That scene in ‘Jurassic Park’ only with Pee Wee Herman rotoscoped into the shot instead of the T-Rex.
Because that’s 30 seconds well spent.
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You can keep yer oul’ pyramids because, since 2016, Japanese tea company Ocean Tea Bags has been producing a vast menagerie of teabags shaped like animals: from otters and red pandas to cephalopods.
The company recently started accepting orders from overseas and you can buy the full range of flavours here.
Jack Nugent of film deconstruction channel Now You See It explores the way that sound design in cinema (most of which happens long after the cameras stop rolling) is less about creating realistic or believable sounds and more about manipulating and amplifying the emotion of scenes.
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Behold: the Auto Fabrica Type 18 BMW R Nine T – thoroughly modern but heavily influenced by the drop-handled café racers of the 1960s.
Commissioned by BMW Motorrad for the Wheels and Waves festival in Biarritz, the Type 18 is a stripped back version of the already retro styled BMW R Nine T with a series of interchangeable panels including ‘wings’ referencing BMW’s roots as an aircraft manufacturer.
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If you have a pair of those red-blue 3D specs, now’s the time to fish them out and float along beside Helene. To wit:
Appropriately named, Helene is one of four known Trojan moons, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. A Lagrange point is a gravitationally stable position near two massive bodies, in this case Saturn and larger moon Dione. In fact, irregularly shaped ( about 36 by 32 by 30 kilometers) Helene orbits at Dione’s leading Lagrange point while brotherly ice moon Polydeuces follows at Dione’s trailing Lagrange point. The sharp stereo anaglyph was constructed from two Cassini images captured during a close flyby in 2011. It shows part of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Helene mottled with craters and gully-like features.
(Image: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA; Stereo Image by Roberto Beltramini)
Jon Snow’s rousing speech to the crowd in the last season of Game Of Thrones transformed into the heartfelt apology fans deserve via deep fake vfx software by comedy troupe Eating Things With Famous People.
Yesterday. Cnoc an Marmair/Marblehill Co. Donegal.
And while we’re in the neighbourhood…
Tírargus, Co. Dún na nGall
(Thanks Colm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfdC1rliYg
Behold: 1 Colombia Island, off the Manhattan coast in Long Island Sound – a 523 square metre 1940s residence with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, spacious living area and kitchen with polished concrete floors and exposed brick walls throughout.
Virtually self-sustaining, with solar panels and its own desalination plant, the insular property also includes a rooftop deck with views of the skyline of New York City (30 minutes away by boat) and ownership of the nearby 3-acre Pea Island.
Yours for a mere €11,500,000.
‘Inception’-style visions of Russian cities by Vladimir-based production studio Lestnica – each one anchored by a single architectural feature around which the surrounding cityscape fans outward and upward in melon-twisting fashion.
A software algorithm was applied to cameras in semi-automatic mode to produce thousands of test images from which dozens of hours of work yielded the final composites.
More here.