How to miniaturise a scene
Have you guys heard of 'tilt-shift photography' that makes things look like a scale model?
Oh no, they got me with their legal mumbo jumbo
From Sydney Morning Herald: Chaser team gets last laugh on police
Mr Cowdery said: "The evidence establishes that the Chaser's plan, in what was considered the unlikely event that they were allowed to pass through any gates, was to stop short of the restricted area and to get [Chas] Licciardello out of the vehicle.From APEC Meeting (Police Powers) Act 2007:
"Police permission in fact constitutes special justification for entry."
(2) A person has a special justification to be in an area if:Ooops.
(a) the person is a police officer who is on duty in the area, or
(b) the person is required, authorised or permitted to be in the area by the Commissioner or a police officer, or
(c) the person is required to be in (or pass through) the area for the purposes of the person’s employment, occupation, profession, calling, trade or business or for any other work-related purpose, or
Raiders of the Lost Ark shots
These postings about Indiana Jones by an ILM compositor (Todd Vaziri) are pretty cool. They go through some of the cinematography and composition work in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Simply Cool Shots
Foregrounds and Backgrounds
Eyes
Shadows and Silhouettes
Cookie Monster reflects
Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn't normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside.
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Ghost Mutt: Origins
Myers: Okay, maybe my dad did steal Itchy, but so what? Animation is built on plagiarism! [lawyer slaps his forehead] If it weren't for someone plagiarizing the Honeymooners, we wouldn't have the Flintstones. If someone hadn't ripped off Sgt. Bilko, they'd be no Top Cat. Huckleberry Hound, Chief Wiggum, Yogi Bear? Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney.
Myers: Your honor, you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they gonna come from? Her? [points at Marge]
Marge: Uh...Hmm...How about...Ghost Mutt?
History of the ampersand
Who doesn't love the ampersand? Adobe loves the ampersand. Wonderful, wonderful ampersand.
When creating a new typeface, a designer can inject the most artistic flair into the ampersand character. The term ampersand, as Geoffrey Glaister writes in his "Glossary of the Book," is a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means "(the character) & by itself (is the word) and." The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for "and."
It's on 3
Awesome long New Yorker article on elevators and how one guy got stuck for 41 hours.
Up and Then Down
Up and Then Down
That's not true, that's impossible!
Cadbury ends tours at its Tasmania factory
Luckily, "...visitors would still have the opportunity to buy chocolate at a discounted price from the visitor centre."
Indiana Jones Movie Marathon
I think we need to organise an Indiana Jones movie arvo/night where we watch all 3 films in a row. Has to be before May 22 when the new film comes out.
This Sunday?
James Cameron on 3-D
Lengthy Variety interview with James Cameron on 3-D. Best bit:
The visual cortex is being cued, at a subliminal but pervasive level, that what is being seen is real.
Editing a Pixar film
From David Bordwell's Observations on film art and Film Art:
I’ve always been uncertain about what an editor does in the animation process. Since every shot is planned and executed in detail, what can be left for an editor to do? Bill started from that question. No, editing digital animation isn’t just a matter of cutting off the slates and splicing perfectly finished shots together.
Speed for homework
Physics homework from Columbia University:
In the action-packed-thriller SPEED, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, et al. are forced by a madman to jump a speeding bus over a gap in the highway. To your instructor, the situation looked very much as depicted above in figure a). Given the above situation, how fast would the bus need to go (initial velocity) to successfully jump the gap?
I want you to make a tape and loop it so that it runs over and over, OK?
It looks like you can now upload video to Flickr.
Hand signals on New York Mercantile Exchange
An oil trader demonstrates the hand signals used on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange (New York Times).
Year of the Frog
Did you know that 2008 is the Year of the Frog? Anyone keen to go to the Australian Reptile Park during the April school holidays? They have frog workshops and frog demonstrations.
Facebook and ConnectU
They might be settling:
Did a new court development spark Facebook-ConnectU settlement?
Here's a cool article about Facebook's origins and how its founder was kind of dodgy and kind of clever:
Poking Facebook
Did a new court development spark Facebook-ConnectU settlement?
Here's a cool article about Facebook's origins and how its founder was kind of dodgy and kind of clever:
Poking Facebook
The Knife - Hearbeats
This is the Sony Bravia bouncing balls ad song - Heartbeats - but by the original artists, The Knife. I reckon it's better than the Jose Gonzalez version (which is still pretty awesome). What do you guys think?
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