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User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Video Director Harald Haraldsson
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do. The questions are always the same, the answers, not so much. This week: Harald...
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Dead Space 3 Is Finally Here And We've Got 5 Copies To Give Away For Free!
Just out and already heralded as “one of the best games of this generation” by Game Informer Magazine, Dead Space 3 hit stores yesterday, and it totally lives up to the hype. Where have you been? In...
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Jennifer Cupri's Jewelry Highlights The Subconscious Messages Of Body Language
Jennifer Crupi’s elegantly-crafted jewelry does more than simply decorate bodies, it emphasizes and enhances the postures and gestures that we (many times subconsciously) use to communicate with one...
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FIELD's Energy Flow: Generating The Sound Composition For A Non-Linear Film
How do you create a soundtrack for a generative, non-linear film experience? This is the question sound designer David Kamp had to ask himself when he was set the task of creating the music for FIELD’s...
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Give The Gift Of 3D-Printable Sculptures For Valentine's Day!
Valentine’s Day is only a week away—are you ready? If last year’s attempt at romance was a bomb, why not try something a little different this time? Flowers are boring and cliche, chocolate is what you...
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Fashion In A Flash: Light Painted Dresses
“You’re not going out dressed like that,” is a cliched phrase that I expect to be telling my daughter when she reaches teenage years. I’m just going to say it to her when I don’t agree with the color...
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New York Is Taken Over By Strange Bioforms
New York, the city that never sleeps, with a hot dog stand on every corner and buildings going up to the sky, and strange vegetative growths that sprout up around the city. Yeah, that last one you...
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3D Modeling Made Easy With A Point-And-Click 3D Camera
With cameras on all our devices these days, we’ve got used to the point-and-click way of doing things. No messing around with ISOs, apertures, or shutter speeds for us—just open an app, start snapping...
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The Lumière au Chocolate: An LED Lamp Made From Delicious Chocolate
It’s not often you can say a lamp looks good enough to eat, but that’s the case with the Lumière au Chocolate from designer Alexander Lervik. He’s bravely merged chocolate with LEDs to create an edible...
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Hyped: The Week In Links 2/8/13
On the blog this week we found out about Amit Drori’s wooden robot theatre show, we looked at the sound design in Dead Space 3 in Kill Screen episode 5, while in LAYERS we looked at Scottish producer...
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New Cinema: Before the Flood Is An Interactive Cinematic Experience Exploring...
Cinema as a reactive experience is what’s explored in the latest installation from one of the teams at our New Cinema hackathon, which took place at the end of last year—a collaboration between The...
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DrawQuest Is A New Social Drawing App From The Creator Of 4Chan And Canvas
Chris Poole, or Moot as he is better known online, rose to prominence as the teenage creator of 4Chan, an image-based message board that serves as the internet’s underbelly, where memes and trolls find...
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Check Out These GIFs Of New Troglodytes, An Immersive Super Trippy Cave
Have you ever been disoriented by an optical effect? You know the moment: the boundaries between reality and fantasy collapse on one another and make you lose your bearings for a minute, feeling as if...
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Projecting A Movie Onto A Snowstorm Results In These Psychedelic Images
Falling snow has its own beauty, and there’s been plenty of it in the Northeast of America the past few days—even in London we’ve had a minor snowfall this Monday morning. But have you ever wondered...
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Online Chatbot Collaborates On A Screenplay
Cleverbot is a web-based bot that chats with people about any subject they wish to talk about. It is the algorithmic brainchild of scientist Rollo Carpenter and has been on the web for 16 years, during...
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Batman Comics Turned Into Creepy GIF Art
You don’t have to be a comic book fan to appreciate these Batman GIFs from animator ABVH, who previously animated Banksy’s iconic street art. Utilizing his skill with the GIF format, he’s crafted these...
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SuperEverything* Merges Hip-Hop Improvisation With Cinematic Storytelling
In March and April of this year The Light Surgeons, a UK-based art collective, will tour their “live cinema” collaborative project SuperEverything* across the UK. The multimedia show will explore the...
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Is Carrie Underwood's Grammy Dress A Vega Zaishi Wang Ripoff?
Don’t get me wrong—when I saw Carrie Underwood’s gray satin dress come alive with light animations during her Grammy’s performance last night, I thought it was pretty darn cool. I small part of me...
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LAYERS: Riding The Waves Of The Stepkids' "Sweet Salvation"
For this week’s LAYERS we have East Coast Psychrock and Funk masters The Stepkids. After releasing a slew of 12-inch singles on Los Angeles’ Stones Throw Records, they are prepping their return with...
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Beck And Chris Milk Join Forces To Reinvent A David Bowie Track
Beck’s ingenuity for reinventing the way we experience and interact with music made headlines recently with the release of his latest album, Beck Hansen’s Song Reader, which consists of 108 pages of...
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