It’s almost been a decade since the 2003 release of Return of the King, the 3rd movie in the Lord of the Ring trilogy. I The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is slated to be released this December. It’ll be the first of three films that make the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. I’ve been a fan of the books for many years, and even read some of Tolkien’s denser fare, like the Simarillion, which recounts the creation myth for Middle Earth.
Due to a dwindling supply of cats to name their operating system after, Apple has announced OS X Sea Lion! Actually, they’ve named it after a surf spot just outside of San Fran. OS X Mavericks. This announcement was made on June 10, 2013.
“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.”
H/T to Eric H.
A couple of weeks ago, Melbourne Metro released a PSA that has gone viral. The morbid lyrics written by John Mescall are undercut by the catchy tune and sweet vocals, reminiscent of Nina Gordon’s cover of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton”. It was sung by Emily Lubitz of Tinpan Orange, with music by Ollie McGill of The Cat Empire …
Starcadian released the soundtrack to 1980’s movie Sunset Blood on October 31, 2013. The album was produced by Starcadian & Paris Smaragdis with additional vocals by DJ Looki. Fun Fact: The movie Sunset Blood doesn’t actually exist, but don’t let that stop you, check out the movie trailer.
How do you get something to go viral? Just get your model to poke her fans for your lingerie client.
Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) is proof that creativity, ingenuity and photography know how, are the qualities that make an intriguing photo. With out a camera worth thousands of dollars or pencil thin models, Avanaut has turned out some dynamic shots, using primarily, Star Wars lego figures. His use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion.
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