Is This The World's First Perpetual Motion Machine

 It is pretty amazing that the possibly first Perpetual Motion Machine was made not by an engineer or scientist, but rather an "Artist". Check it out.....

Cineblax Stock Watch

We added a stock watch of 6 stocks starting Dec. 23, 2012.  Let's see if we invested 40K.  Investing 5k in each stock where we will be on April 23, 2013.

Just for Fun!

Magic Christmas.....A BlackMagic That Is

The Blackmagic Cinema Camera took the  Digital Video World by storm this year.  It came out of nowhere and trampled over all the DLSRs! If you were to have told me even 1 year ago that I could buy a video camera that shot in 12 bit RAW with a 2.5K image sensor and wide 13 stops of dynamic range for 3000 dollars....I would of said "Oh SURE" wasn't  that called "Scarlet".  yes, RED did finally bring us the Scarlet....but with the accessories you still would shell our 15K plus.  Still am amazing camera for 15K, but then here comes the BMCC for a real 3K!  So I am asking Santa for a Blackmagic this Christmas and while I am dreaming maybe he could throw a Zeiss Prime CP.2 lens in his bag for me.
Well. a boy can dream...can't he?

Merry Christmas to all and thanks for coming by Cineblax this year!
Jarvy....Dec 21, 2012 

Butch Walker on my Birthday

I do not usually blog about music on my cineblax blog...(I have a music blog called Jarvys Cafe.....for that). But my Birthday is coming in a few days and I wanted to tell my cineblax readers about a musician that has found a place in my soul. Butch makes me feel the same way that a young kid feels when he first discovered Rock and Roll. Yea....I know, that sounds a little esoteric.but really music is such an amazing art form. A great song can make you feel all kinds of emotions that nothing else can. For me....that happened a lot when I was a teenager and in my 20's. But as I got older, the feeling seemed to kind of "fade away". That was until I came across Butch Walker. And what is even more amazing is that I discovered Butch way back in 1997 and I have have gone on a musical journey with him as he found his way through the landscape of metal, powerpop, hard rock, and all the crazy people. places, and bullshit that came at him for the last 15 years.... I now believe Butch Walker is the premier American Songwriter and Performer alive today! If you don't know about Butch....PLEASE, do yourself a favor and get his latest album, The Spade.

IKEA all-in-one TV

Ikea has such great style. If I could have a brand new home and all new furnishings. It would diffidently be all Ikea. Why didn't I think of this? It is so smart to sell the whole solution. And it is not crazy expensive...like $1500 for everything. When you talk about having a company put in a home theater solution....it is in the 5 figures area easy! Check out their newest idea for a TV / Entertainment Console. Just amazing!!!

The Cineblax Main Website Has a New Design!

The cineblax main portal has a new design!!   A great place to check out the latest news on DV Film Making and technology.  There have been many posts here on the cineblax "Blogger" site regarding technology and the super fast rate at which DV Cameras have been changing, the cineblax portal gives us a much better space to spread out and look at all the different facets connected to this art-form.  Please check out the new Home Ste and contribute to cineblax if you can....the more of you that become involved with cineblax, the more ideas we can present.
Thanks, Jarvy

THE SONY NEX-7

I LOVE THIS CAMERA!!

So much more than a pocket camera, the 24.3MP NEX-7 exceeds expectations. Get performance that would give most DSLRs camera envy, including interchangeable lenses, a 2359K dot Tru-Finder™ OLED electronic viewfinder, up to 10fps shooting, and outstanding Tri-Navi™ 3-dial manual control. Record amazing HD movies in super-smooth 60p, standard 60i or cinematic24p, all at Full HD 1920x1080 resolution. Sony has not been the front runner in so many areas that they once were, but this camera could put them back on top!! This will be my next camera and I can't wait to shoot video with it!
The Luminous Landscape has this to say about the NEX-7
The NEX-7 truly appears to be the photographic equivalent of a PocketBattleship. It's small and light enough to be carried all day in one hand,yet has the image quality capabilities of a much larger camera. With its very bright and high resolution electronic viewfinder it surpasses the eye level viewing of most APS-C DSLRs, with their small tunnel-vision viewpoints – though as mentioned, shadows do block up in the viewfinder in high contrast situations. When it comes to video, theNEX-7 has it all, including full HD 1080P at 60 fps, and 24fps for aspiring film makers

Cineblax Future / No More Square Bricks

It won't be long and we will be wearing our cell phones. I remember having one of the first cell phones...the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, its battery could provide 1 h of talk time, and its memory could store 30 phone numbers. I thought I was the Sh*t.......the thing weighed about 3 pounds, but I didn't have to stop at payphones (remember those) anymore.
Sony's vision of the future...

GH2 vs. Red Scarlet

I wish I could buy a Red Scarlet! But let's face facts......
even at 15K (with the needed accessories) I have about as much chance at getting one as I do a new Lamborghini.
"Straight off...... the camera the GH2 can look great, but the Scarlet holds up far better in post, where you are able to change pretty much any aspect of the image to a massive extent. This simply isn’t possible with DSLR footage.

In low light, the GH2 puts up a good fight. In fact from some tests I have seen the GH2 come out slightly on top in low light but the shadows are still more blocky. Grain however is very fine and helps to hide the blocking of the lows.

Colour is smoother and more natural on the Scarlet but artifacts (aliasing and moire) seem not noticeable on both cameras. It really is an impressively clean image from the down scaled 18MP NMOS sensor in the GH2.

The GH2′s image is punchy and baked in, and cannot be flattened as much as with the RAW video from the Scarlet, but David is doing another test with Smooth and -2 contrast to bring up the shadows a bit. All in all the GH2 puts up an incredible fight considering the massive price difference."

Links: From estiasis

Article @ EOSHD

Here is the secret......look at the sensor size comparison to 35mm film.
Bottom line......you can make a movie that is indistinguishable from using a Scarlet....if you have some talent, patients, and a GH2!
Jarvy....02-2012

You Will Go Bankrupt If You Don't Eat Yourself? / A Lesson for All Product Companies

Kodak is going BANKRUPT!

Former Kodak VP Don Strickland -

“We developed the world’s first consumer digital camera. Kodak could have launched it in 1992. We could not get approval to launch it because of fear of the cannibalisation of film.”

Steve Jobs -

“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.”

Who is the Smarter CEO? This is the kind of thinking that Steve Jobs had and was able to change our world! Before the dawn of the digital camera, Kodak made nearly all of its money from selling film. In a similar manner, before the invention of the iPhone, Apple made a great deal of its money from iPods. Both the iPhone and iPad cannibalise sales of the iPod and MacBook Air, which were highly profitable major product lines. But Apple had the conviction in their belief that the iPhone and iPad were better products which would sell like crazy. Kodak didn’t have the same conviction in their digital technology. Nor the same vision.
Our world of technology moves so fast.....if you don't keep up, you will be left behind...I promise you that!