Radical director Taika Waititi recently tweeted about Jacob and the Giraffe, an animated short by Cool 3D World. This is weird, unexpected, and delightful. Enjoy!
This is cool. And I know cool. https://t.co/W9dxGVxDzE
— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) July 2, 2019
Organizers for the Yuri’s Night DC event previously held at Science Club will be hosting a free event at Red Rocks on H Street this year. The event celebrates the first human in space Yuri Gagarin who orbited Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1. Interestingly, April 12 also marks the anniversary of the first shuttle launch in 1981.
If we didn’t learn anything else during the first presidential debate of 2012, we at last now know that Mitt Romney loves Big Bird.
Otoy and Facebook recently announced a partnership in which a Facebook Surround 360 camera will be usable within an Otoy Orbx workflow.
“All of the animation is made in real-time using a StyleGan neural network trained on the Danbooru2018 dataset, a large scale anime image database with 3.33m+ images annotated with 99.7m+ tags.”
It’s just the Today Show cast talking about dressing up for Halloween.
Some friends of ours went to Gettysburg last weekend for some much needed quality time, relaxation and checking out the sites. We live a short (1.5-2 hour) drive from Gettysburg, and decided a visit sounded apropos, given the November 19 anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the release of “Lincoln” in theaters across of the nation. After a short dive into the Series of Tubes, we learned we could easily fill our Saturday afternoon and evening without too much expense beyond gas so on we went…
