Resource Links

Recording, mixing, voice-over, sound design and scoring only 2 blocks from BAVC. Discounted rates can be made for large projects.

The blog of Bradley Horowitz -- a Bay Area tech supastar who was recently scooped up by Google after spending many years as the VP of Product Strategy at Yahoo! He covers tech subjects big and small.

Blog for gadget geeks. You know who you are.

PBS tech nerd in Sillicon Valley who makes tech predictions with the best of ‘em.

MediaShift is a weblog hosted by Mark Glaser (and PBS) that tracks how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture.

The blog of Mr. Robert Scoble -- tech evangelist, author, and well-respected member of the geek community. Formerly a technical evangelist at Microsoft.

$32 per hour for BAVC members at Rapid Transcription Service Get your project transcribed quickly and efficiently. Call for more details: 510.758.3400 (Please note that the hourly rate applies to hours of labor, not hours of tape. One hour of tape

Acceleration Studies Foundation is a nonprofit organization engaged in research, education, and selective advocacy of communities and technologies of accelerating change. What does that mean? Well, basically, they gather a bunch of smart folks (techn

Blog by BAVC Director of Creative Programming Wendy Levy about alternate ways to raise money for your media projects

Supports public broadcasting and the independent production of film, video and radio programming; and supports efforts to engage diverse groups in work related to the media and to analyze the media's effect on society.

Offers grants for independent filmmakers and digital media producers whose work addresses significant subjects in the humanities; reaches broad public audiences; grows out of sound scholarship; and uses imaginative, engaging formats.

Provides grants to organizations for the production, public exhibition, distribution, and preservation of film, video, and audio works as art forms themselves.

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation supports inspiring and world-changing dance, theater and film in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A state-of-the-art storage facility for film, tape, photographic and digital media. Visit the "preservation" and "resources" section for archival suppliers, freelance consultant referrals, and media asset management services.

The Firefox web browser is getting closer and closer to supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, a fancy term for Web sites that will request your location (with your permission, of course). The location is likely going to provided by one or

A term developed by web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee to describe a new vision of a world wide web in which computers become capable of analyzing all the information on the web. Of course it's more complicated than that, but if it could be described it in

With all the social networking sites out there, you have probably created 10 different users and entered your personal information hundreds of times in the last few years. Why can't you just take your information and your friends with you? That's the

Detroit Shorts is a three-day community event, celebrating the finest examples of the cinematic short form by featuring films from around the globe with running times 10 minutes and under. The festival is open to the widest range of subject matter. .

One of the oldest and most respective media arts organizations in SF, the SF Cinematheque showcases experimental film, digital media, and performative cinema.

Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) – (San Francisco)

Now owned by Amazon.com, Without a Box is a website that allows filmmakers to research and submit festival applications to multiple festivals in a simple and efficient way. Imagine what could happen now that Amazon owns both IMDB and Without A Box?

y all, I thought folks here might be interested in a new research project on Journalism and Videogames, which I've been pursuing with a small cabal of devoted students since late summer. Here's a brief explanation of the questions we're a

Non-profit organization that provides support, visibility and shared resources to organizations and individuals using digital games for social change. Also host of Serious Games and Games for Health initiatives.

WORLD WITHOUT OIL is a serious game for the public good. WWO invited people from all walks of life to contribute “collective imagination” to confront a real-world issue: the risk our unbridled thirst for oil poses to our economy, climate and quality

Founded in 1980, a nonprofit association of member organizations dedicated to encouraging film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts through numerous efforts.

Active Voice uses film, television and multimedia to spark social change from grassroots to grass tops.

SnagFilms has developed a library of both award-winning and emerging documentary films. On the site, you can watch full-length documentary films for free, or, you can “snag” a film and embed it anywhere on the web.

Does evaluation, measurement, development, research and study in data storage, magnetic recording and magnetic materials, optical recording and optical material.

A non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the collection, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image

Resources for Conservation Professionals, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries.

Offers free, "near-unrestricted" access to moving images archives, including the Prelinger Archives, in order to encourage use in new contexts.

A national center for archival documentation and preservation of the performing arts, established in 1987, linking individual dancers and choreographers, librarians and archivists, national repositories and local networks.

Filmmakers, animators and designers flock to Motionographer to check out hot motion graphics, visual effects, animation and design work. Motionographer (pronounced like “oceanographer”) is a blog that seeks to be a source of inspiration for filmmaker

The Rights Workshop is a music supervision, licensing and clearance company specializing in rights negotiation, digital marketing and publishing administration. Based in San Francisco, The Rights Workshop is helmed by community-minded and award winning

Send your Tweets with a license from Creative Commons? If Google and Bing are starting to index them, why not?

A great video tutorial on how to embed annotations and links in your YouTube videos.

An online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups or wireframes of your website or application. Cool!

Easy way to create an iPhone App for your non-profit.

Kaltura open source video platform.

A highly respectable Bay Area lighting resource. 20% off for BAVC members.

Whether you enjoy the slosh and spill of chemicals in the traditional darkroom or prefer the immediacy of the digital darkroom, Calumet has what you need from cameras and cables to studio lighting and computers. 5% off most equipment for BAVC members.

HEIST rents a full range of professional video production equipment, including HD camera packages, lighting kits and audio gear -- in other words, everything you need for your next shoot.

Mannequin Madness sells and rents mannequins - whether need a mannequin to practice lighting techniques or for shooting clothes for your online store - we have the largest selection of new and used mannequins in the Bay Area.

Camera, lighting, grip for the indie crowd and a 36x40 soundstage conveniently located in South San Francisco. 10% off for BAVC members.

Studio B has all of the latest HD camera Packages & support Gear. Great Service. Discounts for BAVC members, students and low-budget indie film makers. Gear includes Red One, Broadcast HD lenses, Letus & P+S Adapters, Sony EX1, Z1U, Panasonic Varic

One of the premier video duplication and multimedia companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. 10-20% off for BAVC members.

For all your film transfer needs. 25% off of film-to-tape transfers and 20% off of processing (and other discounts on a per-project basis) for BAVC Members.

One of the Bay Areas’ most experienced audio post-production facilities digital workstations, sound design, effects, DVD authoring and other services.

Over the 16 years Studio B works has provided production and post production services to commercial and independent film and video makers. Featuring seasoned editors, expert color correction, after effects motion graphics and HDCAM laybacks

Digg is a place for people to find and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest sites to the most obscure blog, Digg unearths the "best" stuff as voted on by the users. There's no editors at Digg.

IndieGoGo provides tools for fundraising, promotion and discovery.

Tubemogul is a content delivery and tracking site where if you sign up (it's free), you can simultaneously upload your video to all the content sites affiliated with Tubemogul and then receive detailed reports on your hits.

Free demonstrations, information sessions, special guest speakers, and more related to Adobe FLASH.

California Digital Arts Studio Partnership has active regional chapters in the Sacramento/Sierra area and the Bay Area.

For teachers and mentors.

Free browser testing service.

Primer on JQuery javascript functions by Nick La.

Lessons in creating valid XHTML and CSS.

FREE! Automatically converts an html document with a linked style sheet to inline css. Great for html emails, pages within pages, etc.

Inspirational typography resource for type junkies. Neato.

Another plug in for Firefox. Powerful shortcut tools. Check it out.