Film Financing’s Global Future
Andy and Lana Wachowski have been busy working on Cloud Atlas, a film that spans the globe in it’s story, and in the way it was independently financed.
Louie Schwatzberg @ TEDx SF
Nature’s beauty can be easily missed, but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. Great TED talk on being grateful for eyes, minds and hearts, and the ability to comprehend light, and story.
A robot that flies like a bird
TED Talks Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011
‘NATA5′ A Triptych
My work dwells in a netherworld between urban fine art and contemporary graphics, A collision of real and digital media it is primarily illustration based with a firm foundation in drawing, I focus mainly on the human form particularly the face, interweaving elements from the animal kingdom often reflecting the absurdity of human nature…
horror’s greatest heroes: the 10 best monster-fighters!
Horror doesn’t just have to be about scary monsters and their victims — some of our favorite horror stories include awesome monster-slayers, who are on a mission to wipe out everything slimy or toothy. Here are horror’s 10 greatest heroes…
9 indie pics with enough buzz to become next year’s sleeper hits
Several sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films worth watching made their world, North America, U.S. and/or regional premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest. The largest genre film festival in the U.S., Fantastic Fest features horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world.
steve jobs rest in peace…
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…” – steve jobs
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
When Brad Pitt tells Eric Bana in the 2004 film Troy that “there are no pacts between lions and men,” he is not reciting a clever line from the pen of a Hollywood screenwriter. He is speaking Achilles’ words in English as Homer wrote them in Greek more than 2,000 years ago in the Iliad. The tale of the Trojan War has captivated generations of audiences while evolving from its origins as an oral epic to written versions and, finally, to several film adaptations. The power of this story to transcend time, language and culture is clear even today, evidenced by Troy’s robust success around the world…
James Cameron – Spiderman Scriptment!
This section contains the scriptment written by James Cameron. Each part contains text and the story-board images…
Lionsgate scores ‘Chaos Walking’ trilogy, hopes for next ‘Hunger Games’
EW has confirmed that Lionsgate has obtained worldwide rights to develop, produce and distribute films based on Patrick Ness’s hit Young Adult trilogy “Chaos Walking.”
