Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera / This is THE ONE!

The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a RAW-shooting body that will fit into your pocket.  Who could of ever imagined even 3 years ago, that you could buy a camera that fits in the palm of your hand and can take hi resolution video with depth of field that rivals anything that cost 100K plus back when this digital video became a real alternative to film.  In July you can buy this camera for 995 dollars. Check this out!

Quick look at the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera from Rick Young on Vimeo.

A Panasonic GH2' and an Amazing Anamorphic Lens

Roberto Miller, writer and director shot his indie film, "Mandorla" with 2 Panasonic GH2's and a LOMO anamorphic lense and the results are amazing.  We talk a lot about technology and how it has affected the indie film maker's ability to make films that ascetically look like a Hollywood Production.  When talking about this subject, we always make sure to state that having great cameras at an affordable price is huge step forward, BUT the film maker still needs to have that MOST important ingredient called "Talent".  Well this Roberto Miller certainly appears to have talent, if the trailer is any indication. 
Check out this trailer. Remember.....he shot this with a GH2.  Yes, with also an amazing lens....but still, he used a $649 camera

Mandorla - working trailer - CA from Roberto Miller on Vimeo.

Not Fad Away / Cineblax's First Movie Review

Here is my very first movie recommendation: GO SEE "NOT FADE AWAY"!

Finally a great movie about being in a rock and roll band.  Those of you who have followed my bog, know that I wrote a screenplay in 2009 about a kid in a rock and roll band that takes place in the early 70's when rock and roll decadence was still "politically correct".  I never got my screen play even read by the right people, let alone made into a movie.  So in some ways, seeing a movie about what happens when a group of young kids get together and make a rock band.....is kinda of disheartening.  Only because that magic that seems to happen when the band is really locked in and playing for an audience is what my movie was really about at it's core.  And Not Fade Away is about the same thing.  Life continues to happen all around you, but when you get on that stage and you have a real connection with the other band members....you somehow are transported to another dimension.  Now this does not happen with every band.  in fact it happens pretty rarely.  But I was lucky enough to have played in band where this did happen.  And even more important, it actually was documented in a DVD and an Autobiography.  At the time it was happening, i don't know if I even realized how lucky I was.  But when I go back and listen to the records we made (30 years later...ouch!!).....you can hear it.  That is if you are really listening.
Check out this movie......if you LOVE ROCK AND ROLL.

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.