Mandelbulber

Cool "3D" Mandelbrot generator.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/?source=dlp

More spam

Some people will do anything to make money. Spam sites like topblogstories tried to attack my computer, but the Norton stopped it. Makes me wonder if blogging is worth it.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/blogger/2HeLlFIRbbM

First use of text in animation

 All right, this is politically incorrect - but I ask you to jump to 3:24

(From a Merry Melody, Foghorn Leghorn in "Crockett Doodle Doo" copyright Warner Bros.)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0plQO0f_xDI

Angelina Jolie is Tigress!

 Angelina is a true warrior. Fight on!

Lord, this must take courage to get this preemptive surgery, I tip my hat to Angelina. I freak out just going in for a checkup.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-angelina-jolie-mastectomy-first-person-20130515-dto,0,5217359.htmlstory

(Artwork copyright Dreamworks SKG)

Link courtesy of neofundi.com


http://www.neofundi.com/profiles/blogs/the-best-of-angelina-jolie

I have to admit: the first time I saw Kung Fu Panda was on a flight back to L.A. I don't like watching movies on a jet with headphones and the small screen overhead. But KFP kept grabbing my attention, and I kept watching it. Without sound, and the lousy monitors on the jet, I thought Tigress was a guy!

I regret not seeing KFP on the big screen. It was definitely on my DVD list when I got home.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/po%20and%20tigress?language=pt_BR

Ray Harryhausen San Diego Comic Con interview 2005

Here's a scan on the Ray Harryhausen interview from the San Diego Comic Con update flyer that came in the mail in 2005. I'm still intrigued how Harryhausen met Willis O'Brien, and worked for George Pal.

(Writer unknown, copyright 2005, San Diego Comic Con)

Ray Harryhausen at the Motion Picture Academy 1997

This xerox had been stuck to my fridge since 1997. I must confess, I don't remember much from that night. Since the passing of Ray Harryhausen, I finally scanned before it completely deteriorates. I'll let you read this hand out, and imagine what that evening was like a the Motion Picture Academy back in 1997.

Saul Bass' Birthday

Interesting, how we lost Ray Harryhausen, and today is Saul Bass' Birthday. I just learned from one of my Maya students about Saul Bass's collaboration with John Whitney. Whitney invented an analog computer from the gun sight system of a WWII anti-aircraft gun. Together they worked on the titles for Hitchcock's Vertigo.

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww

I wonder if either one bumped into Ray Harryhausen or George Pal...