Archives for September, 2010

Animation @ VIFF 2010

The Vancouver International Film Festival 2010 (VIFF) gets underway this Thursday September 30th which means that my cheap downtown pizza consumption will skyrocket in the coming weeks. I’ve been working my way through the festival guide in both paper and app form and have found that I still prefer the paper guide. It bugs me […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:47 pm.

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The Animators Formerly Known as Crystal Beard

Recently Stephen Wichuk, Emily Carr’s awesome animation tech, gave me a DVD of animation by Vancouver’s own Stu Hughes and Ben Jacques who used to do animation under the name of Crystal Beard. I had seen some of their work when attending Animatron at Little Mountain studios a few years back, but this was the […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 9:49 pm.

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Kung Fusion!

I wish I had come up with “Kung Fusion,” but I didn’t. It’s the title of a chapter in Vijay Prashad’s book Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, which is now on my must-read list. I’m happy to see that chapter is available in Google Books, so I […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:05 pm.

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Of computers and social codes

My new hero is Dr. Clifford Nass, who I could hug for coming up with the phrase “Computers are Social Actors.” I’m really fascinated by the way his work engages with the way we respond to computers the same way as we would a person. This research is vital to interface development as it shifts […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 9:22 am.

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Predator Drones: Great Against Decepticons & Mexicans

Recently I caught a Boing Boing post about the USA’s deployment of predator drones along the Mexican border and it made me think of the sequence in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. It’s the sequence where the Predator drone is launched after the Decepticons knock out communications in the area and it’s the military’s […]

1 Comment. Posted by on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 1:41 pm.

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Martial arts in Boondocks

I’ve been thinking about the adoption of the martial arts in Western culture for a while. However, it’s really been on the front of my brain since this spring when watching The Boondocks. I had noticed it right from the title sequence where Huey is brandishing a sword. In particular I was really blown away […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 12:57 am.

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