Ed David

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame? Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film? When you can just make a tik-tok? Get a million followers. Move on? Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative? Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature. For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster. Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do? Do they have that precious time to be creative? Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

If that’s how you read the progression of the thread, that’s fine then. I thought it was pretty interesting how it went from me being satirical quickly changed course by an anonymous user named user into a deepdive of hatred into posts and into a analysis of google caches images of me including an anonymous threat of sodomizing my wife - and my lack of memory from the five year old thread and attacks on my character, a 5 year span ties into the analysis of how we feel loyalty to a Public persona that was cultivated to generate income from sponsorships and lectures. And of course, to the nature of how we all change and evolve with new knowledge of the me too movement and how we come to grips with that. then user getting bodyslammed. plus the same five year old argument that we don’t know both sides well and me still arguing for the elie weasel quote unsuccessfully with me realizing hey wait a second, i am talking with anonymous people who may come from vastly different cultures and countries than me, and have different perspectives on treating women and their accusations. Including originally from ebhamhim who turned out to be an egyptian dental student who stole about a thousand dollars from some users on here and pretended to be a wise old man. thats entertainment!

This post says it all. how you really don’t know anyone as well as you think you do.

Well damn, that link, User, thank you for that. Wow, an anonymous poster said he was going to sodomize my girlfriend. That was pretty intense and maybe why I can't remember anything from that time - block that abuse out of my head. No wonder why I probably acted the way I did - that's pretty intense and I wish that on no one who has their real name and identity exposed online. Interesting also at the time, pre #metoo - I also wanted to make sure to get Bloom's side of the story. Maybe it was before his side of the statement: https://pbloomstatement.com/? Hopefully I didn't have that viewpoint after he wrote that hate-filled gaslighting of his ex'es. But maybe I learned more about it all with #metoo and when it happened to me directly with my female friend being the victim of domestic violence, where, I learned, there really is only a "he-said, she-said" argument since the violence happens around no one else. Anyway I think, User, well I wish you well and hope you can find a way to deal with what seems like an intense inner anger that maybe you channel through anonymous posting. I am sure even though it feels good to anonymously "break bad" - at the end of the night, it probably doesn't feel that good.

Okay, so User, I am here to apologize to you. I think I have figured out why you don't like me. Let me know. @Neumann Films, your post in the Bloom thread really inspired me. How you have changed from who you were seven years ago when you had to win every argument. Five years ago, during the allegations of domestic violence against Philip Bloom, I dug myself pretty deeply in the sand. I was becomming increasingly an activist, primarily on this forum, but also on others, to believe his ex-girlfriend and ex-financee over him. To not take the middle road. Cause to me there is no middle road. When I started to argue the case of Ellie Wiesal: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." I started to run into a great amount of opposition. And I was there, my real name. My website. I was exposed. It's a weird feeling. Especially when most of the opposition to me was from people who were using anonymous names. So I was there, and feeling vunerable, and the need like Neumann Films (real name, I am sorry I don't know) - to keep fighting for my point. Literally fighting. And I did things (that I have now I think discovered from seeing some of the comments about me from the time) - did things that were not cool - like posting a DM onto the forum without the approval of the person who did it. And ironically enought, it was a DM from neumann films where he said I accused him of being one of the three biggest defenders of Bloom on the side. It was a weird thing for me - being exposed and arguing online against a lot of anonymous people. It wasn't good. And I am sure I have hurt a ton of feelings. And this is probably why @user has such anamosity for me here. And that is why, @user, I was looking at your profile. Because I was about to DM you to talk about all this. But I decided not to. Now I think I should have.

Holy user!! I’m starting to think this is like the plot from “Oldboy” and you’ll reveal you are my elementary school friend from 4th grade...and out to kill me!

Philip Bloom took Philip Bloom down.

As I stated 5 years ago, and I stated on the Bloom thread that reappeared, I am good friends with a victim of domestic abuse that sent her to the hospital and could have killed her and her son. I also have other more personal connections to domestic abuse that I will not go into on a public forum but happy to discuss privately. I have no connection to Bloom. The only time I interacted with him before the domestic abuse allegations was on a nofilmschool article about my experience using the sony fs7 when it first came out. He was very supportive of me in the comment section. I am a working professional dp who mostly works in commercials and documentaries. Social justice is my passion. I was involved with the occupy movement and the bernie sanders campaign as a DOP.

Hi everyone! As pointed out earlier, I am rolling out an Ed David Speaking Engagement Tour. I will be mostly talking about myself and how many likes I have on this forum, but I will also address the following subjects: 1. Canon R5 Overheating: Or is It Existentially Challenging Us to stop shooting millions of photos and video? In this discussion I will discuss the philosophy of the new Canon camera to try to limit the amount of shots one does, harken back to the film days: where each shot count! Or in terms of 8k video - to make sure you are not just rolling and rolling and rolling. To pretend like its 16mm film. To rehearse performances 2. How online forums amplify and ruin conversations You love your Aunt? With facebook, not anymore. And multiple that by a thousand when dealing with people on any online forum. How the stroke of a button and hitting "send" can cause incredible pain and anxiety on the other end. But who cares? You don't have to be in the room with said person to see them upset! 3. How the Covid Apocolypse and the Great Depression 2.0 makes us happier, better filmmakers We will chat about the end of the world. Whether its the Pandemic, or Fascism or the Great Depression- or all the above, that really makes us depressed - with massive unemployment. And how that affects us as filmmakers. Being happy and productive! 4. how to make money as a filmmaker without shooting butt paste commercials One word: you cant! How can you afford rent, you fool? Sell out now and sell out fast. Sell sell sell sell sell. Market market market. And if you dont shoot commercials, do your own youtube channel and do the bidding of sponsors! Or give up and start a podcast. 4. Just f*cking kidding - it will all be about me. I am a giant showboat. Come with me as we look at profile pics of me. We talk about my best posts. We trash my many, many enemies. Please respond to this to boost my ego and trash me so I can feel that rush of public humiliation - the meanest, most horrible response gets a free ticket!

That is great look and skintones. Super impressive. Would love to see a komodo vs e2-f6 vs mavo lf vs mavo edge vs red monstro vs etc shoot out ( when the edge comes out). mavo edge just interests me more personally because it has more professional features like dual sdi out.

has anyone done tests between this lens vs like a lomo or kowa or SLR magic lens vs like a Kowa B&H lens? very excited about this lens for affordable anamorphic

Yea mavo lf certainly looks like it has a much better skintones and iq out of the box. More than all the reds... even the monstro. I put in a preorder for the mavo edge, which seems to iron out some things in the mavo lf. Hopefully sensor is still good in low light and dynamic range is still good. and yea thats funny about vincent laforet being treated so poorly. He really help put red on the map. whats next? Is Shane Hurlbut even safe? 🤗

I'm curious how it compares overall to the red epic mx that you can get used for around the same price. Seeing some comparison tests on reduser, between Komodo and the alexa - I like the curve of the footage - feels nice and rich. But definitely - and I don't know if its the grade - still has that trademark red handling of blue. Which kind of feels more electric or magneta than natural blues, and not the same quality of green that the alexa does so well with to make skintones and environments feel so natural. But hey, it's a 6k camera. But hey, also, I never, in a larger discussion figure out why Red never modified their sensors or color science to get away from this. I love the smoothness and look of red footage - that just convinced me to sell my red epic mx and my 2 red one mx when I had them and never get back on the red train.

Andrew and all: this is awesome reporting and a great find. Thank you for doing this teardown and an analysis of it.

@rawshooter from your link here is co-founder Elle explaining it all. And also earlier you said db16 was really not a homebrew product but the work of some large Canadian company. Which implies that they lied and were deceptive with their kickstarter backers. “6 cameras have shipped so far. We have more built, but they each need to be hand tested and calibrated before they ship. After the holiday it should be faster and probably 3 cameras a day. There are many factors that go into shipping that have nothing to do with whether the camera is ready, like customs forms, verifying addresses, printing up invoices, physical packing, that kind of boring stuff. This pretty much says what the roles of everyone at the company are: http://www.digitalbolex.com/about/ Joe partnered with the executives at Ienso, a preexisting camera company, to create a new company called Cinemeridian. Cinemeridian has existed since 2011, which is when hardware development of the camera began. Joe, Mike (our CTO), and I essentially do the concept development of features both hardware and software, and Mike executes those. Joe is the CEO of the company. He is the actual boss. He works with Kish and Pomfort to design our lenses and software and to seek out new relationships with other companies who might want to make products for the camera, works with Mike and the engineering team to problem solve issues, does the hands-on thorough camera testing on the LA end, writes blog posts, answers questions on the forum, and does a lot of banal business stuff. Mike is a rockstar. What's funny about the suppositions in this thread is that Stelio is actually the least involved in day to day stuff on our project, as he manages the business side of Ienso and all the other projects they've done, and chimes in when we need more heads on an engineering problem. They are all awesome guys up in Canada and everyone in the company has put in a ridiculous amount of work. Source of development funds is that Ienso is financially invested in the project, and Joe has put in the funds he received from selling his half of the successful business he founded years ago. He sold his half because his previous business partner did not want to branch out into developing new imaging technology, and he believed in the future of raw. He would not have put his own money, his financial future, into this thing if he didn't believe in it 100%, and that's a very brave thing to do. Warranty is 1 year standard warranty like most consumer electronics, and will be serviced in Toronto. A few rental houses have asked if we would be interested in local US based warranty and servicing, and we'll definitely be looking into that once the first batch of cameras is out. I think it's a great accomplishment that we've done what other big camera companies have done in a shorter time with far fewer resources. That's not to say that we're perfect, we've had many problems and delays, but that's all part of starting a business. But I hope that someone who has watched our journey and decides to try something they wouldn't have previously thought possible might learn something from where we've gone right and wrong.” In summation, the company practices of digital bolex is pretty much an inverse of red. They aren’t a company that exists as a patent troll. They don’t bully or harass or threaten to sue their customers. They don’t threaten bloggers or filmmakers with legal action. And they most likely probably label their products country of origin honestly.