CGI-out, Yeast and Fluid Dynamics-In!
November 7th, 2006
Special-effects wizard Peter Parks created the ethereal nebula shots (shown here) by photographing a few microliters of iodine and baby oil in his 400-year-old workshop:
‘The Fountain’ is the new film by Darren Aronofsky. Instead of using traditional CGI methods to create interstellar backdrops for his shots, they employed an English guy called Peter Parks master of the ‘microzoom optical bench’ to create backdrops using water, yeast and all kinds of crazy checmical reactions. Wired magazine have a full article on this.
Decent reviews on almost anything: books to laptops…
October 26th, 2006
I’m particulary interested in the headphones section but there’s a lot here:
Dove Evolution
October 19th, 2006
Complete make-over done to a model for a Dove ad campaign..
And this is how they do it – it’s magic!
BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
September 21st, 2006
Chek out how a new concept for desktop file organisation is developing.
BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
Body popping at its best..
September 13th, 2006
Silly Billy
September 6th, 2006
Amusing Links
August 31st, 2006
Links from Johnny
August 6th, 2006
Brand new stuff – check ’em out
July 24th, 2006
See the London Underground map reorganise around the times of travel
So James Earl Jones has a ton of films to take sound quotes from, and
you can’t see Vader’s lips… amazed no-one’s done this before!
form follows data – data visualization & visual culture