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Icelandic Connection ~ Eternal Sunshine
You’re the man now, dog! Did you know the editor of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) was from Iceland? Her name is Valdís Óskarsdóttir and among movies she has edited are Vinterberg’s Festen (1998), Anders Thomas Jensen’s Mifunes sidste sang (1999), Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester (2000) (yeah the one with. [...]
Icelandic Connection – Leatherface
A fact known to all Icelanders but few in the rest of the world. Leatherface was played by an Icelandic actor, Gunnar Hansen. Yes the main baddie from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hails from Iceland. Hansen is an Icelandic author and actor who since acting in a the cult favorite has been keeping him self [...]
Icelandic Connection – Steven Tobolowsky
Where the Icelandic medical system almost kills Steven Tobolowsky If you are a podcast listener and haven’t been listening to The Tobolowsky Files, you should. The character actor Steven Tobolowsky shares a series of short stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry on the podcast. Tobolowsky is probably most famous for his role as [...]
The Icelandic Connection
When I was younger in my drinking days I would spend a lot of time talking about my unified theory of the Icelandic Connection. Briefly it goes like this. Icelanders are not happy until they find an Icelandic Connection to any event or person in history… ever. No matter what comes up, Icelanders will go [...]
James Cameron on Attack of the Show
This week I discovered Attack of the Show. Been going through some of the videos and found few videos featuring James Cameron. James Cameron talks Avatar & More Video Games – E3 2011 – Movies and TV James Cameron on Avatar Re-Release Video Games – E3 2011 – Movies and TV Avatar’s Cameron-Pace 3D Camera [...]
Douglas Trumbull – FXGuideTV Interview
Right now we got a lot of movies that are out of control. That the directors really don’t understand digital effects. They just assume that someone is going to be able to fix it in post, No matter how many mistakes they make. FXGuideTV has put out another one of their great interview with one [...]
Brainstorm Digital | NYC Visual Effects (VFX) Co.
Brainstorm Digital is a New York-based VFX studio that specializes in photo-realistic backgrounds and digital effects. Currently they are working on, among other things,HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”. Other Links :: Brainstorm Digital Twitter [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Tumblr Feed [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Facebook Page [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Linked In Page [+] Found through: Alba’s [...]
Blade Runner: Hades Landscape
Doug and his Entertainment Effects Group team created thousands of acid-etched brass miniatures lit from below with hundreds of bundles of fiber-optic lights, shot in forced-perspective through layers of smoke to create layers of light refraction, creating depth.
The Celestia Motherlode: Earth Surface Maps
The Addon Repository for the 3D Space Simulator Celestia
Buildings & Vampires
Buildings & Vampires from Nico Casavecchia on Vimeo. You don’t have to have seen “Where the wild things are” but it helps Found through: Egill’s Facebook (Linking to his Twitter here)
