Creative Review’s art director Paul Pensom, pays tribute and looks back at the career of special effects genius Ray Harryhausen ➝, who died at age 93 this week: It was this that made Harryhausen a Modern Prometheus; this ability to make us care, to breath a real spark of life into his puppets of clay, steel and rabbit fur. Time […]
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Ray Harryhausen: modern Prometheus
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Tagged animation, film, filmmaking, obituary, ray harryhausen, visual effects
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Danny Yount Interview (Iron Man 3 Titles)
Art of the Title has another great interview with the talented Danny Yount apropos his titles for Iron Man 3. Yount is one of those motion designers that really undestands how to marry form to concept and “feel”. Check the interview here ➝ Past interviews here ➝ Update: The Iron Man 3 article is offline , […]
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Tagged danny yount, designer, end credits, film, iron man, iron man 3, motion design, prologue, title design, titles, video
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À Bout de Souffle –Trailer
Cool trailer for the 1960’s Jean-Luc Godard film with story by François Truffaut.
Posted in film, trailers, video
Tagged classics, film, françois truffaut, jean-luc godard, trailer, video
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Hipocrisy, Media and Politics
Hypocrisy is a messy part of human life. In Politics and media it seems to multiply. Great article by David Simon (and its follow-up) on the hipocrisy of news media dealing with political sexual scandals (triggered by the Petraeus scandal). Hypocrisy will never go out of style in American journalism or American life. But sitting there […]
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Tagged chronicle, david simon, opinion, politics, press, world
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Shameless — Main Titles
Great opening title sequence for Shameless (TV series, US version). Simple and extremely effective portrait of the show’s essence. A great example of how moving picture and sound (the song ‘The Luck you got’ by The High Strung is awesome,by the way) can match so perfectly. Not new but never got to post it before. Superb […]
Posted in media, tv, video
Tagged design, main title, main titles, motion design, motion graphics, opening title, opening titles, sequence, series, shameless, show, tv
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Apple’s Fusion Drive Performance
Macworld tested the fusion drive (ssd flash drive + hard drive) in one of the new Mac mini models. The result: it’s about as fast as Phil Schiller said in the last Apple special event. Besides the numbers in Macworld’s article, this video posted by TechfastLunch&Dinner shows what that kind of speed and performance really […]
How To Report a Problem With iOS 6 Maps Data
iOS 6 Maps has revealed quite a bit of teething troubles. Apple says the system will improve with use and time. Well, there’s a way to help speed up the process. How? Good ol’ human input can surely play a big part in the solution. MacRumors.com shows what to do when an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch user encounters […]
Video of the Apple Special Event, Sep 2012
Apple posted the streaming video of today’s Special Event where it announced the iPhone 5 and new iPod models. You can watch it here. — I’ll update this post when Apple releases a video podcast version of the event. Update: The video is now available as a Podcast on the iTunes Store. You can get it here in different […]
Posted in Accessories, App Store, Apple, design, event, Hardware, iOS, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Media Event, Mobile, press, product design, software, Tech, video
Tagged 1080p, Apple, apple keynotes, Apple Keynotes Podcast, hd, iphone 5, ipod, ipod nano, ipod touch, iTunes, Keynotes, Lightning connector, Media Event, podcast, special event, streaming, streaming video, video
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Apple announces iPhone 5 and new iPods
Apple just announced new models of their iPhone and iPod lines. The long rumored iPhone 5 was officially revealed and has a taller screen size, thinner and lighter design, an A6 processor (twice as fast as the previous A5 chip), better camera for low-light situations, LTE broadband and better FaceTime HD front-facing camera. It will be available […]
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Tagged Apple, apple event, EarPods, headphones, iOS 6, iphone, iphone 5, ipod, ipod nano, iPod nano 7th-gen, ipod shuffle, ipod touch, iPod Touch 6th-gen, iTunes, Lightning connector, Media Event, special event
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