Holy shit, my dreams are coming true! Check out this camera than captures images with full focal range (or, more accurately, lack thereof). I.e. you can snap a picture, then once you get to your computer you can then decide where you want to focus.
This definitely seems like a step closer to the kind of holographic/eye-led 3D I’ve been talking about since Avatar.
A really elegant little doc. Probably the most accessible I’ve seen yet with regards to how OWS is working.
Everything is a Remix - Part 3
Have I posted this before?
Hmmm, how relevant…
Seuss reportedly had misgivings about The Seven Lady Godivas before its publication; the drawing on the endpaper contains a small bucket of sap labeled “Bennett Cerf,” the name of Seuss’s publisher at Random House. Seuss, by calling Cerf a sap, was apparently implying that Cerf was being too nice in allowing the book to be published.[1] The initial 1939 publishing had a print run of 10,000 copies, but only around 2,500 sold. Seuss himself called it his “greatest failure” and “a book that nobody bought”.[2]
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The book’s initial failure has been attributed to several factors: at two dollars, it was priced relatively high for the Great Depression era.[2] Also, the book’s depiction of nudity, though it was intended for adults, led to cold reception.
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Seuss said he tried to draw “the sexiest-looking women” he could, but they “came out just ridiculous”.[1][5]
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Indeed, his general contempt for adults is evident in his oft-repeated quote: “Adults are obsolete children, and the hell with them.”[5][6]
Man, that Theo sure is a cool dude.
Two pieces of awesome for tonight.
Number one: Orson Welles talking about his day pretending (successfully) to be a mind-reader/psychic. Pretty great story (and teller, no doubt), and one that spurred a few cool ideas in me. I’d like to share them with you now.
(Done.)
Over the past like 6 months I’ve been doing quite a bit of VFX work with my After Effects guru co-director Chris Bragg. So this post will be somewhat related to visual effects and/or CGI.
For one of our scenes, I wanted to ‘turn on’ an in-frame lamp that we carelessly forgot to illuminate while shooting. I did so, and am, for some reason, inexplicably happy with how it turned it. It’s not that it was a particularly tough fix; I think it just hit me as one of those moments of realization like “Wow, I can actually do this!?” And the feeling stuck.
Anyway, you can see the shot in our film, Motam Mundi. Surprisingly, the video above isn’t of the shot in question- I’m too lazy to do that right now. Instead, it’s a little promo/teaser for a piece of software called HDR ReLight.
The app isn’t for doing what I had to do, but I recently came across it on Reddit and thought it was a pretty cool idea all the same: you shoot a (still) photo a bunch of times—with only one light source on at a time. Then, in post, it allows you to digitally brighten/dim, recolor, mix/recombine lights to completely relight the scene—from night to day, even. How nifty! lol
