Beautiful stories are being told as the recent DSLR wave of filmmaking has taken viewers and filmmakers by storm!

C3Stories was no exception when the Canon 7D was used in the production of All Gifted: The Meet and Greet, then again with Pete Chatmon of Double 7 Film to do the post production of The Bridge: Velvet Rope: Girls’ Night Out, shot exclusively on the Canon 7D by Leyla Tatiana Rosario.

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This is pretty dope. I don’t have a car but I’d buy one. I guess. You?

Sam Todo is a young roboticist from Togo who has constructed a bipedal robot almost entirely out of parts from discarded television sets. He’s trying to inspire young Africans to take an interest in the sciences. What a cool guy!

(via TDW)

Forget about Diddy. “Can’t stop, won’t stop” should be Steve Jobs mantra. Apple has dropped another bomb with the iPad. Sure to increase their market share and decrease your bank account en route to bringing this bad boy home. Check out how PC Mag thinks the iPad will likely kill Amazons Kindle DX:

The new Amazon Kindle DX has a few weeks to live—and the magazine and newspaper industries may not have much longer. As soon as Apple unleashes the rumored iPad, Amazon’s attempt at hardware design will vanish quicker than Betamax. Amazon won’t mind, but magazine and newspaper publishers sure will. Apple and Amazon could be the best of enemies. Look at their entirely complimentary business strategies. Amazon sells content. The company went into the hardware business to spur more e-book sales. It intends to make a killing selling e-textbooks for the new Kindle DX. Yeah, sure, Amazon makes money on the Kindle, but its heart is in the books. Apple sells hardware. Apple became the world’s leading online media store so it could sell more iPods. Its heart is in the iPods. Enter the iPad. The Apple people usually complain about how much they hate a product category just before they enter it. Recently, Apple’s COO Tim Cook said that he thinks netbooks are pretty useless, and that the iPod touch is Apple’s netbook. This feeds into BusinessWeek’s rumor about the “iPad”—a $699 tablet that would look like a bigger iPod touch…

(VIA PC MAG)

This Boston based visual effects company works on commercials and films. They do dope stuff. It’ll be cool to work with these fellas one day. Visit their website to see some of their work.

(VIA BRICKYARD VFX)

I just read about this today in Inc. Magazine. Definitely something we should all check out. It just might make you buy a bike, build a well, and burn candles instead of electricity. Highly recommended read.

WattzOn is a free online tool to quantify, track, compare and understand the total amount of energy needed to support all of the facets of your lifestyle with the goal of helping you find ways to reduce your personal power consumption. It is becoming clear that our lifestyles have become unsustainable and that fossil fuel scarcity and global climate change are threatening to cause great economic and environmental damage to the world. Any solution to this problem will need to include a collective effort by all of us to reduce the amount of energy we are using in our lives…

(VIA WATTZON.COM)

Watch the PopTech Presentation after the jump…

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If you’ve read OUTLIERS, TIPPING POINT, or BLINK, you know this guy is always on point and entertaining. In this video, Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

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If you’ve been following Double 7 World like you should, you know all about this creative cat. Check out the latest creation from director Dennis Liu. Enjoy!

And don’t forget to check out his Apple Mac Music Video HERE.

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Double 7 Film Spring 2009 Sizzle Reel from Double 7 Film on Vimeo.

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Spotlight Filmmakers include Pete Chatmon, Benjamin Ahr Harrison, Mike Brown, Anthony Artis, and Christina DeHaven.

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This is how to do the process you saw in the Kanye Video we posted last week. Get your learn on…

Part II after the jump…

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