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Apple have finally unveiled a tablet computer, the iPad. The anticipation leading up to this launch and the speculation surrounding it has been truly staggering. Yet I find myself strangely underwhelmed by the device.
These stunning demo reels from Stargate Studios provide a little insight TV/movie production:
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[via] Watch this beautiful short film by Alex Roman and prepare to be amazed. The entire film is computer generated, but looks so amazingly life-like that one could easily believe it’s celluloid based. I can hardly wait until computer games are this realistic. The modelling, lighting and ray-tracing are sublime. The film is accompanied by a great soundtrack — which is also an Alex Roman creation. I wonder how long this was in the making?
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I don’t often write about movies on the Urban Mainframe. That’s odd in itself because I watch a lot of them and consider myself to be something of a movie buff. Having said that, my movie collection, I suspect, is that of a typical bloke. There’s lots of war, action, sci-fi and adventure films. There’s not a lot of drama. There’s only one or two “chick flicks” (oh come on, who doesn’t love Ghost?)
My collection is that of someone who doesn’t demand too much, intellectually, from his entertainment. I watch films to escape for an hour and a half — to be James Bond, Neo or Luke Skywalker. I don’t want to have to think too much when I watch a movie, I just want my imagination stimulated and the day-to-day tedium of life to be replaced with beautiful women, fast cars and lots and lots of explosions and gunfire.
You can probably appreciate then that, on being given for Christmas a sub-titled film with a dialogue spoken entirely in German, I wasn’t exactly filled with delight and anticipation. However, and to my great surprise, The Lives of Others turned out to be one of those rarest of films — one that captures the viewer’s attention from the moment it starts and holds it in a vice-like grip until the final credits roll.
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I’ve just found out that I’ve won this great poster from Travis Neilson. How cool is that? I’m thrilled.
Prompted by Jason Kottke’s recent post about his “Most-rewatched Movies” I list the ten movies that I have watched over and over again (in no particular order).
The Usual Suspects: A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
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Over the years, WarGames has written itself into the cult lore of Silicon Valley. Google hosted a 25th-anniversary screening in May, where keyboard jockeys cheered Broderick’s DOS acrobatics. “Many of us grew up with this movie,” Google cofounder Sergey Brin told the packed house. “It was a key movie of a generation, especially for those of us who got into computing.” Wired takes a nostalgic trip back in time…
