While not an especially new technique, tilt-shift photography seems to be showing up more and more around the web. The technique involves manipulating the camera in such a way that life-sized locations and objects appear as miniature-scale models, and likely takes its name from the tilt-shift lens typically needed to produce the technique optically.

Besides just “looking cool,”… more

A coworker sent me a link to a Huffington Post article about the new 48 frames-per-second technology making its debut in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. For those of you who may not know, 24 frames-per-second has been the standard frame rate since the dawn of cinema. So this is really a pretty radical step. But judging from audiences’ reactions, it might be as short lived as the New… more

Like me, you probably never thought about it, except for in Disney’s Fantasia…

My life is television. I fall asleep to the TV, I wake up to the TV, I cook with the TV on and all day, I work in TV. On weekends, I turn every TV on to the same channel, so when cleaning around the house, I won’t miss a moment. My husband even works for DirecTV – so you can see how the boob tube has engulfed everything we do.

Some of my favorite documentaries air on the two most groundbreaking series in TV today – POV and Independent Lens, both broadcast on PBS. It’s where, each week, I and about 89 million other people get to watch some of the very best independent documentary films that America has to offer, like Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Stephen Walker’s Young@Heart… more