Cameraless music video

The new Radiohead video is shot completely without a camera using advanced live action 3D scanners in development at UCLA.

Here is the making of video.

And the finished product.

The idea apparently came from electronic artist and UCLA researcher Aaron Koblin, whose work was featured in Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA.
This Scientific American post has more details.

Into the Pixel video game art …

“Artwork for video games is being displayed in an exhibition that is being transported around the world.
The Into the Pixel gallery has been on display at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles and will move on to Europe.
Getty Research Institute Curator Louis Marchesano gives a tour of the designs.”

video:

More on Iranian (Non-)Missiles:

Believing Is Seeing

NY Times, By ERROL MORRIS
Published: July 13, 2008
The photographs tell us little about the real threat of Iran. The danger here is not in three missiles versus four. We do not understand the intentions behind the photograph — real or digitally manipulated. Is it a threat? A warning? Or a bluff? All we really know about the photograph is that the government of Iran wanted to get the attention of the world, and it succeeded.
Full battle rattle tattle

Full Battle Rattle

Full Battle Rattle is the story of a real war and a fake town….”

 website and trailer:

here we go again ….

NYTimes

7.10.08: Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.”
“As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles …”

more:

Lost footage of “Metropolis” …

The link was missing from the previous post  … so here one good source:

Reuters:

The previous “Restored Authorized Edition” was released in 2002 (I saw it in Berlin) … It indicated sections that were missing but thought to exist … Now this …. a classic that gets better and better …

Metropolis Complete!

Missing scenes from Fritz Lang’s classic “Metropolis” have been found in the film archives of the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aries. A screening of the complete work will be taking place for the first time since 1927 in Berlin.

Read the article here

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