This is something about one of the people who acted in the film now known as The Innocence of Muslims which has received a lot of attention lately because of the resultant people who have been killed because of it.
I don’t really know what to say about this, except things don’t seem to be what they appear. Read it. The person writing to Neil speaks elloquently.
Amazing collection of photos set to music done by drivinman687 over on youtube. He’s a 19 year old film student.
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via Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second | Video on TED.com.
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
Photography is about creating images by recording light. At the MIT media lab, professor Ramesh Raskar and his team members have invented a camera that can photograph light itself as it moves at, well, the speed of light.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) – IMDb.
We just got back from enjoying what, to me, is probably the most beautiful movie I have ever seen.
It’s got a stellar cast of old British Actors, as well as the electric Dev Pattel from Slumdog Millionaire.
The story centers around a disparate group of retirees and the Marigold Hotel, which the young owner (Patel) has decided to start to renovate so as to “outsource” old age.
Each person has a story, and has more going on than meets the eye. There are some collisions, heartbreak, coming to terms, and new love.
The scenery and visuals were absolutely exquisite. The acting more than first rate. The dialog and the stories, really well written. And the music, the MUSIC, oh, it was so wonderful.
Such a treat. I highly recommend this!!
L5 is a new hard sci-fi web production that has recently released their pilot episode on YouTube.
This is the best production in this genre that I have seen for a long, long time. The premise is good, the writing excellent, good acting (even from the minor characters), good production values, and good CGI that isn’t intrusive and melds well with the other parts. All done for about $15k in crowd-funding.
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Imagine returning from an exhausting adventure only to find that your home is abandoned, empty. Not just your home, but your neighborhood, your city, in fact, everyone, everywhere, seems to be missing. This is what happens to the crew of the first manned mission to Barnard’s Star – they return after awakening from suspended animation to find that their ship-board AI has sent them on a relativistic tour of the stellar neighborhood while they slumbered, dilating time so severely that nearly 200 years have passed on Earth. After coming to, they discover their vessel is adrift at LaGrange point 5, within visual range of a vast O’neill cylinder-colony. The night side of the Earth shows no lights, and no one answers their calls across all frequencies. They have no choice but to dock with the colony and explore its cavernous interior in the hopes of finding help. When they find the colony to be airless and devoid of life, the remains of human civilization baking in the Sun for decades, their predicament becomes even more dire. Following in the traditions of great legendary hard science fiction, their exploration of this relic of their own civilization will take them on a trans-humanistic and spiritual sojourn.
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