• [video] HDR 101 - Technicolor senior colorist Mike Sowa on the 4 things you need to know about High Dynamic Range. The comments show how far we have to go explaining the terminology. (nofilmschool.com)
  

• 4K Delivery: Are We There Yet? - “…when delivering for broadcast most specs are for 1080.  Almost all of my 4k deliveries have been for some sort of projection. I don’t have any problem working in the higher resolution, it’s delivering it that I don’t agree with.” (robbessette.com)
  

• A New Shade of Blue - "one day a graduate student . . . was taking samples out of a very hot furnace while I was walking by, and it was blue, a very beautiful blue. I realized immediately that something amazing had happened.” (iflscience.com via Josh Petock)
  

• The Basic Properties Of Color - “understanding the basic properties of color is not a skill that only editors and colorists should learn. Filmmakers of all positions will better themselves knowing how colors work.” A very basic primer. (premiumbeat.com)
  

• How to Handle the Imposter Syndrome - "Recognize the benefits of being a novice. You might not realize it, but there are great benefits to being new in your field." (hbr.org)
  

• This Square Isn’t Actually Rotating… Here’s Why - an interesting article on what optical illusions tell us about human perception. (washingtonpost.com via David E. Bell)

• Pomfort LiveGrade 3.6 is Now Available - "added full support for the FSI BoxIO LUT box; output to HD-SI; Link looks with shared nodes to control multiple devices consistently." (toolfarm.com)
  

• [videos] Resolve (Not So Much) in a Rush - if you're looking to find DaVinci Resolve resources and have time to spend, then put on a pot of coffee and dive into this post. A round-up of mostly free DaVinci Resolve 12.5 training. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
  

• Cheating FInal Cut Pro X Proxies - store proxies where you want to facilitate moving them between machines or sharing between systems. (fcp.co)
  

• Summer Sale at Boris FX - crossgrades and upgrades from previous versions are on sale. Ends August 30th. (toolfarm.com)
  

• V-Log on the GH4 Revisited, Part 1 - "v-log does however give you different tonal-scale handling and color rendering, which makes it an interesting and useful addition to the palette of GH4 looks." (provideocoalition.com)
  

• The Mysteries Of OSC In Final Cut Pro X Revealed, Part 1 - how to build your own on-screen controls in FCPx when creating custom Motion effects. (fcp.co)
  

• ClipWrap is Dead… long live ClipWrap! - "where ClipWrap only worked for AVCHD, EditReady works with a lot more. Not only AVCHD (MTS), but also M2T (HDV), MP4 and MXF Camera masters. It too will re-wrap, or convert to DNxHD and ProRes. AND…it will do it a lot faster than ClipWrap does. Up to three times faster in many cases." (lfhd.net)
  

• [video] Creating A LUT in Photoshop for Color Matching - like the article says... this is very time-consuming. But for those still learning to work with LUTs, the exercise might be instructive. (nofilmschool.com)
  

• A New Way to Create Projected HDR? - "creating a projector that can display 1000 cd/m² of a full white screen is not needed. What is needed is the ability to create high luminance in a small portion of the image at any time," (displaydaily.com)

• About The AMC Acquisition Of European Odeon & UCI - "This long-read will examine the details of the deal, what the implication of the new global mega-circuit is, how it affects AMC’s proposed acquisition of Carmike, what Wanda’s role behind the scenes was, what isn’t being explicitly said about the deal." (celluloidjunkie.com)
  

• Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology - "unfortunately, as time marches on the subtleties of what actually happened to Eastman Kodak are being forgotten, leading executives to draw the wrong conclusions from its struggles." (hbr.org)
  

• Two Companies: $8 Billion Of Production - "It’s hard to imaging but between them Amazon and Netflix plan on spending $8 billion on original content in 2016." Click through to find out how many 23-season episodes that money can finance. (philiphodgetts.com)
  

• YouTube, Facebook To Stream Video From Political Conventions - "Twitter is partnering with CBS News to live-stream video content from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Now YouTube and Facebook have announced they also plan to offer live video." Lots more details at the link. (etcentric.org)

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• Dirty Looks: Early 00’s Looks - "For me, the early 2000s had two very pronounced looks – Lots of heavily graded 35mm and a ton of nasty narrow dynamic range home digital camera type looks." (mixinglight.com)
  

• Bad TV: Essential Steps For Creating The Bad TV Look - "in recent years I’ve been using 3rd party effects for this type of thing, this past week I was working on a project where the client didn’t like the ‘over-processed’ nature of some of my go-to 3rd party tools . . . what I’d like to share with you in this Insight is a bad TV look with no 3rd party effects." (mixinglight.com)
  

• Premiere Pro CC 2015.3 Update: New Color Correction Features in Existing Tools - a Look at changes to Lumetri Scopes, Lumetri Effect, & SpeedLooks. (mixinglight.com)

• [video] Blackbird - shooting a car commercial used to depend on having the car available to shoot. Not anymore. The Mill has created a unique car rig that can be shot at any time, any place, to look like any car. (youtube.com)
  

• Online Editing - “My job is not creative (unless we’re doing color grading or vfx), but I have creative ways to get it done.” VK Shah, Senior Online Editor and Colorist at Trailer Park in Hollywood on taking a project across ‘the finishing line.’ (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
  

• ‘Games of Thrones: Battle Of The Bastards’ Director Speaks - "I think that this section of the fight — in which Jon is almost buried alive by a stampede of panicking wildings — turned out as one of my favorite little moments in the sequence." Not only is was that battle brilliantly conceived and shot, that moment was the highlight. The story of how it came about is terrific. (ew.com)
  

• What Great Listeners Actually Do - "we identified the differences between great and average listeners and analyzed the data to determine what characteristics their colleagues identified as the behaviors that made them outstanding listeners. We found some surprising conclusions." (hbr.org)

• [video] The 5 Second Way to Tie a Tie - because you have an A-lister client coming, and the boss said to look your best. So you pull out the tie from the back of your closet... forgot how to tie it? No problem with this simple hack that gets the job done in 5 seconds flat. (youtube.com)
  

• [video] Game of Thrones Beginner’s Guide - actor Samuel L. Jackson narrates the perfect summary video, because you get to hear precisely what you didn't know you always wanted to hear: Fun, whether you follow the series or not. NSFW. (youtube.com)
  

• [video] Breakdancing 2.0 - stick with it. (kottke.org)
  

• [video] Watch: 122 Years, 122 Movies In The History Of Horror - "edited in a manner that is subtly eerie in and of itself, spans 122 years of film history . . . selects a title and scene every year from 1893 through 2015." (nofilmschool.com)

• Tangent Ripple: Mini Review - "The unit is very simple, and has only the most basic controls. Which is fine by me, I’m a basic colorist. I am more of an online editor, and my focus is documentary work." Good little review. (lfhd.net)
  

• [Benchmark] Super Blade Flash Storage - "If [the Late 2013 Mac Pro is] your long term 'ride,' it's great to know that you can expand both the speed and capacity of the storage easily with a product like the Super Blade." (barefeats.com)
  

• Why Displays Won't Be Flexible - "a flexible newspaper may be possible one day, but try to wrap this display around a ball will not be possible. For this we will need stretchable displays." A look at the physics of the why of it. (displaydaily.com)
  

• The Tangent Ripple: Does It Live Up To Its Hype - a roundup of user reviews across the web. (premiumbeat.com)
  

• [Benchmark] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs. GTX 1080 in the Mac Pro tower - "So does the GeForce GTX 1070 produce better 'bang for the buck' than the GTX 1080 or GTX 980 Ti?" These benchmarks are based on gaming software. (barefeats.com)
  

• 2016 LED Color Quality - "Some lights that did poorly last year did much better this year. A lot of that can be attributed to advancements in the LEDs themselves" (provideocoalition.com)

• [video] World First - so, an aerobatic pilot, a freestyle motocross rider, and a highliner meet in the desert. It’s not the start of an old joke. And in case it needs to be said, ’do not try this at home.’  (youtube.com)

• Amazon's Counterfeiting Problem - "Merchants are perpetually unsure of who or what may kill their sales on any given day and how much time they'll have to spend hunting down fakers." The term 'fulfilled by Amazon' is Prime'd for counterfeiters, it seems. Bummer. (cnbc.com)