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In praise of the sci-fi corridor

Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they’re so utilitarian by nature – really they’re just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are ‘sold’ [...]


Heroes Visual Effects Behind The Scene

Visual effects (behind the scene) video from the popular sci-fi drama series, Heroes


LG enV Touch “Car Chase” Commercial

Visual Effects by Mass Market. Visual effects supervisors Kathy Siegal and Thibault Debaveye. Found through: Alba’s Twitter feed


SOUR ‘日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)’ – Awesome video

This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam. Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura [...]


La Main des Maîtres – Promo

Houdini helps create beautiful Steampunk/Anime look in short film La Main des Maitres. Extra: Interview with La Main des Maitres Team


Alice In Wonderland – Song

The music video for the song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Found through: Surfing Youtube


Oceansize – 3D Short

Oceansize is a short 3D sci-fi/horror movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008, Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau. The movie is set on an oil rig in the future and tells the story of a catastrophic destruction of the rig by a giant sea monster. The movies official [...]


World Builder – Interview with Bruce Branit

How long did it take to produce the entire project? It was planned and pre-produced in about 4 weeks. The actual shoot was one long 16 hour day. we were shooting off single takes at one time and moving on because one day is all I had. The post on it was over the course [...]


Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction


“The Noises Rest”

“The Noises Rest” from lonelysandwich on Vimeo.


Ridley Scott: Searchlab Lecture

Ridley Scott talks about his career, technique, and inspirations among many other insightful anecdotes from the past thirty years. The video has been broken up in four parts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4


Great Performers – The New York Times


Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work


The Dark Campaign


This American Life – Studs Terkel – Strange Fruit

Listening to This American Life. The second segment of the show have incredible accounts collected by the late great Chicago reporter Studs Terkel. The voices of the people who lived through the Great Depression seem to ecco down through the corridors of time. It is strange how much you can mirror the situation here in [...]


Warhammer Online Cinematic Trailer HD


Piracy Is Good !/?

Fyrirlestur Mark Pesce frá árinu 2005 þar sem hann fjallar um BitTorrent tæknina og framtíð sjónvarpsefnis í samhengi við P2P tæknina. Pesce talaði við Australian Film Television and Radio School.


Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

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