May 2012
“The startup culture is similar to professional sports in that it requires a...”
– Nick Bradbury: Old Farts Know How to Code
Discussing Sci-Fi Storytelling & World Building... →
Jon Spaihts is the writer of the upcoming Prometheus:
I think no matter how dazzling a cinematic background you lay behind a story, you are only going to invest to the extent that you connect to the characters you are watching. There are three motives of story that matter: having something that you hope for, having something that you fear, or having a burning question that you need answered....
“The plethora of online Photoshop tutorials demonstrate its power and its...”
– Rands In Repose: Two Universes
“There’s plenty of reasons to not to like a movie. But if you hate them?...”
– quentin tarantino
WatchI love vfx breakdowns.
El Secreto de sus Ojos: HURACAN - VFX FULL BREAKDOWN for The Secret in their Eyes, 2010 Academy Awarded as Best Foreign Film.
by ONER Vfx
Interview: Mike Ambinder - The Critical Bit →
For the last four years, Dr. Mike Ambinder [from Valve] has been using his expertise in experimental psychology to better understand how people interact with the games they play
Ambinder:
If you think of emotion as a vector with the intensity or arousal level of the emotion representing the magnitude and the valence (positivity or negativity) of the emotion as its direction, you can...
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue... →
Mendez had spent 14 years in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service — the part of the spy shop known for trying to plant explosives in Fidel’s cigars and wiring cats with microphones for eavesdropping. His specialty was using “identity transformation” to get people out of sticky situations. He’d once transformed a black CIA officer and an Asian diplomat into Caucasian businessmen — using masks...
Film Crit Hulk Reviews Mark Ruffalo's Performance... →
Film Crit Hulk:
HULKS SEEM TO BE MOST COMPELLING WHEN YOU GROUND THEM IN CONTRADICTION AND EXPLORE LIFE’S GRAND DUALITY. RUFFALO’S BANNER/HULK IS ONE OF THE MORE DEXTROUS AND ALL-ENCOMPASSING VERSIONS WE’VE EVER HAD AND IT’S NO ACCIDENT THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LOVING THE CRAP OUT OF HIM IN THE FILM.
BBC News - S Korea 'to target powdered human flesh... →
Your “what the hell, world ?” headline for today.
The Korea Customs Service said it had found almost 17,500 of the capsules being smuggled into the country from China since August 2011.
The powdered flesh, which officials said came from dead babies and foetuses, is reportedly thought by some to cure disease and boost stamina.
“People don’t really have a relationship with great writing or great...”
– Steven Moffat on casting.
“for me Cameron is the leader and the teacher and the Yoda, because I don’t know...”
– Joss Whedon on James Cameron and action sequences.
