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Monday, 5 July 2004
Building your own light box
Sunday, 4 July 2004
The Time Machine
The Time Machine has a brilliant 1800's inventor driven to create a time machine. Alexander Hartdegen, played by Guy Pearce, proposes to his girlfriend, but she is then killed in a hold up. Alexander is then finishes his time machine and goes back in time to save her , however she is killed again. At this he becomes frustrated and decides to go forward in time to see if he can work out why he can't save her. Along the way he comes across a future exploration development by humans that ends up destroying life on earth. In the process he is knocked unconscious and he travels past the year 800000. He then discovers life that has been recreated.
This movie showed real potential for a novel idea, but feel flat in the delivery. The new world existence was a little uninspiring and resulted in ending that was very predictable.
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Photography QA with Reid Scott
Are there some do-it-yourself tips that penny pinching designers can employ to get more out of their photo gear/setup?
White Formica is your friend. A 4x4 sheet can be clamped to the edge of a table, and if you prop up the back end, you have a seamless (and cleanable) white background for your smaller subjects (and you can use a 4x8 sheet for larger ones)
Many shots can be done with one well diffused light source (and maybe one light on the background), with the aid of simple white and silver cards. Use white cards, propped up on a can of Spray Mount or something, to fill in shadows. If that's not enough, use a silver card.
And the best couple bucks you can spend is to buy some of that goopish adhesive for hanging posters or small prints. When your product wants to roll off the set, or your prop won't lay in quite the right place, a small ball of this goopish adhesive will temporarily defy gravity, so you can get your shot. It's like a malleable form of duct tape.
Photography QA with Reid Scott logged by Anthony at 8:06:03 PM LinkThursday, 1 July 2004
Confidence
Confidence is an excellent crime double cross movie. This is a movie that would appeal to people that enjoyed The Italian Job. Confidence however uses the Pulp Fiction story telling format. In this case the time line jumps about as Jake Vig, played by Edward Burns, is retelling the story while being held at gun point. One line from the movie is about expert chess players being able to think up to 20 moves ahead, and that describes how complex this movie gets. This is not a movie to watch if you are feeling tired, this one keeps you thinking. There are some great art styling without detracting from the story line. Overall I feel this is a great movie.
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