bravissimo

  ↑KerLeone just told me that ↵thousand reminded him of the famous ↑Bravia television commercial:  Set to the stripped-down acoustic soundtrack of José González’ “Heartbeats”, 250,000 ‘superballs’ come flying, in slow motion, over the brow of a typical street in San Francisco, raining down on anything that gets in their way. And it was done without computer graphics. […]  In an age when CGI is commonplace, this makes the commercial all the more extraordinary. Every single frame was shot over two days—with the main sequence involving a 23-man camera crew and only one chance to get it right.  An entire … Continue reading

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more touchy

  ↑Watch the video, or ↑watch the magician himself ↑at TED, or the ↑first video, read everything about it at ↑Jeff Han‘s own website, at ↑multi touch screen, or in Adam L. Penenberg’s excellent article “↑Can’t Touch This“ at ↑FastCompany, and leave me alone, because with all those spooky interfaces making the techno-phantasies from “Minority Report” (2002) come alive, I feel so backward with my mouse & keyboard :-( … but then again, being ↵lo tek is a lifestyle.  P.S.: Just an observation: like with the ↵demonstration of the iPhone‘s browser capabilities, here again Wikipedia was used and clearly shown—is … Continue reading

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thousand

  Ca c’est magnifique. In respect to stunts’n’such this, just like ↵mine and ↵more, definitely beats the silverscreen. Remember, once there was a time when the quality of action flicks was measured by the sheer number of cars partaking in chases. Some directors went for lengths and had several dozen cars wrecked on the set. Several dozen, that’s all very well … but now be honest and confess your innermost desires. Isn’t it true that you would be delighted to watch a thousand sports cars racing through a beautiful mediterranean setting, French Riviera style? Behold, speaking of “a thousand” in … Continue reading

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