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bits & pieces Picture Head adds 5.1 stage H OLLYWOOD — Picture Head (www.pic- turehead.com), here, has built-out Sound 7, a new 5.1 mix room/soundstage.The pro- ject was guided by director of sound Mark Her- scovitz, who called on consultant Charles Pell of Cobalt Blue Technology, along with Colin Ritchie of Filmscreen 10-foot perforated screen and a Blue Sky Big Blue 5.1 monitoring system.The Blue Sky set-up consists of three SAT 12 mains in the front wall, a Sub 15 Universal, and four in-wall I/ON surround speak- ers along the sides. Some of the first projects completed in the room What Post readers are experiencing Right Now BOOKS:“I’m knee deep (probably deeper) into Gene Wolfe’s ‘Book of the New Sun’ series. My third reading.” FILMS: “Inception,Toy Story 3 and Ghost Writer are all great for very different rea- sons.” ARTISTS:“Vanna Bowles, Peter Funch, Discovery’s A Place in the Sun is just one of a number of projects that were mixed in the new room. LA-based design house, Aarmadillo, to specify and facilitate the purchase of much of the room’s audio and video equipment. Sound 7 centers around a 32-channel Digidesign ICON D-Control console.The room also features a JVC DLA-RS10 HD projection system, a Stewart include the theatrical trailer for Anchor Bay’s I Spit On Your Grave, and TV spots for Rob Reiner’s coming-of- age summer comedy, Flipped. Discovery Channel’s half-hour travel series A Place in the Sun, also was mixed on the stage. D Screen Scene adds TerraBlock storage Screen Scene purchased its first TerraBlock over UBLIN, IRELAND — Screen Scene (www. screenscene.ie), here, has expanded its shared storage system with the addition of a third Facilis TerraBlock.The investment was made to accommodate the Irish post house’s growing graphics division. The new TerraBlock chassis allows the studio to play out six channels of uncompressed HD simultane- ously and provides for easy collaboration, with all de- partments having access to view and play media from the combined storage solution. two years ago. Greg Tully, chief engineer at the studio, says the Facilis solution “delivers the bandwidth nec- essary for HD jobs and the sharing method required for highly collaborative projects.We no longer need separate products for Ethernet and Fibre work- groups.” TerraBlock delivers high performance volume- level sharing over fibre channel and total collaborative multi-user write access over fibre channel or ethernet with no per-seat license fees. Trent Parke and Scott Bel Castro are all great artists I’ve discovered recently. I’ve been revisiting the magic of James Chris- tensen, Jim Bauer and Maxfield Parrish lately,as well.” MUSIC: “Active Child’s ‘Curtis Lane’ EP is amazing. Local Natives’ latest,‘Gorilla Manor,’ and The National’s ‘High Violet’ also stay on high rotation. I don’t like Sun Kil Moon’s ‘Admiral Fell Promises’ as much as I want to, but it’s still terrific. I also like the Bruce Springsteen undercurrent on the new Arcade Fire a lot. I like exactly 3/4 of Josh Ritter’s latest album, and three tracks on it are extraordinary.” — Ryan Dunn Charlex,NYC Audio Circus at Burbank’s Warner Bros. Studios (wbpostproduction.warnerbros. com), which specializes in animation sound, recently worked on three Looney Tunes3D shorts that played ahead of the Warner Bros. Pictures film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and will appear before the upcoming Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole(this month) and Yogi Bear (December). Audio Circus is led by sound designer/editor/mixer Otis Van Osten, who received Emmy Awards for his work on TV’s Smallville. 4 Post • September 2010 www.postmagazine.com