• Washington DC may be closed, but I've been working there this weekend - teaching Resolve 10. It's been a blast and I want to send a huge shout-out to Flanders Scientific (official sponsor of the Colorist Flight School LlVE training series) for sending their 17-inch OLED for the students to use. It's gorgeous and we're loving it.

See you next week. Happy Grading!

• [study] Color me controversial - The color Red signals a lot of things but it does not inspire creativity. So says a new study. Educators call it the Red Ink Controversy. Click through to find out why. (fastcocreate.com)

• Breaking color - The symbolism and meanings behind the colors used in the TV series, Breaking Bad. Series creator and EP, Vince Gilligan, says color plays an important role in foreshadowing and to indicating a character's state of mind.  (ibtimes.com)

• [infographics] The meaning of color - What does your favorite color really mean? Illustrator Oliver Munday visualized the cultural significance of a number of colors for a new book, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color. This blog post has some of the infographics from the book. (huffingtonpost.com)

• [info] Visualizing for the colorblind - An interesting post on the different kinds of color blindness. And how that knowledge can effect the colors we use when visualizing data. (vizworld.com)

• [video] Alleviating the pain points of filmmaking - Simon Walker, Master Trainer and all around freelance creative type, covers a lot of ground in this nearly 2 hour video. He demonstrates: How Red Giant's BulletProof can ease your pain points at ingest; How PuralEyes can help you overcome sync issues: Color grading techniques using Magic Bullet Looks. Posh. ( youtube.com via @simonwalker)

• Want some free Scratch? - If you've been itching to try Assimilate Scratch, now's your opportunity. Sort of. Assimilate recently introduced SCRATCH Play for Mac & PC. Tutorials on using SCRATCH Play here and here. (assimilateinc.com via @jonnyelwyn) 

• DCP Player 1.0: Monthly or Yearly Rental - "DCP Player provides media professionals the ability to preview DCPs on a Mac, avoiding the need to make an expensive trip to your local digital cinema to preview your DCP." (quvis.com)

• [plug-in] Free Film Convert OFX Beta: for DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta - Film Convert is an app that adds film grain and film LUTs on your footage to… emulate the 'Film Look'. They've developed an Open FX version and released a beta as a free download. Click on this link to their Tweet with direct download links (88 MB). Have at it!   (@FilmConvert)

• [review] Streamline Client Review With Kollaborate - A review of Digital Rebellion's effort at streamlining the client review process. ( premiumbeat.com)

• Adobe Hacked, Credit Card Numbers Stolen - "...the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders." If you were effected they should be emailing you. (blogs.adobe.com )

• [video] Innovations in Post - The question: If you knew a tool you were using today would be gone in 4 years, would you keep using it? If not, what might replace it? Michael Cioni shares the Light Iron answer to those questions. The video really starts at 3:30. (vimeo.com)

• Temporal Aliasing in Digital Cinema - The holy grail of the move from film to digital is to try and make digital look like film. One big problem: Temporal aliasing. This is a very good article from RED on the science of temporal aliasing, and solutions to improve cinematic quality. (red.com)

• Lucasfilm: The End of Post-Production As We Know It - Lucasfilm says video game engines will take the post out of post-production. Using new technology from a video game engine, they have actors or stunt people play out the scene and computers have it rendered immediately. (geekexchange.com)

• J.J. Abrams Apologizes For Overusing Lens Flare - Finally, it took a woman (his wife) to convince JJ he needed to back off! ( theverge.com via Tao Treasurer)

• [video] Members Only: 720p23.976 Madness! - A few times a year I find myself grading a project shot at 720p23.976. The only problem? DaVinci Resolve doesn't officially support this frame rate / frame size. In this video I show how to make it happen. (mixinglight.com)

• [video] Members Only: Optimizing Avid for Color Grading - By remapping the keyboard . . .  with a focus on Symphony. By contributing author, Josh Petok. (mixinglight.com)

• [discount offer] SpectraCal Tao Colorist Newsletter Special Offer - In case you missed it in September, here's the link detailing an $800 savings on a hardware / software bundle to test the accuracy of your reference monitor and decide if it's time to get the display re-calibrated. Offer ends October 31, 2013. (archive.aweber.com)

• [video] BTS: Star Trek 'Into Darkness' Pre-vizualization - This Behind the Scenes takes us to the previz for the ship to ship flight sequence in Star Trek Into Darkness. Great insights into the power of preparation. (dailymotion.com)

• Calculating A Long Exposure With Your Smartphone - When using ND filters. (photofocus.com via @rhedpixel)

• [infographic] What is the largest spaceship in the sci-fi universe? - It isn't often that you find Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica together in the same galaxy. This infographic compares the size of every science fiction spaceship known to man. Inspired? Or sadly comprehensive? I'm not sure. But it's fun. (dirkloechel.deviantart.com )

• Travel Photos for Inspiration - 35 photos from a travel website. Great colors. (budgettravel.com)

• [video] Bullet Time, Puppy Style - This newsletter is a sucker for DIY bullet-time rigs. Here's a new approach... puppies in the park caught with 52 Go Pros! Fun and funny. (youtube.com)

• [video] BTS: Bullet Time, Puppy Style - Go behind the scenes to see the making of Bullet Time, Puppy Style. If you watch long enough you'll figure out how they afforded to buy 52 Go Pros. ( youtube.com)

• Do Art Directors Really Need A Desk? - The name of this Tumblr site? HoveringArtDirectors. If you've been in this business long enough, you'll instantly understand! Go ahead, see if you catch a hover-pack in the wild, then submit to this website. (hoveringartdirectors.tumblr.com via @emilyjaderyan)

• Color can influence how much wine you pour - Connoisseurs know that the shape of the glass and the color of wine can influence how much you pour. Click through for details. (huffingtonpost.com)

They wanted a "rockstar editor" so I showed up late, hungover, and banned brown m&m's from the editing suite.