Produce You

Not sure exactly what you were looking for when you asked for online photography resources I use, but here are a couple of things I’ve found quite useful:

• Stock.XCHNG
  http://www.sxc.hu/
  An excellent site for free stock photography. Useful if you’re looking to design something but don’t have the necessary components. (I’m sure you’re already familiar with either this or other similar sites, but I figured I’d throw it in anyway.)
• Photography Course
  http://photographycourse.net/
  This has some good – albeit pretty basic – free online courses on the foundations of photography – how to properly use your equipment, lighting, composition, nature, sport & portrait photography, etc.
• ShortCourses
  http://www.shortcourses.com/
  This one has much of the same content as Photography Course, though a good deal more advanced, and also contains some nice tutorials on digital workflow.
• PhotoshopSupport
  http://www.photoshopsupport.com/
  Really good shit here for photo post processing. Makes it really easy to give photos a nice professional look.

Hope that helps a bit. Let me know if you’re looking for anything more specific. I’ve also got a bunch of various photography ebooks in pdf. If you’re interested I’ll gladly send them along.

Here you can find the list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as “browser safe fonts”.

If you are new to web design, maybe you are thinking: “Why do I have to limit to that small set of fonts?  I have a large collection of nice fonts in my computer.”  As seasoned web designers already know, browsers can use only the fonts installed in the same computer, so it means that every visitor of your web page needs to have all the fonts you want to use installed in his/her computer.  Different people will have different fonts installed, thus the need for a standard set of fonts.

The list
First, a few introductory notes:

• The names in grey are the generic family of each font.
• In some cases the Mac equivalent is the same font, since Mac OS X also includes some of the fonts shipped with Windows.
• The notes at the bottom contains specific information about some of the fonts.

1 Georgia and Trebuchet MS are bundled with Windows 2000/XP and they are also included in the IE font pack (and bundled with other MS applications), so they are quite common in Windows 98 systems.

2 Symbolic fonts are only displayed in Internet Explorer, in other browsers a font substitute is used instead (although the Symbol font does work in Opera and the Webdings works in Safari).

3 Book Antiqua is almost exactly the same font that Palatino Linotype, Palatino Linotype is included in Windows 2000/XP while Book Antiqua was bundled with Windows 98.

4 These fonts are not TrueType fonts but bitmap fonts, so they won’t look well when using some font sizes (they are designed for 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24 point sizes at 96 DPI).

5 These fonts work in Safari but only when using the normal font style, and not with bold or italic styles. Comic Sans MS works in bold but not in italic. Other Mac browsers seems to emulate properly the styles not provided by the font (thanks to Christian Fecteau for the tip).

6 These fonts are present in Mac OS X only if Classic is installed.

http://www.independentfilmmakercontracts.com

Let this site deal with the red tape of moviemaking by providing you with the necessary contracts to get your film in motion with everything from actor release forms to merchandising contracts.

http://www.writingclasses.com

Although based in New York, Gotham Writer’s Workshop is a creative writing school that has the ability to span the globe.  Half of the student population is enrolled in online workshops that are available 24 hours a day.

http://www.globalimageworks.com

Want to get your footage from the same boutique company that’s provided stock footage to Martin Scorsese?  Global Image Works features a library of high-quality footage to offer its clients personalized sales, free research and rights management services.

http://www.filmtools.com

The online branch of this L.A. store sells all the auxiliary, yet essential, production accessories including camera car mounts, digital audio tapes and those all-important director’s chairs.

http://www.filmstaff.com

Looking for crew work?  Look no further than this site, which offers current job listings for film, television, commercials, music videos and theatre.