Blog Posts by Michael Goodwin

Back in the 1960s, 35mm film cameras like the Arriflex became so small and light they enabled a new style of fleet-footed filmmaking known as the French New Wave. Then portable video cameras and, a few years later, digital HD video brought the "filmmaking" process into the hands of a new kind of independent cineaste. These days it's easy to shoot professional-looking video on a shoestring budget.

Except for the editing. A serious video editing suite, like Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer, is quite expensive and requires a powerful computer to run on.

Enter Tubifi, a cloud-based DIY video editing suite that may enable a whole new New Wave of its own. It even comes with a built-in social network for creative talent, and direct access to thousands of stock video clips, photos and music.

Oh, did I mention that it's free?

A fully functional free video production suite aimed at ad agencies, marketers, and PR companies, Tubifi provides seamless, searchable access to a huge collection of

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Looking for a 570-pound tub of glycerin? Bulk Apothecary will sell you one for only $398. And it's kosher too.

 

Also available:Citric Acid (50 lb. - $75), Beeswax (55 lb. - $233) and Cocoa Butter (1000 lb. - $2588).

Even the most cursory scan of the products and prices available on Bulk Apothecary's splendid new web site (www.BulkApothecary.com) makes it perfectly clear: these guys are not fooling around.

Bulk Apothecary was established in mid-2010 and has quickly become one of the nation’s leading bulk suppliers of natural ingredients for DIY lotion-, soap- and candle-making, as well as therapeutic grade essential oils, lip balm, clays, colors,dried botanicals and flowers, seeds, waxes, butters,shampoo base, and lots more. Tools? Look no further. Pick up a Professional Grade Infra Red Laser Thermometer or a Wavy Soap Cutter for pocket change. Bulk Apothecary supplies well over 100,000 dedicated customers—and that number is growing quickly. The company goes through about 60,000 pounds of

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Zap! Pow! Whizzzz! Thud!

No, that's not the sound of the Avengers kicking Loki's butt. Nor is it Batman duking it out with the Joker. It's the sound of Alter Ego's spanking-new comics collectibles web site putting the hurt on its competitors. If web sites could talk, this one would shout: Buy my stuff!

The new site explodes with eye-catching graphics—looking more like a comic book front cover by Jack Kirby or Frank Quitely than a conventional ecommerce site. And it fast-cuts like a Spider-Man action movie, switching from one display ad to the next before you can quite take in all the details. It rocks. And (like the Avengers) it's kicking the butts of its rivals.

Alter Ego, currently one of the top online stores in the pop-culture collectibles industry, sells comic- and action-movie-related figures, bobble heads, statues, prop replicas and Hollywood collectibles. Some, like a life-size replica of R2-D2, are seriously expensive. (Got a spare $5000?)

Alter Ego has been open for business ever

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