• Meet The True Detective Colorist - FlimLight profiles the talent and craft of Pankaj Bajpai, at Deluxe’s Encore Hollywood, and his work on True Detective. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
  

• Using Color To Tell A Story - our friend Terence Curren shows how a single scene can be made to look like everything from a happy comedy to a scary horror film just by modifying contrast and saturation. Of course, he also shows how a good mix helps sell good color grading. (editorslounge.com)
  

• The ‘Sea-Nomad’ Children Who See Like Dolphins - "[do] the Moken children [have] a genetic anomaly to thank for their ability to see underwater or [is it] just down to practice." (bbc.com)
  

• To Get Better At Lighting - see light like a Cinematographer. Good advice for a colorist. (petapixel.com via Marc Wielage)
  

• Name That Color, Baby! - "One of the ideas in this linguistic theory is that humans find it easier to identify different categories of color (green versus blue) once we’ve learned the words for them." Is that theory wrong? (arstechnica.com)
  

• [podcast] Home Theater Geeks: The CTA On UHD - the head of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) talks about 4K UHD... providing the most pathetic reasoning for calling UHD '4K UHD'. I had to turn this episode off after hearing the lame excuse (and completely misleading reason) that they're pushing. (tunein.com)​
  

• Shot on 35: Why Film Matters For ‘Son of Saul’ - "It was the only way to maintain a certain instability in the images, and thus be able to film this world organically. The challenge was to strike an emotional chord in the audience — something that digital doesn't allow for." (studiodaily.com)

• When Will Oculus Support Mac? - never, says the Oculus Rift creator, "It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn’t prioritize high-end GPUs. You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn’t match our recommended specs." Word. (cultofmac.com)
  

• OLED-TV Sales Reached $1 Billion in 2015 - "for the first time OLED TV will be the primary driver of OLED materials sales, not cell phones and tablets." The rest of the article is an interesting behind-the-scenes read of the OLED materials market. (displaydaily.com)
  

• The Force Of Dolby Cinema - or not. This article turns out to be a rant (and some praise) about high-end theatrical exhibition and its failings when inappropriately exhibited. (celluloidjunkie.com)​
  

• Samsung, LG To Phase Out 3D - like the article says. Click through for details. (broadbandtvnews.com via @schnittman)

• Is There A Right TIme To Bring In Help? 3 Overflow Strategies - "I want to . . . help you figure out if there is a right time to bring on help when you’re very busy and saying no way too often." (mixinglight.com)
  

• [video] Shot Matching - Commercial Case Study - " I always try and emphasise that shot matching is the most time consuming part of a grade. If people didn’t get so bored shot matching a lot more projects would look a million times better." (mixinglight.com)
  

• [video] ‘Video Levels’ vs ‘Data Levels’ Part 2: External Monitoring - "How and when does our monitoring need to change depending on the ‘Video Level’ or ‘Data Level’ settings? And how does that effect where we place our 100% whites and 0% blacks when evaluating our scopes? Especially on external scopes?" (mixinglight.com)
  

• 4 Things To Know About Working With LUTs  - "This Insight is about avoiding the common mistakes/pitfalls you’re likely to make with Look Up Tables (LUTs). After defining the different types of LUTs, I’ll share with you my top 4 insights to working successfully with them." (mixinglight.com)

Items in this special section of the Newsletter will recur until after NAB, which is April 16 - 21 in Las Vegas.

• [edumacate] Post Production World : Overview - "In addition to the general sessions, P|PW offers multi-day, certification-prep and hands-on training that allows attendees to dive deeply into [software]. New this year, P|PW offers a track dedicated for graduating students to provide them a leg-up in navigating the industry."  Runs April 16 - 20th. Use this Discount Code to save $100: PPW06 (nabshow.com/attend)

• [edumacate] Team Mixing Light at P|PW - in addition to a full-day of color correction training, Tao Newsletter Publisher Patrick and his Mixing Light business partners are leading almost a dozen additional training sessions. Click through our names for session listings. (nab16.mapyourshow.com) 

• The Official ToolFarm Guide to NAB - from Exhibit hours to various social meetups to Exhibitor Booths you'll probably want to visit, a good collection of NAB information. (toolfarm.com)

• [event] 4th Annual Colorist Mixer - the colorist annual meetup is happening again, so make your travel plans accordingly. Registration is NOT open yet, so keep an eye out for an email invitation directly from the Tao Newsletter.  Sunday, April 16, 7:30 PM (coloristmixer.com)

• [event] Media Motion Ball 2016 - a sit-down dinner with stage presentations. A great place to meet your favorite industry notables. Monday, April 18,  5:30 PM (eventbrite.com)

• [event] SuperMeet 2016 - Watch stage presentations and then participate in NAB's biggest give-away of software and hardware. It's also a good place to launch a meet up with friends for late night festivities. Tuesday, April 19, 4:30PM (eventbrite.com)​

• NAB Show To Host Kaleidoscope Virtual Reality Showcase - "NAB Show attendees will have the opportunity to travel to virtual worlds and experience the most innovative narrative, environmental and interactive content." (displaydaily.com)

• [video] Shot Reverse Shot - the Coens are masters of the movie conversation. This brilliant video essay explains why. (youtube.com)
  

• ClipWrap Leaving the App Store - as Blackmagic puts DaVinci Resolve on the Mac App Store, indie software developer Divergent Media (makers of ScopeBox) are pulling out of the Mac App Store. Why? Click to find out. I missed this story back in December, but it's still worth sharing. (divergentmedia.com)

• [video] Cardstacking a 20 foot Card Tower - a guy spends over 40 hours building a tower out of a deck of cards. Or, in this case, 29,000 cards. Watching it go up is fun. I bet you didn't think knocking it down would take this much effort. Fun. (youtube.com)
  

• Step Into The World Of Virtual Japanese Art With ANA - get some background on the 'Is Japan Cool' website. Then visit the website to see some great Japanese art in a virtual museum. (displaydaily.com)​
  

• MoonShot: J.J. Abrams and Google Send Filmmakers … To The Moon - "a nine-episode documentary web series that follows 16 teams of entrepreneurs as they compete to engineer a spacecraft, land it on the moon, and successfully transmit HD video footage back to Earth." Nifty. (nofilmschool.com)

• Panasonic :UHD LED 4K Pro Viera TV - a display designed for upscale living romms with some interesting features. I look forward to seeing how it does when put under the scrutiny of the review websites. (displaydaily.com)​
  

• HSN Launches LG HDR LCD TVs - "nowhere did HSN or LG mention that the models use LG’s controversial RGBW LCD technology, which some competitors claim does not produce all of the primary subpixels required to produce full 3840×2160 4K Ultra HD resolution." Other interesting details at the link. (hdguru.com)

• How To: Manage your 'digital afterlife' (while you're still here to do it) - "in an age where many of our documents and assets are in digital form, it’s worth taking a little time to ensure that our loved ones don’t encounter major hassles when it comes to accessing them." (9to5mac.com)

• Uncovering the “lying-dormant cyber pathogen”  - the county trying to get Apple to unlock the iPhone of two dead terrorists has resorted to fear-induced lies to influence the courts to rule in their favor. (arstechnica.com)