Frame by Frame: Grading the Sintel Trailer
Fifty-two seconds of dragon-hunting footage make a perfect colour-grading exercise.
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7_RECORDSSynth bars, open movies, arcades and the scenes that keep the district weird.
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Photo Essay: The Arcade Restorers of Sector Four
A warehouse full of glowing cabinets and the people who bring them back from the dead.
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The Synth Bars That Only Open After Midnight
No sign, no website, no door staff. Just a stairwell, a modular rig and a crowd that knows the knock.
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Five Seconds of Flower: Why CC0 Footage Matters
A tiny public-domain clip powers thousands of tutorials. Here is why that matters.
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INTERMEDIATE
The Last Neon Signmaker on Canal Street
Forty years of bending glass, and finally, an apprentice.
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Sintel, Ten Years Later: Still Hunting Dragons
The open movie that made a generation of artists cry still lands its ending.
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Note: Reader Meetup at the Noodle Bar
Thursday, eight o’clock, the back room. Bring questions and broken gadgets.