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For the Scottish footballer see Alex Lindsay (footballer born 1896)

Alex Ben Lindsay, founder of the Pixel Corps

Pixel Corps

Pixel Corps is a training and production group composed of development personnel in digital media. It was founded by Alex Lindsay. The guild offers training as well as a means of communication between aspiring media professionals. They have done extensive work with Leo Laporte in producing the...

, has been involved in computer graphics

Computer graphics

Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....

and computer animation

Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....

for nearly 20 years. Alex has extensive experience in digital production including print, real-time graphics, multimedia titles, forensic animation, television, and film. He spent several years on the production of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the fourth film to be released in the Star Wars saga, as the first of a three-part prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the first film in the saga in terms...

(at JAK Films and then at Industrial Light and Magic

Industrial Light and Magic

Industrial Light & Magic is an Academy Award-winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas and is owned by Lucasfilm. Lucas created the company when he discovered that the special effects department at 20th Century Fox was shut down after he was given...

).
Alex has taught at the Academy of Art and at the San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Programs. He writes for 3D Magazine, 3D World

3D World

3D World is a printed magazine published by Future Publishing with main focus on animation, visual effects, videogame design, illustration and architectural visualisation...

, and Post

Post

-Mail:* Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries* Post, an entry in a blog or internet forum - see posting style-Newspapers and magazines:* New York Post, USA* The Washington Post, USA...

. Alex was a regular guest on the US

United States

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cable

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

channel

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

TechTV

TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming...

and recently has appeared as a guest on G4techTV Canada

G4techTV Canada

G4 Canada is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Rogers Media. The name is licensed from NBCUniversal, who formerly owned a stake in the channel...

's television show The Lab with Leo Laporte
The Lab with Leo Laporte
The Lab with Leo Laporte was a technology-based television program hosted by Leo Laporte. Episode #1 debuted on April 23, 2007 on G4techTV Canada and HOW TO Channel Australia. The program was produced by Greedy Productions in Vancouver, BC. Production was overseen by the show's producer, Matt...

.

Lindsay also hosts and produces This Week in Media, a weekly podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

produced by Pixel Corps

Pixel Corps

and is a regular guest on the This Week in Tech

Twit

Twit may refer to: A person of lesser intelligence, it is normally used in a humors way.*Idiot, a mentally deficient or self-defeating person*TWiT.tv, a podcast network**This Week in Tech , a podcast on the previously-listed network...

podcast. Lindsay also produces MacBreak

MacBreak

MacBreak is an internet TV show hosted by Leo Laporte, Kendra Arimoto, Alex Lindsay, Justine Ezarik and Emery Wells from the TWiT.tv network and the Pixel Corps. The podcast is dedicated to Apple's Mac computers and other Apple products such as the iPod....

, a video podcast shot in 1080p

1080p

1080p is the shorthand identification for a set of HDTV high-definition video modes that are characterized by 1080 horizontal lines of resolution and progressive scan, meaning the image is not interlaced as is the case with the 1080i display standard....

using a Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

CineAlta

Sony's CineAlta 24P HD Cameras are a series of professional digital video cameras that offer many of the same features of a 35mm motion picture film camera.- Concept :...

. Among the many other things Alex does, he participates in Macbreak Weekly

MacBreak

, a weekly, talk show/podcast on the TWiT

Twit

network. A running joke in the show is that Alex tends to recommend to listeners products with exorbitant price tags, on average $700 USD, the price of Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

. Thus, the panel has created a unit of currency, the “Alex”. Other guests on the show will refer to the cost of their picks in relation to an "Alex" or fractions thereof. If the pick is a free tool or download it will cost "zero Alexes”. If it cost $1400, it is "2 Alexes".

Lindsay currently co-hosts This Week in Photography

This Week in Photography

This Week in Photography is a weekly photography podcast. TWiP recorded its first show at the MacWorld Expo in 2008 launching on January 28, 2008, and is consistently ranked as the #1 photography podcast on iTunes. The show is co-hosted by Frederick Van Johnson and Alex Lindsay with contributors...

(TWiP) along with Frederick V. Johnson, which revolves around photography news, interviews, and tips.

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