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Hope you survived July 4^th. We had a great time – fireworks, kids, hot dogs and assorted beverages. Now its time to hit the computer and edit those videos of recent college graduates and kids cavorting at the beach.

Please check out our new and improved travel video section, beefed up book review section, as well as our
INDUSTRY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES section. If you got some news and announcements, send it to us. If you want to get a product reviewed, tell us about it.

Here are some very interesting articles, columns and trends --

Are you working or producing in HiDef Video? Here is the latest insight regarding the high definition video editing systems. Solutions from Macintosh, Adobe, Windows, Dell, etc. Doug Dixon article

Online video startup will market 100 movies for à la carte download from its web site. - Guba and Sony said Tuesday the online video startup would distribute the major studio’s movies online, signaling positive momentum in the relationship between tech firms and Hollywood.

- Using RAW files for digital photography and Photoshop
- How to create digital sound and music
- How to use Photoshop and Corel Painter to do digital collages and painting
- How to Use CSS for your web site - Designing without tables
- The Grip Book - the greatest guide to making nuts and bolts of movies

Are you just starting out creating your own video movies? Here are some tips about video editing for novices and home video makers. How to cut on action, timeline versus storyboard and other basics to get you started....

Advertisers are searching out media that works? What will be the next big untapped concept for advertising and promotion? How about advertising on animals at the zoo or maybe out in nature, decorating the world's most famous vistas? That will surely collect a lot of eyeballs. Check out this article and visit this fake advertising agency web site. Maybe ads on strippers and prostitutes - that should generate a good size targeted audience.

A groundbreaking experimental Man Ray film, made in 1923, is now available for anyone to watch free online. It isn’t on the Web sites of the Library of Congress or the Internet Moving Image Archive. But you’ll find it at both YouTube and Google Video, two amateur-video-sharing sites.

Increasingly, rare and avant-garde films are showing up on sites like these, best known for hosting homemade video spoofs. On YouTube, there are 1969 art videos by Nam June Paik, a 1967 student movie by George Lucas and an iconic 1930 film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, as well as a clip of Dalí in a chocolate commercial more

This is the kind of online video web site we really love to feature. 705 is group of filmmakers who have banded together to make a series of films that have won awards and never fail to amuse. Composed primarily of Roman Cortez, Chito Arellano, and Tracy Tubera, they handle the directing, editing, producing and even much of the acting chores. This site and this team should be an inspiration to aspiring film makers everywhere.

If you like studying or reading about the past, you'll love the The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org). One of the world's most popular archaeology-related Web site, TAC has a monthly audience of about 400,000 visitors, representing a broad spectrum of the public as well as educators.

Ze Frank talks with Warren St. John about the methods behind his madness as he prepares to perform a script written by a network of his online fans and critics. (NY Times - Producer: Erik Olsen)

Skid Marks - by Roman Cortez, Chito Arellano, and Tracy Tubera This ten minute flick features the antics of three doofuses who take street racing to a whole new level in this wacky short where the special effects are so bad they're good! And stay tuned during the credits for hilarious behind-the-scenes footage.

Slap is also by 795 (Roman Cortez, Chito Arellano, and Tracy Tubera) - Vicious rumors and innuendo lead to a series of accusations and awesome bitch slaps. Slap is sure to become a classic amongst comedy deconstructionists who for generations have contemplated why slapping someone across the face is hysterical. This is extremely well made and remind viewers of the classic La Ronde.

Go Fly a Kite on a Caribbean Island - or really, go kite surfing. Check out this kiteflix video from Providenciales. Located in Turks & Caicos, it is a crystal clean paradise where you can kitesurf to your hearts content. There are miles of wide open beaches and secret bays with shallow turquoise water and soft sand with plenty of room to fly a kite and good wind. Plus it includes some great music and footage of island life and culture.

Pillowfight, a great little 4 minute flick, written and directed by Scott Rice, is a hilarious but affectionate comedy about the battles sleeping couples wage in bed. This is really cute and oh so true... "sorry. honey..."

This is a great little viral video. Don't try this at home - Balloony. I hope your head doesn't do this.

Check out this new video from Lenny Boudreau. It's a little spoof on pop musician Moby. Lenny did all the black line drawings traditionally with black poster paint on paper. http://www.superturbosonic.com/goodies/MGRFB.swf

This is pretty crass but awful funny. The Nut Bra - hosted at YouTube. A product designed especially for us old guys

Can you tell a story in one minute or so? Check out the this great movie from Will Shipley.

Will said that one of the reasons he likes making these very short (under 1 minute) films is that he can easily put them on his iPod and share them via email. Also check out his other film "What's Next"

This music video from Mike Goubeaux, a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design won the Scion xPress Fest. The film is brilliant. You got to see this. Ten filmmakers were selected and ten music videos were made. The winner, Mike Goubeaux, walks away with the respect of his peers, an amazing music video under his belt and a $20,000 cash prize. The Scion xPress Fest is a competition that offers filmmakers an opportunity to compete creatively for the chance to make a music video for an up and coming indie rock band.

That’s it for the beginning of July 2006. As usual, if you don’t want to get this newsletter, please hit reply and put TAKE ME OFF in the subject area.

Internet Video Magazine Newsletter – July 12, 2006