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bits & pieces What Post readers are experiencing Right Now MUSIC: The Besnard Lakes “The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night”; Yellow Ostrich “The Mistress”; Cage & Aviary “Television Train”; Soft Moon “The Soft Moon”; Shabazz Palaces “Shabazz Palaces”; and of course, a little “Wanton Announcement” by Jay-Zepp. Max Nova Shellac New York City www.shellacnyc.com at a glance... JEFF BARNES, co-founder and former CEO of The Computer Café Group, has joined DIGITAL DOMAIN (www.digitaldomain. com) in Venice, where he will lead its In-Three stereo conversion business. Digital Domain Media Group acquired In-Three in 2010 to integrate dimensionalization technology into the studio’s VFX and digital production services, and to offer new 2D-to-3D conver- sion services. Barnes co-founded The Computer Café Group in 1993 and oversaw the operations of its feature film visual effects di- vision, Café FX, and commercial studio,The Syndicate. Visual effects studio THE MILL LA (www.themill.com) has YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR POST PRODUCTION moved into a new office in Culver City’s Blackwelder Arts District. Located at 3233 S. La Cienega Blvd., the 24,000-square-foot studio includes a new telecine division, which is being headed up by col- orist Adam Scott. Scott joins the LA office from The Mill London and brings with him nearly 20 years of experience grading com- mercials, promos, TV and film projects. The telecine division is equipped with the newly released Dolby Pro Reference Monitor and Filmlight’s Baselight 4 color grading system. Artist-owned collective GOODPENNY (www.goodpenny.tv) has launched in New York City, bringing together editors, designers, composers, visual effects artists and content developers.The com- pany was conceived by editor Bruce Ashley, composer Andrew Hollander and EP John Cline, and will work to produce and deliver content for all platforms. ARRI MEDIA in London and lighting from ARRI LIGHTING RENTAL (www.arri.com) provided equipment for the production of HBO’s series Game of Thrones. Arri’s Alexa digital cameras are being used on the program, which has been picked up for a sec- ond season. PAY STUDIO (www.pay.com.pl/) in Warsaw, Poland, has up- Digital Transfer, Editorial & QC Services 150 Unique, State-of-the-art Editing Suites Audio Editing, Mixing, Conforming, Layback and Restoration Smoke, Final Cut Pro and Avid Editing and Effects Stock Footage Library Footage for Commercials, Features and Television Digital & Photographic Imaging Services Color Correction & Retouching Unit Stills File Processing, Including from Red Footage 6 Full Service Theatres & Screening Rooms Seating from 33 to 516 graded its Quantel Pablo with 4K, stereo 3D and the Neo panel. The system is currently being used to finish one of Poland’s first major stereo movies, Battle of Warsaw. Pay’s Pablo has been a part of the studio’s workflow for several years now, where it’s been employed on commercials, television series and movies for the Polish market. FOTOKEM‘s NextLab system is now being represented in the Midwest region by Fletcher Camera & Lenses (www.fletcher.com), which has offices in Chicago and Detroit. NextLab is built on Fo- toKem’s (www.fotokem.com) proprietary file-based workflow soft- ware, and serves as a mobile unit that brings high-end post produc- tion capabilities to productions anywhere. Bi-coastal production company STARDUST (www.stardust.tv) www.TheStudiosAtParamount.com 6 Post • July 2011 www.postmagazine.com has moved its West Coast office into a new 8,000-square-foot space in Santa Monica.The studio is set up for animation and pro- duction in order to accommodate Stardust’s expanding team of di- rectors, animators, producers and designers. New equipment at the studio includes two renderfarms, multiple edit suites and an Au- todesk Flame suite. OFFHOLLYWOOD (www.offhollywoodny.com) in New York City is the first facility on the East Coast to purchase a 4K Mistika post production system from SGO. Mistika supports realtime Arri, Red, SI-2K and other native data workflows, and integrates timeline- based editing, conforming, compositing, color grading and image restoration into a complete system.The system’s compatibility with Red Epic and Element Technica’s Atom 3D rigs will enable the stu- dio to provide high-end stereo 3D production services.