I really mean Makeup. You’ve guessed it these are makeup bags. Cost me $3.99 at Target. I know this is not a new idea and I think I remember it back from my film school days. Recently the wife had a couple extra little bags around so I repurposed them for my adapters.

The problem I couldn’t see what I had in the bag. So on my last visit Target I took a look around. With wife in tow of course. Didn’t want to be seen in cosmetics by myself….

Anyway found these little gems clear and just the right size. The great thing is they fit into my video and audio bags easily. I also have my adapters divided up for different uses. Now if I don’t need some of the adapters I can leave a bag or 2 behind.

Originally posted on SEANFX

The New Media Minute is back in 2009 and I’m asking the question of whether online video viewing helps or hurts old-fashioned TV. Recent research from Starz and One Touch Intelligence suggests the Web is less of a threat than previously thought. But the New Media Minute asks if that’s a smart assumption to make. This edition also covers a new effort by NBC to hire local video bloggers to produce online reports for its owned-stations, a move that could help attract a younger demographic.

After February 17th a new age of digital content will be born here in the United States. What does this mean for content creators? Take a really good look at your iTunes or Tivo. Pretty soon you won’t have to schedule your life around the shows the networks and cable gives us. You’ll be able to fit that content around your life.

Early adopters have already started making such changes, and it won’t be long before this becomes more mainstream as the technology makes things simple for everyone to view what they want when they want it.

Content creators need to start asking themselves what this means.

1. First it means it won’t matter what size the screen you are trying to make your content for, people are going to watch it the way they want to watch it.  You can’t do anything about it.
2. Second, you better have a understanding of how you are going to get your content out there.  This won’t mean spending a year on the film festival circuit or waiting for a big break from Hollywood.  You are wasting time that won’t help you launch your next project.
3. Third, realizing you have a lot more control of how your content gets out there.  Which means the more you control it the more it comes back to you.  The credit, the money, the ownership.
4. Fourth, be ready to listen.  If you’re lucky enough to get fans listen to them, make them happy.

All this is much better for all content creators, bloggers, painter, musicians, filmmakers whatever content you are creating.  You will have power and you won’t need to go through any of the publishing machines of the past any longer.

I hope with this site and some of the posts you’ll start finding here you’ll see more and more evidence of this coming around.  Let us know what you are thinking and lets see if together we can figure out ways to make sure well all can make our content find a home.

Read these!

Kevin Kelly 1000 True Fans

Kent Nichols While you’re there listen to the interview of Lance Hammer.

Just testing out this bloggy technology…soon I will have some posts to make on an animated short I am working on…happy Thanksgiving!

Soon we’ll be relaunching United Pixels.  You’ll be able to see our latest projects, who made them, how they were made and who knows what else.  We’ll be able to point you to cool things we find on the web about CG, Visual Effects, Moives and more.  And maybe some musings we might have about the industry as a whole.

 So stay tune!