I found this really cool Gimp project called Gimp FX Foundry.  (Thanks to Unixmen.)  This is a Sourceforge project that enables you to install 117 new Gimp effects that are not part of the regular Gimp 2.6 distribution.  A few of the effects included are: film grain effect, sepia toning, and pastel effect.

You can find a complete list of the effects at:

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Question Copyright has updated the official public release of The Creator-Endorsed Mark.  This is a logo that a distributor can use to indicate that a work is distributed in a way that its creator endorses — typically, by sharing some of the profits with the creator.

QuestionCopyright.org has many different versions of the logo depending on how much of the proceeds go to the artist.  Visit the website for more information.

Olivier Archer, a cinematography student in an art school in Switzerland, is kind enough to make available online his thesis project on Digital Distribution.

From Olivier:

I am doing this guide because I was given a very open “Memoir” assignment. Since I have always been interested in the internet and technology but I noticed that, my fellow classmates and schoolmates are not embracing this wonderful tool.

I hope that if you will learn something from this guide and it might even jump-start your online video career, people are making money doing it, you can too! Even I have made a little bit of money on my online digital distribution escapades, but at the time my goal was not making money and it was audio, just like video but smaller.

The site is a good introductory on distributing your media digitally.  Check out the site here.