/blog P3 Production Update Magazine Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:55:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   Back when personal computers were new, motherboards were relatively simple devices that simply served as kind of a parking garage for all the circuit boards needed to complete a computer’s functionality.  Key functions like graphics, sound and even connecting to printers and other computers required its ... /blog/2010/03/09/building-a-computer-part-2-%e2%80%93-that-mother-of-a-board/ By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   The heart, or more accurately, brain, of any computer is a chip called a CPU (Central Processing Unit).  In some ways you almost have to discuss the CPU and motherboard (the board that houses pretty much all of a computer’s circuitry) as a single unit because ... /blog/2010/03/06/building-a-computer-part-1-%e2%80%93-the-cpu/ By Margie Barron My cheers for Kathryn Bigelow to win the Academy Award for Best Director have nothing to do with her being a woman. Sure, I would have an enormous amount of gender-pride for her to be the first female director to get the Oscar. But Bigelow doesn’t deserve the ... /blog/2010/03/05/at-the-helm-in-hollywood-kathryn-bigelow/ By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   Last summer, I posted my specs for what I considered to be the ideal computer – one with plenty of speed, memory and storage to handle not only day to day things like web browsing, writing, etc., but also resource-intensive usage like editing HD (and ultimately ... /blog/2010/03/03/building-an-uber-powerful-editing-computer/ Oscar-worthy movies need distribution too! March 2nd, 2010 By Frank Barron Around Hollywood there are stories circulating about some of this year’s Oscar nominated films that might never have seen the light of day. Whether they are up for Best Picture, or other films that have Oscar-nominated performances, some of the most acclaimed ... /blog/2010/03/02/oscar-worthy-movies-need-distribution-too/ By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   If you’re a working professional, a good printer is one of your most essential tools.  At CES earlier this year, one of my quests was to find a multi-purpose printer that give great performance at a modest price – and just as importantly, was inexpensive to ... /blog/2010/02/26/cool-tools-for-february/ By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   Sometimes ya gotta be able to pull rabbits out of your hat when you’re on set, especially in the independent world.  DP Paolo Cascio was on location in New York, shooting the low budget feature “The Big Shot-Caller.”  He was shooting in Times Square and had ... /blog/2010/02/26/being-pc-part-deaux/ By Margie Barron Movies for Grownups got their own awards show thanks to AARP the Magazine, which held a ceremony and handed out trophies. It was cool to see the best films of the year, which features the over 50 crowd, being honored . Actually, the mature stars and movies had quite ... /blog/2010/02/24/movies-for-grownups-a-cool-concept-in-hollywood-by-margie-barron/ by Frank Barron I remember when television shows had one or possibly two writers. Now there are at least a dozen on every program, half hour or hour. So with great anticipation, I went to the Writers Guild of America West awards event at the Century Plaza Hotel to find out why ... /blog/2010/02/24/wga-awards-gives-attention-to-scribes-by-frank-barron/ By Gordon Meyer P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com   Almost a year ago, I conducted an interview with writer/director/DP Peter Hyams, who predicted that James Cameron’s “Avatar” would do for 3D what “The Jazz Singer” did for synchronized sound and “Star Wars” did for Dolby Stereo.  Maybe he’s right.  3D is certainly hot.  “Avatar” is ... /blog/2010/02/21/what-will-be-the-3d-killer-app/