Sometimes.
Thou shalt play him off, Keyboard Cat
From that's how it happened, which also offers a great analysis of Keyboard Cat, an analysis I have reproduced below for your reading pleasure:I like the keyboard cat videos where they show the cat briefly before tragedy arrives. It sort of changes the whole meaning behind the keyboard cat videos. Instead of just celebrating human tragedy it seems as though the keyboard cat anticipates it, like he’s this omniscient trickster just looking on, aloof and smug, as people wander unwittingly towards misfortune. It’s as though all of life that came prior to an accident was just an elaborate trap, bait meant to draw fools towards an accident and humiliation and having finally caught his prey the keyboard cat celebrates joyously. Aha! we think, so that’s the trick, fortune and misfortune are all the same in the end, distinguished only by whether it is happening to us or to another, and by whether we can hear the song of the keyboard cat, pounding out a tune looking down on us, the fools below.
Journalist versus Media Watch
Daily Tele's Joe Hilderbrand in an email to Media Watch after they suggested his report on potential deaths from swine flu was incorrect:
"Of course being a generous and big-hearted soul I have done my best to accommodate you and I hope you find the above information both timely and enlightening. I trust that Media Watch will reproduce this email in full on its website and represent it handsomely on the program even though it demonstrates the premise of your story is a steaming load."
Star Wars: Uncut (not bigger or longer)
Star Wars Uncut - Scene 400 from r2witco on Vimeo.
A Star Wars fan site is allowing aspiring Lucas-ites to reshoot “A New Hope” online, 15 seconds at a time.
Star Wars: Uncut is the brainchild of a self-described “Technologistioner,” Casey Pugh. He broke up Episode IV into 473 separate, 15 second segments from the opening battle over Tatooine to the celebration on Yavin IV. Any fan could choose one section and reshoot it in the style of their choosing. Once all of the segments are complete and submitted, the film will be knitted back together in all its disjointed, online glory.
All the scenes are already taken, but Pugh is making it possible for segments to be produced by multiple mini-auteurs — insuring that everyone can still get in on the act. Five scenes are complete, and the submissions so far are a galaxy apart. They range from impressive stop motion animation (above) to a couple of kids recreating the Millennium Falcon in flight by running around covered in a jacket.
(From Wired)
fxguide on Earth and Moon
fxguide covers Cinesite's vfx for Moon and Guerilla FX's animation for Earth 2100.
