YIPEEEE! Here's the email we just got a few seconds ago:
We are delighted to invite Cat's Bad Hair Day to participate in our Tribeca Family Festival - Shorts section at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, to be held in New York City April 21 – May 1. We are very pleased to have this opportunity to introduce this wonderful short film to our viewers.
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Martin Scorsese founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 with the mission to contribute to the revitalization of lower Manhattan in the wake of September 11. We are hopeful that this year will mark a further advance on the successes of our initial editions, and are looking forward to the key role you and your film will play.
Play dates to be announced when we know them.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Festival Update: Good Night Charlie To Play Cleveland Film Fest Family Program
The 29th Annual Cleveland Film Festival has selected Good Night Charlie (directed by Danny Daneau, UCF FILM 2005) to play in its Family Shorts Program. If you're passing through the Midwest next month, show your love and catch a screening of this fine program at the Tower Center Cinemas on March 12th or March 19th.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Festival Update: Cat's Bad Hair Day Picked For Austin's McGuffin Film Fest
We're proud to report that Cat's Bad Hair Day (directed by Debby Wolfe, UCF FILM 2004) has been selected for screening at the the 2nd Annual McGuffin Film Festival. The screening takes place in Austin, Texas this Saturday, Feb. 26th. The festival, put on by folks at the Univesity of Texas Film School, spotlights mostly UT student plus a few select outsiders. Judges at this year's event include indie film legend (and Fiji theater owner) John Pierson and it appears that director Kevin Smith will be seeing all the entries too. We're moving up in the world!
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Is The Sound Stage Open On Friday?
The schedule for the Sound Stage and Comm 148 can be found here. I've also put a link for it in the sidebar to the left. Please don't call me asking about available rooms. Check the schedule and put in your paperwork.
UPDATE: The class schedule for Comm 148 has been added to the online listing.
UPDATE: The class schedule for Comm 148 has been added to the online listing.
Mac OS X Tips
CreativeTechs.com publishes a Mac OS X Tipsheet which - although bland on the front page - contains excellent Mac Tips within. You can even subscribe to their weekly tips.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Mac vs. PC
An anonymous reader wrote to say...
My main problem with the Mac mini is that they are charging a lot of money for older hardware technology (G4 Processor) and with the default configuration only having 256 RAM is pretty terrible. Right off the bat, you have to upgrade the RAM and that is 70 bucks, plus the 60 bucks for the mouse and keyboard. It comes out to not being that good of a deal. When you buy a new dell you get the current hardware technology and pretty much everything you need. As far as softwares concern, it is so easy these days to pirate software, so that is normally not a concern. Overall, you can take the cash and build a nice PC that can run circles around the mac mini
Hmmm, let's consider this.
First, the Mini is really designed for someone who already has a computer, meaning they shouldn't have to purchase a new monitor mouse and keyboard. But if they did, a USB mouse and keyboard can be had for $25 (try shopping.com). As for 256MB of RAM, I just checked Dell's site and that's standard also on all their low end system priced $349 to $899. So spending a few bucks for RAM should be expected. Agreed, Apple's price for RAM is (as usual), high. But if the past is any example, major mail order vendors that offer Mac Minis will soon double the RAM for an extra $30 installation fee. That's how they compete with Apple stores without lowering prices.
Such an upgrade option usually takes a while to hit, but already, macmall.com is offering a free mouse, keyboard and Epson printer with a Mac Mini purchase.
And having said that, aren't the low end Dell boxes limited to 512MB RAM. The Mini goes to 1 gig for your computing pleasure. Plus, all the low end Dell boxes use a thing called "integrated RAM" which is short for NO RAM ON THE VIDEO CARD. Instead, the system swipes RAM from the OS to make video. That's no way to operate.
As for "older technology", gimme a break. Until you spend $650, low-end Dell boxes use Celeron chips. Did you know Celeron is French for "kind of like a Pentium but then we ripped out a few critical instructions from the silicon to slow it down." No, the Mac Mini doesn't have a G5, but it does have a chip not purposely crippled by it's manufacturer. (Celeron! Ha!)
But my favorite part of your entire comment is this "As far as softwares concern, it is so easy these days to pirate software, so that is normally not a concern." Soooo...Apple is suppose to price their products to compete with Dell users who steal software? Ahhh..no. Instead, let's get real and add up what you really need to make a low-end Dell equal to a Mac Mini:
1) First, Windows XP PRO, because XP Home sucks (XP Pro Price - At least $75)
2) Writing a letter? MS WORKS is generally worthless, so you need to upgrade to Office (price: $149 - although Dell does toss is a copy of WordPerfect, which is handy if you're a lawyer, as they seem to be the only people still using that)
3) Wanna burn a CD - add $40 for the CD-RW and another $29 for the Record It Software
4) How about speakers? - add $10
5) Tax Software? - add $18
6) Anti-Virus Software to keep internet worms from infecting your box - $69
Okay, right there, you're got something like $400 of extra costs and all of the stuff I mentioned is FREE WITH THE MAC MINI or (in the case of anti-virus software) not needed. Ganted, iWorks and Appleworks aren't quite MS Office, but they save and open in the common Office formats and they're close enough for most folks. Plus, the Mac throws in a few goodies like Garageband to compose your own music, iMovie to edit your DV flicks and iPhoto to wrangle and edit your digital pictures. Again, this software is free on the MAC. And free is almost as good as stealing the stuff, except you get a warmer feeling when you use it.
Plus, the Mac Mini can run Final Cut Pro. That alone is why I recommend it over any kind of PC. Even one not based on a cheese-ball Celeron chip.
Finally, doesn't the Mac Mini just look a whole lot cooler than anything shown on the Dell pages? Style alone is worth a lot in my world.
So look, you wanna buy a PC, rock on. Hook it up to the internet and suck down all those lovely viruses and worms. Enjoy the many fine games available only on PC. I for one have some work to get done, so I'll stick with a Mac. Not necessarily a Mac Mini, but a MAC for sure.
My main problem with the Mac mini is that they are charging a lot of money for older hardware technology (G4 Processor) and with the default configuration only having 256 RAM is pretty terrible. Right off the bat, you have to upgrade the RAM and that is 70 bucks, plus the 60 bucks for the mouse and keyboard. It comes out to not being that good of a deal. When you buy a new dell you get the current hardware technology and pretty much everything you need. As far as softwares concern, it is so easy these days to pirate software, so that is normally not a concern. Overall, you can take the cash and build a nice PC that can run circles around the mac mini
Hmmm, let's consider this.
First, the Mini is really designed for someone who already has a computer, meaning they shouldn't have to purchase a new monitor mouse and keyboard. But if they did, a USB mouse and keyboard can be had for $25 (try shopping.com). As for 256MB of RAM, I just checked Dell's site and that's standard also on all their low end system priced $349 to $899. So spending a few bucks for RAM should be expected. Agreed, Apple's price for RAM is (as usual), high. But if the past is any example, major mail order vendors that offer Mac Minis will soon double the RAM for an extra $30 installation fee. That's how they compete with Apple stores without lowering prices.
Such an upgrade option usually takes a while to hit, but already, macmall.com is offering a free mouse, keyboard and Epson printer with a Mac Mini purchase.
And having said that, aren't the low end Dell boxes limited to 512MB RAM. The Mini goes to 1 gig for your computing pleasure. Plus, all the low end Dell boxes use a thing called "integrated RAM" which is short for NO RAM ON THE VIDEO CARD. Instead, the system swipes RAM from the OS to make video. That's no way to operate.
As for "older technology", gimme a break. Until you spend $650, low-end Dell boxes use Celeron chips. Did you know Celeron is French for "kind of like a Pentium but then we ripped out a few critical instructions from the silicon to slow it down." No, the Mac Mini doesn't have a G5, but it does have a chip not purposely crippled by it's manufacturer. (Celeron! Ha!)
But my favorite part of your entire comment is this "As far as softwares concern, it is so easy these days to pirate software, so that is normally not a concern." Soooo...Apple is suppose to price their products to compete with Dell users who steal software? Ahhh..no. Instead, let's get real and add up what you really need to make a low-end Dell equal to a Mac Mini:
1) First, Windows XP PRO, because XP Home sucks (XP Pro Price - At least $75)
2) Writing a letter? MS WORKS is generally worthless, so you need to upgrade to Office (price: $149 - although Dell does toss is a copy of WordPerfect, which is handy if you're a lawyer, as they seem to be the only people still using that)
3) Wanna burn a CD - add $40 for the CD-RW and another $29 for the Record It Software
4) How about speakers? - add $10
5) Tax Software? - add $18
6) Anti-Virus Software to keep internet worms from infecting your box - $69
Okay, right there, you're got something like $400 of extra costs and all of the stuff I mentioned is FREE WITH THE MAC MINI or (in the case of anti-virus software) not needed. Ganted, iWorks and Appleworks aren't quite MS Office, but they save and open in the common Office formats and they're close enough for most folks. Plus, the Mac throws in a few goodies like Garageband to compose your own music, iMovie to edit your DV flicks and iPhoto to wrangle and edit your digital pictures. Again, this software is free on the MAC. And free is almost as good as stealing the stuff, except you get a warmer feeling when you use it.
Plus, the Mac Mini can run Final Cut Pro. That alone is why I recommend it over any kind of PC. Even one not based on a cheese-ball Celeron chip.
Finally, doesn't the Mac Mini just look a whole lot cooler than anything shown on the Dell pages? Style alone is worth a lot in my world.
So look, you wanna buy a PC, rock on. Hook it up to the internet and suck down all those lovely viruses and worms. Enjoy the many fine games available only on PC. I for one have some work to get done, so I'll stick with a Mac. Not necessarily a Mac Mini, but a MAC for sure.
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