Video editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz assembles some outstanding examples of director Steven Spielberg’s masterful use of background lighting.
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Quiet On Set
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Foley artist Stefan Fraticelli shares something of the art of creating animal noises for film.
https://twitter.com/BBCTwo/status/960437866860957696
In case you missed it.
From BBC2’s The Mash Report this week
(H/T: Judith Goldberger)
The Great Filter – one possible reason why we may never detect another extraterrestrial civilisation in the observable universe (everyone chill, it’s just a theory). Kurzgesagt says:
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news – or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.
Hurray!
Oh wait now.
An impressively imagined construction time-lapse of the galaxy’s most infamous planet-killer by Isaac and Benjamin Botkin.
Chineskikan in the city of Chichibu, two hours outside Tokyo, is a museum dedicated to naturally eroded rocks that look like human faces – a institution wherein Yoshiko Hayama continues the tradition of jinmenseki with a collection of 1700 arguably face-like rocks handed down by her father.
A festival-favourite 2016 short by Tel Aviv based animators Hani Dombe & Tom Kouris. To wit:
Lili refuses to let go of her childhood and fights a sandstorm that threatens to take it away. In the heart of the storm she rediscovers the joy of childhood, but forced to choose between illusion and reality.
Bubble Wall
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‘Projection Wall’ by Japanese artist Rintaro Hara – an installation that invites visitors to raise a rope grid from a soapy trough into the path of eight motorised fans with a set of pulleys, generating prismatic bubble sculptures.
Who’d say no to that?
A similar work in 1998 by the same artist entitled ‘Soap Opera’ was inspired by the watery aliens in James Cameron’s The Abyss.
Ragdoll
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYXC8uUHLUI
‘Noos’ – an extraordinary showcase of balance and fluidity by dancers Justine Berthillot and Frederi Vernier.