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From Flavorpill: Le Méridien Hotels is offering our readers an exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend a private workshop with renowned photographer Ralph Gibson in his New York studio. But the fun doesn't end there. Our five winners — one per region; US, UK, Canada, China, and France — will stay at the lovely Le Parker Méridien in Manhattan. And they'll each win a signed book. And a new camera. And round-trip airfare. Not bad, eh? To enter Le Méridien + The Lens contest, just fill out a quick form, and upload one of your own original masterpieces.

Red Giant TV: Find episodes that put you on the fast track to creating the hottest motion graphics and visual effects. The shows feature one or more Red Giant products used in combination with the tools built-in to After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro. Host Aharon Rabinowitz demonstrates the techniques you need to produce higher quality work in less time.

What inspires you? What thought, object, vista, event or person has moved you more than any other? To celebrate the launch of the International BraunPrize 2009, Braun and Core 77 invite you to share your most inspiring images and stories with the world by entering a special photo competition.

Photos can be of objects, people, or environments; they can be artistic gestures or graphic messages. Use your camera as a lens or as a paintbrush, as a tool for revealing, informing, or provoking. But whatever you submit, make sure it has the power to make an emotional connection with others.

Imagenomic Announces Release of New Portraiture 2 Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop Elements and Creative Suites, Including CS4 and Extended Series

Significant Advances in Skin Retouching and Portraiture Workflows Add New Levels of Performance and Output for Creative Professionals
Companion Editions for Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom to Follow Shortly

After Effect New York Meet Up: Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Time: 
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

The Place:
P.S. 41
116 West 11th St., NYC
(At the corner of 11th Street and 6th Ave.)

Thanks to the AENY sponsors, the meeting is FREE.
 
Prize info can be found at http://www.aeny.org/meetings.html

Lineup Includes:
Maxon CEO Paul Babb will walk us through some of the new features of C4D 11 - the latest release of the 3D software most integrated with After Effects.

Improved performance, functionality and tutorial videos online

December 2008, Modena, Italy – IK Multimedia is proud to announce the T-RackS 3.0.1 Mastering/Mixing software update, with a series of new T-RackS 3 educational videos available online!

The T-RackS 3.0.1 update is a free download for all registered users of T-RackS 3 software, available now in the IK User Area. The update offers a number of significant enhancements:

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 -- TV.com today announced preliminary results from its Best of 2008 Awards, where it asks its audience to vote on their favorite TV Shows and characters in categories like Drama, Comedy, and Action Adventure during the past year. So far, the Awards have received more than 70 million votes, a testament to TV.com's active and engaged community of TV fans.

DALLAS, Dec. 10 -- Saint Nick doesn't have to be saintly for America to love him, according to a survey conducted by Blockbuster Inc. Movie lovers chose Tim Allen's portrayal in "The Santa Clause" as their favorite "nice" on-screen Santa.

Photolucida is proud to announce the Top 50 photographers from Critical Mass 2008! (http://photolucidapdx.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-results-are-in.html) These 50 Photographers are hereby recognized for their exceptionally handsome and thought-provoking work:

Jeffrey Aaronson
Angela Bacon-Kidwell
Cara Barer
David Paul Bayles
Damion Berger
Rita Bernstein
Pelle Cass
Tom Chambers
Alejandro Chaskielberg
Céline Clanet
Ian van Coller
Livia Corona
Katrina d'Autremont
Matt Eich
Jeffris Elliott
Andy Freeberg
Amanda Friedman
Joy Goldkind
Cig Harvey
Jessica Hines
Thomas Holton

ALVISO, Calif., Dec. 9 -- TiVo Inc.

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 www.icp.org

Contact: Communications Department 212.857.0045 info@icp.org

America and the Tintype

On view from September 19, 2008 through January 4, 2009

RSVP: info@icp.org

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 --

Defiance: An inspirational story, told with a maximum of physical detail and a minimum of rhetoric, about the three Bielski brothers (including Daniel Craig), who kept twelve hundred Jews alive in the forest during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia.

Rachel Getting Married: Excruciating to get into, but, once you become accustomed to Ann Hathaway's high-wire performance and the jiggling camera style, very rewarding.

The Class: a smart, cocky teacher in multi-ethnic Paris takes on a class of turbulent ninth-graders, who then come back at him hard.

Press Release: America We Love Having You Here
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W. 24th St. New York, NY
Through January 10, 2009

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce the second exhibition of works by installation artist Zoe Strauss. America: We Love Having You Here features works from the artist's recent travels throughout the United States and is accompanied by her first monograph (AMERICA, AMMO Books, 2008).

December 8, 2008 – OPEN WINDOW, the critically acclaimed independent film by Mia Goldman, continues its impact around the globe with a DVD release on December 9, 2009 from Image Entertainment.  The film is an intimate, honest portrayal of the inspirational recovery of a young woman, her friends and family, after she has been raped. The film, inspired by events in Ms. Goldman’s life, illustrates that, while brutal crime has a tragic impact on the people it touches, the road to recovery can transform and strengthen people and relationships.
 

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) today announced its selection of the surprise indie hit Slumdog Millionaire as Best Film of 2008. In total, the Fox Searchlight film won four awards including Best Director for Danny Boyle, Best Breakthrough Performance for Dev Patel and Best Adapted Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.