Brave is the newest film from Pixar. This looks different from the other films dealing with real people rather than toys or monsters, but as with every Pixar film it is the story that matters.
"Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse."
It won loads of Oscars and audiences complained that it was a silent film, and yes I haven't seen it. Every year the Oscars hold less and less interest for me as I know fewer and fewer of the films.
Anyways, here is a profile of Michel Hazanavicius, the director of The Artist.
a few questions jumped to mind; firstly how do you keep an idea of the bigger picture? how does it all fit together in the artist's head? how do you keep the circles looking so uniform in the spacing between the lines?
How pissed off would you be if someone was out with their dog...
Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game is a live action CGI film...sort of like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...except shorter and better...and less Jude Law...
This film was made by 22 students from the Media Design School in Auckland and is based on the sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort created by writer and artist Greg Broadmore from Weta Workshop. It is a mixture of old fashioned Victorian explorers and monster from Journey to the Center of the Earth and it looks great. A very impressive final result and a great short film...
The City of Samba is a timelapse of the Rio Carnaval done using tilt shift. If you haven't seen tilt shift before it basically makes everything look like miniature models. It gives it a feel of a stop motion type effect with tiny models or people or anything else you happen to photograph.
I think I like the Stormtroopers and the velociraptors best of all...
Everlong is a great song...a tough one as well, especially when bands try and cover it...it's just one of those songs that is hard to get right, hard to match the energy of the original...if you do it amazingly then you are a winner, do it anything less than that and you suck...like a dyson...
"This video is a part of a pinhole movie project based on the principle of the Camera Obscura. An apartment is completely darkened. A hole is made in a window, letting lights from outside coming in. Projections are taking place everywhere inside."
"On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future."
Well, it is as easy as it sounds, and I was being tracked constantly for who knows how long. Regardless of clearing out your cache or deleting your web history in your browser, if you are logged into Google and haven't turned of your web history, every website you have visited since a long time ago will have been saved.
Everything is a Remix part 4 is a look at copyright and intellectual property. It explains why copyright and patents were introduced and how they have evolved to what we know today.
In today's climate, where we are constantly hearing about SOPA and ACTA and other threats to our internet world, this film makes you think about some of the reasons behind these policies and what needs to be done to change them.
"Assembly of the Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series in stop motion in 3d. Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modelling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame."
The patience and time that has gone into making this video is just astounding. Watch it and see for yourself.
This has taken me years...I wrote the song back in 2006, originally it was all electronica and no real instruments. I started the video at the back end of last year, mainly because I was bored. It was a Sunday, I had nothing better to do so I figured, why not. Not sure why I chose Full Metal Jacket to pick to pieces but it was fun. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is an awesome character and he has some awesome lines...anyways enjoy
So, our last day was spent in South Park playing on the slides and zip wires, but no swings. The swings were padlocked up and totally unusable. We had fun playing on the trampolines and the random fitness equipment that seems like it was built for giants. We played tag and I lost, then we went home to Leipzig.
Luckily we got to go to The Doctor Who Experience before it went back to Cardiff. It was a long enough journey to get to Kensington from the outskirts of Essex, let alone getting all the way to Cardiff...
A quiet camera day...a few pictures of Bolly the large Rottweiler and a trip to Upton Park. I fully intended to take more pictures at the football but kept getting distracted...