Jonathan Poritsky

Hip cul­tural aggrea­gate site Flavorpill is run­ning a short film con­test. So I said, hey, some­times I’m a film­maker too. So check out what I entered.

Process from Jonathan Poritsky on Vimeo.

For the new book Love Without Blood by Raz Steel.

Back in 2005 when Jim Jannard took off his brightly col­ored and pre­sum­ably shiny Oakley CEO hat and set out to start a rev­o­lu­tion in dig­i­tal cin­ema, most of us scoffed, writ­ing off his inten­tions of build­ing a 4K tape­less cam­era at an “afford­able” price point as the ludi­crous rav­ings of a mil­lion­aire seek­ing his extra 15 min­utes. We ate our words a year ago, at NAB 2007, as the first Red Camera footage was put on dis­play in a short film by mega-director Peter Jackson. As the year went by, and the fledg­ling com­pany started to ship the cam­era in small doses, again, we started to feel the rum­blings of a rev­o­lu­tion as Stephen Soderbergh pro­claimed his love for the new format.

But now it’s NAB 2008. So you’d think maybe this Red thing would pick up and start get­ting adopted.

Nah. Read on…

The fol­low­ing IM came over google’s Gchat right now from a good friend. I had to start load­ing the video for an excit­ing upcom­ing film (seri­ously, if I could tell you you’d be excited) and this pair of knuck­le­heads opted to ignore my BRB warn­ing. I laughed hard enough to share it with you.

well you should be work­ing and clean­ing heads and dupli­cat­ing HD dvds and mak­ing film trans­fers and mak­ing cof­fee and knit­ting jami a scarf made of cat hair and marsh­mal­lows and wor­ship­ing the lord and apply­ing a pow­er­ful exfo­li­at­ing cream to your face and neck and always tak­ing care of your­self
Sent at 10:54 PM on Tuesday
Read on…