The Birth of the Pixel Look
The New Yorker article on early special effects in films which adopt the ‘computer’ look:
The rise of the pixel in cinema may feel like a recent development, but this year actually marks its fortieth anniversary. It began in 1973, with the release of a low-budget science-fiction film, Michael Crichton’s “Westworld.” The movie’s use of a digital effect for a total of two minutes—a now-routine process called pixelization, commonly deployed on Gordon Ramsay cooking shows to obscure a contestant’s cursing mouth—was the unlikely launching point of this revolution.
More films are discussed, and connects people who eventually worked for Pixar.
Nicolas Boillot
Video artist creates looping visual collages in a variety of ways, including sourcing from television and computer game feeds.
More more good things can be found here and here
(GIFs above originally made by the artist - thanks to James Vincent for the heads up!)
PS - the artist also has a Tumblr blog here
Gravity
Director Alfonso Cuaron is back with a teaser for Gravity, his first film since Children of Men. Watch it here.
Laser Cut Record
Instructables project from Amanda Ghassaei that can allow you to create playable records with a laser cutter (sure the sound isn’t that great, but still …) - video embedded below:
A few months back, I wrote about how I used a 3D printer to transform any mp3 into a physical record. Though all the documentation for that project is available here, and the 3D models could potentially be printed through an online fabrication service, I knew that the barrier to entry for normal people interested in trying out the process themselves was prohibitively high. With this project I wanted to try to extend the idea of digitally fabricated records to use relatively common and affordable machines and materials so that (hopefully) more people can participate, experiment, and actually use all this documentation I’ve been writing.
It is a Medium not a Grande !
Mucca Design’s packaging design and cheeky copy for the newly-opened gourmet store Brooklyn Fare.
Five Portraits by Yasujiro Ozu
1941 — The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1942 — There Was a Father
1947 — Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1951 — Early Summer
1960 — Late Autumn
恩，當年我就是看到這些片段萌發了拍片的想法。
(Source: strangewood, via shihlun)
