[Ron Lindeboom]

[eric pautsch] “I call 3D a gimmick since it, in no way, promotes the story itself.”

Spoken like someone who cheered against all the hub-bub when “talkies” came along. I can just hear it now: “What’s all the noise about? I don’t need all that noise to see the story… Besides, it’s not very realistic and all that hissing and clicking just drives me nuts!”

;o)

No offense, Eric, but in my humble opinion, Avatar would have been a GREAT movie and film experience without the 3D but it is made even more intense by the fact that it is in 3D.

[eric pautsch] “If Avatar wasn’t a 3D film, where would the hype come from?”

James Cameron has done MORE to alter the human psyche against atrocities like that which happen whenever one group of humans think that they should have something that belongs to another group, just because they are savages or less refined than we are — than all of the efforts of documentary filmmakers and storytellers who have tried to alter the human psyche in this area.

All their efforts just got trumped by all the “hype” of a 3D movie called AVATAR.

I wish I could make a pile of crap like that.

Don’t you?

Ron Lindeboom

PS: [eric pautsch] also said: “I’ll eat my words if Avatar joins Hamlet as one of the great classic stories in human history. :)”

Boy, using this as our benchmark, I can’t think of a single film born of an original story/screenplay that didn’t exist before it became a film that was made in the last 50 years or more that is likely to stand up to that test. Not one. Not even Citizen Kane.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[David Roth Weiss] “Arsenals don’t contain tools — tool sheds do & toolboxes do, but arsenals contain guns and ammo.”

Oh come now, David.

Gun is just another word for a tool to help you get the unwilling to quickly back your play. Another word for a gun, might be a “motivational lead dispenser.” Or perhaps an “inter-personal doubt rearrangement device.”

(You do know I am kidding, right? But I just couldn’t pass that one up.)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Mike Cohen] “I cannot think of any broadcast shows that would be better in 3D.”

Me, I would have loved to see shows like PUSHING DAISIES, LOST or HEROES in 3D.

Or at least an episode here or there.

But we are still a way’s off from that happening, I think.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Mark Nancetor] “Ron will probably turn off our accounts if we did.”

I would probably throw you onto moderation again (most I wouldn’t turn off completely) because we have teachers and professors from around the world — from the junior high level to universities and trade schools and art academies — that use Creative COW as a key part of their curriculum.

These instructors trust that we will provide the kind of site and content that they can build their curriculum around. We guard that trust like junkyard dogs.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, I have heard a couple of people say that they cannot abide 3D movies because their brain can’t abide it without giving them a headache. The old red-blue anaglyph glasses were most often a headache, now with systems like Real-D, the headaches are mostly gone. But there are indeed exceptions. I am sorry that you are one of them, Todd.

But we all know that in the future, 3D will come from holographic projectors and that we won’t need glasses anymore.

Now that will be breathtaking.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Ron Lindeboom]

My initial reaction to James Cameron’s AVATAR was that he purposely underplayed the 3D, and that there were only a few things that “came out at you” — such as ashes settling from a fire scene — and they were subtle, not poking you in the eyes. In fact, as we left the theater, I heard a few people remark that they actually tried to brush them away as their brain reacted to the images.

As of today, I think that AVATAR is the best example of how to use 3D that has been done so far.

But that’s just my opinion.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Mark Raudonis] “There’s just too much interest from too many players in making this work.”

I couldn’t agree more, Mark.

We only have a few 3D movies in our home collection and they require the red-blue anaglyph glasses (which James Cameron’s AVATAR does not use, eschewing them for the much more effective and beautiful Real-D system). When we show even the home version of red-blue anaglyph 3D to our guests, every one of them has been so impressed that they start buying their own 3D movies. I have yet to see it fail.

Once you see the fabulous Real-D system in action, or see something in 3D at an IMAX showing, there is no going back.

As Brian Gardner said in his article for Creative COW’s Stereoscopic 3D issue, “One day we will look back at regular movies and call them ‘flatties.'”

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, as we like to joke: cows like things mellow in the grassy fields.

No one else has given The Legacy lower than 4 points — no threes, no twos — but the member in question gave it a one, like it was junk. Clearly, the pros with history here were giving high praise to The Legacy.

We are pleased that most everyone has been very respectful and quite good about the contest. But we have had two people that literally got their friends from off-site, with no history here, to come and slam a bunch of the best trailers in the contest — while having these friends give their trailers five cows. Last Saturday, I spent about three hours or so, just going through the site and the server logs and finding the accounts of those that voted a bunch of one cow ratings for some of the best reels in the standings, while giving one five cow — to their friend.

We kill stuff like that here. The people with history count. The people that come in like a bunch of rabid fanboys and try to highjack the ratings, quickly find their votes removed and their accounts closed.

This is a site dedicated to working professionals, not a bunch of rabid fanboys.

We want a real contest, not one that runs like something on MySpace or Facebook or YouTube.

Thanks for understanding, Ivan.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

I had never bumped into that one before, too funny!

Thanks for the laugh.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Bob Zelin] “AND THE BIG PREDICTION – Creative Cow will be the only “magazine” left in our industry. (ok, maybe Broadcast Engineering will still exist, but COW can expand as well into these areas).”

During our strategy sessions here at COW Headquarters — known as “The Barn” — we’ve been watching the signs and have been saying that for a couple of years now, Bob.

Thanks for noticing. ;o)

Coming from you, we couldn’t be more flattered.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi