depth review of a 4K display that covers the bases on what you might want to consider when evaluating a display. Very. Long. Read. (pugetsystems.com)

• Inject New Life Into Your Old MacPro - What happens when you replace your stock MacPro graphics card with a 'fire-breathing' graphics card? Includes Resolve benchmarks. (barefeats.com)

• Son of Inject New Life Into Your MacPro - Taking it to the next level, BareFeats adds a second GPU and compares single and dual GPU setups. (barefeats.com )

• Father of Inject New Life Into Your MacPro - BareFeats takes this series to its logical conclusion, attaching a 4 slot GPU expander and loads up the system with FIVE GPUs. Talk about fire-breathing. (barefeats.com)

• Avid v7: Sony AMA v2.1 Plug-in for 4K RAW - Just released. For Sony RAW MXF files.  (community.sony.com via notesonvideo.blogspot.com)

• Ending The Tyranny Of The Open-Plan Office - (businessweek.com via @99u)

• An Unlikely Leader Emergers, On and Off the Field - Imagine you're a baseball player denied a spot on the All-Star team, yielding it to a 'better' player guilty of doping. What's your reaction? This is a quick study on why Character and Passion still matter. (fastcompany.com)

• How I Podcast and Why I Think You Should - A super-solid list of podcasting tools, support services and a list business podcasts you might want to listen to. (ducttapemarketing.com )

• Kill The Competition: Tips For Writing a Knockout Resume - (careerealism.com via @AdobeCareers)

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• [Video] 'Get Old' - New York-based Colorist Khalid Mohtaseb used Resolve to help tell a powerful story that breaks the mold of the pre-conceived notions surrounding aging. The first of four mini-docs tells the story of Hy Snell, an energetic and awe-inspiring gentleman. At 94 years-old with a dwindling 5% of his eyesight remaining, Hy continues to find inspiration due to the fact that he is literally seeing things differently every day. (vimeo.com via @KhalidMohtaseb )

• Penny Loafers: The Next Step. Literally - "By using copper, I reconnect with my ancestry and reawaken lost memories of cultural identity." Uh-huh. Sure. (neatorama.com)

• DIY Stalker Boxes Spy on Wi-Fi Users - Is your smartphone's WiFi always turned on (as mine is)? "Every couple of seconds, every wireless device that's on is sending out a huge amount of personally identifiable information. If we have sensors spread out over an area, that means it's sending out both an identifier and its location." Click through to get thoroughly creeped out about how easy it is to track these signals without anyone ever noticing. And more than just your location is being sent out! (arstechnica.com )