Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to
Sound employers and good leaders - both of which this nation needs more of - consider more than bare input costs, just as productive employees are motivated beyond dollars.
Instead we have this abomination happening right here in NZ, while the perpetrators feign disbelief and the victims face deportation.
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Muse: A Friday Kind of Linky Love, in reply to
. . . actors (or more specifically the acting members of MPAAS) get really weird about motion capture.
From my recollection of having storyboarded for a particularly grubby little subgenre of video games eupmemistally described as "interactive movies", while the actors appreciated the clarity of my stuff as a guide to work from, they regarded motion capture work as the absolute pits.
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Andy Serkis as choreographer John D'Auban in Mike Lee's 1999 Topsy Turvy
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to
Con-sultation.
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Daphne Oram . . . worked at the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop and then on her own account, creating in 1957 a system called Oramics, which "played" drawings made directly onto 35mm film.
Thanks for that. A bit of optical sound history here that includes Oram. Plus something Canadian from c. 1951:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q0vgZv_JWfM -
Hard News: Media7: A new censor -- and a…, in reply to
It would be great to have a philosopher in charge . . .
It'd play nicely on TV where, instead of the contrived intro shot of the expert pretending to busy themselves with folders 'n tomes, the sage would be seen deep in contemplation of a human skull cradled in their palm.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to
Oddly enough, I started re-reading 'A Clockwork Orange' a couple of weeks ago.
Nadsat translator. Talk like a droog.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to
. . . the proposed cycle lanes for the central city look good!!
All part of what the emperor now declares to be a pretty big wish list.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to
I'm more or less blocking out what's happening with sovereign debt and the financial markets right now, because worrying about it would simply be too depressing.
Right, sovereign debt is so last month.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to
See this article for a good summary of deindividuation and its effect in crowds (and in anonymous online forums - it's a psychological effect that's very applicable to modern life).
Thanks Jack, interesting. Just wondering how many that might have indulged in a bit of opportunistic looting & mayhem might have gone on to be part of the clean up.