This is the blog that is used to support IS301 at Nevada State College. On this page I will be posting stories of general interest regarding the technology industry. These posts can cover anything related to the industry, from new techniques used in creating special effects for movies to the Target/Neiman Marcus security breach to implantable circuitry that can help the blind see. I am also happy to accept submissions from students on topics they feel are of interest and would like to see as a post, and begin discussion on that topic. I have left up the posts from previous semesters so you can get an idea of the kind of posts you’ll see and how the blog works.

The commenting should be completely open, and not requiring a Google account. If you run into trouble let me know, and I will also need to know if you are commenting using a pseudonym (which is fine, as long as I know and can give appropriate credit). On t other hand, if an abundance of spam comments appear, I will have to mandate people register. Hopefully we can avoid that.

So without further ado, here is the first tech-related post of the semester. It may not seem very tech-related at first, but as we will see later in the session, it very much is. It turns out that Anchorman 2, a movie I’m embarrassed to admit mad me chuckle, is Paramount Picture’s last movie to be filmed on 35mm film as they move over to all-digital. Other studios still use 35mm, but not for long.

One summer I worked in a movie theater where 35mm film was hand-threaded.

It’s the end of an era. Film gives images a realistic, soft quality that digital doesn’t provide, but I understand the need for the transition as the supporting infrastructure for film fades away and digital is so much easier to use.

Oh, there’s this too, which I’m happy to hear. We’ll be talking about this phenomenon too!