Blade Runner Trailer Comparison

https://youtu.be/jrNijjU-2IE IMdB’s shot-for-shot comparison of the Blade Runner movie trailers: 1982 vs 2017. Surely intentional, if only to reassure us that they’re staying true to the mark for the sequel. It makes me want to play the 1997 ‘sidequel’ video game again.

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‘Welcome Robot’ Featured in Stanford Lecture

A friend of mine recently gave a talk on the use of tablets in creative computing at Stanford University, and my ‘iPad-only’ stop-motion animation that I created last January featured in it. Created entirely during my lunch break and on my new (at the time) iPad 2, ‘Welcome Robot’ was shot in I Can Animate,…

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Time-Lapse: Seven Hours Over Kensington

The weather’s been pretty interesting for the last few days. I decided to put my iPhone into Airplane Mode, plug it into a charger, set a 1-minute time lapse and throw it up into one of the office windows from 0845-1545 on Friday afternoon. My iPhone got pretty hot during the time, but it pulled…

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Welcome Robot

Created entirely during my lunch break and on my new (at the time) iPad 2, ‘Welcome Robot’ was shot in I Can Animate, scored in GarageBand, then put together in iMovie (with some help creating titles in Keynote). To put things in perspective, arguments in the tablet space were still flying around about how the…

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J.J. Abrams’ Mystery Box

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vpjVgF5JDq8 I find this TED video of J.J Abrams from 2007 is inspiring. I completely subscribe to the concept: that what you don’t see is just as important (if not more, in some cases) as the things that you do. Abrams shows a touching example in a scene from ‘Jaws’ (it’s one you probably won’t remember,…

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