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Cool article by Josh Nimoy who worked on creating software for generating special effects in Tron: Legacy.

I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble.

Nice read to see how much thought and attention to detail went into creating even the smallest effects.
I hope the sequel is coming along according to plan.

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Sometimes I think I should stop posting rants about idiots.
Then I come across something like this and I’m reassured I’m not the only one annoyed with the current level of retardation in the online ‘community’.

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Probably not known by many until you discover all the projects this creative powerhouse was involved in,
Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius has passed away last weekend at the age of 73.

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You know journalism has hit rock bottom when there’s a whole slew of news posts around the web either complaining about the new iPad not being called the iPad 3 or iPad HD or saying the fact that it’s called the iPad and nothing else signals the end of Apple or the downfall at least.
Here’s a news flash you idiots; turn over your iPad 2, what’s it say?
That’s right, iPad. Not iPad 2.
Now look at your iPad 2 box, what’s it say? Why surprise, it says iPad, not iPad 2.
So basically nothing’s changed and Apple has for the third time released a model of the iPad which once again is simply called iPad and be referred to for conversation’s sake as the iPad 3.
Seriously, people…

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I always wondered how people decide to become a bank robber. Now I know, thanks to this poster that’s hanging in the window of a temp agency. Translation of the text:
“Looking for the job that fits you? We’ll start the dialogue with you”.
Nice.

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Rejoice. It’d be interesting to take a peek into the future and see where we’re at the next time this date comes along.

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VLC 2 has been released for the Mac and it works wonderful. Up until now Mplayer OSX Extended was my preferred player considering as we still watch quite a bit of anime and the old VLC had a habit of choking on some of the more exotic formats used in the encoding of those. Plus Mplayer rendered the subtitles better.
Now it seems the other way around and I’m back on VLC.
I noticed the following oddity as well, in VLC the title is rendered perfectly but in Mplayer it’s cut off which I don’t quite understand as it’s animated and I assumed therefor hardcoded. Even weirder because the rest of the video renders the same in both players without cutoffs in either.

Mplayer OSX Extended

VLC

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• Tags: Mplayer OSX Extended, osx, software, VLC