The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Disney Physical Face Cloning
Disney Research has released a white paper titled: Physical Face Cloning.
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will play stockbroker Jordan Belfort in director Martin Scorsese‘s new film The Wolf of Wall Street. The movie trailer was released on June 16, 2013. The film will cover Belfort’s founding of brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont and the subsequent securities fraud and corruption investigation against it. Given the level of opulence and New York City setting, this seems like an interesting role choice for DiCaprio coming off of The Great Gatsby.
OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console
It took me a couple of reads to figure out just exactly what this group is doing. The link is to their kickstarter page. Funding isn’t the reason I’m posting…
The World is Not Without Good People
With all the horrors we’ve seen from dashboard cameras, it feels appropriate to end a good week with something beautiful. Enjoy.
Typographic Anachronisms in Film – The Renaissance Anomaly
Do you notice the problems in the screenshot from Da Vinci’s Demons? A particularly interesting set of posts on Mark Simonson’s blog titled Son of Typecasting focuses on fonts used in film. Mark’s post Renaissance Anomaly stood out to me for pointing out the not-so-obvious errors in the image above.
Distance to Mars in Pixels
An absolutely genius way of showing the distance to Mars. You must check this out.