A Must Read: Now Available for Pre-orders

I'm a big fan of Stu Maschwitz' writing, both on his ProLost blog and in his chapter in Mark Christiansen's excellent Adobe After Effects 7.0 Studio Techniques.

This quote from the new book says it all:

Even as I sit in my director’s chair on a big commercial, designing a shot with a 30-foot techno crane, I can’t help but ponder how one might build such a thing out of PVC pipe and zip ties.

The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap