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June 15, 2013

Linda Holmes:

I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any.

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June 14, 2013

“ One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.

Neil Gaiman

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June 13, 2013

Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry

What comes next — or even before then — will be price variances at movie theaters, where “you’re gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you’re probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln.” He also said that Lincoln came “this close” to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release.

So… hollywood is run like a bunch of banks and we’re headed for a credit crunch.
Colour me surprised.

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ericalba:

Love the look of the level tool in iOS 7 Compass App

#fb

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June 12, 2013

“ The thing is, we’ve grown up. We don’t require hand-holding to tell us what to click or tap. Interactivity is a matter of invitation, and physical cues are only one specific type. iOS 7 is an iOS for a more mature consumer, who understands that digital surfaces are interactive, and who doesn’t want anything getting in the way of their content.

iOS 7 - Matt Gemmell

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June 11, 2013

“ I was formed by my love of math and how beautiful it is and how pristine it can be and how it does build confidence that any problem can be torn apart and put back together with any diligence and hard work and creative thinking.

Shane Carruth

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Peter Zumthor unveils redesign for Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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June 9, 2013

990000:

photo by Elena_Vidor, sculpture by Arik Levy

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June 5, 2013

Tetris Printer Algorithm
by Michael Birken

By rotating, positioning and dropping a predetermined sequence of pieces, the Tetris Printer Algorithm exploits the mechanics of Tetris to generate arbitrary bitmap images.

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May 31, 2013

M, 1931, Fitz Lang
film|captures

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May 28, 2013

ericalba:

Love “Movies In Color”. tumblr featuring movie stills & their color palettes.

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May 26, 2013

“ The props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel…like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

Brian Aldiss
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction

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Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers | Wired

Technically, KeyShot works by simulating the scattering of photons as they bounce around in a scene and interact with the different materials. According to Jensen, “The rendering engine in KeyShot is the only one that has been verified by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) as computing the scattering of light correctly (CIE 171:2006). We have been careful in ensuring that the physics is correct and this is one of the main reasons why we can simplify the interface and focus on the key parameters such as the color of the materials.”

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May 25, 2013

The Third Man (1949)
Robert Krasker, Carol Reed

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May 16, 2013

Designing Confidence

The innovative work of Scott Summit demonstrates how 3D Printing and digital scanning can be used to greatly improve Prosthetic design.

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