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There is a an exciting movement in the world of indie and professional film and television that completely changes the landscape for small and indie producers; cinematographers are choosing HDSLR picture cameras to shoot their productions.

Yes, you read correctly – using a picture camera to shoot movies.

The above video shows a cinematographer who shoots CSI Miami on a Canon 7D – a camera which will run you a little under $2000, with lens. A show like CSI Miami can afford almost any camera and the fact that a high budget show chooses a camera like this shows that they are more than capable of making a AAA image. And he’s not alone in Hollywood, the Canon 5D was used on the season finale of House.

The quality of image is nothing short of stunning and it makes independent film making more affordable than ever before.

Brilliant! Time to make a film.

Chris Anderson’s “Next Industrial Revolution” article in Wired a few month’s ago is something that anyone who simply wants to CREATE should read. It’s inspiring, incredible and it’s happening right now. This video is like a highlight reel:

The single greatest thing about the techno-creative world that we live in – is that the only major barrier stopping anyone from creating and sharing is action.

Have you always wanted to make a book – an insane book, 300 full color pages of the photo’s from your childhood?

What if you wanted to make a font, out of your handwriting?

Or if you wanted to make custom pieces for your action figures?

Or are you crazy enough to make your own car?

The previously closed-off world of manufacturing, distribution and creation are available to almost anyone and are becoming more open each and every day.

Do you have a dream to create something?

What’s stopping you?

“The best education in film is to make one.”
- Stanley Kubrick

On Dec 1st, 2009, I hadn’t written a line of code since high school, way back in 1992. High School computer programming was done in BASIC and was taught by the drama instructor. It wasn’t exactly a solid programming foundation.

I knew that 2010 was the year I would go full time with Ninja Robot Dinosaur, making Flash games on my own. But without the ability to program, there wasn’t a lot I could do.

I needed to learn how to program Flash games – and fast.
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I don’t post much BMX stuff on NRDland.com, but this was too good to pass up. Terry is an old friend who used to ride for my old bike company, Ronin, and this video is simply insane.

Keep in mind that most of these tricks are ridiculous on their own, but when you mix it with another ridiculous trick – well, that’s just not right. Not you mention that you can just tell they had a blast filming this.

TERRY & AARON MIX FROM ODYSSEYBMX.COM