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jazzfishHigh Speed Flash Photography of balloons popping. Very cool. The balloons just kind of creep back from the pinprick before they collapse, so you have shots of a thin half-shell of rubber.
The "Mirrormask" Interviews: Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: an excellent (though sadly brief) pair of interviews:
NEIL: [T]he success or failure of the [comic book] movie seems to be absolutely dependent-- with one exception, which was "Men In Black"-- on how close the thing actually is to the original source material. Which fascinates me. I knew that the "Constantine" movie was doomed the moment... I remember being in this room in San Diego with eight thousand people. It was the Vertigo panel and this was the big announcement. Karen Berger gets up there and says there is going to be a John Constantine movie, and everyone goes GASP. And she says it's going to star Keanu Reeves and everyone goes "eh." It wasn't a boo, but it was an eh from eight-thousand people going "No, he's blonde and he's English." That's not our film.
DAVE: I'm not interested in making that look photo-real. That's where the money goes because it's very time-consuming and very technical and it's a great achievement if you can do it, but a very narrow achievement because digital can go anywhere.
(The site also has a pretty good interview with the producer.)
[WARNING: Freaking ginormous image ahead] The Ancient of Days, quite possibly William Blake's most famous work. I cannot say why I like this piece so much but something about the colours and the pose and the ideas speaks to me.
Thoughts about moving and actually getting things unpacked (in sharp contrast to my last move) rattling around. For now, off to Roanoke for a bit.
The "Mirrormask" Interviews: Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: an excellent (though sadly brief) pair of interviews:
NEIL: [T]he success or failure of the [comic book] movie seems to be absolutely dependent-- with one exception, which was "Men In Black"-- on how close the thing actually is to the original source material. Which fascinates me. I knew that the "Constantine" movie was doomed the moment... I remember being in this room in San Diego with eight thousand people. It was the Vertigo panel and this was the big announcement. Karen Berger gets up there and says there is going to be a John Constantine movie, and everyone goes GASP. And she says it's going to star Keanu Reeves and everyone goes "eh." It wasn't a boo, but it was an eh from eight-thousand people going "No, he's blonde and he's English." That's not our film.
DAVE: I'm not interested in making that look photo-real. That's where the money goes because it's very time-consuming and very technical and it's a great achievement if you can do it, but a very narrow achievement because digital can go anywhere.
(The site also has a pretty good interview with the producer.)
[WARNING: Freaking ginormous image ahead] The Ancient of Days, quite possibly William Blake's most famous work. I cannot say why I like this piece so much but something about the colours and the pose and the ideas speaks to me.
Thoughts about moving and actually getting things unpacked (in sharp contrast to my last move) rattling around. For now, off to Roanoke for a bit.