Gotham Guerrilla has officially had 5,000 visitors, thanks for stopping in and come back soon cause we have lots of big monumental announcements to make and new developments cooking in the oven that I plan to announce here 1st.

Spoke with Viktor Björk, the managing director from Ikonoskop today in regards to the status of their new creation, the a-cam dII. Viktor sounded quite positive about the progress and has reported over 28 people working tightly around the clock to meet the new deadlines, now slated for April.  I have witnessed a variety of different technological developments over the years and usually they tend to suffer the most time in the home stretch dealing with all the countless final details, one of which they are working out now is power management. For my guerrilla film making purposes, I need this rig to boot within seconds. Viktor continued to report an overwhelming amount of pre-orders since the announcement at IBC last September and If you order one today you are looking at a June/July delivery. This all sounds too familiar. (read: RED launch) Good luck wrapping things up Ikonoskop. Hit the jump for the latest specs and images on the Ikonoskop a-cam dII.  UPDATE: the 1st deliver of this camera series Zero is in question at the moment although reports on the IKONOSKOP forum suggest February.  I will update soon.  Read more

I have been working on some concepts for a PSA that I would like to do and through my research I came across this really beautiful public service announcement to promote awareness in Burma.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main

My neighbor Ion Bloom, known for his “Crimson Workflow” just returned from his last “Shot on RED” gig that he was technician on and shared some his experience over at reduser.net.

We shot over 30 interviews and countless re-enactment scenes in six different cities. Awesome crew, producers, dp, and director. First commercial I’ve done where the crew bonded like a feature. In any case, you can check out the docs here: http://dreams.honda.com/videos/failure-the-secret-to-success/

Its refreshing to see a big name like Honda spend their money funding something inspirational beyond just selling cars. I felt the series was well produced across the board from direction to the cinematography, nice music choices as well. You decide for youself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12adcol.html?_r=2

Joe Herbert for his spot “Free Doritos”? Not exactly who I thought it would be. I am not going to waste time talking about this spot but I will say keep your eyes peeled for commercial competitions if your trying to get your foot in that door, chances are you can do better then this.