Breaking news: Bif will no longer be involved or contributing to the site. The break is not acrimonious, and there’s no storm in a blog-cup to reveal, there will not be endless blog posts about why Bif is leaving us with angry comments and everybody getting their 2cents in etc.

Bif just isn’t that happy with the direction the site is going in right now, and doesn’t feel motivated to contribute to this format.

Which is fair enough. This does mean that the cartoons are now officially on hold for the time being - possibly forever.

We will, as if just to prove the break is on good terms, be releasing a final cartoon soon as a last farewell.

I hope I haven’t misrepresented Bif here on anything, and I hope we will continue to discuss projects together despite his leaving the site - so with any luck you will hear of him if not from him from time to time.

The site will continue, and it will continue to develop, so please bear with us and continue to check in to see what’s going on.

Fantastic. This is the guy/team also responsible for the Google TV hoax currently doing the rounds. Yes I was almost fooled by the Google TV one, but after a little digging around it became clear it was a hoax.

I’m glad I did the digging around, because otherwise I might never have found this gem.

While the Google TV hoax is impressive in terms of the hoo-ha it’s kicked up on the interweb, I personally prefer to think of the odd gullible person who is currently wrapping their phone in ethernet cable and putting it in a tinfoil covered salad bowl.

More ‘Infinite Solutions’ videos on YouTube.

Below, I will embed a twenty minute short into this post. The short is by Stu Maschwitz, author of ‘The DV Rebel’s Guide‘.

The DV Rebel’s Guide is a comprehensive guidebook to planning, shooting, and finishing your own digital movie.

Stu works in the visual effects industry in Hollywood and has a fairly impressive list of credits to his name, including Star Wars, Sin City and Superman Returns - his involvement in the latter two being through his company ‘The Orphanage‘.

He says himself his day job is directing commercials, and you can watch his showreel on the Orphanage website, which includes one I recognised where a woman driving a toy VW Polo is chased by a cat… remember that one?

Oh, and he’s also responsible for developing ‘Magic Bullet‘ - a colour correction system which makes Digital Video look more like film.

He also has a fairly active and interesting blog worth checking out.

But the really impressive thing about Stu and his book is the fact that the proof is in the pudding. The film embedded below ‘The Last Birthday Card’ is a showcase for Stu’s skills, which his book will attempt to impart to you. The film is about two hitmen and features shoot outs, helicopter attacks and car crashes.

Is it a good film? Hell no. It’s terrible.

But he made it for $5,000. That’s pretty impressive and shows he obviously knows his stuff - whether his book can teach you his tricks I can’t say, not having read it, but Robert Rodriguez seems impressed, he says:

I’d been wanting to write a book for the new breed of digital filmmakers, but now I don’t have to. My pal and fellow movie maker Stu Maschwitz has compressed years of experience into this thorough guide. Don’t make a movie without reading this book!

Any filmmakers out there read this book? Find it good? Please comment!

Jason Sho Green is an artist/illustrator who, according to his website, makes his living as an illustrator and sho-repairer.

His ‘allmenlikebirdsmustdie.com’ site divides his work into two sections - art/illustration and old drawings.

While some of the art/illustration work is undoubtably good stuff, it’s in the old drawing section that I think he shines.

However, Jason doesn’t seem to like to keep things simple. If you visit allmenlikebirdsmustdie.com you will notice that the page title is youyesyou.net which turns out to be a daily cartoon site by Jason, which ion turn also leads you to yet another site of his, jasonshogreen.com which showcases more of his artwork.

Enjoy browsing the internet maze that is Jason Sho Green.

The iPhone. Why did nobody design a phone like this before? Yes, it has issues and the pros and cons are being debated all over the gaff. But just look at the features: