Behind the Scenes of a Robot Music Video
DIY robot builder and musician Jack Conte explains his working process coming up with this inventive music video.Read More
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Advice on Life from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson
Maria Papova digests Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s commencement speech for some tips on living the creative life. It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves. And with all due respect to John Stuart Mill, maybe utilitarianism is overrated. If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, Read MoreRead More
Researchers Discover How to Capture 3D “Ghost” Images Without a Camera
Using only a few pixel sensors, university researchers are discovering a new way of imaging things in 3D. A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy just published a paper in Science that details how they managed to use an altered style of “ghost imaging” photography to create accurate three-dimensional images. While a Read MoreRead More
Photography in the Music Industry with Rob Shanahan
Rob Shanahan is one of the world’s most published photographers in the music industry. His photos have appeared in numerous ad campaigns, CD/DVD covers, books, galleries, and magazines around the globe. He is Ringo Starr’s personal photographer and has been working closely with him since 2004, photographing and designing his tour books, DVDs, and records Read MoreRead More
What Was the Most Awkward Movie You Saw With Your Parents?
Tribeca’s new One Question series asks five filmmakers about one thing at a time, directors Matthew Cooke (How to Make Money Selling Drugs), Rob Bruce (McConkey), Jenée LaMarque (The Pretty One), Christopher Pomerenke (Queens of Country), and producer Chris McDaniel (Queens of Country) talk about the completely inappropriate, cringe-inducing films they saw with their parents.Read More
Why ‘The Great Gatsby’ Reveals a Huge Divide Between Hollywood and Its Fans
“The Great Gatsby” had all the makings of a flop. Warner Bros. delayed the movie’s release because it wanted to reshoot certain scenes. Its new date landed the film between “Iron Man 3″ and “Star Trek Into Darkness,” two movies that were hits before the cameras started rolling. The week “Gatsby” did open, critics were Read MoreRead More
Norman Jewison on how Stanley Kubrick Made American Films about the World
In this clip from the AFI Archive, Director Norman Jewison talks about how Stanley Kubrick’s films were American in concept yet about the world at large.Read More
How Michael Crichton’s “Westworld” Pioneered Modern Special Effects
David A Price chronicles how writer/director Michael Crichton’s 1973 Westworld pathed the way for modern special effects by using “Pixelation” and developed by none-other-than John Whitney Jr. the son of John Whitney who introduced computers into the design of Vertigo. Nearly every studio film at the multiplexes this summer will have been created, at least partly, by a Read MoreRead More
On the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty
It turns out that being creative also involves a healthy dose of dishonesty. The first use of the U.S. Postal Service was to sell products that didn’t exist. Spam dominates global email volume today. Hoaxes and pranks have been ritualized in everyday culture. And yet, we tend to believe that dishonesty and fraud are confined Read MoreRead More
It could have been titled: “Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus”
This copy of from Stanley Kubrick’s notebook shows some alternative titles for the Cold War black comedy. via Lists of Note Read More
Salvador Dalí’s Dream Sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound”
In the 40s psychoanalysis was all the thing. Hollywood mogul David O Selzneck pressured Alfred Hitchcock to use psychoanalysis as a driving plot point for a film. The result was Spellbound and who else could they turn to for crafting a bizarre dream sequence than the master of surrealism himself: Salvador Dalí. via OpenCultureRead More
Saying No To Jobs And Getting Paid
Andreas Bergmann explores some of the business aspects of being a photographer which can also be applied to work for hire filmmakers. Should you work for free, and should you accept under paid jobs? One of the hardest lessons to learn, and not only learn but accept and incorporate into your way of doing things, is Read MoreRead More