Art & Copy – A Film By Doug Pray

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• Posted by: Andrew Kamin
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• November 2, 2009
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Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. The creative is directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!) and explores some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time such as George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow and Hal Riney. 

“What’s different and perhaps surprising about this movie, is that it isn’t about bad advertising, that 98% which so often annoys and disrespects its audience. I didn’t want to make a doc that just trashes trashy advertising. Too easy, too obvious, and why bother? Instead, granted access to a handful of the greatest advertising minds of the last fifty years, I felt it could be a more powerful statement to focus the film only on those rare few who actually moved and inspired our culture with their work. And that higher standard made me want to make a film that reflected the same kind of disciplined artistic approach that my subjects used.” – Doug Pray

Art & Copy is currently viewing at the Oak Street Cinema in Minneapolis on Thursday, November 5th at 7pm. It will also be coming soon to the St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis although they do not specify when on their web page.

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Lightroom 3 Public Beta Available

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• October 22, 2009
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Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty has announced the availabilty of Lightroom 3 Beta over at Lightroom Journal. In a similar fashion to Lightroom 1 and 2, Adobe are providing a public preview of the application. In this case it’s much more like the original Beta preview, in that it’s less polished. Hence Adobe warn that it is not to be used as a production tool, but for testing and commenting only.

New features include: Improved Import, Watermarking, better Noise Reduction, Slideshow Video Export, Grain amongst others. Below are listed resources to learn more.

Terry White’s Tech Blog
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/3747

Matt Kloskowski & the NAPP Lightroom 3 learning center
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3

Julieanne Kost on AdobeTV
http://tv.adobe.com/show/what-s-new-in-lightroom-3-beta/

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Firmware To Add More Flex

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• October 20, 2009
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Canon has announced the development of a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The updated version will enable full frame high definition (1080p) video recording at 24 and 25 frames per second.The new firmware is expected to be made available for download in the first half of 2010.

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Art Buy On The Go-Go

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• October 1, 2009
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The American Society of Media Photographers has released a mobile version of the organizations online photographer database. The free iPhone application makes it possible to locate and review the work of any ASMP member photographer. Searching for “photographer” on the iPhone app store, “Find A Photographer” is currently the top result. Alternatively it can be found on iTunes.

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