We spoke to Jules van Den Steenhoven of the NSC about their new iPhone & iPad app that maps global salaries for production and post professionals. Some things like this have been tried in the past, none it would seem as successfully as the NSC’s app is proving to be. But what was their approach to gathering this information and how current is it? Does it take into account month to month currency fluctuation? And just why is this being done by the NSC anyway?

Director Nash Edgerton along with producer Lauren Edwards have just completed a week at Cannes with the short film Bear.

We thought we’d point you to some of the latest work from Mirada, the new studio collaboration between director Guillermo del Toro, director Mathew Cullen, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and executive producer Javier Jimenez.

We got some great entries for our HP EliteBook giveaway, but there can only be one winner. And that winner is Chris Hocking, whose “server room shower” took top place with an inventive install to get the job done in pinch. Click through for more images as well as some impressions of running The Foundry’s Mari on the EliteBook.

As NAB approaches, we’re starting to mark the showfloor map of products we’d like to check out. We’ve always been big fans of the tech behind Imagineer’s products over the years, so we thought we’d get a bit of an update from Imagineer’s Ross Shain. We chat about how the company started, the expanding user base, and how the development of the never-released mogul effected the company.